" we strongly believe this new system will help..."

Isn't that the opening line for hackshield?

Seriously, it's like they are blind to the players grieves against even considering this cancer. 

vick11

There will be a symbol of items that set on the ship? Or something so we know that the ship have item on board?

Sharn_ra - I dont know that one but will ask the question or get it looked at in the test server.  An interesting point though, thanks.

As if there was no more important topic for $DE to introduce new crap instead fixing known issues and bugs / features.

Who needs balance anyway, this will be awesome in addition to the sometimes more than stupid autobalance system, random crashes and desyncs.

Good thing that summer is coming soon (hopefully), way better ways than spending time (or even money, lol) for this game.

Given $DE's previous track record of implementing new stuff we can safely assume it will be put live as is.

So just a small issue, is the auto stacker going to account for tunings on a ship?

Because an L1 with just the R mount size increase, will be better than a L2 ( and most other BB5's) without any tunings.
L1 with 5% bigger R mount can fit the L2 guns with 3 binds of ammo. The L1 has more useable displacement than the L2 ( even after switching L1 guns with 4 binds for L2 guns with 3 binds)and has a higher base speed. A L1 equipped with 3 L2 guns might still do 26/44 while a fat crewed L2 can barely hang on to 23/39 and an AW L1 with L2 guns will do 23/39 AND carry more armor than an AW L2 that goes 21/35.
To avoid this imbalance you could always increase the gun slot size differences with 5% between each tier of ship, but that will not fix the various other imbalances the tunings will cause.
Anyway even to try and fix some of these issues will take a ton of work and time to test, time that $DE has proven it will never give to the test team.

Don't tell us you will allow the test team to balance anything, cause $DE won't. The test team might be allowed to do a very short bug hunt, but that will be all.

If the $DE has any sense they will withdraw this idea and come up with other items to make some extra cash.
Yourshepherd's ideas of items that remove the xp penalty on sailors that are on too high or too low ships have merit. Or an item that removes the xp support penalty applied to support and special forces sailors, so engineer/repairers and pilots receive the same xp as BO's/gunners.

There are better ways to introduce items without screwing up the competative end of the game and driving masses of ppl away.

I won't be the only that will be gone if these items do go live.
Try and have a server where there's 2 rooms open and 1 room playing on primetime ( AKA Kaiser server at the end) and see how long it survives.
Unless of course that's the plan all along...

personally i dont like it, and most of my fleet have my same opinion, as usual no comunication by sde till the bomb explode (thanks only to a player on test server)

unless asking us on poll wich nation we play (7 years old game), a poll about that?


if you will implement this "tunning" at least make it only avaiable for the first 3 tier of bb/cv (it have a sense, at least)

randy your point number 5 is in complete conflict whit the rest


as said before, use your time to fix the game, instead make new "imba" content (im also scared on the number of bug it will give this)

if you need to make more money, u've an entire comunity that can give you tips/suggestion about that, u can make money even without adding such things


hackshield docet (and no lesson learned)

Let me get this straight.  You have on average, 2-4 people crashing EVERY GAME due to major deficiencies in this antiquated game engine.  Harbor Assaults, which are the only reason most long time players even start up this game being decided by pure luck on who crashes and/or desyncs on the harbor tile.

Yet this is how you decide to allocate your resources?  I have been saying for years that this game is run by people who go from one horrible decision to the next.  Very soon there will be several new games released that will finally give NF some direct competition.

These items will never be balanced.  Balance in this game is extremely tight, where even a 5% increase in performance will drastically alter balance.  These items cannot be added in any form.  There really can't be any debate on it, since these items will change balance too much just by existing.

The only reason this game is alive despite SDE's best efforts is its unchallenged niche in WWII naval combat and its dedicated fanbase.  You will be losing the first point, and now you are spitting in the face of that loyal community that has made you what you are today.  I have been playing this game off and on since early 2005, and I know that I will not be playing this game anymore if I have to compete with people using these new items.  Good luck to you SDE.  You will need it.

Hackshield went in and I went away for 3 years...this is worse. This is SDE blatantly trying to milk the cow for everything she's got before she dies.

I imagine it will be fun and exciting for players to never know what they're up against when they look across at an enemy ship.

Does this BB4 have BB5 range?  It is a mystery, we'll find out after the one shot.