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Unread 10 Aug 2017, 16:45   #1
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Round 74 shipstat suggestions

Looking for the next set of stats to be run for r74

Looking for a 5 race set
Let's say 5 * 2 pods, so remove 1 class or leave it podless so everything has a teamup

For the rest i'm open. Even willing to accept a "random" set for a round to see how it goes. Related to the discission we had about it late last round.

Feel free to post up your suggestions. Don't finish a set before you show it though, start showing it from the draft so feedback can be provided from the start.
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Unread 12 Aug 2017, 16:30   #3
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

Jintao,

The beta stats where all races were mixed looked very interesting, least its a change from the norm. Something similar to that would be spot on
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i take it since nobody has any comments/problems with veils ST set where zik has more norm than steal ships we got a concensus to use this set for next round?
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i take it since nobody has any comments/problems with veils ST set where zik has more norm than steal ships we got a concensus to use this set for next round?
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i take it since nobody has any comments/problems with veils ST set where zik has more norm than steal ships we got a concensus to use this set for next round?
No we don't.
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Unread 28 Aug 2017, 18:13   #8
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No we don't.
Nobody reads this before round end anyways
Then everyone cries when stats aren't ready on time
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

I'd really like to see it on beta/speedgame to analyze it more efficiently.

For now I'll start with a simple question: what does Zik Fi add to the teamup? Shouldn't it shoot before Co since that has EMP?
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

We run into problems every ****ing round because the community does not deign to give proposed stats so much as a glance until a week before signups open. I fully support Jintao's attempt to change this by taking or threatening to take the decision earlier, even without broad community input.
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

motion 2nded

I would prefer not to submit a set for a few more rounds as mines was selected for r72
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What makes this set playable? I don't see anything that makes me say 'yeah, that looks interesting' or 'oh, that race is really playable'.

We have a cruddy set playing at the moment and although not every set needs to be full of weird and compelling variables, one or two would be nice.
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I'd really like to see it on beta/speedgame to analyze it more efficiently.

For now I'll start with a simple question: what does Zik Fi add to the teamup? Shouldn't it shoot before Co since that has EMP?
Yeah. Has feedback that Xan is OP and Zik needs beefing up.


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What makes this set playable? I don't see anything that makes me say 'yeah, that looks interesting' or 'oh, that race is really playable'.

We have a cruddy set playing at the moment and although not every set needs to be full of weird and compelling variables, one or two would be nice.
Yeah I guess the only 'difference' Zik has pure normal attack fleets and their defence fleets has ability to bulk out the standard fleet.
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Yeah. Has feedback that Xan is OP and Zik needs beefing up.




Yeah I guess the only 'difference' Zik has pure normal attack fleets and their defence fleets has ability to bulk out the standard fleet.
Why should someone go zik in these stats?

On BS the Terran fleet is better, on Fi Xan is better, Terran De craps all over it and all its steal ships aren't viable to steal anything useful. I can see literally zero reason to play this race or accommodate it into an alliance strategy, apart from nostalgia.

If I'm being pessimistic then what zik is here is a shitty version of Terran with crappy defence ships.
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Why should someone go zik in these stats?

On BS the Terran fleet is better, on Fi Xan is better, Terran De craps all over it and all its steal ships aren't viable to steal anything useful. I can see literally zero reason to play this race or accommodate it into an alliance strategy, apart from nostalgia.

If I'm being pessimistic then what zik is here is a shitty version of Terran with crappy defence ships.


I have already sent Jintao the revised version based on Patrikc and Jin's feedback. As soon as they're online, I will share the link here.
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Can we get them loaded to beta/speed then?

hard to judge without calcs etc
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

I would like to see them on one of the secondary servers too.
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

I understand that veil is reworking his stats but I had 10 mins free to matrix these ones and tbh ter/etd/cat are pretty balanced. If you could make zik attack into can more then you are on the right lines.

