Please, make the weasel small again.

[Jean-Philippe]

(Old thread about new x settings went down the drain in troll bait, so I started a new one. Hope nobody minds.)

I can't speak for untimed pubs, I never play those, but timed pub isn't as much fun with those new cloaker settings. Why? Because it has lost any purpose it used to have there. It doesn't fulfill any team role. Now all you can do with it is get a lame kill here and there. I say lame, because it's going to be useless kill, probably a wb down in the entrance. It's not going to be a kill that will change the course of the game like a mid or base terr. Really, there's nothing like a small and agile weasel to keep the terriers honest and the game unpredictable. I can live with the new settings mixed with a small weasel (the rep would have to go), but I find the changes annoying and even backward. In the end it's just one less ship to choose from and worry about, but games aren't as exciting.

By the way, how are those new setting fitting in untimed pub?

[Dengue]

Now all you can do with it is get a lame kill here and there. I say lame, because it's going to be useless kill, probably a wb down in the entrance.

Voila

[Subjugation]

I'm definitely don't agree with you that it's a purposeless ship in Pub 0, but I do believe the ship is overpowered.

But it's been less than a week. I know it can be a frustrating enemy, but let's at least give it some time for the paint to dry, right?

[Ewan]

But I find the changes annoying and even backward.

Isn't that kinda the point? People were bitching about the snmall weasel saying they wanted it back to the old one, so now that has happened people are bitching about that

[Subjugation]

Are the settings the exact same as the old one? I'm referring to the recharge rate and energy levels.

[Jean-Philippe]

Subjugation, I'm talking about post server recycle changes, those that are in place now. If you still think cloakers are overpowered, we must be living in parallel universes :P That's not the point anyway, what I want is a ship that's both fun to play and fit in nicely with the teamplay oriented gameplay of timedpub. All that cloakers can do right now is kill wbs and spiders, and they have to do it in entrance or spawn if there's a terr around in mid base. Not my idea of an improvement over the old weasel that was filling the gap no other ships can fill full-size.

Ewan, not bitching, asking. I can do with the current settings. Less variety of ships, but easier to survive as a terr which I am 90% of the time anyway, with the last 10% split between spider and weasel. Well, only spider now, since I'm not much of a lamer. <_<

[Edit: The tw crew fixed the overpowered weasel, I guess you just didn't try them out yet, Subj.
Edit2:Can someone tell me if they can see Ewan banner fine? All I see is a square of blue'ish gibberish.]

[Subjugation]

[Edit: The tw crew fixed the overpowered weasel, I guess you just didn't try them out yet, Subj.]

Yes! You're correct. I just logged on and just figured that out. My mistake.

[Vykromond]

Edit2:Can someone tell me if they can see Ewan banner fine? All I see is a square of blue'ish gibberish.]

It's supposed to be that way. It's a relic of a forum software change that corrupted everyone's forum avatar.

[Doc Flabby]

I can't speak for untimed pubs, I never play those, but timed pub isn't as much fun with those new cloaker settings. Why?

It is if you play in a timed pub with levi enabled. the levi population is kept in check by weasels resulting in some fun basing

also u can sneak into base quite easily with the weasel and get the flag quite alot fo the time.

[ikpt]

also u can sneak into base quite easily with the weasel and get the flag quite alot fo the time.

Weren't people bitching about the small weasel getting in too easily since it could fit in those gaps?

[Subjugation]

Yea, but I think it redirects the focus from roofing to basing. Flag sneaking is part of basing, but camping on roof might be something worthy of discouraging.

Just my $0.02.

[Mootland Farmer]

I don't think the game becomes fun or unpredictable when you're in a ship that is designed to kill the overpowered Weasel. If you want to limit yourself to thinking that Weasels can only kill stuff in the entrance to flagroom, so be it. I suppose it means other ships don't have to waste energy doing it.

I would try out the Weasel abit more thoroughly, or take a few lessons from PH on how to use the old Weasel effectively. You're given a repel and a rocket, I'm sure you can think or a few things that can be 'useful'. It's all about strategy.

[Galaxy Turbo]

I don't think the game becomes fun or unpredictable when you're in a ship that is designed to kill the overpowered Weasel. If you want to limit yourself to thinking that Weasels can only kill stuff in the entrance to flagroom, so be it. I suppose it means other ships don't have to waste energy doing it.

I would try out the Weasel abit more thoroughly, or take a few lessons from PH on how to use the old Weasel effectively. You're given a repel and a rocket, I'm sure you can think or a few things that can be 'useful'. It's all about strategy.

To be fair, people shouldn't have to necessarily think about how they're going to play a ship all of the time, people just want to have fun. Especially new players.

[Mootland Farmer]

No, you're right. All ships should be Warbirds.

[Doc Flabby]

Especially new players.

my first ship was weasel (back when it was small but had infinate cloak) because it was the only ship i could kill people in, in any other ship i just got owned. i had much fun in this ship as a newbie pissin people off :wub: the overpowered big weasel did have some interesting side effects like the levi population being decimated in the lower pubs. only experienced lts were about which was good .