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l33tworks, on 07 October 2015 - 05:06 AM, said:
I remember those early days. The difference between now and then just on the forums was HUGE. I feel like the collective intelligence of the posters back then was at least 1000 fold what it is now. It was like a team of a highly efficient scientists having a bit of fun now and then but doing serious forum business most of the time.
You know it. I remember a huge post someone made explaining how it was more efficient to have X number of PPCs rather than Y number of PPCs due to the heat pool, rate of fire of the PPC and the heat dissipation rate, once the saved tonnage was placed into more heat sinks. It seemed counter intuitive until you looked at the chart he placed in the post and saw the difference in black and white. That post must have been pages in MS Word, but he was trying to point out how the weapon load outs would eventually turn to massive front loaded pin point alpha strikes.
Back in Closed Beta you had huge posts that made compelling cases for how multiple core game mechanics were linked together in a giant, unbalanced chain that needed change. Now the posts are more along the lines of a one paragraph rant with titles like, "LRMs suck". I think that is a natural progression, though, because those former post writers are either long gone or don't care enough anymore to spend the necessary time it takes to craft something that will evidently fall on deaf ears.
Edited by StaggerCheck, 07 October 2015 - 06:18 AM.