Issues and fixes and thoughts:

- Why is there no cr fleets?

- Cloak is OP. If you gave Xan and Etd (who have cloak) stand alone roiding fleets (ie. Fi and Cr) which had low int cloak ships then you could swap Zik from Fi to De roider with a low int killer and give it more stopping and roiding options.

- Cat has one too many emp ship imo.

- Xans armour needs lowering a lot. It's probably about 70-100 too high across the board on A/C.

Initial thoughts anyway... I'll look more later
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- Why is there no cr fleets?
Same reason there is no fi fleets this round maybe? Nothing wrong with dropping a class for roiding if it helps with balance tbh
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Same reason there is no fi fleets this round maybe? Nothing wrong with dropping a class for roiding if it helps with balance tbh
But it doesn't. Because of cloak. You can't give cloaked fleets and partner. It just makes them OP beyond all.
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

I uploaded veil's set to the speedgame server: http://speedgame.planetarion.com/man...n=578313055986

My main feedback was xan too strong, zik useless. Which is especially sad since zik's attack fleet is fully made up out of norm ships. Doesn't even have a steal att ship. Personally looks weird too me, but seems i'm the only one that thinks so

Regarding cr pods, i asked to keep it to 5 * 2 pods. which pods to cut was upto him

Haven't glared at anything left of init. I'll do that after i see a balanced set on the first part of the sheet. Paisley's r72 set was probably the most offensive set we've had in a very long time. Yet when i first looked at it it was way way way more offensive than it ended up as. So really don't look at anything left of init yet. That can all still completely change

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Almost every round of PA ever has given Xan teamup partners. If you want to suggest that in all those rounds, Xan has been "OP beyond all", then you need to provide a little more evidence than 'because I say so'.
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https://game.planetarion.com/manual....n=120879019297

Xan has 2 team ups this round - Co with cat (emp arguably the strongest attack partner) and fr with zik....

top xan is ranked 61 at time of writing and from a glance 2 xans in t100

so tell me again how xan is OP with a team up please?
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Ranks don't reflect race power. App/ND/Ult don't have xans
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Ranks don't reflect race power. App/ND/Ult don't have xans
Presumably because they believe Xan (or a fleet strategy involving Xan, which comes down to the same) isn't good enough.
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Presumably because they believe Xan (or a fleet strategy involving Xan, which comes down to the same) isn't good enough.
That is purely because of the awfulness of these stats. Xan is completely unviaible. These stats are gauged around de forts and they made the peg a 1 ship wrecking ball to Xan.

If you make a proper set and make Xan remotely competitive then cloak is OP. For rounds and rounds Xan has been a nightmare to balance. As soon as it can roid 3/5 races it becomes OP. The fact the peg has been made to completely nullify it shows how powerful the ability is.

Xan cannot land Terran (the most picked race) and itself (counterproductive) in rd73 stats. It's not competitive and overly gimped to nullify it's threat. If Xan could have done either of these things then it would have had a much larger share of the player base. On top of that no cloak was added to Etd roiding fleets, further gimping the ability because of its strength in combat. As nearly always etd has gone down the 'safe' emp/norm route to avoid balance issues.
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In the proposed stats Xan Fi can roid everything but itself. Zik Fi is literally pointless. Why would you bother as a strategist to combine a cloaked race with better ints with a race that has same targeting, with worse ints, and no viable def ships.

If you take Fi off of Zik and make it a De roider and switch Etds de fleet to cr (with a cloaked ship) and change Etd Cos cloaked ship to norm or emp then you may have a better and more balanced combat distribution.

Currently you have both fi/co closes fleets bouncing off a same int cloaked ship to stop them. It's not fun, it's provides no enjoyment and frankly is the laziest way to solve an issue that shouldn't exist.
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At least we're back to a 4 race set. Zik is just totally useless, 0 point with the race
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At least we're back to a 4 race set. Zik is just totally useless, 0 point with the race
I still see 5 races with the current Round 74 suggested ship stats. Am I missing something?
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I still see 5 races with the current Round 74 suggested ship stats. Am I missing something?
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

Bs is also in a terrible spot, Fr both fires first (Shadow), simultaneously (Unicorn) and has two EMP ships, all with faster traveltime.

