Fun features and powergamers

ma44 · Post by **ma44** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 5:35 pm #336932

Whenever there's some cool and fun feature that either gives people lots of toys (null crate, rnd, gateway, NULL crates) or a neat interaction (shadow people + zombies) is all nice and well, but then the powergamer nation attacked, using the cool features to go and min max the ever living shit out of the mechanic to murderbone the entire population of the station with their 2 million adrenal implants and all the syndicate gear in the world.

What do you think about this?

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 5:57 pm #336962

Stop using fucking buzzwords you fucking baby

ma44 · Post by **ma44** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:00 pm #336968

But you can have a lot of adrenal implants while having close to all the syndicate gear in the world.

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:04 pm #336977

I'm talking about powergamer this powergamer that.

If something is badly designed and people abuse it, punishing those that abused it in the first place won't fix the shitty design.

Oldman Robustin · Thu Sep 14, 2017 6:05 pm

Stupid poll with biased choices

I stopped reading once you referred to NULL CRATES as a fun toy that was only bad when abused by POWAHGAYMERS, please. Like any feature that would let crew gather 500TC of traitor gear was going to lead to light-hearted fun otherwise.

CPTANT · Post by **CPTANT** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:05 am #337248

Null crates is almost the only thing traitor cargo really gets.....

The Clowns Pocket · Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:21 am

Someone has to e-mag the console to get the crates though.

Now usually you can work out a deal with the QM and often he wont sell you out, but if you do it without asking then more often someone will call you out for it. Those darn powergamers!

Post by **Cobby** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:44 am #337265

Remember when nulls weren't syndicate crates?

Good times

ma44 · Post by **ma44** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:22 pm #337271

Remember when traitors just bought the spec ops crate because it has a great value for it's cost?

I don't

Qbmax32 · Post by **Qbmax32** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 12:54 pm #337273

Cry

More

Baby

kevinz000 · Post by **kevinz000** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:14 pm #337371

Why is one of the worst offenders trying to get powergamers banned

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:43 pm #337423

He always does this tbh, he powergames with something until everyone is sick of it then is the first to campaign against it (see cash lemons, telescience)

kevinz000 · Post by **kevinz000** » Fri Sep 15, 2017 6:52 pm #337427

Policybaiting lmao
Atleast other shitposters are funny.

AnonymousNow · Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:25 pm

I miss cyborgs shouting out their reset words like sodding Power Rangers or something.

ma44 · Post by **ma44** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 4:03 am #337700

But I never used telescience or complained about it ever

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:10 am #337715

AnonymousNow wrote:I miss cyborgs shouting out their reset words like sodding Power Rangers or something.

My reset phrase was "Autobots rollout!"

Dr_bee · Post by **Dr_bee** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:20 am #337745

AnonymousNow wrote:I miss cyborgs shouting out their reset words like sodding Power Rangers or something.

It was a neat feature to be honest, it was a trade off, you could be significantly more flexible but you wouldnt be able to use any cyborg upgrades and you had what was basically a kill-phrase if anyone found out your code word.

but the coderbus cant let silicons have any nice things, they must forever remain shitty versions of humans that have to follow extra rules.

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:01 am #337825

ma44 wrote:But I never used telescience or complained about it ever

Sorry i confused you with vcordie there

CPTANT · Post by **CPTANT** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:05 pm #338137

Telescience was shit by design.

It allowed pinpoint accuracy over the whole station with the only barrier being a 3rd party calculator that you had to download once.

kevinz000 · Post by **kevinz000** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:12 am #338152

CPTANT wrote:Telescience was shit by design.

It allowed pinpoint accuracy over the whole station with the only barrier being a 3rd party calculator that you had to download once.

This isn't about telescience I'm saying in general ma44 doesn't get to be a big part of the problem while screaming punish powergamers like him.

BeeSting12 · Post by **BeeSting12** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:32 pm #338394

Dr_bee wrote:
AnonymousNow wrote:I miss cyborgs shouting out their reset words like sodding Power Rangers or something.
It was a neat feature to be honest, it was a trade off, you could be significantly more flexible but you wouldnt be able to use any cyborg upgrades and you had what was basically a kill-phrase if anyone found out your code word.

but the coderbus cant let silicons have any nice things, they must forever remain shitty versions of humans that have to follow extra rules.

One of the major balancing things on sillycons was that they're super good at one thing but they're also focused to that one thing unless they're a standard borg type. I think changing it was pretty fair.

Post by **Cobby** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:53 pm #340993

On the other hand having kill phrases is funny and spamming it over the radio is a fate worse than deathfor the silly

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:25 pm #340997

Daily reminder that telescience dindunuffin

Post by **Cobby** » Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:17 pm #342279

cedarbridge wrote:Daily reminder that telescience dindunuffin

The only problem with it really is you could metagame ops by using map coords which is already against the rules

/tg/Station 13