Combat

Hey this is a pretty good thread and there are some good ideas that deserve to be read and shared so if you don’t like it, you don’t have to post in here, but please refrain from insulting other people.

One thing I could say about repeaters and everything.

There is /nothing/ stopping IC means of funneling combatants and BHers. Licenses for hunters? Laws against non-military use of Repeaters? Banning the possession of x-amount of firearms? And so on and so forth, so in that regard, you don’t /need/ to code fix things.

(I still think blaster pistols are useless in the face of repeaters. <!– s:P –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" /><!– s:P –>)

I’ve always been a big supporter of player restrictions on weapons, the problem is most people are too cowardly too try.

well, I know you can get at least 74/26 hr/dr on a character with two pistols, but then again, if you wear the other combat items while using a repeater, you get 63/26 with just that gear on, and the repeater hits more(Which I don’t agree should happen either) but then again, when you compare repeaters to blade users, a blade user can come in with a repeater having at least 56/34 hr/dr, draw his blades after the fight starts, and still kick your ass. There is no restriction on what each class can use, so therefore, a bh will only really have blade and unarmed skills on top of combat skills, they don’t gain anything else really.

I was thinking about it though, and having more skills for a hunter would be nice. maybe a feat based on true_examine, so that when you look at someone with true examine, it includes their real description as well(I do believe advanced_disguise stores disguises including the description you want for the disguise, possibly a code derived from the same concept?)

I know pistols are useless, though that doesn’t mean they have to be. When you look at it, some of the things we want changed can be changed through developing new means to create such weapons, lots of people just don’t want to develop/don’t have the time to develop. As is right now, a good pistol hits a mob 6 times a round for 200 damage per if you have good pistols.

Nobody uses bowcasters, which I find amusing, since they can actually be one of the more useful weapons in the game if utilized correctly. they have massive power.

Pikes are useless. with all considered, i think people only buy them to master the skills more then half the time, then switch back to blades that will give the same, if not more damage. Maybe if we had some pike specific skills we could actually get pikes into the game in a useful state, but right now they seam like a waste of time. Perhaps add in a feat for pikes, where you can wield 2 of them(Last I tried you couldn’t, not sure if it changed since)? Even a skill that makes you hit for 20% more damage while wielding a pike…

Anyways, for input on this subject, yes, repeaters are overpowered, but at the same time, if they weren’t, combatants would fall in no time against a hunter, prolly do barely any damage.

You can wield two force pikes, I can barely remember a time you couldn’t, and a lot of hunters and players have used pikes instead of blades as back up weapons for a long long time. I won’t go into details in case I breach any boundaries, sufficed to say they aren’t that useless.

I strongly disagree with screwing with the combat system. As has been stated there is a nice balance between combatant and hunter at the moment that would just get royally fucked if you screw with repeaters. Combat at the moment works quite well so I really dont seen why people feel the need to try and change it.

Walldo, I’m not saying I don’t like this thread. Nor am I disputing that there are good ideas. I’m simply saying that I wish people would make informed remarks and that more people who are heavily involved in PVP would speak to this.

I’ve idea submitted/hounded staff members on council about this. Forcepikes /could/ be better if they took in more components, but the fact of the matter is, all they take are durasteel and one battery. If they used the same components as a blade, they would be better. Hell, I wish they would add circuits to blades. You’re making vibrating sword, why would it only have a superconductor?

Idea: durasteel + circuit + superconductor + battery = vibroblade/forcepike. The same principle is already used with the different classes of blasters.

I would love to see force-pikes buffed up to at least the level of a vibro-blade, possibly both improved upon. I’d also like to see pistols made more feasible. I know we’re smugglers now, not rogues, but I still think some sort of combat ability involving pistols would be nice, be it sneak attacks or improved damage with one-handed pistols.

Lol Ralen was often found alone in my experience. My Anobis chars can speak to that. Actually, most of my chars were permed by 501st.

Varn ran alone and with people. I saw both, most of his lackys ran 3 to 5 deep. But this is really going off track :p