PLZ Nerf Inspirations

[starro]

I feel like after reading this thread I have grown as a COH player. 
 

Mostly I have grown to hate poor font selection. 

[Snarky]

11 minutes ago, shortguy on indom said:

• MY POINT IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT INSPIRATIONS ARE OP.
  • THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY I THINK THAT THIS IS SO, AND NOT EVERY REASON WAS LISTED IN MY ORIGINAL POST.
• I DO NOT HATE THEM.
• I DO NOT WANT THEM TAKEN AWAY.
• I KNOW I CAN TURN THEM OFF AT P2W.

to be fair, i still do not understand what you want.  Yes, i have read it.

 

You seem to want them to be "less powerful"  But there are different levels of inspirations.  Trust me, if you depowered them all these maniacs would just use the one 2-3 levels up that now gives the same value.  And then you would ask.... that we "depower inspirations?"

[Riverdusk]

Only thing I'd say should be looked at is the balance between orange resistance and purple defense inspirations.  It has always seemed off.  I'd buff orange ones a bit and nerf purple ones a bit.  Doubt it'd ever happen though.

 

Oh, and being able to store inspirations in email and grab them during missions is a bit cheesy, but not sure if anything can be done about that.

 

Otherwise, they are fine imo.

[Rudra]

1 hour ago, shortguy on indom said:

MY POINT IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT INSPIRATIONS ARE OP.

• THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY I THINK THAT THIS IS SO, AND NOT EVERY REASON WAS LISTED IN MY ORIGINAL POST.

Then perhaps you should give your other reasons, because the ones you've given so far don't hold up.

[Luminara]

43 minutes ago, Snarky said:

to be fair, i still do not understand what you want.

 

He wants to impose his preferences on the populace.  Dictate how everyone else plays.  Make others experience the game the way he thinks they should.  Not the way it was designed to be experienced, not the way three development teams have agreed it should be experienced, not the way others enjoy experiencing it, but his way.

 

Small wonder that he's been handed a bag of dicks and bottle of thin, watery catsup by a group of people who spend a not-insignificant amount of time beating fascists to death in the game.

[JasperStone]

17 hours ago, Snarky said:

You gotta stop using that script. I am using a dim iphone in a crypt.  How the F am i supposed to see that?

I got chu ...

[macskull]

22 hours ago, DrRocket said:

thus the developers solution for that was to force the support types to be dependent on break frees just to play the game

This was never the solution. The solution was to team with players who had mez protection powers.

[keyguardactive]

As a solo player, Inspirations have dragged my ass through all sorts of content I just couldn't manage on my own. I appreciate the ability to do that as it exists now. But, okay, lets say for a moment that nerfing inspirations went forward. What do we get? What is the benefit to the game, how does my experience change, in this world? 

 

Because I don't see it. 

 

 

[biostem]

1 hour ago, keyguardactive said:

Because I don't see it. 

IMHO, it's because there are some people who, for instance, see a blaster down a couple BFs, then think to themselves, "Why do they even need a [insert other AT here]", and think that, were it not for said inspirations, they'd be so much more in demand and/or able to team-up that much more easily...

[Snarky]

2 hours ago, biostem said:

IMHO, it's because there are some people who, for instance, see a blaster down a couple BFs, then think to themselves, "Why do they even need a [insert other AT here]", and think that, were it not for said inspirations, they'd be so much more in demand and/or able to team-up that much more easily...

half the time my blaster hoards his insp and/or forgets to use them.  and i just blast away....

[shortguy on indom]

• WHEN INSPIRATIONS WERE NERFED BACK IN ISSUE 25 WAS THERE THIS KIND OF RESPONSE?
• https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Issue_25
• "All inspirations were 5% stronger than the text said, due to an old veteran reward applying to everybody. They've all been nerfed ....

[shortguy on indom]

2 hours ago, Krimson said:

Then don't use them.

• HOW ABOUT "NO"

[shortguy on indom]

2 hours ago, Krimson said:

Then don't use them.

• hmm... think that was...

[lemming]

13 minutes ago, shortguy on indom said:

• WHEN INSPIRATIONS WERE NERFED BACK IN ISSUE 25 WAS THERE THIS KIND OF RESPONSE?
• https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Issue_25
• "All inspirations were 5% stronger than the text said, due to an old veteran reward applying to everybody. They've all been nerfed ....

Issue 25 didn't get much push back since most of us weren't playing at the time.  And 5% isn't a huge difference.

I think the changes to that duals can drop and be traded (along with team) more than made up for that.