The more I look at these the more I feel it's a mistake omitting Cr from attack classes, it makes balancing things unnecessarily harder and doesn't really achieve anything. I still prefer 1/1/2/2/2/2 pods with Zik/Etd being able to steal into one of the classes with a single pod. That's not to say leaving a class podless can't be done, but this is a poor attempt at it.

Why are you looking for a 5 class pod system, Jintao?
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

Nerfed Xan
Beefed Zik
Sorted Cath Eff

Ter/ETD changes a by-product of the above.

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Nerfed Xan
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Ter/ETD changes a by-product of the above.

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Sorry but still not seeing any point in playing Zik. The Fi is a worse version of Xan without cloak and Bs is a worse version of Terran with less armour and worse ints. Then you have 4 def ships that might aswell not exist.

I don't feel you have adressed the core issue in your stats, that your grand idea around Zik makes it less playable than normal. Still you have a stupid cloaked same int ship to combat Fi which really just protects Xan and allows them to free roid Cat/Zik/Etd.

Xan Fr also smashes everything but Etd, another cloaked ship to stop it. You can nerf armour and emp res as much as you like but the targeting makes Xan soooo OP there is almost no point in playing another race (maybe Terran for fort value strat).
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I'm inclined to agree. It looks to me like Zik was meant primarily as a teamup partner for Xan Fi and Ter Bs, but for both those fleets, it only stops 1 additional ship, while 1, respectively 4 others (some EMP) keep prefiring both fleets.
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With the above in mind, cutlass now init 4 (with peg) and Mara now init 5 (with shadow).

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With the above in mind, cutlass now init 4 (with peg) and Mara now init 5 (with shadow).

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Doesn't make zik/xan land ter still. It just stops Terran attacking Zik, making Terran less playable and pushing more people to Xan. Xan could already land the rest solo so I don't see it as an improvement. The shadow/Mara change just makes FR a little less playable.

Honestly I think the issue lies primarily in fact you have left out CR which unbalances the combat and that you are trying to combine Zik with Xan which was never going to work.

Also the fact Zik has no viable def ship outside its roiding fleets doesn't help it. You would have been better combining Zik with Cat or Etd to take advantage of emp allowing a low int norm ship to be used on defence and make Zik decent.
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Doesn't make zik/xan land ter still. It just stops Terran attacking Zik, making Terran less playable and pushing more people to Xan. Xan could already land the rest solo so I don't see it as an improvement. The shadow/Mara change just makes FR a little less playable.

Honestly I think the issue lies primarily in fact you have left out CR which unbalances the combat and that you are trying to combine Zik with Xan which was never going to work.

Also the fact Zik has no viable def ship outside its roiding fleets doesn't help it. You would have been better combining Zik with Cat or Etd to take advantage of emp allowing a low int norm ship to be used on defence and make Zik decent.
Xan can't land Terran solo?
Beetle is high eff against Xan FI

Basically that leaves:

Ter DE landing TER/CAT/XAN solo
Ter BS landing CAT/ZIK/ETD solo

Cat CO landing XAN/ETD solo.
Cat FR landing XAN/ETD solo.

Xan FI landing ETD/ZIK/XAN solo.
Xan FR landing ZIK/XAN/TER solo.

Zik FI landing ZIK/CAT solo.
Zik BS landing CAT/XAN/ZIK/ETD solo.

ETD CO landing TER/ZIK/ETD solo.
ETD DE landing TER/ETD solo.

I think the last change has levelled the playing field.

