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Distress call is almost purely abuse tool
Giftless:
--- Quote from: A concerned wastelander on January 11, 2013, 08:16:53 pm ---Removing the distress signal would be sad, its a good feature.
There is so many ways to farm npcs by exploiting, I would just REMOVE ALL LOOT FROM NCPS.
Free npcs loot farming ruins the economy.
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Terrible idea here, you'd give people no reason to do PvE versus difficult NPCs. Who's going to want to risk losing equipment against uberbuff patrols? If exp is the only motivation, you can get that on molerats.
Mayck:
--- Quote from: Giftless on January 11, 2013, 08:46:41 pm ---Terrible idea here, you'd give people no reason to do PvE versus difficult NPCs. Who's going to want to risk losing equipment against uberbuff patrols? If exp is the only motivation, you can get that on molerats.
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The existence of distress basically nullifies all attempts that could be taken to actually balance out those encounters... without it those patrols could actually become less uberpuff eventually...
Crovax:
--- Quote from: Mayck on January 11, 2013, 08:46:17 pm ---I guess Jovanka couldn't expect much less butthurt when attempting to take out the safest and fastest way to get gear.
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I see it more like putting the final nail in the coffin of TB pvp as far as fighting group vs group. Without radio if u enc a group and your alone you just die and have no chance to call friends to make a worthwhile battle. For me it has nothing to do with gear i can farm that solo without a radio...
Eternauta:
--- Quote from: Mayck on January 11, 2013, 08:46:17 pm ---I guess Jovanka couldn't expect much less butthurt when attempting to take out the safest and fastest way to get gear.
Well perhaps then it could be allowed on empty encounter maps...
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Distress on empty maps so your friends come and you can look for encounters all together, did I understand right? It has already been said: that would make people dual-log to use taxi alts and still be able to fight with PvE builds. And make it harder for characters with lower level.
Five level 12 hybrid characters with grease guns, shotguns and hunting rifles don't have the same chance against 10 Unity Patrol members, than one single level 24 specialized fastshooter with laser rifle. If you remove distressing, who would have a harder time trying to hunt with friends: the guy with the 54389595 alts who could solo the enc and get gear by himself anyway, or the group of Mad Max Wannabes that can hardly kill a group of Khans?
Giftless:
By the way, I'm adding my thumbs down to the Distress Call nerfing too. As others have said, monster BG tanks and fast-shot builds don't even have to use it to power-farm, so all you would be doing is hurting the turn-based PvP and the little people.
Edit: What Eternauta said.
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