Weaponsmith Archive

• The ability to majorly affect stats, spd\dmg vs range, etc


• Resources having a greater impact than before on final quality

The bad:

• Volatile, variance in a schematic's final results




• Reduce the variance in a schematic's final results, I shouldn't be getting 1% to 5% variances on final stats if I use the same resources and get the same experiment results - there is no net gain here.


• Advantage Canyon of +12 Smiths capping out a category that <+12's will NOT be able to do




• Certainly, +12 smiths should have some advantage in that, on averge, they will have 2 pts to put into range, condition etc, but those extra 2 pts should not be a final determinant on maxing a category out.


• Volatile returns of succeses




• Moderate successes sometimes reduce stats


• Great successes vary in return from 1% to 7%or more - that's some variance.


• This just plain needs to be fixed - it's inconsistent and all over the board.


• Some schematics (adv wp stocks) are still borked on experimentation


• Resource caps will still impact dependent weapons until the rebalance goes through.

Now, here's an idea for levelling the playing field between non-masters, masters & +12 masters. Instead of handing outa different number of experiment points, everyone starts with 10. The return result of each point you put in varies depending on your skill level in Techniques. A 1111 Novice for example would have a 1% to 10% variance in how much each point returns, where a Master would have an 8% to 10% variance. Skilltapes would never reduce that 8% to 10%, but they would allow you MORE points to tweak secondary attributes such as range or condition.

This means a nonMaster has at least a chance, if he works very hard and uses the same resources, to hit a schematic with the same or very close stats. A Master just has an easier time making the same schematic. It may take a Novice 50 tries, a master only 5.

At first blush, this sounds like a way to level the playing field, while giving an advantage to masters and rewarding those with +12 points by allowing their weapons to be a bit more than what they are. This does, in a readily apparent way, impact the economy or address the question of variety in weapons.

So - half a pat on the back, take this back to the design board. In the meantime, we'll be dealing with theone-day quasinerf weapons

After the FWG5 nerf, I figured ok, the devs made a mistake they realize their mistake, they wont do that again. This is absolute idiocy on the part of the devs. WHY TELL PLAYERS when you are going to change back or forth......you know what you did yesterday? You just made WS even more impossible to break in to. If you werent a seasoned WS with 12 exp points yesterday, you are now screwed. Every 12pt WS on every server made schems for superior components and weapons numbering in the 10's of thousands each. If you missed this, well too bad.....even with 12points you cant duplicate this no matter what you do.

There are valid reasons for surprising players, you want a balanced economy devs? Quit acting like a bunch of baboons without a leader and think about the effects of your actions.

Of course all this is null and void if they delete everything that was made yesterday.

I take back my post... hehe... after thinking about it, like the ideas Be0Wulfe has.