Rifleman Archive

Like many of you I have played alot of these games and my experience is that if we don't get our balance issues addressed soon we're perma screwed. I've seen it in every game I've played. The initially weak professions spend the rest of the game life cycle struggling to justify why they should be as good as everyone else.

The problem is that after awhile people start to accept the profession pecking order. People hear commando or bounty hunter and they instinctively think bad a$$.Then later when someone goes back to try to balance things everyone will kick and scream about how rediculous it is that x, y, or z profession is suddenly so good. In actuality they may be balanced, but nobody will feel that way because the reality no longer fits their accepted pecking order.

Don't buy that? If they made rifleman almost as good asbounty hunterstomorrow everyone here would be happy andmost everyone elsewould complain. Why? Because in their mind we're not supposeda be that good. What really makes that sad is that IMO we should be just as good not almost as good.

We need balance addressed now, not afterother matterssettle down and these accepted notions have been further reinforced by the state of things.

Lots will disagree, but that's life and I'm comfortable that in 6-12 months I can point back to this post and it will accurately explain why rifleman are still subpar.