Rifleman Archive
Thread: A new conspiracy against Riflemen?
Over the past few weeks i have bought around 8 or 9 T21's and 8 Laser Rifles. Naturally I took them to be sliced, so that I could kick some major butt with my new toys. On only ONE laser rifle did I actually get a 30% dmg slice and it was the crappiest one of the bunch. 90% of the rifles i had sliced all came up with spd slices and the ones that did come up with a dmg only got aroun a 20% upgrade. Every time I had them sliced I used a Master Smuggler.
Does this seem strange to anybody else? The first few the came up spd I said oh well luck of the draw but when 14 out of 16 slices come up spd the chances of that happening are .006%. That is abosolutely rediculous. I realize that it coulld all just be coincedence, but that is one uber coincedence.
ouch! that sucks for you 
good news is you can make a lot of noobe riflemen happy by selling them some nice speedsliced rifles 
in my opinion this is just a statistical fluke... sory.
what is a conspiracy is how much out T21 suck! seriously, it some times does a little more damage than my lazer rifle, and uses twice as much mind, decays twice as fast 
but enough gripping, better luck next time, and trust me, there are some new riflemen who would give the shirts off there backs for those speed slices.
i bought a crate of lasers and had them all sliced by a master smuggler on tarquinas( domee) she rules...
anyways half the guns were speed andthe other half were damage so prolly it was a coincidence....
btw if anyone needs some fast lasers on tarq .... look me up its vysxi....
I'm on Tarq and we don't even have t21's yet. We all talk about our super krayt lasers, mine does 816 with a 33% power up. I was fortunate enough to shoot that SUPER T21, 550 something to 1800 something Dmg, 5.4 speed and 25.25.45 ham. 17806 Damage with strafe 2 on a FS NPC on dant. One shot killed the poor guy. Just a t21 that is 1/3rd of that would be enough to make a huge improvement. For now we have to play with our little lasers.
I deal with guild master smugglers and very honest master smugglers I trust implicitely - i got 8 or 9 speed sliced t21's before i got 3 dmg sliced ones. Laser seems the same way, and I still haven't got a jawa rifle to 30% dmg slice.
But i don't complain - the one time i went to my master smuggler with a brand new Krayt E11 - it got a 34% dmg slice - that makes up for the 15 speed slices on various other rifles...hehe.
and yeah, it makes the novice rifleman very happy to get the best + most expensive rifles in the galaxy with good speed slices for half price 
I totally agree with the Thread starter. Rifle slices are seeming slightly suspicious these days.....I recently took 8 rifles to a master smuggler for slice. 5 lasers, 2 Jawa, and my Krayt T21 i had looted all 11 tissues on myself. Only one laser got a dmg slice,one Jawa got dmg but was crap %, and luckily the Krayt T21 got a dmg...not the best slice but upper 20's i think.
Thats 5 of 8 spd slices....not exactly 50/50 but might be within th ebounds of variance i guess.
Still ticked me off till i saw the T21 got DMG. Then i felt better
Locky-1138 wrote:
uses twice as much mind
lies
... my 60mind laser uses 70ish mind per HS2.. my 67mind T21 uses 83ish mind per HS2.. i think the cost per HS2 in mind is 'Wep mind cost X 1.1666666'.
Im currently researching this more to get an accurate idea of HAM usage per wep per style.
The number floating over your head per shot is ALL stat usage per shot (ie a total cost in health, action AND mind).. its only blue because the majority of the number is down to mindcost.. The reason it looks alot higher with a 21 is because the health and action costs are alot higher than on a laser - those also get factored into the floaty cost number. Bring up your char status screen and watch the mindpool numbers going down when firing both the laser and 21. There really isnt as great a difference as ppl make out.
Same with hits.. you do a HS2 for 2000pts (coloured blue floaty over targets head) - its not doing all 2000 pts to the targets mindpool.. 1600 will go to mind, 200 to health,200 to action (rough generalisation).
As i rule of thumb I ignore most floaty numbers and combat window spam.. watch the actual figures on the target HAM bars. Gives a better idea of what is actually going on per hit/shot.
I got some sucky slices recently too.. no conspiracy.. its just down to the luck of the dice.. guess your luck ran out mate.
took 4 T21's to a slicer today.. 1 20% speed.. then 20%, 24%, 27% damage slices... the next 3 VK's all got speed slices on though and then the server crashed
Im hating coronet starport now...
-- A6