Pistoleer Archive
Thread: 19 Answers, we've one coming...
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Randonb
Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:02 am
#40
Alright, todays the day I send it off.Due tooverwhelming support, this is our question this week (there will be more):
Many pistoleers feel that their attacks are generic. Vanilla random HAM is a big issue. How do the developers intend to "spice up" the profession, in the near and distant future?
Again, if this one wasn't your cup to tea or Thunderheart gives us an answer we don't like, there will be many more chances. This is now officially a bi-weekly thing.
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teeth0r
Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:32 pm
#41
We know what he's going to say. Never ask a PR person a question like that, you'll get a content-free answer. 
Randonb
Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:33 pm
#42
Which is why I didn't ask *if* things were going to happen, I asked *how* they were. There were more suggestions for this question than all other questions combined. To submit anything else would be irresponsible.
I promise that if I had used another question, there wouldhave beenas many people saying "Bah, TH's only going to feed us the same line." Only in that scenario, there would also be peoplesaying "the most popular suggestion and you ignored it? Why bother asking for our input at all!?"
This was the lesser of 2 evils.
I'm not optimisic about the response either, but that's true for every last question on our list and suggested in this thread. If the only answer Thunderheart has for us is "Combat Balance," there's very little I can do about it. Believe me when I tell you that bullying him or saying "Answer this question, and you can't say ___!" isn't going to get us anywhere. Thunderheart is well aware that we hate that answer. If he answers it properly (and I'm not sure he can), we should come away with some nice info.
Slipp-Wilson
Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:48 pm
#43
"A) Pistoleer, as a profession, is more useless then even carbiner, many MANY reasons by players have been stated why, even developers have come forward to admit that to make pistoleer more powerful we should look to smuggler, or BH. I would like an honest answer, without any bull**edit**, double speak, or company propaganda to keep up moral(because devs, TH, folks lets face it, pistoleers have none anymore, nothing you can say can make things WORSE) to the following question. When will pistoleer, as an elite combat profession be brought in line with the others that also cost 92 skillpoints to master. This isnt a question in reality that can be answered with a simple "in the combat balance, when ever that is" answer. This is deeply involving and has many route causes. As a pistoleer I can assure you my PAYMENTS WILL NOT LAST if the above question is not answered with something tangable, a simple "combat balance" will not state me, nor do I imagine many MANY other pistoleers. Rifleman reciveved a fix(removing the pistoleer niche in combat I may add), carbiners also recived a lackluster, but still helpful fix. When will MY PROFESSION, when will OUR Profession be worth 92 skillpoints? I"m not asking for a general idea, I DEMAND a answer, one that is in months, or weeks, something definitive. I DEMAND WITH MY DOLARS a REAL RESPONSE!"
this is the most beauiful post ive ever seen and should reach the devs....this is how i also feel inside....
this is the most beauiful post ive ever seen and should reach the devs....this is how i also feel inside....
KzinKiller
Mon Apr 26, 2004 7:08 pm
#44
Radonb, I appreciate the candor ... and I think you're on the money. I agree that the real question on most Pistoleers minds, "How do you justify failing to just fix the specials so they do what they're designed to do, since the Combat Balance is a fairy tale," would get an even wafflier answer, if it got any at all.
I'd like syrup on my waffles, btw .... and creamy buttah.
KzinKiller
Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:17 am
#45
Well, I'm afraid that question is almost guaranteed to get an answer that I will grade as "Vague" in my next eval of TH's answers ... you've left him more room for waffling than atruckload of Eggo's.
Sure be happy if he surprises us with actual details, though.
Message Edited by KzinKiller on 04-26-2004 12:18 PM
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