Aurora_Girl Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 37 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said: Numerical purity. He said, menacingly. 4 1 @Aurora Girl - Excelsior - BSOD Aurora Girl (Blaster)- Energy/Atomic, Queen of Faceplants and former Mayor of Pinnacle Server Straye (Brute)- Savage/SR, Survivor of +4 ITF Nictus Crystals and Bobcat's Bane Aurora Snow (Corruptor) - Ice/Cold, AV Humiliator Terraflux (Controller) - Earth/Rad, Bass Exploder Spynerette (Arachnos Soldier) - Night Widow, Super Spy of Sneakiness and Stabbing Snowberrie (Tank) - Ice/Spines, Disco Ball and Lady of Winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shred Monkey Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 11 hours ago, Bill Z Bubba said: Numerical purity. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but whenever I come across a game with perfectly balanced powers. I hate it. I spend all my time min-maxing and never find anything that puts me ahead of the curve. 1 1 Active on Excelsior: Prismatic Monkey - Seismic / Martial Blaster, Shadow Dragon Monkey - Staff / Dark Brute, Murder Robot Monkey - Arachnos Night Widow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeraphimKensai Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 45 minutes ago, Shred Monkey said: whenever I come across a game with perfectly balanced powers. I hate it. You have a valid point there. I am a min-maxer as well, I get a certain satisfaction competing with a player using an overpowered character while using a "commonly believed to be under powered" character and getting that "whoa" reaction. Case in point out damaging several pug blasters while using my plants/trick arrow controller. I've literally been sent tells by a team leader who must of been friends with the pug blaster, asking if I'd slow down as the blaster wants a chance to kill things too. If everything is perfectly balanced you end up with essentially flipping a coin and other than any masochistic statisticians who gets enjoyment out of continual coin flipping? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobegone Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Shred Monkey said: I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but whenever I come across a game with perfectly balanced powers. I hate it. I spend all my time min-maxing and never find anything that puts me ahead of the curve. Can you give me an example of a game that was perfectly balanced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperStone Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 21 hours ago, Luminara said: Proteins, carbohydrates and fats in the appropriate proportions, and some leafy greens for minerals. Cheeseburgers with everything, for everyone! You misspelled bacon ...... 1 Forums - a place, meeting, or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. "it will be a forum for consumers to exchange their views on medical research" Spam Response- Spam, in the context of cybersecurity, refers to any unsolicited and often irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent over the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminara Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, JasperStone said: You misspelled bacon ...... Sorry. Cheeseburgers with everything, for bacon! P.S. People aren't bacon, they're long pork. 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeraphimKensai Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Ignatz the Insane said: Can you give me an example of a game that was perfectly balanced? Chess is balanced, however skill determines the outcome. That said I've never see an MMO perfectly balanced, although some achieve a semblance of balance on at least on an apples to apples approach as opposed to an apples to oranges approach. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomo Kimyata Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 4 hours ago, Shred Monkey said: I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but whenever I come across a game with perfectly balanced powers. I hate it. I spend all my time min-maxing and never find anything that puts me ahead of the curve. 3 hours ago, SeraphimKensai said: You have a valid point there. I am a min-maxer as well, I get a certain satisfaction competing with a player using an overpowered character while using a "commonly believed to be under powered" character and getting that "whoa" reaction. Case in point out damaging several pug blasters while using my plants/trick arrow controller. I've literally been sent tells by a team leader who must of been friends with the pug blaster, asking if I'd slow down as the blaster wants a chance to kill things too. If everything is perfectly balanced you end up with essentially flipping a coin and other than any masochistic statisticians who gets enjoyment out of continual coin flipping? I am a min-maxxer (-maxer) as well, but I strongly prefer games (and real life situations) with multiple optimal outcomes (like is it -maxxer or -maxer? Don't care! Both are optimal based on how much you like the letter 'x'!) depending on what you're trying to achieve. Fortunately, this game is great with letting players excel with "good enough." Now, let's see if we can get other players to be down with being "good enough"! Who run Bartertown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Z Bubba Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 5 hours ago, Shred Monkey said: I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but whenever I come across a game with perfectly balanced powers. I hate it. I spend all my time min-maxing and never find anything that puts me ahead of the curve. Power X should do the same base damage (affected by AT mods AND activation time,) cost the same end and have the same recharge across all archetypes. If archetype A has 30% more overall mitigation than archetype B, it should dish out 30% less overall damage. Etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albion Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Someone has to say it so here it goes... MIN MAXING IS NOT HEALTHY FOR ANY GAME *escapes* 1 Σαυτὸν ἀρίθμησον πρότερον καὶ γνῶθι σεαυτόν, καὶ τότ᾽ ἀριθμήσεις γαῖαν ἀπειρεσίην. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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