Personally, I found the prevalence of lockout effects obnoxious to the point of killing fun for me. Outside of crits (and obv DO), a protorp won't 1-shot you, but since EMP field does damage straight to the hull, as well as stopping you from hitting you systems, and either your engine or shield, getting popped by an EMP (which I do not believe follows LoS rules) and having someone lock a protorp right after is pretty close to an unbreakable 1-shot. And if I'm not mistaken, getting hit with an EMP field followed by a protorp that crits IS a death sentence to both scouts and gunships (unless they're using reinforced armor...). I'm not on board the "we needed more CC" train. I can agree that we needed more AoE to deter bomber stacking, but I don't really find it that much fun going through matches where I get locked out of swapping weapons, using shields, and using engines for a solid 50% of the match, especially if trying to defend a node. There's a part of me that's very much with Isalina in this. The most annoying part of Ion Rail was never the AoE, but the feeling of helplessness from the drain and snare. Adding more snares in EMP and Remote Slicing that straight disable two of your 1-3 abilities isn't fun for me. And the ~20 matches or so that I played had me throwing my arms up in frustration and thinking, "Of course! Why should I be allowed to use my Engine right now?!" more often than I enjoyed. Systems? Annoying, but OK. Shields? Again, annoying (and effectively nullifying the usefulness of directionals altogether), but whatever. But the engines? That's like adding an ability that stops you from using your stun break in ground PVP. Personally, I feel that the new environment in general is far more oppressive to the person who, for whatever reason, chooses to solo-q. I've already decided that I'm going to take a rather lengthy break, and play other games for a while. I'll likely log in for a few games once the new map hits, just because I want to see it. And if the meta seems more interesting to me at that time, I might stick around for a while. Time will tell, but for now, I'm not really planning on flying. So with all that said, I must wonder... Are you going to dismiss my thoughts and concerns, and tell me "Bye" with a "good riddance" tone as well @Despon? Or perhaps tell me to L2P?

Done for the night. Cheers!

Stream's up for a game or 2 on Harb.

Done for now. Cheers all! Had a couple of pretty righteous games!

Sufficiently Sloshed St. Patty's Day Stream is up!

Because someone .

Done for now, anyway. Cheers all!

Stream's back up for now. On JC, but may swap. And listening to Fantasy NBA podcasts.

Dude, if you listen to my reaction at the end, I actually thought we lost it until like 5s after the match ended. Then I totally geeked out!

That's pretty sick!

If you want to see that match from my perspective. It's was an insane match.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/126274690 Die by the power, live by the power.

Done for the evening! Thanks for coming by, and sorry I had my mike turned off for like the first hour! :X

Stream's up! Rocking Harb this time, so I assume I will get wrecked by Drak's group, but hey, you only live once, amirite?!

Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to make it. It's been a really crappy season for snowboarding around these parts, but this weekend is actually looking good, so I'm going to be doing that on Saturday. Have fun all! Signed, Self-destructed of Self-Inflicted.

OK, for real, dude. Get over yourself. What you're doing is like laying claim to a basketball court, or baseball field, and telling a bunch of people that they aren't welcome to play on "your field". You're saying, in effect, "You can't play here, but there's another field/court on the other side of town where you should go play, because then it will just be you!" The one thing you're neglecting in your wild rants about all this is that the people doing Super Serious Night are ALREADY ON HARBINGER. I mean... Who the heck are you to decide what's convenient for other people? I don't see you offering to pay for character transfers to/from whichever server you deem as being appropriate for this sort of thing. Not to mention bringing this gripe you have into thread after thread after thread that it DOESN'T BELONG IN. If you want to rage about Super Serious Night, go rage about it in that thread until you're blue in the face, but leave it out of this kind of thread. Look, I get it. You can't stand Sriia, and feel compelled to post some kind of rage directed almost solely at her every single time she posts on the forums. That's friggin' toxic as hell. It borders on being a bully. But even more than that... For God's sake, you're acting like a 12 year old who got rejected by your "one true love" for the 8th grade dance and has made it your personal mission to try to ruin the object of your desire's life. The only thing you're accomplishing is making yourself look bad. If you have nothing to add to the conversation, then please do us all a favor, and just don't post.

Self Destructing all over Harbinger. Looking for a wingman. Done for the evening/morning. Cheers all! Thanks to those who came out!

Stream is up if anyone wants to swing by. https://www.twitch.tv/nyghtrunner

You only get 500 bonus/ship/day. So if you've flown on the bomber and got all of it in the first game or whatever, you'll have used your daily quota on the ship. If you hover over the purple little "2x" on each ship icon, it will tell you how much you have left on that ship. That's the most likely reason.

Not directly, no. The debuffs from hitting with Ion (or other people's ions) don't stack, it just refreshes the timer with each hit. However, with that said, there are other slow/interdiction abilities that will stack* with Ion Rail. So in the case that someone gets hit with an Interdiction Mine, and then gets hit with an Ion Rail, those 2 debuffs reduce their speed/turning to pretty much 0% until the debuff time runs out for one or the other. I forget the exact list of what stacks* with what, but there are definitely debuffs that slow that will stack*. *Technically, they are not truly "stacking", they are just different debuffs doing similar things, amounting to an additive effect.

You can hit CTRL+U, CTRL+U to reload your UI, and that will give you your cursor back. As well as make your little ship icon look like the outline of your class story ship.

I'll sell you this pie for 1,000,000,000 credits.

Amusing. If they actually did it, my KDR would suffer greatly.

Cheers, Dox. As I said last night, I'm sorry to see you go, but I understand the reasoning. Hopefully see you around again at some point, but until then, keep being the little Clarion that could! -Nyght

I think I found the cheater. I mean, this Hawkë dude didn't even die. RUFKM?! I call hax!