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7 hours ago, LoboNocturno said:
Wouldn't it be crazy if the entire forum was one guy, on 20 different accounts? 😆
Look at him go, digging up his own old threads and bumping them up to the top. Look at him go 😆
They all share very similar opinions, they all use a merc head as their profile pic...
Of course the only proof of alts I have so far is Solaris Wave and agris. Will I find more?
March 22nd was the last post on this thread before it got bumped very conviniently by @LoboNocturno
Makes you wonder...
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Btw mods may want to take a look at @Stuurminator account too, it's also fishy.
It's brand new, and so far it's only been responding to other @Solaris_Wave posts, and talking like him and reacting to him. -
Yeah I wonder why he stopped replying. (that's irony, in case anybody's missed it. I know exactly why he stopped replying)
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got him:
You replied from the wrong account smart guy.
I was talking to @agris when I said he had bad English, not you.
That's why @agris edited his comment immediately afterward to try to cover up his tracks, and so nobody could see that he claimed to be from America with his "your education system is supposed to be better than ours"
@anon474 was 100% correct.
Developers go look at the first message I posted above, they replied within 2 minutes of each other after a 2 hour long break at 5 o'clock in the morning. There's 0.000000001% chance of that happening naturally.
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DEVELOPERS PLEASE LOOK AT THIS, ITS 5 OCLOCK IN THE MORNING RIGHT NOW:
THERE IS NOBODY ELSE IN THE FORUM, THIS GUY IS CLEARLY THE SAME PERSON.
THEY EVEN TALK THE SAME WAY. AND TALK ABOUT THE SAME TOPICS.
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2 minutes ago, agris said:
Dear me, and here I always thought Europe’s educational system was superior to ours.
Go back to bed @Woody
You aren't American I know that because your English is broken (exactly how @Solaris_Wave's is)
Stop pretending to be from America because I discovered that you're @Solaris_Wave and are using multiple accounts.
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Developers, look at @Solaris_Wave and @agris messages, especially this one:
21 minutes ago, Solaris_Wave said:Sure. I don't need to create an alternative account as I don't seek that kind of validation. Also, I don't know who he is or what time zone he is in. I meanwhile, work different hours so am up different times of the day.
There was never any suggestion about alternative accounts until @anon474 joined the forum and was immediately rude to everyone if he didn't agree with them. He thought I was doing such a thing to agree with myself. I am too old for that sort of thing. Meanwhile, he seemed to be the kind of character that would do precisely what he accuses others of.
Right after this comment @agris began writing his comment and posted his comment within seconds of posting this comment.
That is impossibly unlikely. Aside from all other behaviour such as replying to each other and reacting to each other, and agreeing with each other.
AT 5 O CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
ITS THE SAME PERSON.
Look at the time stamps for this message and the next one made by @agris if you don't believe me.
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3 minutes ago, Solaris_Wave said:
I am not sure who you think you are but you have a serious problem with others. In fact, you behave just like @anon474. I am not going to get into it with you because I did all that with him. He didn't like the fact that I was right and he resorted to insults and prattle.
Besides, this is a Developer's thread. I am not going to ruin this thread by trying to talk sense into you.
I have no problems with 90% of people, you fit in the 10%.
Explain why @agris literally began writing his comment within 5 seconds of you finishing your first comment on the @Solaris_Wave account and why both of you responded within the same 5 minute time frame, at 5 AM.
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Btw none of what you said @Solaris_Wave makes sense.
I'm allowed to be up, I never replied to my own comments on my alt account.
I'm also not pretending like its normal for two people who have full command of the English language (or at least live in Europe), to be awake at the exact same time at 5 o'clock in the morning.
I also am not the one who is refusing to explain why I LITERALLY SAW YOU STOP WRITING YOUR FIRST COMMENT, THEN WRITE ANOTHER COMMENT ON @agris
I SAW YOU DO IT.
you didn't just do it within a 5 minute time frame, it was a 5 SECOND time frame. I saw you stop writing @Solaris_Wave comment and IMMEDIATELY after that I saw you writing your @agris comment.
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1 minute ago, Solaris_Wave said:
I told you, I work different hours depending on the day. Why are you up?
I responded straight away because I am on the forum and received a notification that you quoted me. Why did you respond straight away?
You're getting banned.
I saw you stop writing your first comment then write some throwaway small comment on the @agris account.
You didn't even try to hide it.
Also you never told me anything, this is the first time we spoke. More lies, unsurprisingly.
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2 minutes ago, agris said:
@Solaris_Wave another JC / EFNY fan? My brother in arms!
You're the same person.
