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Title: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Aricvomit on March 31, 2012, 10:36:52 am
well just to make this common knowledge i saw a sneak sniper critter got 1 for 1 on 3 enclave and made each of them drop his weapon and then his compatriot picked up the gun as he went out of sight, so the enclave wouldnt shoot and his friend loots the dropped weapon. if there ever was an exploit this is it. saw him get an avenger, a gatling laser and a plasma rifle in literally 2 minutes with minimal effort. i know some people will bitch and say im being a cry baby but this is actually pretty ridiculous.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Marko on March 31, 2012, 10:43:45 am
I would expect the soldiers to attack whomever is taking their dropped guns, even with punches. I would. Maybe they should have a backup weapon like at least a pistol. I would.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Aricvomit on March 31, 2012, 10:46:28 am
 athe sneaker crits them then the other guy picks it up when they move, i think hes sneaking out of edge of map and coming back in. its hard to tell but no shot are fired except for the arm crits. this also isnt very long range. i dont think npcs kill for picking up dropped guns
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on March 31, 2012, 10:51:33 am
It's 1 guy on dual log. Known this strategy for a while but been too busy levelling bos thief, enclave thief, sciencer, repairer, fastrelog alts, barter chars and looking for blueprints for months. The game ain't ridiculous at all  ::)

This kind of activity happens when players are tried to force to do teamwork to get something. Instead of hunting in a team able to beat those enclave in fair fight, individual players do it in abusive ways.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Wichura on March 31, 2012, 11:30:38 am
I'm rather impressed someone bothers himself to get these few guns he has to repair then anyway.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Srogi on March 31, 2012, 11:38:56 am
It's 1 guy on dual log. Known this strategy for a while but been too busy levelling bos thief, enclave thief, sciencer, repairer, fastrelog alts, barter chars and looking for blueprints for months. The game ain't ridiculous at all  ::)

This kind of activity happens when players are tried to force to do teamwork to get something. Instead of hunting in a team able to beat those enclave in fair fight, individual players do it in abusive ways.

If its not dual log then its team work. There are people who play together AVV not everybody plays alone.

I really do not see how this exploiting or cheating, its playing the game.

Just because you entered some encounter and got PK by the guy witnessing such horrific events or hate gattling lasers, there is no need to cry nerf every time somebody figures out an untraditional way to farm. The guy took his time leveled a sneak sniper crippler how is this ridiculous or cheating? Last wipe I used to blow up enclave with dynamite which was even easier than what the sniper and his friend, proxy, fast log character is doing. But the gattling laser was useless last wipe, it was how I farmed avengers.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Kelin on March 31, 2012, 12:27:48 pm
I'm rather impressed someone bothers himself to get these few guns he has to repair then anyway.
What? No he doesn't have to repair it, since Enclave drops mostly 40-80% condition avengers, which is perfectly sufficient for common pvp. I once farmed 14% minigun from Unity and managed to kill quite a lot of people with it before I died.

EDIT: Back to the topic
Enclave soldiers already have at least 2 times iron grip perk, it's almost impossible to drop their weapon using a sniper or laser. You need silent death and better critical, because it gives you +10 to roll so it is like 30% chance for dropping a weapon. I am pretty sure this gets nerfed at some point, well I don't mind it if avenger becomes a very rare weapon, but I doubt it. People will always find some ways to get it (dynamite, c4, one-hex critburst etc.) if this feature stops working. I wouldn't play my 3xbrd bg after that, obviously.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Srogi on March 31, 2012, 12:47:55 pm
There is no difference in damage when it comes to the detioration of big guns or gattling lasers. I think detioration matters more so for targeted shot weapons like sniper rifles or laser.

A 5% detiorated avenger does same damage as a 100% avenger.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Euphe on March 31, 2012, 01:01:08 pm
that is fair. what they do is very risky, and if they found a way to creatively farm, then they deserve it.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on March 31, 2012, 01:05:12 pm
that is fair. what they do is very risky, and if they found a way to creatively farm, then they deserve it.

