Funny – the other night I saw my first continent win, on Amerish. And for a change, there were some stiff battles there. Fun!
It’s an upgrade you can get for the sunderer that takes the place of the deploying mechanism. It’s a coating that allows a sunderer to drive through a base’s shield for something like 4 seconds, which is more than enough time to get through.
Some upcoming balance changes. Doubling effectiveness of flak armor. Changing grounder G2A missile - removing the dumbfire mode, but making it more effective when locked on. General ground based flak buff. ESF rockets do reduced splash damage.
The F2P model introduces some weird balance issues. I was considering buying the g2a missile and the fact that it still retained a weakened dumbfire ability against armor was important, I wouldn’t have considered it otherwise. So if I had bought it, I’d be pretty miffed right now that they changed a fundamental capability and role of the weapon.
Another issue - the burster max arm is on daily sale today. I have to imagine it’s in concert deliberately with the other AA changes. It just seems strange that the fundamental balance in the game can be altered by something like this - I suspect my days as a pilot are going to sharply get more difficult as a result of a silly daily sale.
i always carry the G2A missile to dumbfire when HA, guess that will be stopping soon 
the burster MAX is far and away the most effective AA right now, especially as infantry has a longer view range then vehicles so you can be owned by bursters you can’t see yet.
i’m waiting for G2A missiles to become split into a dumbfire HE version and a lockon AV version as well.
So the double XP weekend starts Friday at 9am pst and ends Monday at 9am PST. I guess we’re not going to be doing much IRL this weekend.
The forums have conflicting information about whether the double xp would stack or multiply. If sub 50%+boost 50% * 2 = 400% total, it’s worth buying a boost for the weekend. If it’s 50%+50%+100% then it’s not that big a deal although possibly worthwhile simply because you’ll be playing a lot. It sounds like it’s probably a straight +100% off the double xp, not a multiplier, unfortunately. Or I could be getting 4x.
From what Smed said, the XP doubling comes before the bonuses, so it should be multiplicative. 100 XP becomes 200, then a +50% boost gets you 300 XP.
Boosts aren’t multiplicative. For instance, if I’ve got a 6 month sub, boost, and defensive bonus, I get +115%. 50+50+15. Nothing multiplies.
That tweet suggests (the language is ambigious, defeating the whole purpose) that you get your base XP, double that, then add boosts on top of that. So 100%+50%+50%, 300% total. If it multiplied (100+50+50)*2 you’d get 400% total. In other words, there’s no special bonus for buying a boost this weekend (it isn’t doubled), except that you’ll probably be playing a lot anyway so you’d get a lot out of the normal boost xp.
Boosts are additive, yes. I’m pretty sure (like, 95% sure based on his tweet) that double XP doesn’t count as a boost, and so is multiplicative. (XP*2) * (boost+boost+…+boost)
So 100 XP becomes 200, then your boosts are added together and applied. If you have 115% in boosts, you get 430 XP.
I’m hoping that’s the case, but the language of the tweet “on top of”, which sounds like stacking to me (that is … you get your double XP, so 200 per kill, and then you add boosts and other bonuses from there), seems ambiguous at best. If it is indeed a multiplier, then I highly suggest everyone grab a boost now because SDMB squad is gonna crush filthy hippies and bomb libertopia all weekend long.
Seriously. If one kill gets you almost as much as one regular base cap, it’s gonna be raining certs this weekend.
Damn, I wish I had more time to play this weekend! Unfortunately i’ve put in to work this weekend, and since i’ve been working 60hr workweeks my wife hardly sees me at home (awake) so there wont be many opportunities for me to enjoy the double xp 
However, i’ll have the house to myself while my wife is out of the country over xmas, and I’m hoping they will have some kind of xmas promo.
Well, if the forums are correct, they did an unannounced further nerf on aircraft
Composite armor
Rank 1: 100 certs, -10% Flak and -20% Small Arms to -3% Flak and -2% SA
Rank 2: 200 certs, -12% Flak and -28% SA to -6% Flak and -4% SA
Rank 3: 500 certs, -15% Flak and -35% SA to -9% Flak and -6% SA
Rank 4: 1000 certs, -18% Flak and -50% SA to -12% Flak and -8% SA
I don’t know how game companies get suckered into the “massive overcorrection” style of balance. These are huge, massive, sweeping changes all done at once which is going to overcorrect the problem.
And most of the problem with aircraft isn’t even balance based, it’s based on the fact that there are no AA weapons in the default kit and it’s going to take weeks+ for people to unlock them. So people complain about air in an environment where no one has the tools to shoot down air, so they massively buff anti-air and nerf air, so now when people actually start getting the anti-air weaponry after weeks of saving up certs they’re going to wreck everything. Nothing is going to survive in the sky.
Dumb design compounded by dumb fix.
I record a crazy amount of footage in this game because the in-game recorded uses relatively little disk space and has a very small performance hit. Every time something awesome may happen, I flip on the recorded. But I end up having to wade through tens of hours of recorded footage to find the good stuff, so I gotta record less.
But anyway, got a few new videos.
Blooper. Scythe is trying to escape my mosquito, hitting afterburners to run for his warp gate, and…
I could look this up but I will ask here so others may benefit from the answer. Is there a way to see what squads the people around you are in?
Okay, so helpful reminders to anyone joining the thread recently.
Create 3 characters (max) of different factions and then log into them every day. From what the forums say, you have to log in once a day for passive certs. You don’t have to play them, but down the road if you want to try out the other faction specific vehicles and weapons, you’ll have a small stockpile of free certs to do it with. But you have to (I think) log in once every 24 hours or the generation stops.
The SDMB main faction is Terran Republic on server Genudine. If you want to play with us, that’s the one to do. Send a friend request to SenorBeef here for an outfit/guild invite.
Secondary SDMB factions, which we don’t really play at all yet but may in the future are Vanu on Connery and NC on Helios.
We use mumble for voice chat. It’s pretty much essential to playing with us, since there’s not much point to playing together if we’re not communicating. It’s free. Download it and enter the server details
remove the slash from the address
host silv/erbolt.bluefang.net
port 32768
It also helps to add me on steam (senorbeef).
I don’t, either, but it’s remarkably and irritatingly common.
Dear god the XP bonus does multiply. So boosts are effectively worth double. Everyone give them $5 and buy yourself a boost, then play 100 hours straight with me. WE WILL RULE THE WORLD.
Just logged in to get my daily passive certs, noticed double xp is already in effect and ran around a bit. Ended up jumping into some guy’s big tank after I fixed it to act as the turret guy and we went on to wreck havoc - I killed at least one Sunderer, several tanks, a dozen infantry, 2-3 defensive emplacement turrets and one Galaxy who thought it is a great idea to hover right in the middle of my screen. My favourite part was when a heavy assault guy was too close and low for my turret to reach, so I jumped out, shot him dead before he blew up our tank and then hopped back in. Even got a bronze medal for the gun, whatever it was.
You hotshot air pilots might’ve gotten used to killing everybody and living to tell about it, for me this was a new and heady thing. 
I’ll on be this afternoon.
Whats in the bundles? It wont let me view the contents. Are they worth it?
Apparently there is a bug that requires you to have the full price in SC/CP in your acct in your acct order to buy items on sale. Otherwise it says ‘unavailable’. I missed out getting the second burster arm on sale because of this :mad: