Best Of

• Lessons from Battlemasters. Having played other IRE muds, I knew how the learning system worked, so I just dove right into learning, and the game did not ensure I was able to learn my class heal, so that was rough going for a bit. Yes, mostly my fault, but I expect other newbies may make the same mistake and just log off. I think this could be a guided experience until you learn the recommended skills.
  
  
• Tone down the "strong" version of enemies in the newbie area (explicitly just the level to 5 area, or include some mechanic that tells you how to CONSIDER. I thought you needed the skill, no idea you could just LOOK at it), as there seems to be a smaller version and a tougher version in every area thematically so far, correct if wrong. Even just some dude that tells you about it when you enter for the first time (or see the hint info below). De-leveling from 5 to 4 is not fun. I'm all for teaching someone how to play, but this is kind of rough. Alternatively, protect you from EXP loss until level 10.
  
  
• Have some entry trigger/hints for important things that you can turn off (CONFIG NEWBIEHINTS). "Did you know this is a trade terminal and you can use it by issuing the 'tt' command?", "This is a JUNK shop, where you can SCRAP your old armor if you no longer need it and recover some marks!", "There is a terminal here, perhaps someone with some computer knowledge could do something with it!" -- I understand you don't want to explain absolutely everything, but I legitimately thought until last night just nothing was listed on MARKET for weapons, and was not aware it was only for ships.
  
  
• Tell newbies ingame that the newbie challenge exists! I Thought I missed it as I didn't see a prompt about it (and well may have just not seen it) -- but only remembered the newbiechallenge command by chance to see if it was still going.
  
  
  

Soza said:

Steve said:

5: I think Nykara's right about this one -- I agree.

7: I like the sound of this affliction. 10% or 15% damage back on attacks, even if exclusive to nanoseer (which I'm not convinced it needs to be), would be a good thing for nanoseer and, therefore, a good change to the game. However, the ability might be better if the damage dealt isn't based on attack damage but based on balance spent. Every time you spend balance, the damage from the affliction is modified based on the balance time for that ability. Modify the damage based on a relevant stat, weapon power, etc.

Mind stuff:

• Disorientation staying the same makes sense to me, after further consideration and having had some trouble because of it in the new arenas.
  
• Anything is better than current brainswelling.
  
• Merging stupidity and forgetfulness as the 75% subsystem affliction seems like a good thing to do.
• Confusion having a balance knock is a bit unimaginative, as RocketCat says (I think that's what's being referred to, anyway). Confusion could be replaced with one of the afflictions offered in lead number 11, such as recklessness. Alternatively, we could have something like an affliction version of recklessness, where there's "confusion" about what afflictions the character is suffering from: current, gained, and lost. If it's a lot like recklessness, it might look like losing information regarding afflictions (current, gained, lost). If it's more like confusion, the names might be swapped at random with other afflictions. If it's about afflictions, I think scoundrel and nanoseer would both be good candidates for it because there's randomness built into their kits for which afflictions are being dealt.

Sensory stuff:

• Perhaps making the big sensory affliction the inability to block movement would work, even if it's too much to give to blind.

Internal stuff:

• Increasing rejection's power is a good first step but we really need more power early on.
• More discussion on this would be good. Internal's real weakness is its subsystem afflictions. More comments on whether the proposed solutions will do the job would be helpful.
  

Merging the two, (Stupidity and forgetfulness) at the 75% tier is likely to be a little too strong, I'd say merge them at the 50% tier, and for the 75% tier give a new subsys aff that makes subsys feedback ticks slightly faster for all subsystems (possibly make its effect better against non-mind subsys but still faster for mind too) which could help nanoseer push for breakdown.

Steve said:

5: I think Nykara's right about this one -- I agree.

7: I like the sound of this affliction. 10% or 15% damage back on attacks, even if exclusive to nanoseer (which I'm not convinced it needs to be), would be a good thing for nanoseer and, therefore, a good change to the game. However, the ability might be better if the damage dealt isn't based on attack damage but based on balance spent. Every time you spend balance, the damage from the affliction is modified based on the balance time for that ability. Modify the damage based on a relevant stat, weapon power, etc.

Mind stuff:

• Disorientation staying the same makes sense to me, after further consideration and having had some trouble because of it in the new arenas.
  
• Anything is better than current brainswelling.
  
• Merging stupidity and forgetfulness as the 75% subsystem affliction seems like a good thing to do.
• Confusion having a balance knock is a bit unimaginative, as RocketCat says (I think that's what's being referred to, anyway). Confusion could be replaced with one of the afflictions offered in lead number 11, such as recklessness. Alternatively, we could have something like an affliction version of recklessness, where there's "confusion" about what afflictions the character is suffering from: current, gained, and lost. If it's a lot like recklessness, it might look like losing information regarding afflictions (current, gained, lost). If it's more like confusion, the names might be swapped at random with other afflictions. If it's about afflictions, I think scoundrel and nanoseer would both be good candidates for it because there's randomness built into their kits for which afflictions are being dealt.

Sensory stuff:

• Perhaps making the big sensory affliction the inability to block movement would work, even if it's too much to give to blind.

Internal stuff:

• Increasing rejection's power is a good first step but we really need more power early on.
• More discussion on this would be good. Internal's real weakness is its subsystem afflictions. More comments on whether the proposed solutions will do the job would be helpful.
  

Nykara said:

Soza said:

The reason confusion is proposed the way it is, though a bit unimaginative, is that confusion is a nanoseer only affliction one of the only hindering afflictions that nanoseer can give in the mind tree. It started out a long time ago as an affliction that would *sometimes* cause the person afflicted to instead hit a different entity in the room. This meant that it could hit a player, a mob, a npc, or any loyal, ie pets. Confusion was already a "hit or miss" kinda aff but it gave the nanoseer enough hinder to slow down the enemy while the nanoseer could slowly build to their mind kill. Which is exactally what mind is, a slow hard to obtain kill. At this point in time, I came up with a brilliant plan. "what if confusion (nanos only hinder) always had a target for *when* it actually procced, and thus I started carrying a sentry drone around with me. This sentry drone, I would pickup before moving and place once I moved. This drone being there, and because of Albions incessant ways to kill pets had since become invincible. I eliminated the problem of confusion requiring another target in room to be a usable aff, not a good aff. A usable one. With confusion now usable in 1v1 it quickly became the target of hate, (expecially for furies as they have to roll against confusion once per attack, and once per rage). It was simply too much for the super strong furies to deal with and got nerfed into its current state. Which is the same as before but can only make you hit players/loyals that aren't loyal to you. As such confusion needs some sort of replacement effect that is going to help to keep the nanoseer alive while doing no health damage and probably being cured almost instantly.

Tldr: confusion needs to be some sort of hinder aff.

I agree with your tl;dr but I disagree with your statement that it was not a good aff. 35% hinder, with additional bonuses such as causing combo conditions to miss entirely and lose the combo for an entire round, is rather fantastic hinder. Even sluggish + 4 damaged limbs isn't that good. (Sluggish + slowness + 4 damaged limbs is, though!)

eta: But 1 aff shouldn't be as good as 5-6 affs.