It was balanced against the hacker mountains, but dmg rebalancing doesn't seem too hard to calculate and timers are from CR2 already as far as I know, and it can be balanced for general defense, damage or accuracy like sniper in the gun tree and no necessarily against spy for instance...

Oh, and about the whole "a mech couldnt go to a meeting because he had a zion alt" is total poppycock. If Im not mistaken, these Liaisons are other players too, yes? So lets just say that a Mech liasion is a Zion player on another server. Does that mean that he/she cant go to the Zion event because people knew he/she was a Machine liaison? Im not complaining about the liaisons I enteract with. My Cypherite liaisons are the best liaisons, IMO, and I trust their choices, but if I knew that they wouldn't let someone go to an event, just because they have another-org-alt, I'd kinda be upset about that.

As many has said.... this is a game, we pay for it, we should be able to do what we want, and level whatever org we want.

Marias wrote:

Novermber 2004

Lol que?

My only gripe is with the folks (mostly cyph) who are out to get cheap CQ at my expense (as if ganking a lvl 40 is really earning a CQ point!).

Shadow-SK wrote:

Procurator - Dev/Player Team Liaison, Content Designer, QA

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Dripping-Cheese wrote:

mantra777 wrote:

Dripping-Cheese wrote:

Yours is better quality, as it was taken in daylight and not on a crappy camera phone!

 

Still, There'll be more photo ops next year, unless you're having another kid Satta, we should be able to have a couple o' jars then!

When The Hell did ya came down here, CheeseCake??? =O .... Wut? No invyt?? T_T

Last July, it was a crazy tour!

A couple of days in New York to attend a family wedding, then on to LA for literally two days (major flight delays at New York), then onto Portland for a couple of days (a gruelling 32 hour train ride which I still shudder thinking about!), Seattle for a couple of days, then spent a long weekend in Vancouver to recover!

I was back at work in London the day after I flew back.

I'll be coming back to LA for a little bit longer next time, but it won't be until next year. " width="15" height="15">

You couldn't at least post the ones where my arm doesn't look like the size of a tree trunk.

You had two other shots to use and you used the worse one possible ROFL thanks.

Or even THIS ONE LOL

 

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Oh and Hi NICKS!

Also you've probably never heard: There was also a Team Fortress 2 update with new Medic weapons and achievements yesterday. I log in to TF2 and the teams are nothing but medics. Easy win for the Sniper here.

So they're either at school, at work, playing GTA (which btw is just like its predecessors... except prettier. big woop) or playing TF2.

Or other.

Hanzyl and Gretyl wrote:

It would be nice that if the account with a mask goes dormant for say 2 years it is redistributed. They don't have to take it from the person that went inactive just make another as chances are slim to none that person is coming back. Also with the 2 years time frame it's not like they will suddenly pop up in mass.

The best (yet still unlikely) chance for anyone to get a mask is to convince the Devs they need to open the test server back up, then mask holders can copy over multiple copies.

The new items look neat. Granted, I really won't have a chance to get them untill the gankfest ends. But yeah, they look nice.

Anyone found any new sniper rifles?

FrozenFyre wrote:

They are very tricky to get - I spent a good part of a day trying to find one then came back the next day and got it first try!! Was still v frustrating - got me a nice pair of robo gloves now, how many other folks got 'em?

So far I've only seen Ballak (Syntax) with them, My alts 33 right now just leveling to 35 is going so slow.

Marias wrote:

Kybutra wrote:

FrozenFyre wrote:

They are very tricky to get - I spent a good part of a day trying to find one then came back the next day and got it first try!! Was still v frustrating - got me a nice pair of robo gloves now, how many other folks got 'em?

So far I've only seen Ballak (Syntax) with them, My alts 33 right now just leveling to 35 is going so slow.

Not helping the "Ballak isn't Clanky" argument.

MarsNova wrote:

The new items are cool the new gloves glasses boots and helmet. When the hell are we gonna get some new pants? Whats with all the anti-pants attitude. 3 years and no new pants is a bit crazy too.

Rave pants werent new?

Marias wrote:

My advice is to hoard knowledge, and observe every single thing that you possibly can up to level 50. I like to think the long grind is a good thing, just because of how steep the game's learning curve is. Stay in archives for as long as possible, farm every item that you can possibly think of, and hoard. A lot of people get to 50 and have no idea whatsoever what they're doing, so they fail hard and wonder why they're so horrible.

Why would I want Widows Moor Lenses? They have no resistance lol.

KanoR wrote:

Tenshi wrote:

(Those who think it's hard mode to be on Vector are fooling themselves because easy mode is a quick Ctrl+Space away; not to mention that the fact that it's a pvp server shouldn't determine whether you want to be on vector or not if you particularly enjoy said activity, server population should).

I'm not taking 'hostility' to this, nor am I 'looking for a fight' - but I would like to comment on this snippet.

Firstly, pre-Vector aka Enumerator days - it was not a simply Ctrl+Space away, [it was a Shift+Space away] people actually ganked in groups back then.  Leveling up on a Hostile server was much different than a PvE server.  Sorry, that's the truth. [also, slow/root]

Secondly, joining a PvP server SHOULD determine whether you want to be on Vector or not, as it is the only PvP server.  /pvp flagging [aka blue PvP] is not the true nature of PvP, that is consensual PvP.

Tenshi, there is a difference between Hostile, and /pvp.  That's the facts.  It's understandable if people don't want to transfer to Vector, and more importantly it's not even possible.  No one [with half a brain] has insulted anyone for not wanting to transfer if available.  So I don't see the need for the insults to our choice of server.

I'm gonna have to back up Tenshi when it's **bullcrud** when Vector Players (and I'm not saying all of them) point out that since they are PvP 24/7, "carebear" servers obviously do not have the skill to stand amongst the Vector Elite. I'll give you the leveling part, because yes in this game you're at a horrible disadvantage fighting a level fifty from 16-49 but you cannot stand there and tell me that consensual PvP is so much more different than Hostile PvP. The only difference is you get the initiative shot off, other than that it's just the same PvP you'd encounter on any other server.

• Org weapons/items/clothes for all orgs
• Org abilities - they won't unbalance combat and will cut down on org-hopping
• Subject NPCs to the same limitations as players; i.e. make them wait until the timer runs out before trying to pull into Interlock again, stop them firing attacks through walls, etc.
• Greater control over simulacra
• Ability to choose simulacrum type
• Improved faction management interface

I prefer not to ask someones permission to prove how bad they are at the game.