Actually it's not risky at all. You're risking a sniper rifle, which is easy to farm and 2 radios and some ammo.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Nice_Boat on March 31, 2012, 01:07:59 pm
It's more risky if you want to do it efficiently but yeah, it can be 100% safe. Anyway you have to level up an otherwise completely useless char to do it, so I'd say getting those guns at a 1-2/30 minutes rate is a well earned reward, not an exploit.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Kelin on March 31, 2012, 01:12:18 pm
Well that's not true, I use my sneaker for regular pvp and for this enclave weapon dropping as well. It's useless only against few people apparently (I hate you avv  ;D )
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Opera on March 31, 2012, 01:26:31 pm
It sounds like a stupid behavior from the Enclave soldiers. They should simply try to pick up the guns and try to kill by using these instead of trying to play a ninja.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 02:11:11 pm
everyone has his own tactics for looting enclave. i dont get point i have at least 60 av and 60 gatlings and what is wrong with that?
ohhh i get it...you have only mini and m60 right? cry topic...
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Wichura on March 31, 2012, 02:57:49 pm
everyone has his own tactics for looting enclave. i dont get point i have at least 60 av and 60 gatlings and what is wrong with that?
ohhh i get it...you have only mini and m60 right? cry topic...
I never thought I will agree with you, but now I have to.

Someone puts some effort to level up sneaker-critical-whateverthatis to get some items from specified encounters. What's wrong with that? Oh, dual log? Please, nobody cares anyway unless you use it to some fancy Toilet-Control related actions.
Farming/stealing from strong encounters have been nerfed few times already, mobs drop deteriorated items, you have only few seconds to steal from them (with hard-as-fuck-to-level-up character with 300% Steal skill, less is not effective enough), and it's still considered an "exploit"? Why, in Cthulhu's name?
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: manero on March 31, 2012, 03:06:27 pm
It doesnt sound easy  ::) A lot of work...
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Nice_Boat on March 31, 2012, 03:07:16 pm
Quote
Farming/stealing from strong encounters have been nerfed few times already, mobs drop deteriorated items, you have only few seconds to steal from them (with hard-as-fuck-to-level-up character with 300% Steal skill, less is not effective enough), and it's still considered an "exploit"? Why, in Cthulhu's name?
Because Cthulhu hates you. And you will be eaten last.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on March 31, 2012, 03:36:01 pm
Only actual problem here is that enclave was designed to be hardass pve encounter that only powerful squads of players are able to defeat in face to face combat. Instead of squads, players just take the abuse way. So we're talking about failed feature. The fact that someone can solo enclave is not a problem, because some just want to do that no matter what.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Nice_Boat on March 31, 2012, 03:45:31 pm
Only actual problem here is that enclave was designed to be hardass pve encounter that only powerful squads of players are able to defeat in face to face combat. Instead of squads, players just take the abuse way. So we're talking about failed feature. The fact that someone can solo enclave is not a problem, because some just want to do that no matter what.
Yeah well the problem is that fighting BoS/Enclave is silly because the reward is shit for the effort it takes. I mean those encounters are buffed to the point it's just retarded - troll-tier HP and critchance, PA/APA, top-tier weapons... are you effin' serious? 10 drugged powerbuilds could fight the large ones in an open battle and lose, if I didn't know better I'd expect at least an APA drop there. If I were to choose between fighting Enclave as is and scrapping Gatling/Avenger entirely, I'd just switch to my bazooka/SG sniper alt for PvP - they're just as effective, but aren't so much of a pain in the ass to get (because yeah, it's still waaaay easier to get a sniper rifle/bazooka than Avenger/Gatling, even with the method described in this thread).
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 03:52:09 pm
Hahaha you are wrong. I am farming Them with my thief alt :) 64hp :)
avengers are good only with 3xbrd, gatling for crits. if you cant farm them you dont deserw to use them. and gatlings are good currency now ;D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: T-888 on March 31, 2012, 04:31:12 pm
I developed this strategy on my own this wipe ( didn't need last session , so needed to do it now ) , perfected it too that is 100% reliable and all you invest is time , drugs , ammo. There's a way how to always spawn inside the encounter where enclave is and never spawn to close to them , as well it's funny how people do it with a sniper rifle , what a waste of time. Of course never die and in case you don't drop the weapon when reentering the map to always have the first turn before enclave to maximize chances of success. All you need is a character with high AP to loot the dropped weapon and a level capped special sneaker build , witch is quite powerful support even in TB.

Though i don't how to prevent this ... i was laughing with my teammates that the only way would be if you just couldn't find enclave ( they don't exist ;D ) , as there plenty more ways how to farm them , this one is the most efficient ( though not the fastest because , there's a trick with dynamites , but dynamites are limited. )

It doesnt sound easy  ::) A lot of work...

