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Originally Posted by DC.
i am glad u came around 2 ppl from 13 years ago
now how do u suggest we remedy the situation.??????
go back to stock 1.40 and ban any polate and PFT modifications?? r we able 2 detect ppl using something other than stock 1.40??
who decided that netset was okay anyway???
even 1.40 was a cheat but there was no TWL ladder so no1 really gave a fuk i dont think, then i come back a few months ago and every1 is polating aka netsetting and i wonder what happened. who allowed 4 this?? it is a downward spiral in2 tribes hell dystopia where there are no laws anymore
disk and i were just discussing this madness.
it is just a continuous decline in tribe. v. sad
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Nofix gave netset to some aussie dude I believe. People with inconsistent/high pings sort of get screwed by default 1.40 formula. So this dude was looking for a fix. It slowly caught on with some people but Nofix said messing with these settings was probably going to result in worse prediction compared to default 1.40.
Well eventually people started figuring out that jacking pft up was the way to go and now it's sort of a problem depending on how you look at it.
Tribes is an old game with old netcode and slow server tick rates. If you want to keep an old game fresh, you make it feel not so old by helping the netcode out. Obviously people are accustomed to the balance of the weapons on this old netcode, so you have to make some adjustments to keep the same balance with netset in effect.
Tribes is old enough that hardware improvements are also messing with the balance. We have better mice/monitors. More ram. Faster CPU's. 1100fps.
We played a ****load of pickups with a 6 bullets to kill chaingun and still had fun. I think it's 11 or 12 bullets to kill now and it doesn't feel like I'm getting cheap kills. There is a lot of talk about netset right now and how it makes the game easier. But I don't see people putting up incredible stats other than rtcll a few times here and there. We're also comparing today's playerbase(lack of competitive background/atmosphere) to that of the previous generation of tribers. 2004-2009 there were many more elite level cappers around. They were harder to chase. The avg pug had many offensive players with a long competitive background. The avg pug capper today has more pub experience than pug experience.
LT used to be dominated by offense. Slowly we have lost almost all of the elite level offensive players. Today's playerbase is more focused on killing and less on route running and offensive timing.
So I don't think netset is as much as an issue as some believe it to be. I believe there are many things that should be factored in. I'm neither for netset or against it really. I've played on default 1.40. I've used netset. I've even tried out adjusting pft for different weapons. I've had great games using every type of method. I can't say if I've ever made the game easier for myself. I can say that I don't see people doing things I haven't seen before.