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Fellow Ex-Gunners Of Icarus Lend Me Your Ears!
Shinkurex:
Forgive me for adding on to this, as I am tired. You are absolutely correct Sunderland... There was not a single gunner in that match. I think this may be tied into playing styles of the teams... I would like to point out that Corvus also when with all engies, and MNS went with gunners. Now before this gets twisted, I want everyone to be clear that This is purely my speculation, but there is a mentality you adopt when you click the Icon in the upper right. If you're running all engies, It seems as though one is more keen to sit back in a sniping duel than to get in quick and dirty. Where as with a gunner you want to get him within optimal effectiveness (There will always be exceptions to this rule (Polaris for instance))... This makes for more exciting games for spectators... Just from what I saw today, Muse and MNS brought gunners, which lead to 6 min matches.... Gents, and paddling brought all engies, and we had a 30 min match... With that said, I hold the Gents and the Paddling in the utmost respect, and hope the nonsense that I'm typing makes sense... Who knows... I'll prolly wake up in the morn and wonder what the heck I wrote :P
Also Helmic, You did not say that I was useless, I apologize if it came out that way...
Morblitz:
Sorry, Shinkurex. I respectfully disagree.
Our match went so long because both teams held their ground for an incredibly long (and tense) amount of time. As soon as we made a play and hit you from a different and more advantageous position, and got the first kill, the rest of the game lasted about as long as a standard match. There were reasons the match lasted as long as it did, and I don't believe it had anything to do with the fact that no one was a gunner.
In fact, I believe it would have lasted even longer if we had gunners. My lumberjack, almost all the other guns, and the turning engines kept getting destroyed. If I was a gunner I would have had a really bad time.
Shinkurex:
Meh that's fine.... We'll See what Happens next week...
Moriarty:
Shinkurex buddy you might be reading too much into the roles old boy.
Personally I'd LOVE to be a gunner (tho mainly for the prestige rather than the ammo). Infact i keep my engi level as low as possible in a form of protest figuring as long as the cogs features the Paddling and everyone has high levels my lvl3 engi will stick out and hopefully raise some questions.
On another note this thread is coming along nicely with vigorous discussion. However my biggest bugbear is that people seem to think the gunner class has some sort of advantage on heavy guns.
I'd consider this a misconception with 2 caveats:
-Firstly that manticore might sometimes want to use explosive rather than heavy in very specific circumstances; and
-Secondly, if your on one of the ships that tends to have a spare person like a goldfish then sure whatevs its hardly loosing you efficiency because you have a float who's prolly running around with a buff hammer and nothing much to do.
Typhi:
The solution is pretty simple, just bring back this stuff! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6QVxhmoAIyA#t=224s
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