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General Off Topic / Re: Social vs antisocial
« on: June 27, 2020, 02:32:57 am »this forum is hands down the only honest place on the entire internet
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The Chamber of Tears / Re: The Dark Lord of Chamber of Tears
« on: December 24, 2018, 02:24:11 am »
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Announcements / Re: 0.5.3.0: Reset without Regrets
« on: March 10, 2018, 11:14:24 pm »
Polehammer has 33 blunt secondary mode with KD capability
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Announcements / Re: 0.5.3.0: Reset without Regrets
« on: March 10, 2018, 01:22:32 am »Just give out exchanges and do whatever you want. I have full faith in the team to balance the mod to shit.
i will take few days to think about it but i will probably quit the mod and ask for a permaban to never come again... and maybe come back when we will have an objective balacing team... even my ht build is fucked now ...
Well i'm breaking 27k hours in warband, and crpg was always closest to my heart mod but watching how you fucking lost the track in just everything: levels, weapon balance, bugs, mappools, game mechanic.
And we need more polls for item changes and balancing, this is way to closed of from the public when its going on. sudden changes in classes and gear is not good for the playerbase atm
etc.
Even though some of those posts may have received downvotes, assumingly since people generally do not like to see "QQ" in any form as well as possible personal reasons, let me assure that I can all but understand these concerns all too well.
Especially the last quote regarding transparency I view as highly justified, given the hefty impact on certain builds/classes/playstyles which feel like happening "out of nowhere" and I think some of those could have been avoided by being more open about the balance-procedures in progress. This may sound hypocritical to some as I am, although not the only one but often one of the first to criticise forum input to be trashtalk and lobbying rather than reasonable feedback, but I feel the community deserves to get an insight of what is happening behind the scenes of the game many of you have been loyal to for so many years. So for disclosure, let me give you a few examples of how and why some decisions came to pass and what you can do to help:
The balance team currently consists of people with quite different class-backgrounds and belong to both of NA and EU, which then again leads to the individuals being accustomed to quite different ingame metas.
I am not at all overstating things when I am mentioning that there are severe and occasionally outright hostile disagreements taking place in the balance board on a regular basis, so please do not assume that all of those patched changes have been met with unified approval among balancers.
I do neither appreaciate nor contemplate to slander people, however I feel it is necessary to call current circumstances by its right name to make things clear:
More times than less, balance is a mess. Some people want to erase pretty much every tweak to the game that happened since 2012, other people seemingly have a vision of their own of what crpg is supposed to be and appear to pursue that vision at any sacrifice. To this day, there is no true consensus on that crucial point and it seems some people are more interested in chalking up personal victories with each of their nerf/buff proposals being implemented into the game. Consequently, balance suggestions are being thrown around with a specific agenda in mind, when the basis of the intended outcome of that change isnt even collectively deemed desirable. Occasionally I receive a personal messages over discord by another balancer stating how incompetent this guy or that proposal was and I dont even want to know how often some certain balancers may have sent impolite messages to people behind my back regarding my competence to perform the job.
I am not gonna lie and I dont want to protray myself as the good good samaritan, I am surely guilty as well of estimating my own expertise higher than others every now and then.
If the affore-mentioned wasnt enough though, even approaching a topic that changes the way some classes perfrom is a nightmare. Without calling any names, some balancers will respect another person having more experience with a certain class than themselves and will refrain from advancing opinions when not feeling capable of providing any qualified input, while other balancers will insist of entitling themselves to have a say in everything and anything regardless of actual experience with the content they are about to modify, yet another balancer will openly arrogate that his decision is justified because he played another game and it basically works in combarable ways there.
Discussing anything becomes increasingly difficult to say the least and the professionalism you expect from people to bear the responsibility of having such a great impact of the state of the game is replaced with, if you allow the quote from another balancer, "mere intellectual sparring". My honest evaluation of the balance team is that the necessary cohesion and experience to perform appropriately is not present and constructive community input is required to lay out the missing guidelines just described above for this whole ordeal to work.