I am willing to bet on it. You literally replied to this comment within 5 minute time frame.
I saw it happen.
Don't pretend that you're not.
I literally saw you reply one after another, within a 5 minute gap.
It wasn't even in a 5 minute time frame. I literally saw @Solaris_Wave stop writing, and then immediately saw @agris start writing and publish his comment.
It's 5 o'clock in the morning. There is nobody online, and the likelihood of even two people replying to each other one after another is 0.00000000000001%.
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Just now, Solaris_Wave said:
Sure. I don't need to create an alternative account as I don't seek that kind of validation. Also, I don't know who he is or what time zone he is in. I meanwhile, work different hours so am up different times of the day.
There was never any suggestion about alternative accounts until @anon474 joined the forum and was immediately rude to everyone if he didn't agree with them. He thought I was doing such a thing to agree with myself. I am too old for that sort of thing. Meanwhile, he seemed to be the kind of character that would do precisely what he accuses others of.
Then why did you get defensive and start writing immediately in response to my message, like you had to defend yourself.
It's 5 o'clock in the morning. You shouldn't be awake, and the likelihood of you randomly coming across @agris comments (or vice versa) is 0%.
Why are you writing in the same way @agris is and why are you both using the same terminology of ballistic modelling.
What are the likelihoods that a brand new Snake Plisskin account would come in, stir up a lot of trouble, and agree with everything you've said.
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Of course as soon as I write this @Solaris_Wave perks up.
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1 hour ago, agris said:
We definitely have a few hostile crazies, not too unusual for the net. Unfortunately it probably means the nascent dialogue with the devs about mechanics is not going any further. Most sane people would see what transpired here and run the other direction 😅
3 hours ago, Solaris_Wave said:I am curious as to why several new forum members have all appeared at the same time (even creating a profile in the same hour) and being in perfect agreement with one another, while being equal in insulting other forum members, some who have been here for a long time, if they don't agree.
I hope you won't mind me doing this since I saw you looking up other people's profiles, allow me to just put some facts together...
Joined yesterday
Anon something talking about how you, @agris reminded him of @Solaris_Wave , he also openly accused you of being an alt for somebody else on the forum on another thread.
And now you're replying to each other, at 5 o'clock in the morning, when nobody is online, and agreeing with each other.
Any comments?
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I'm very concerned about the fact that devs appear to be intentionally nerfing the fun out of the strategy under the pretense of "people will abuse this mechanic". So what. Let it be abused.
I heard this logic with full auto conversation about how the "meta" became to run up to enemies point blank and blast them (sounds like a perfectly fine risk-reward scenario where if you do that in a crowd of enemies they'll attack you)
And I heard this logic with removing chance to hit, because apparently people are "not playing like jagged alliance they are playing like xcom" (and I think that has more to do with other things, like how spread out or dense the levels and buildings and architecture are, how far your merc can move and other things).
I am deeply worried that, when balancing things, developers have often this huge tendency to go like "aha an OP ability" or "aha an OP meta? TAKE IT OUT!" well the ENTIRE POINT OF AN RPG I'm sorry BUT THE ENTIRE POINT OF IT is to figure out ways to make your character so ridiculously OP (without being too OP, you don't want to make things too easy, and I mean completely easy, like having infinite health pools, being an infinite bullet sponge is a great way to make yourself feel angry and uncaring because it doesn't matter what you do you'll still win (eventually)) that you can one-shot people, or just be ridiculously more powerful than what you're supposed to be, or expected to be.
Being OP isn't a bug, it should be a DESIGN FEATURE.
Having metas, if you have all your stats maxed out, and you have the best gear, and you are also very smart about the plan, WELL, then it's completely expected for you to do well.
BUT EVEN IF NOT, you should still reward clever people who have figured out some way to take average gear and items, and be able to fight at a level 2x or 4x above what they're supposed to.
That's not a design flaw, that's a design feature.
Preformance, and a ability to fight better should be rewarded to: people who are very clever and understand the systems in the strategy, and who have figured out some meta way to loophole and glass cannon these systems, the patient people who are willing to finish all tasks and complete everything and dot their is and cross their ts, and do things let's say, if you're attacking a sector on the map and you get +10% visibility bonus (just for example) from finding base plans to the sector in another sector, well a person who's very patient will do that, and do things correctly, and finally to people who have a high level. And sometimes preformance should be given as a reward to the lucky.
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TRUE TRUE TRUE
another massive limitation or issue I spotted with the beta footage is precisely this:
mercs are too mobile (in my opinion, I think in some of the footage it wasn't actually that bad)
Or, locations are too CQB and the overall average distance and range of engagement is too short.