 

But thanks for the link, I hadn't processed some of the stuff that was changed and now I know why logout times seem to vary.

[Rudra]

22 minutes ago, shortguy on indom said:

• WHEN INSPIRATIONS WERE NERFED BACK IN ISSUE 25 WAS THERE THIS KIND OF RESPONSE?
• https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Issue_25
• "All inspirations were 5% stronger than the text said, due to an old veteran reward applying to everybody. They've all been nerfed ....

First, I don't recall a player posting a suggestion to have them nerfed, whereas this thread is a player asking for that to happen.

 

Second:

I25 inspiration nerfs:

• Dual and Team inspirations had their durations nerfed to 60 seconds to match other inspirations.
• All inspirations were 5% stronger than listed. They were nerfed to match their descriptions.

 

In the first case, the "nerf" was bringing some inspirations in line for duration with the other inspirations. In the second case, the inspirations were adjusted in power to match what they were described as doing. Both of these nerfs are corrections. As opposed to your call for a nerf that still has no plausible reason. Do you see the difference?

 

(Also, still waiting on your stated list of other reasons inspirations need to be nerfed. If you have them, it may help your case to provide them.)

[Hedgefund]

Looks like they've already been nerfed, so problem solved.  Moving on...

[shortguy on indom]

22 minutes ago, lemming said:

And 5% isn't a huge difference.

• TY FOR BRINGING THIS UP.
• 5% IS A BID DEAL WHEN YOU HAVE A TOON WHICH IS AT 40% DEFENSE NO?

[JKCarrier]

9 hours ago, JasperStone said:

Me, getting ready to fight Silver Mantis...

[shortguy on indom]

12 minutes ago, Rudra said:

(Also, still waiting on your stated list of other reasons inspirations need to be nerfed. If you have them, it may help your case to provide them.)

• YOU SAID YOU WANTED NUMBERS, SO NUMBERS IT WILL BE.
• TAKES A BIT OF TIME.  RL VBUSY TODAY.

[Rudra]

Just now, shortguy on indom said:

• YOU SAID YOU WANTED NUMBERS, SO NUMBERS IT WILL BE.
• TAKES A BIT OF TIME.  RL VBUSY TODAY.

 

...

 

6 hours ago, Rudra said:

8 hours ago, shortguy on indom said:

MY POINT IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT INSPIRATIONS ARE OP.

• THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY I THINK THAT THIS IS SO, AND NOT EVERY REASON WAS LISTED IN MY ORIGINAL POST.

Then perhaps you should give your other reasons, because the ones you've given so far don't hold up.

That's not what I asked for. If your other reasons are math-based? Sure, I'll wait. However, all I asked for were your "many reasons why you(I) think that is so".

[Rudra]

11 minutes ago, shortguy on indom said:

• TY FOR BRINGING THIS UP.
• 5% IS A BID DEAL WHEN YOU HAVE A TOON WHICH IS AT 40% DEFENSE NO?

You are looking at the numbers wrong. The inspirations were 5% stronger than they should be. That does not necessarily mean that they had a flat 5% value stacked on top of their listed values. That reads more to me like a +7.5% buff was actually providing a +7.875% buff.

 

Edit: Besides, if your defense is already at 40%, then popping any purple inspiration will soft cap you anyway. 5% more powerful buff than should be or not.

 

Edited September 30 by Rudra

[shortguy on indom]

3 minutes ago, Rudra said:

 

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That's not what I asked for. If your other reasons are math-based? Sure, I'll wait. However, all I asked for were your "many reasons why you(I) think that is so".

• WORKING ON IT.

[shortguy on indom]

1 minute ago, Rudra said:

You are looking at the numbers wrong. The inspirations were 5% stronger than they should be. That does not necessarily mean that they had a flat 5% value stacked on top of their listed values. That reads more to me like a +7.5% buff was actually providing a +7.875% buff.

• YOU MAY BE CORRECT ON THAT, NO IDEA. ONCE IT WENT FREE I WAS GONE SO CANNOT CONFIRM OTHER THAN THAT LINK.

[Black Zot]

8 hours ago, shortguy on indom said:

• I DO PLAY THE WAY I WANT TO.

 

Then shut up and let the rest of us do the same.  Hypocrite.

Edited September 30 by Black Zot

[shortguy on indom]

46 minutes ago, Black Zot said:

 

Then shut up and let the rest of us do the same.  Hypocrite.

• IT'S A SUGGESTION.
• POSTING IN THE SUGGESTIONS AND FEEDBACK.
• LOLZ.