Neocron brainport: Your ideas, suggestions and wishes

Resist nanite tools should provide a resist boost to all damage types. They're already weak, especially considering they prevent more useful PSI buffs, so at least make them easy to use. Having to keep half a dozen on them on my QB to use every 2 minutes to get the maximum effect is a pointless annoyance. I actually like the general idea of nanite resist tools though, that trade skills should also provide some combat capability, and would like to see other tradeskills provide some unique combat related items.

with current low pops to encourage people to come back and with all the hacking etc... I'd increase SI and stop all belt drops!

I think it'd be fun and add variety if the CA Epic PA gave a lot of +STR. That might open up spy builds with different resists, make using a HC PE easier, and help out leveling Tanks. I doubt this would be unbalanced considering that any class using it would cripple it's damage output because the PA would still offer no bonuses to combat stats. Remove the faction restriction too so more players have the option of using it.

let everyone level each skill separately, and poke themselves, and lower hackbelt requirements or unlock them...

For that matter, why not just make everyone have everything to begin with? No levels or anything, just aim and shoot!

Pew pew!

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Originally Posted by KRIMINAL99

let everyone level each skill separately, and poke themselves, and lower hackbelt requirements or unlock them...

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No to the belts thing, I'd leave the option for non pvp-ers to not have to worry about losing stuff, and make it harder for people to steal your dropped stuff rom your belt if you choose to remove your enforcer chip.

On the note of poking.. one or two of the faction offices have those wall-mounted health things? I'd make a new one which is a kind of auto-poke. You place the imp in processor as normal, walk upto the unit, use, and it pokes you. No need to stand for hours asking for a poker.

Obviously, you would still have the option of player pokers, so you can do pokes in the wastes or whatever, so the drawback would be that the auto-poke station would be mounted at like medicare or something.

i like you idea Trilaac those poking machines could be paid.... the wall-mounted health machines are from NeoFrag...

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Originally Posted by Trilaac

On the note of poking.. one or two of the faction offices have those wall-mounted health things? I'd make a new one which is a kind of auto-poke. You place the imp in processor as normal, walk upto the unit, use, and it pokes you. No need to stand for hours asking for a poker.

Obviously, you would still have the option of player pokers, so you can do pokes in the wastes or whatever, so the drawback would be that the auto-poke station would be mounted at like medicare or something.

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This is quite possibly the best idea I have ever read, hands-down.

I can't tell you how many times I have returned to NC, died once, spent an hour trying to get a poke, unsuccessfully, then rage-quit, only to log back in and wait an hour for a poke.

What I would say, is make them expensive. 5k per poke. They should be used out of necessity rather than them put the pokers out of business.

I'd much rather give a 10k tip to a poker than spend 25k using a machine each time. That quickly adds up if you die a lot!

while I'm not against the idea in itself, wouldn't fixing the game and getting a population back in itself be already a solution? when I started playing again back in 2007-2008, there were always more than enough pokers around, and that was even in this last patch (ye 3-4 years no patch)

also it would make every player stop speccing the implant skill, making nanites go away as well.

I'd say, if u make a machine, make it automatically degrade the implants' condition, and a steep fine, so that getting poked by players is far preferable over getting poked by the machine(see it as players having a much large skill), but there at least being an option of being poked while noone else is around.

Then again, I've never had a problem with pokes, as I have pokers on both my accounts (my 2 monks)

those poking-machines can be limited by level, says, 50-60 so leveled pokers still will be useful

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Originally Posted by Faid

Who hasn't been temp banned for one reason or another :p

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me :) im careful

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Originally Posted by Faid

Who hasn't been temp banned for one reason or another :p

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never got banned in any online game...

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Originally Posted by Setlec

never got banned in any online game...

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I got banned from a counterstrike server once... I killed the 14 year old admin too many times ;)

lol, never got banned but i've been kicked and Tban loads and loads of time... but most were due to failed connection, lag and alike in RTCW, ETQW, BF:BC2....

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Originally Posted by Biglines

also it would make every player stop speccing the implant skill, making nanites go away as well.

I'd say, if u make a machine, make it automatically degrade the implants' condition, and a steep fine, so that getting poked by players is far preferable over getting poked by the machine(see it as players having a much large skill), but there at least being an option of being poked while noone else is around.

Then again, I've never had a problem with pokes, as I have pokers on both my accounts (my 2 monks)

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I have pokers on both my accounts too, trouble is on neither my home or work computer can I dual log (dunno why) and I don't want to have to get my laptop out just so I can poke myself.

I totally agree with what you say about degrading quality, it was an idea i had myself but didn't post it as I wanted to throw the idea out there first.

Maybe something like degrades 5% of the implant going in (cos it's not always the same imps coming out, and there are no repair machines, you'd still have to find a player to do that) plus maybe 5-10k per poke (maybe stagger it depending on TL too, as newer players might not have that much money (although tbh, a lot of new guys are either funded by their alt accounts, or I know a few people hand out a couple hundred thousand to ACTUAL new players, i've done it a few times).

The nanites were added so crap-spec things like PE and Spy could have protection on their own without the need for PPUs, however, PE's can use the level 1 shields and stuff, and tanks still get boned because they can use neither PSI spells nor nanites (except heal nanites). I remember the good old NC1 and pre 2.1 when tanks could use PSI heal only...