In the end though, and this is probably the key problem, regardless of who or how many balancers advise or vote on what, the decision what will pass and what wont is entirely up Professor.
It pains me deeply to say this, especially since I have huge respect for the amount of work and time prof puts into the game, but I dont have much hope that this just described structure will allow for a positive developement of the game. As you may have noticed in some of his posts by now, Professor stated that he is reserving the right to make decisions if he sees them justified. Although it honours him that he is also willing to take the blame for any possible mistakes, this philosophy will arguably not lead to an improvement of the game. You cannot expect one guy to have enough experience with every aspect of the game and with every class to always expect an educated course of action, as some of the recent changes should serve as evidence enough for. I also discussed this several times and questioned how it is feasible not to have people in charge that are dedicated to the class in question which is about to receive significant overhauls, although even after these talks, I expect a division of power is not likely to happen.
There will certainly be QOL changes, bugfixes and decisions with good intentions but whether crpg will still be crpg after ten or fifteen patches in the future, I cannot say for certain.
Why am I telling you all this, whats the take away ?
Give . Constructive . Argumentative . Feedback.
If balancer A proposes change X and Professor ends up estimating that this proposal is valid, although maybe not necessarily having ingame experience with that specific part of the game that just has been proposed, there is nothing I or any other single balancer can do to overrule that decision. There is no council, there is no necessary amount of votes, there is no division of power.
I know it sounds optimistic, I know its the same old story that happened with other head devs as well, I know m0d 1s de4d.
I couldnt blame anyone for not giving a fuck anymore and I am highly aware that I am not exactly considered the first contact person by many players, given the nature of me being ranged ph4ggot ( although I really play more pole than archer currently tbh ) and being a sore badmin who only hands out irrelevant and unjustified bans, but if you can present reasonable suggestions of why what needs to be changed, I am willing to play "community manager" and bring these cases to attention, which will only lead to results though if enough presentable input is acquired.
I am not even sure if the people I am criticising here posses the objectivity to regard this letter as exactly that - criticism rather than insult - or if I will be permabanned 5 minutes after posting this
but having tried to discuss this with the concerned people without success, reaching communication impasses more and more frequently, looking at the current player population, reading daily what balancers are proposing to change and reading through very reasonable disapproval and discontent on the forums, I frankly dont care.Thanks for reading
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Announcements / Re: 0.5.3.0: Reset without Regrets
« on: March 06, 2018, 10:21:33 pm »
Noble dagger added for quickdraw as well
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General Discussion / Re: IT IS ON NERDS, OFFICIAL 1V1 C-RPG TOURNAMENT. COME SIGN UP.
« on: March 03, 2018, 10:16:12 pm »He didn't what?
So how is it that you are given leave by the devs/admins to give all participants 1 mill xp win or lose but then be able to deny who can or can not participate?
He didnt get any approval disallowing specific people to participate, at least i cannot recall and would be highly surprised if it was the case since he is not paying for the rewards and it is a community event.
Also trying to keep people out of this tournament because they didnt want to bro code is kinda funny
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General Discussion / Re: IT IS ON NERDS, OFFICIAL 1V1 C-RPG TOURNAMENT. COME SIGN UP.
« on: March 03, 2018, 09:19:50 pm »So how is it that you are given leave by the devs/admins to give all participants 1 mill xp win or lose but then be able to deny who can or can not participate?
He didnt.
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EU (Official) / Re: [BAN] ghetto_blaster_the_selecta
« on: March 03, 2018, 03:07:52 am »Jarlek hadn't done any of his usual smack talking in chat towards the player in question or the mercs as a clan in this particular session, so as far as I could tell it was unprovoked.
According to the logs, unsurprisingly, the exact opposite took place.
I get it, you two want to go at each other's throats at the first opportunity you get. I will however not see a single teamhit against a horse with no futher quarrels regarding this particular case as justification to issue a ban.
You should indeed know better though blackbow and if you have evidence to bring forth against jarlek, you should do it in your own report.
