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Old 2003-10-28, 05:05 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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Originally Posted by GraveCross
I hate when people use the "it's avaliable to all Empires so it must be balanced" argument.

Mainly because its retarded and has no basis in reality.

There are multiple kinds of balance within videogames, Planetside has two mainly.

Empire vs Empire balance
And Game Design balance

If the devs put in a new weapon, called the Super cannon, made it fit in the pistol slot, kill in one hit, and had the rate of fire of a MCG, with no drawbacks, do you think it would be balanced because all Empires can use it?

Of course it wouldn't.

Things need to be balanced within the game design. This is apparant by just looking at the history of Planetside. The Lightning got an armor buff, the Reaver got a rocket nerf, etc.. All Empires have access to these weapons, but they needed to make them balanced within the whole game.
I was going to post something about the common pool argument being null and void but you summed it up nicely.
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