If they have time or interest in re-balancing this aspect of JA3, I'd make things a lot more long distance, or punish movement.
Or alternatively, it really doesn't really matter if they punish it or not. The reason why people tended to avoid rushing in to point blank an enemy in JA2 wasn't for one reason or another. It was because in JA2 you had 100 enemies (at least on hardest difficulty) and if you tried to rush them there'd be 5 more enemy npcs waiting to shoot you on the next turn.
Maybe add more enemies or reduce the number of mercs in a squad.
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I agree that there are always downsides and supsides to everything, but on balance, having people dress as civilians is ridiculous.
People can have their own unique clothign underneath, but the vest should always exist.
Even for the Hitman character, if he's in a vest, just have him be in a shirt maybe. Vest + shirt could work.
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10 minutes ago, Reloecc said:
Devs say that showing CtH leads to "player tends to seek best spot to shoot". You are saying "And what?". I am agreeing with you. And I'm adding: Make the AI and maps well balanced, so if players seeks the best spot, he risks a lot. Make it so the best sposts are where the enemy can shoot you as well.
Oh yeah I agree with good level design, I just don't think it has anything to do with Ian's argument for or against chance to hit being shown.
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17 minutes ago, Reloecc said:
Everyone hunting for the right spot? I say: Make the enemies strong enough you greatly risk when hunting the spot. That's all I need.
Not sure what you meant, sorry.
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Just now, IceKing said:
I'm sorry but not showing chance to hit is a massive mistake.
Omerta: City of Gangsters has chance to hit.
Who is even arguing against this?
People 🤣
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Just now, KyleSimmons said:
Wait IAN DID THIS?
IAN YOU FOOL!
I have enormous respect for Ian as a developer, but man, this is really unfortunate.
The entire Steam forum for JA3 has about 5 separate CTH articles lol. I think we can all agree not including CTH at this point is a mistake.
Yeah this is a massive mistake. And if Ian is responsible. Oof. Poor Ian.
8 minutes ago, Kordanor said:So for those who didnt follow the stream, they have been talking about this topic again over here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1811204423
at Minute 30:42 onwards
To give a brief summary:
They had chance to hit in first. Ian (original JA designer) immediately thought it was off (31:55)
The didnt have CTH in the original games due to a councious choice. Not a technical limitation.And then they continued with what they talked about a couple of times before:
General feeling was, everyone was hunting for exactly the right spots and the right numbers, didnt feel like real firefights.
When they removed the CTH the immediate feedback was that it felt much better."Everyone was hunting for the right spots" Ok. And?
How is that bad. How is that ... not every last tactical strategy in existence.
Every single tactical strategy is built around the idea that you want to find a way to do maximum damage with maximum accuracy. What's the problem with this.
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Yeah there are a lot of weird characters here, is this usual?
@agris Is due to get banned any day now...
Some other people are yelling or acting hysterical.
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3 minutes ago, KyleSimmons said:
If you keep responding to me your account will get removed and shut down, I already reported you once for spam.
This is not a request. I am telling you to stop talking to me and to stop harrassing me.
You're crossing a boundary now.
I will make a report about him as well, he's clearly hysterical and upset about something.
Posting images of people's account information is definitely weird, and targeting them is very very weird.
@Kordanor you should also be careful, I saw you heart @agris post, when he gets banned, and he will, they might look at you next.
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Just now, Kordanor said:
I didnt register within the last day or month to spam my opinion here...
Whatever helps you sleep at night, paranoid andy.
DevDiary 6 - Combat, Part one
in DevDiaries
Posted · Edited by Woody
Maybe you didn't see this part, or didn't read too closely: the probability of one stopping writing as soon as another starts, the probability of them both being online at 5 AM is 0%.
They are the same person.
I saw them stop replying, then instantly start replying on their alt account.
Their account is brand new, yet behaves in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as @Solaris_Wave behaves.
Their mannerisms are IDENTICAL. Their WRITING STYLE is IDENTICAL. Their INTERESTS are IDENTICAL.
Everybody else on the forum knows its the same person.
There is another explanation for why you're protecting this 1 guy. Because it's not just "a guy". @anon474 brought this up already:
Is this why you're not doing anything to ban this person?
I'm not an alt account for anybody, if you don't think there's something suspicious going on on this forum you're either not paying close attention, or you already know deeply that something suspicious is going on on this forum, because you're doing it.
There is no option you have, that includes not banning the obvious alt account of @Solaris_Wave and @agris (and I'm sure a lot more than that), that makes you look good.