Profile of donofsandiego

Then tell us how you are going to attract to the game and monetize FTP RTS? The FTP model is not suitable for the strategy. The FTP model implies that for the donation you accelerate your progress. What is the progress in RTS with the base? You can count anything, but the FTP model may not attract to the game, but destroy the mechanics and gameplay. After all, all this must be reworked for the sake of monetization.

CoH 2 literally already had the trappings of a successful Free-To-Play model. Literally just the exact same except you allow players to spend money for Supply or buy commanders/skins directly. And then balance the game so that it's not Pay-To-Win (i.e. you can still win with default units). Add lootcrates with rare skins, add skins for the camo on your units, knife skins. It's too easy.

It's a tall order for sure, though.

EDIT: Actually you DON'T allow players to buy commanders and skins directly. Make it so that if you buy 5 dollars worth of supply, you can buy X amount of commanders but *just* a little bit lacking to buy another. That's another dirty secret of free to play models.

This is laughably wrong. You lose a bit of RA (armour is glorified RA anyway) for half the reinforce cost. No brainer.

So Shocks have 1 Target Size and 1.5 armor, while cons have 1.09 TS and 0 armor. If my understanding of the penetration calculation is correct, then the chance for dealing damage against armor is (penetration/armor x 100).

Now, I'm not an information digger, so I might be wrong, but the only infantry weapon I know of that goes above 1 penetration is (besides the MG42 teamweapon) the LMG42 which ramps up to a whopping 1.2 penetration at close range.

So, against just about any small arms fire (G43, STG44, Kar98k, etc.) shocks have a 66% chance to be dealt damage. (1/1.5 x 100) Unless they are face to face with an LMG42, where it is an 80% chance.

That is effectively .66 target size. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Shocks gain a buff to target size with vet, but it's nowhere close to the base amount.

So you're trying to tell me that reinforcing a .66 base target size CQC squad (where it really matters!) with any amount of 1.09 target size models, is worth the nominal amount of MP gained and higher risk of losing DPS fast from model drops.

I can definitely see this not being an issue in close quarters maps with a whole lot of sightblockers so you can strong-arm infantry off the field with shocks ppsh before they get a chance to retaliate. But anywhere else? I don't think it's "laughably wrong".

A-move on Tank Destroyers makes sense and works quite well from my experience. Are you guys attack moving your mediums or something? Because that would seem really odd to me and I dont understand why you would want to do that

Really just about any vehicle you can think of.

Agree. It's just hard to pitch that game model to corporate overlords I'm sure.

It's Saturday, I'm bored, and I'm making a thread of little consequence to the game as a whole for fun.

What really pisses you off? What really gets your goat? What makes you want to tear your hair out and replace it with a bad toupee?

Personally, the thing that pisses me off the most is the vehicle pathing. Just how sometimes you inadvertently back your tank into a spot that you didn't realize the tank is going to have issues getting out of. Oh that and when tanks slip on a bananna peel.

How about you, ladies and gents?