(Run calcs to disprove please, it's not subjective)

Anyone else have input on Zik-gate?
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Xan can't land Terran solo?
Beetle is high eff against Xan FI

Basically that leaves:

Ter DE landing TER/CAT/XAN solo
Ter BS landing CAT/ZIK/ETD solo

Cat CO landing XAN/ETD solo.
Cat FR landing XAN/ETD solo.

Xan FI landing ETD/ZIK/XAN solo.
Xan FR landing ZIK/XAN/TER solo.

Zik FI landing ZIK/CAT solo.
Zik BS landing CAT/XAN/ZIK/ETD solo.

ETD CO landing TER/ZIK/ETD solo.
ETD DE landing TER/ETD solo.

I think the last change has levelled the playing field.

(Run calcs to disprove please, it's not subjective)

Anyone else have input on Zik-gate?

I think you missed a lot of solos there. EVERYONE lands Cat Solo. It's emp. But you made sure you included them for Zik I notice.

But it's a little off point. It was not about whether Zik can land stuff, it's about whether it's worth going Zik Fi over Xan Fi, no. Or if it's worth going Zik Bs over Terran Be, no. Also does Zik offer anything defensively the either of those 2 don't, no. So maybe what I should be asking is.... why should I pick Zik, what makes it better than rest and how will benefit my alliance. I'm currently reading towards pure Xan or fr/de forts. Convince me to add Zik please.
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I think you missed a lot of solos there. EVERYONE lands Cat Solo. It's emp. But you made sure you included them for Zik I notice.

But it's a little off point. It was not about whether Zik can land stuff, it's about whether it's worth going Zik Fi over Xan Fi, no. Or if it's worth going Zik Bs over Terran Be, no. Also does Zik offer anything defensively the either of those 2 don't, no. So maybe what I should be asking is.... why should I pick Zik, what makes it better than rest and how will benefit my alliance. I'm currently reading towards pure Xan or fr/de forts. Convince me to add Zik please.
Please can you perform some calculations as at the minute you're just another person with an opinion.

Zik BS > Ter BS.

Zik BS can roid race classes solo and it has the capability of stealing into its BS class.

Zik FI > Cath CO
- Cath is shooting at Zik with ~107% eff
- Cath is shooting at Xan with ~147% eff

I am happy with these ATM.

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Included 3rd pod class for ETD - CR.
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Why?
After consultation with some stat experts.

Offer an alternate strategy
Bolster ETD
Bring non-attacking anti CR into the game
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After consultation with some stat experts.

Offer an alternate strategy
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Bring non-attacking anti CR into the game
"stat experts"

You still didnt answer my question about the EMP eff though.
What did the "stat experts" say about that?
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You still didnt answer my question about the EMP eff though.
What did the "stat experts" say about that?
The stat experts was a joke, its just the people in the TG stat channel having inputs.

You on TG? I'd like some steer as TBH, im trying to make Zik more advantageous but fear its at the cost of making Cath unplayable.
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Mz, anyone else?
I might take a slightly more in-depth look tomorrow, but no promises.

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Im sure Mz did a post on whats been average EMP eff in the past, i couldnt find it though
I did one on Xan effs, maybe that's what you're remembering. For a mostly single target set, 160% T1 is a rough guideline. I haven't done a proper single target set in ages, but I expect it should be a little higher for that? 170%?

[edit] I didn't read the rest of your post. The exact effs are obviously dependent on a lot of other factors, but it looks like we roughly agree.
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I might take a slightly more in-depth look tomorrow, but no promises.
Appreciated.

I have also bumped ETD CO (Vindicator) to shoot before Xan FI now.

[edit] Increased Shadow to init 6 - shooting post Zik BS
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Re: Round 74 shipstat suggestions

Alright, here it is. I've only looked at solo fleets. Teamups are for other people to worry about.

Ter De looks bad. Most fleets roid it, and it's the worst offensive fleet in the game.

Ter Bs looks on the strong side: it's solid offensively and strong defensively.

