05-10-2003, 11:00 AM
I said he shouldn't waste my time by replying to MY comments with worthless drivel that has no bearing on my opinions. He's entitled to his own all he wants. That doesn't give him the right to tell me mine are wrong.
His point was that, because the items are Rare, it's not imbalanced. That point is pure bull, plain and simple. As a modder, I understand that rarity has VERY little to do with balance, ESPECIALLY in a Multiplayer environment. In Single Player, such rarity introduces some SEMBLANCE (a.k.a. illusion) of balance, until you find that item. The difference is in SP, it's contained: only that one character will have that item. In Multiplayer, not ONLY are you exponentially increasing the odds of that item, but you give it a mode of travel between players, thereby spreading its use (in essence, multiplying the "quantity" of the item). That's BEFORE you take into consideration hacking / duping, which I'm not going to address, since that was not the point of my statements.
The very fact that nuclear weapons exist at all, no matter how rare they are or how rarely they are used, creates a MUCH greater threat for ALL of us than if they didn't exist at all. The theory is the same for items in a game. Just because it's RARE doesn't make its existence any less harmful. THAT is my point, which he is calling BS because "we don't know what's going to be in the game" and because "it's rare so it won't matter". Yeah, so were SoJs and Elite Uniques and scores of other things. And, as YOU so kindly pointed out, "there are lots of people who have legitimate Elite Uniques".
If TaiDashir wants to shove his head in the sand, let him. I just won't let him force MY head down there with him. Sorry, but I prefer to see things, rather than claim ignorance.
His point was that, because the items are Rare, it's not imbalanced. That point is pure bull, plain and simple. As a modder, I understand that rarity has VERY little to do with balance, ESPECIALLY in a Multiplayer environment. In Single Player, such rarity introduces some SEMBLANCE (a.k.a. illusion) of balance, until you find that item. The difference is in SP, it's contained: only that one character will have that item. In Multiplayer, not ONLY are you exponentially increasing the odds of that item, but you give it a mode of travel between players, thereby spreading its use (in essence, multiplying the "quantity" of the item). That's BEFORE you take into consideration hacking / duping, which I'm not going to address, since that was not the point of my statements.
The very fact that nuclear weapons exist at all, no matter how rare they are or how rarely they are used, creates a MUCH greater threat for ALL of us than if they didn't exist at all. The theory is the same for items in a game. Just because it's RARE doesn't make its existence any less harmful. THAT is my point, which he is calling BS because "we don't know what's going to be in the game" and because "it's rare so it won't matter". Yeah, so were SoJs and Elite Uniques and scores of other things. And, as YOU so kindly pointed out, "there are lots of people who have legitimate Elite Uniques".
If TaiDashir wants to shove his head in the sand, let him. I just won't let him force MY head down there with him. Sorry, but I prefer to see things, rather than claim ignorance.
Roland *The Gunslinger*