*puts FL CD on his finger* I think it's balanced....

Anyway, I think it can only be balanced for individuals. Some like it hard, and others easy.

Life: No one gets out alive.

I believe if you're going to measure balance you have to take the original as zero level. I feel it's balanced in it's pure form, mods are what makes it easy or hard. There are enough spoiler questions to assume for your average gamer like myself that the game is hard enough to be challenging and easy enough to be completable all in one contrary fell swoop.

Maybe McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity ?

Well, it would be nice if all the nations had equivalant ships. ie. As it stands, Rheinland ships are better (slightly) than Kusarin, which are better than Bretonian, and in turn, Liberty. Maybe if all the nations had low-level ships, mid-level, and high-level ships. Not so much balance as, I like Kusarin ships, but they suck more than Rheinland ships. Get the gist?

Higher level doesn't mean better. The Kusari ships are more agile than the Rhineland ones.

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"Although I do not consider myself a member of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, I find that their goals and mine often follow the same path. I will aid them when I can...if they give me a percentage of the salvage from whatever they frag along the way. But god help them if someone puts a bounty on THEIR heads, for I don't care who I hunt for, as long as their live capture(or untimely death) can get me enough credits to buy a decent sized mug of my favorite drink."- A Freelance Bounty Hunter.
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Anub- damn, what IS the plural for that? Anubii? Anubises? Anubice?

Edited by - NukeIt on 08-11-2003 18:17:15

Define Ballanced. Parts of the univererse are ballanced for some situations and not others. It's why there are over 40 systems. Freelancer has too many choices in it to be ballanced for everything. --- RR16

Whoever came up with "MIssion Commision" should be lined up and shot

I think it could be balanced if the different fighter classes had different speeds, and even different fighters with in classes had different speeds, for instance a dagger being faster than the defualy SP/MP ship (forgot the name lol). also i think that there should be a dynamic economy in MP. it would get rid of all those get rich quick schemes people use

AH HA! I shall be different and have no signature...

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also i think that there should be a dynamic economy in MP. it would get rid of all those get rich quick schemes people use

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i hope... i was banned before to get a sabre within 1.75 hours without taking money from others... isbn't it odd...

it would be nicer to see more ships... more ships well more div classes means more ships, more ships mean, more choice to fly in... more choice to fly in other fighters mean more hours to get the so called best ship ... don't read that that is the best ship... that is individual.... so don't start with that right now... it's about balanced and not about the best...

If u c some1 in a dagger make fireballs from hunters it can be me

This is a good way to think about balance in a general sense.

Balanced is what everyone else is and you are not.

Sir Spectre


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@Sir Spectre, lol, u can say also, thus n00bs didn't knew that it was possible

but still, then i was still the unbalanced player in a balanced server

- edit; i forgot to put server behind balanced

If u c some1 in a dagger make fireballs from hunters it can be me

Edited by - DragonBreath on 09-11-2003 15:07:57

A partially balanced game is get rid of the nomad guns availible to players.

Another thing would be to prohibit players from hoarding the codename guns--a player should not be allowed to keep more of them than he can mount (six). If a player has more of them, then he should be obliged to sell the extras to other players.

I agree on the Nomad guns- get them out of MP.

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"Although I do not consider myself a member of the Bounty Hunters' Guild, I find that their goals and mine often follow the same path. I will aid them when I can...if they give me a percentage of the salvage from whatever they frag along the way. But god help them if someone puts a bounty on THEIR heads, for I don't care who I hunt for, as long as their live capture(or untimely death) can get me enough credits to buy a decent sized mug of my favorite drink."- A Freelance Bounty Hunter.
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Anub- damn, what IS the plural for that? Anubii? Anubises? Anubice?

Balanced is whether it is too easy or hard really. Its hard to completely balance FL because you can always get better stuff and get better skills, while the game won't adapt to you increase in proforance. FL is balanced, if you keep on moving to harder systems.