It is , once you prepared everything the actual time of obtaining x gatling guns is ridiculously fast.

I'm writing this because avenger miniguns and gatling guns should be rare , a high tier item hard to obtain , but it's not. This is not the case , wasn't before and isn't now.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Wichura on March 31, 2012, 04:42:29 pm
Only actual problem here is that enclave was designed to be hardass pve encounter that only powerful squads of players are able to defeat in face to face combat. Instead of squads, players just take the abuse way. So we're talking about failed feature. The fact that someone can solo enclave is not a problem, because some just want to do that no matter what.
Why anyone would bother? Nice_Boat has a point here. And how to share one half-deteriorated avenger with whole team of badasses?

Though i don't how to prevent this ... i was laughing with my teammates that the only way would be if you just couldn't find enclave ( they don't exist ;D ) , as there plenty more ways how to farm them.
There are no caravan encounters anymore, because some, uh, "exploiters" and "abusers" were farming them for uncraftable guns like LSW. Now LSW is craftable, but too weak to make crafting it sense.
So I guess disappearing BoS/Enclave encounters is about to come, as well as VC patrols ("free CAs and snipzor rifles omfg exploit!111"). No more fun from using lazor spammer char anymore :(
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: manero on March 31, 2012, 04:45:30 pm
If you nerf it, it will affect non-gang members. Not pvp gangers. Atm we have around 100 players, 50 of them play this game for evening pvp and other 50 play for farming and crafting stuff. Pvp gang will always find the way, single player not. Guess who will quit? This server need more players, not less.

Start thinking kurwa.

January: ~230 players
February: ~150
March: ~115

Awesome...

Btw. I would not really care if someone nerf it:

Solar
Last Active:
March 09, 2012, 05:52:11 pm

 ;D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 05:01:05 pm
If you nerf it, it will affect non-gang members. Not pvp gangers. Atm we have around 100 players, 50 of them play this game for evening pvp and other 50 play for farming and crafting stuff. Pvp gang will always find the way, single player not. Guess who will quit? This server need more players, not less.

Start thinking kurwa.

January: ~230 players
February: ~150
March: ~115

last update 8.02 ;D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Michaelh139 on March 31, 2012, 05:22:52 pm
Solar
Last Active:
March 09, 2012, 05:52:11 pm

 ;D
How you have not noticed... that they can log onto forum without online produced?  As well as forum mods.

besides, at prime time it is 200 players still, I see it plenty, though maybe it is my imagination trying to give me hope :D.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: manero on March 31, 2012, 05:25:09 pm
besides, at prime time it is 200 players still, I see it plenty, though maybe it is my imagination trying to give me hope :D.

prime time means that gangs are fighting and one player got at least 3 alts offline jeez... wake up man
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Michaelh139 on March 31, 2012, 05:28:39 pm
prime time means that gangs are fighting and one player got at least 3 alts offline jeez... wake up man
Jee-wiz sorry. :P

But three alts at a time?  I find that unlikely.  maybe after death of one.  2 at most.

Besides, not all of them can be alts.  there aren't that many gang in middle of battle ALL the time during prime, unlike SOT or others.

I like to believe, at 200, at least 130-150 are real player rest are alt :D.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 05:35:38 pm
90-120 max. 80 eigrated because of bugs and tc
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Floodnik on March 31, 2012, 05:47:29 pm
Hm, I thought Enclave encounters were designed not to be touched at all. Because whatever would you do without so called "exploits", you'd always end up being behind from where you started in terms of equipment(assuming you beat this senseless encounter in the first place).
They are here just for teh lulz!
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on March 31, 2012, 05:55:40 pm
I almost killed an enclave soldier just me and a 10mm pistol with AP rounds.
then, I miss clicked and I was next to him, and he one hexed me,
He only had 9/507 HP left. I was so mad that day....


Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 06:34:22 pm
well my solo thief can anihilate whole patrol with out single shoot ;D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Aricvomit on March 31, 2012, 06:53:40 pm
unfortunatly i was drunk while i was writing this post anways the point i was trying to make was these guys had it down to a science, im not sure what wep he was using. im not going to name him in the forum but hes well known on here. anyways it was roughly 3 minutes for him to get an avenger, a gatling laser, and a plasma rifle with no shots fired save for the one that made the enclave drop the gun, instead of picking up the gun the enclave goes to chase the shooter who is already running out of map, im assuming the chase is a legacy action or faulty programming, and then his buddy goes and picks up the weapon and doesnt get shot because the enclave had moved away. so, yeah its definently a farming method and is kind of an exploit. granted its a clever one and it takes time to make a character capable of it but its happening none the less, and believe me im not whining or crying, i was out there theiving enclave myself. i just happened to run across the extra ordinary nonsense and figured id let it be known.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on March 31, 2012, 07:15:25 pm
If you nerf it, it will affect non-gang members. Not pvp gangers. Atm we have around 100 players, 50 of them play this game for evening pvp and other 50 play for farming and crafting stuff. Pvp gang will always find the way, single player not. Guess who will quit? This server need more players, not less.

Start thinking kurwa.

January: ~230 players
February: ~150
March: ~115

Awesome...

Btw. I would not really care if someone nerf it:

Solar
Last Active:
March 09, 2012, 05:52:11 pm

 ;D


no they did something in last few days!!! :D
http://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,22753.0.html
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Dark Angel on March 31, 2012, 08:15:03 pm
Holy shit, wipe is developer.
noooo
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Srogi on March 31, 2012, 10:56:58 pm
I don't understand why everybody wants things to be overly difficult. The game becomes boring when all the pvp apes have to spend hours trying to farm or craft something that should be "rare and hard to obtain". And then nobody wants to use good gear in a fight if its too hard to get.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Euphe on March 31, 2012, 11:05:57 pm
unfortunatly i was drunk while i was writing this post anways the point i was trying to make was these guys had it down to a science, im not sure what wep he was using. im not going to name him in the forum but hes well known on here. anyways it was roughly 3 minutes for him to get an avenger, a gatling laser, and a plasma rifle with no shots fired save for the one that made the enclave drop the gun, instead of picking up the gun the enclave goes to chase the shooter who is already running out of map, im assuming the chase is a legacy action or faulty programming, and then his buddy goes and picks up the weapon and doesnt get shot because the enclave had moved away. so, yeah its definently a farming method and is kind of an exploit. granted its a clever one and it takes time to make a character capable of it but its happening none the less, and believe me im not whining or crying, i was out there theiving enclave myself. i just happened to run across the extra ordinary nonsense and figured id let it be known.
then there's no point in that thread
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Aricvomit on April 01, 2012, 12:02:21 am
the point is to let people know this is going on. if one person knows about it all should. otherwise its an unfair advantage. but if everyone does it then its the norm and everyone will be on par with each other taking away the advantages that these people have.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Chrupek on April 01, 2012, 10:11:59 am
the point is to let people know this is going on. if one person knows about it all should. otherwise its an unfair advantage. but if everyone does it then its the norm and everyone will be on par with each other taking away the advantages that these people have.

No, no no no. someone figured this out, you dont. Well, you were lucky, so you now know how this works, but why everyone should?
Man, its not any kind of exploit, its just TACTICS. If you want to tell whole community about this... its up to you, but trashtalking about 'unfair advantage' is childish.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Gob on April 01, 2012, 10:42:37 am
Wtf man. Get big guns level profession level 1 and make rockets. Every trader will buy them . Or do like I do I go with 2 other hth freinds with power fist and we punch patrols to death :D easy as pie :D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on April 01, 2012, 12:45:08 pm
No, no no no. someone figured this out, you dont. Well, you were lucky, so you now know how this works, but why everyone should?

Why shouldn't they? Afraid that this gets nerfed? But it's all just tactics  ::)
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Sarakin on April 01, 2012, 01:40:19 pm
It makes me sick how everyone wants to justify how OKish, risky and such is this. No wonder, these statements are made by players defending every kind of exploit.

This "exploit" can be done with every character that has SD and even with the crappiest gun. If you remove this method, people will find their ways, but the tougher it gets, the less people will actually use it. Why bother with minigun, when I can have better avenger ? Even if it was extremely hard and tedious to get, there will be someone willing to get their hands on them just because they are the strongest weapons in the 2238 arsenal.

Farming Enclave is doable, even with 3 people, not 10 people like Nice_Boat described. Of course, its risky and maybe not worth it in terms of gain/time. But you know, there is legal way.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: DeputyDope on April 01, 2012, 01:44:54 pm
It makes me sick how everyone wants to justify how OKish, risky and such is this. No wonder, these statements are made by players defending every kind of exploit.

This "exploit" can be done with every character that has SD and even with the crappiest gun. If you remove this method, people will find their ways, but the tougher it gets, the less people will actually use it. Why bother with minigun, when I can have better avenger ? Even if it was extremely hard and tedious to get, there will be someone willing to get their hands on them just because they are the strongest weapons in the 2238 arsenal.

Farming Enclave is doable, even with 3 people, not 10 people like Nice_Boat described. Of course, its risky and maybe not worth it in terms of gain/time.

omg just give enclave rocks and pipe rifle. problem solved. people won't farm them anymore.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: jacky. on April 01, 2012, 01:59:35 pm
Legal? What is legal way? I Have my way you Have yours. If u are to poor to use it use crapy mini or m60...
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Kelin on April 01, 2012, 02:21:12 pm
It makes me sick how everyone wants to justify how OKish, risky and such is this. No wonder, these statements are made by players defending every kind of exploit.
...
So you're saying that loners shouldn't be able to get the best gear? You want them to be constantly pwned by other people, even in 1 vs. 1 fights. Well too bad loners always die, because the guy with avenger have friends who help him to farm avengers. A loner with a minigun simply can't. The game mechanics doesn't allow that. I know you don't give a fuck about loners, because you as the gang had avengers in the first days after the wipe. I can imagine you have like 200 avengers stashed in your base, so obviously you want this to be nerfed so you can come and pwn everyone with your avengers.

If this gets nerfed (and I am pretty sure it will), it will be only because of people like you Sarakin. Thank you, thanks to all the people crying about things you "worked hard" on and other people have it as well.

The truth is, I can openly say that I farm avengers quite often. But I play this unrewarding game and lose my stuff very often, so no wonder I have 9 avengers left. I am pretty sure there are people who have their avenger carpets, but those probably don't play as often as me.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on April 01, 2012, 03:12:29 pm
So you're saying that loners shouldn't be able to get the best gear?

It's not about loners vs groups but a broken feature. It doesn't matter if loner farms good stuff, but if he or a group abuses loopholes then it's a problem.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Kelin on April 01, 2012, 03:23:15 pm
The problem is that except this method there is no other way for a loner to obtain that stuff. There were dynamites and c4 in the past, but you can't craft it anymore (another broken feature).
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Sarakin on April 01, 2012, 07:45:34 pm
First of all, this is a MMO, multiplayer game, youre not fighing 1v1 in cities or some staged duel battles. Gangs fight gangs, so it shouldnt be that hard to ask some friends to help you up with something.
Moreover, if this way of obtaining avenger will still exist, why to use others, less efficient ones ? Dont you still get it ? It wasnt meant to work like this in the first place and if you give a little bit of fuck about improving this game, you should at least agree. No one forces you to stop abusing it till it exists (with this pace of development, you can milk it several months for sure).
Needless to say, normal minigun is not that bad compared to avenger,  avenger is just 16% better in terms of damage.

If this gets nerfed (and I am pretty sure it will), it will be only because of people like you Sarakin. Thank you, thanks to all the people crying about things you "worked hard" on and other people have it as well.
What this should mean ? Am I feel ashamed or regretful ?

And yes, loner should never have best stuff available, best stuff should be obtained only through teamwork.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Chrupek on April 01, 2012, 08:14:28 pm
Why shouldn't they? Afraid that this gets nerfed? But it's all just tactics  ::)

I dont give a fuck if this gonna be nerfed, because ive never farm enclave that way. What im saying is YOU (you and others) are constantly bitching that anything but swarms should be nerfed.

Cripple farm? Noooooooooooooo, fuck noooooo...
SD farm? Noooooooooooooooooooooo... abuse! exploit!

Swarmers farm? Yeaaaah....

How the fuck sake, shooting npcs can be consider abuse? O_o In your thinking enclave should be immortal, and never drop anything. So why keep them in game? Just remove any good stuff from any npc, and leave only tc rewards for gangs. This game is dead anyway, so why not?
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: avv on April 01, 2012, 08:23:21 pm
How the fuck sake, shooting npcs can be consider abuse? O_o In your thinking enclave should be immortal, and never drop anything. So why keep them in game? Just remove any good stuff from any npc, and leave only tc rewards for gangs. This game is dead anyway, so why not?

Maybe it isn't abuse, hell if nobody here knows for sure. Only devs know. You can only use your own thinking and form the following chain of ideas: if you made a multiplayer game where you get stuff from tough enemies, how do you think these enemies should be defeated so that it's fun and fits the athmosphere of the game?

