31/01/2009 · 01:53 PM
#18
Thanks for the compliment Arch. :)
If we nerf tourm and ruby, it will come with enhancement to most of the guardian ships or I will quit gc. :P Given I`m involved in the design process, hopefully it doesn`t come to that. I`m not doing the testing though. I`m feeling like feces lately, so I`m not really motivated to help test, just help design. :P
My approach to design, though, is determining a role the ship is supposed to accomplish then design around that. So some ships will be designed to survive rubies, or beat hercs, but lose to other ships. One ship we made for D.Maru raped rubies but lost to kaliuems. :D
Anyways, with Maruadian having shiplist access, we now have a lot more flexibility. We can test on GY sim until we`re blue in the face, and get a good approximation for how it will perform, but that testing is relatively limited. The best testing is in battle. With kev being able to change things, we can provide balancing updates. Which is how games are supposed to be anyways.