Interesting fact, you nerf tracking and afk MCed snipers won't connect without someone piloting... but then the guys with snipers that will still have 2k+ range *after this nerf* won't be able to run 4 snipers on their own... so can't make that change, because it would actually be effective.

Hard to keep you happy when you complain we don't nerf endgamers enough (this thread) but we nerf them too much (base gear thread).

We can throw on -50% tracking as well and test it a bit to see if it works.

Someone doesn't pay attention... if you paid any attention when you read it, I actually stayed pretty close to the point that X gear on all bases allows for more convenient and cheap griefing of new guys by endgamers... I also brought up that the change was only necessary because no one on the admin team had the balls to deal with endgamers griefing new guys incessantly *cough* 13 *cough*, which is what lead to the change. So, nice try but my arguments have been consistent...

Anyways, id much rather a resist nerf then range nerf. Or even a tracking nerf i guess.

*waves hand*

WHy are we nerfing a perfectly reasonable ship? I am not seeing how it is OP at all. Its tech 21 with 4 aug slots....ok, barring a few VERY hard to get augs (as people have repeatedly pointed out) how is that OP? If the problem is the augs, nerf the augs. If the problem is the 4th slot, remove that and give it some better stats to compensate.

Tracking nerf seems like an unnecessary annoyance to me. If you Mc you'll be on your snipers active client 90 percent of the time anyway (unless you also Mc a zerk , I suppose)

I'm all for removing the 4th Aug slot as well and giving it good inbuilt mods to compensate.

How about reducing stats on all augs by at least 50% and doubling the aug slots on all ships. The prawn nerf doesn't matter any more, it's an obsolete ship.

How about no. It's still the best sniper (and dps zerk) ship ingame, how is it obsolete?

I feel -50% would be too devastating for people with 3 CaL, dwatt or even 2 CaL, emp, dwatt. Personally I'd rather see multiple small nerfs slowly instead of one major nerf.

Ofcourse.

I still find it funny that we all know the issue is the DPS, but for some reason the only nerf that is going to happen in the last 5 years is a range nerf.

10/10

50% is too much. Id be much more in favor of a -5% resist nerf and -20% range nerf or something like that.

Didn't we all agree that the amount of DPS you need to do currently to kill anything is stupid and that the MF meta needed to be changed? And weren't you in favour of rebalancing Olympus, Subspace and PPS to have less shields and be more interesting than to sit still for an hour holding down space bar.

Seriously, the DPS a prawn sniper does regardless of the cost invested in it is ridiculous for this game and it's annoying that content is being balanced around that.

Also, the fuck is a range nerf going to do? Engineers still carry tractors.