All Cat fleets look middle-of-the-road. However, my scoring is slightly distorted by the fact that they're vulnerable to everything that's out there and roids almost everything that's out there in return. Because in reality, defense is more important than attack, I wouldn't mind seeing some small buffs here and there. Cat has the option of getting dual attack fleets with Co and Fr, and going strictly by the numbers, that is slightly better than going either pure Co or pure Fr. However, since EMP fakes are not very scary, I probably wouldn't recommend it.

Despite Kaiba's fear of Xan ruling supreme, my calculations put both of their fleets at the bottom. They roid very little (only the De fleets roid less), and are vulnerable to a sizable chunk of fleets (only Ter De and Cat are worse). Note that I have not taken into account the fact that Cloak allows far better faking than other races have. Still, I would like to see some buffs here.

One thing I really like about Xan Fi is it has the option to guard against either Ter Bs with the Shadow or against Zik Bs with the Nightmare. That's a self-balancing mechanism: if Ter Bs becomes too strong, players will choose to build Shadows to hold them down, and vice versa.

Zik Fi looks weakish. Both offensively and defensively it's a bit below average.

Zik Bs looks really strong. Whereas Ter Bs is merely strong offensively, Zik Bs is positively overpowered: it roids everything except Xans with Nightmares. It's also immune to as many fleets as Ter Bs is. Zik can also go Fi/Bs, and that fleet roids everything including Xan Fi, though in return is vulnerable to Cat Fr (due to the Viper being able to cover the smaller Bs fleet), which pure Bs isn't.

Etd has a ton of options. There's the 3 pure fleets, but Co/Cr and De/Cr are also viable. Pure De looks bad. It's in the same boat as Ter De is: somewhat weak defensively and very weak offensively.

Etd Cr and De/Cr both look solid, largely thanks to the influence of Cr. Not too strong, not too weak. If all fleets looked like this, I'd be a happy man.

Etd Co is stronger than both De and Cr, and Co/Cr is stronger still. They're not as strong defensively as the Bs fleets, but roid just as well.



I'd say all the complaining about Zik has led you to overcompensate significantly, especially in the Bs department. Look into turning some (though definitely not all) of those buffs back. I'm not too worried about Zik Fi. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I don't think it has to be.

Both De fleets are weak and I think that's one of the main issues with these stats. I'd look into nerfing some of the stronger fleets by making them vulnerable to De. Etd Co and the Bs fleets come to mind. It's unfortunate Bs doesn't fire at De, that would be a great way to kill two birds with one stone. Now you'll have to go through 2 steps: make De stronger by making it better against some middle of the road fleet like Cat or Etd Cr, and then compensate for that nerf to Cr by making it better against Bs. Annoying, but what can you do.

As for Xan, they're the weakest race of all, and my first suspect is the load of un-Xanlike inits that I'm seeing. Since Fi fires at Co and Fr fires at Bs, both of which are strong, I'd look into improving both fleets offensively. You could help them defensively instead, but I wouldn't really know how to without hurting fleets that are not currently overpowered. Xan's strength has always been attack more than defense, anyway, so that seems to me the best place to improve them.

Cat's minor weakness can probably be fixed with effs alone. Tweaking it so they're immune to just a couple of fleets would probably do the trick.

All in all, I don't think these are quite ready for prime time. I don't doubt they can be fixed, but it'll take a significant amount of work.
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A lot of xans fall from grace is the plethora of ott changes he made in the last 24 hrs. All of which missed the point. It was never that Xan was too strong, it was that Zik at the time had no point in existing. The changes have over ramped Zik bs to a silly point and almost killed Xan with horrible int changes. I said to you ages ago that Zik Fi was always going to be an issue and the teamup was never going to work and the lack of cr unbalanced the set. Bolting Cr onto etd doesn't solve anything and your Zik changes are frankly ridiculous. This set is not playable or anywhere near it.

I heard 2 other sets had been offered. Can we look at those now and let Veil iron out the crevices during rd74 please
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