If the first thing that comes to your mind is that players should dual log, level themselves a sneak sniper alt able to do only this task and then grind them with as little gear as possible then okay, seems like we got a bit differend view what's a fun and good feature.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Perteks on April 01, 2012, 08:34:02 pm
Damn what a cry topic is here :D

Can't say shit its only show how few players can addapt to irracionality of that game :D
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Kelin on April 01, 2012, 08:35:56 pm
Ok Sarakin, as I see we don't share the same oppinion. You as a casual player and a member of the rich gang want this items to be solely available for you, not for others. I understand. But from my point of view, this game is slowly dying in terms of a stable playerbase. Items are hard to craft (if you don't count .45 ammo) and even farming isn't as funny as it used to be. A lot of great encounters got deleted, like NCR Army encounters or SF caravans.

This enclave looting is so easy... then how come I still see a lot of people running with miniguns and wearing leather armors? Following your logic every single person should be running with an avenger because it's so cheap, but that's not happening somehow.
And yes, loner should never have best stuff available, best stuff should be obtained only through teamwork.
Then expect even less people playing this game because guess what, there are people who prefer to play alone and enjoy the game. When you tell them "you play alone you have to suffer" then nobody from them will bother with playing.
If the first thing that comes to your mind is that players should dual log, level themselves a sneak sniper alt able to do only this task and then grind them with as little gear as possible then okay, seems like we got a bit differend view what's a fun and good feature.
Then it would be fair to introduce another possibility of getting it, if you nerf one thing because of what you mentioned (irrationality) would be fine to have another, fixed feature. Nerfing isn't always bad, but nerfing without introducing a solution is.

Even now (sorry for little offtopic) I don't see the point of having unguarded workbenches, because every time I go to Mariposa or Toxic caves looking for "action" there is nobody or in better case one plasma sneaker. For average player this means that he is forced to make a tent or a base near such place and spend a lot of time running to a workbench to craft one or two items. As I don't craft I won't analyze any further, only wanted to highlight this issue, maybe someone will create a new topic about it so we can discuss.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Aricvomit on April 02, 2012, 09:26:29 am
sheesh your all off topic, LISTEN!! the point here is that instead of picking up the guns like a normal npc does in the first place the way they do this tricks the enclave into chasing them off the world map, so they move away from their weapon and the other guy picks it up, at the very least the enclave should shoot the guy picking up the gun they just dropped.
this is where its an exploit, the enclave need to be modified to behave correctly, not picking up their gun to chase the sd sneak critter is not correct behavior. no one can argue this point and there is no room leeway here. it is faulty npc behavior and people are abusing it.
 if you pick up loot from a corpse they want they shoot you, if you pick up their weapons their buddies should shoot you. punishment for losing your laser gatling to a wastelander would most likely be severe "i.e. DEATH" so you think the enclave would have a vested interest in keeping their weapons.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Chrupek on April 02, 2012, 10:07:00 am
I havent seen intelligent npc in fonline2238, enclave soldier isnt exception, so im not sure if none can argue with you. Unarmed npcs, shouldnt run for getting hex... long range npcs shouldnt run for hex if you hide behind rock, khan raiders never shoot you no matter how many of them you killed... and so on. Whole AI should be reworked, but we have what we have.


And Avv, i think we share same point of view here. You just missing the point that someone have to level up very specific character, which can be considered extremely efficient in that looting. Just like burster is extremely efficient in 7.62 ammo farming. You cant say, that something should be done, because 'that noob can hex npc!!!!111111one'.
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: Express on April 02, 2012, 02:02:23 pm
In westland no Inteligent bots. bots is bugged ;/
Title: Re: easy enclave looting.
Post by: ToxiCAVE on April 02, 2012, 03:11:46 pm
The problem is that except this method there is no other way for a loner to obtain that stuff. There were dynamites and c4 in the past, but you can't craft it anymore (another broken feature).
yes you can ;D
and why the hell i cant have 100 av and gatlings in my base? (i have 60/60 ;D) but i dont get it why it should be so rare. it cant be craftable but you can get it from ncps, and if you find way to farm it why the hell not farm them over 9999 if you want to. i dont like when someone think my idea is the best and fuck off rest!!! i cnat get it so no one will be able to...go and make hh troll or plasma nades sneaker if you want to be pro pvp...same i got killed dozylions times by plasma nades sneakers so i want to delete grenades !!! ;D hehehhe