(09-20-2018, 07:18 PM)Titan* Wrote: ofc it doesnt have to be very similar to human weapon. You can make them look different, call them something else but it should have similar stats with human weapons. Even vanilla nomads had missiles pretty sure nomad capitals can get missiles.
Okay, so... while I agree with this statement on the surface from a balance perspective, not each and every one of those equipment pieces which is missing serves any sort of an integral hard counter to anything. By which I mean some of what is being requested ain't strictly necessary for the sake of balance but is rather desired for variety, which is all fine and dandy except for the following.
1: It's more work. A lot of it. I'm sure you're all familiar with how often squid tech gets overlooked when a balance pass is done on something, and you're looking at that being multiplied times however many equipment pieces are added.
2: Tena, to an extent, is right. Not everything requested here is necessary.
I know it sounds harsh, but myself and the rest of the balance team have better things to do with our time than add purple copies of every single piece of human equipment, and then rebalance both of those every time. There's obviously stuff like pulses and missiles missing that maybe ought be looked into, but I don't think we're going to see squid copies for every piece of content here.
(09-21-2018, 04:52 AM)Tenacity Wrote: Also, your comment about 'most human tech coming from nomad origin' is complete BS. Very few factions in sirius have any access to nomad tech, and those that do still dont fully understand it nor do they trade it freely. The Order and BHG core have been at war for years over control of nomad tech, if it were easy to come by that wouldnt be a thing.
Okay... i could agree with your first paragraph - Respect, and Honestly I wish Nomads were closed faction.
But.... as for it being "BS" on human using the nomad tech - let me bring up Cloaks and Jump Drives which are greatly seen from time to time. Aren't they nomad tech? Aren't they being used by frankly anyone with the right amount of credits? If we put that into "lore" technically most factions have the use of tech that are made from Nomad tech.