Therefore, consider yourself warned blackbow. An entry will be made in your record, linking to this thread in case it may become relevant again.
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General Discussion / Re: Low server populations (poll)
« on: February 27, 2018, 01:19:56 am »
Let me refresh your memory Xesta 
As you can see, your ban was not due to some "bad words" but rather whats stated above + behaving like a complete social outcast in chat.
You can man up now and acknowledge that this is not how a halfway mature human being should act or you can always go full emo mode of course and drown yourself in self-pity.
E:
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[16:29:02] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[17:39:15] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[17:50:55] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[18:07:04] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
As you can see, your ban was not due to some "bad words" but rather whats stated above + behaving like a complete social outcast in chat.
You can man up now and acknowledge that this is not how a halfway mature human being should act or you can always go full emo mode of course and drown yourself in self-pity.
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Seems like you don't care doing job correctly tho, akbar also didn't get punished for shooting me 2 times with his xbow on the same thread while I didn't even hit him or nudged him or anything,
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EU (Official) / Re: BAN SB_Veselov and SB_Akbar
« on: February 26, 2018, 10:32:13 pm »Quote
[16:29:02] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[17:39:15] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[17:50:55] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
[18:07:04] msg,SB_Veselov reported Xestaboo for teamwounding. Penalty: [1/5]
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[16:30:44] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Little xbow bitch
[17:39:41] chat,,Xestaboo,team,bundle of stickss
[17:39:49] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Akbar and other homo
[17:43:53] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Semi afk btw writing report against those two bundle of stickss
[17:50:28] chat,,Xestaboo,team,VESELOV YOU CUNT
[18:21:27] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Yeah made for subhumanmy old friendgts
[18:25:07] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Cunts
[18:35:04] chat,,Xestaboo,team,What a fucking retard
[18:35:12] chat,,Xestaboo,team,Same with veselov
etc.
SB_Veselov banned for 1 day for teamhitting
Xesta banned for 1 day for teamhitting, toxic behaviour / chatabuse
I suggest you start reporting people for offences Veselov instead of taking administration into your own hands. The only reason you get away with a relatively short ban after your last one happened so recently is because Xesta is not exactly innocent here. And I strongly suggest you to keep it down Xesta, both in terms of friendly teamhits and toxic bahivour, as the logs I posted above are but a fraction of what I just had to read through.
Oh yes, this report has been open for too many days and I completely forgot about SB_Akbar
SB_Akbar banned for 12h for teamhitting
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Game Balance Discussion / Re: Yew Bow is yewsless (ololo)
« on: February 25, 2018, 04:34:28 pm »
Actually ferret knows what he is talking about and the issue is known. Its not as simpl as "at x wpf you will be this accurate" but in summary his assertion is correct.
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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: how to be an admin?
« on: February 19, 2018, 02:16:27 am »
Not having 20+ bans including a perma on your ban-record would be a good start.
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Game Admin Feedback / Re: [EU] XyNox
« on: February 15, 2018, 06:25:34 pm »
I wasnt even mad, but you didnt act like you knew it was my alt at all. I even asked you without admin chat whether you think this was justified and gave you the opportunity to cool down in case it would have been just an emotional outburst.
Seriously, just imagine some new player joins and is immediately greeted like this. Yes Panos, I know your stance, you think ranged of any kind is destroying the game and would be good riddance. But what if some new guy just so happens to try out a ranged class before deciding what to play ?
I did not at all ban you because I personally feel insulted by your action or had my game "ruined". Its simply because we do not have the luxary to allow such behaviour if we want to increase mod popularity. Ban is 1h btw.
Seriously, just imagine some new player joins and is immediately greeted like this. Yes Panos, I know your stance, you think ranged of any kind is destroying the game and would be good riddance. But what if some new guy just so happens to try out a ranged class before deciding what to play ?
I did not at all ban you because I personally feel insulted by your action or had my game "ruined". Its simply because we do not have the luxary to allow such behaviour if we want to increase mod popularity. Ban is 1h btw.