schlurp Senior Guild Member



Join Date: 26th Feb, 2008 Posts: 2,001

Re: July 2017 IotM: LI-11 Motor Pool voucher Quote: jon diaz Originally Posted by Does anybody remember when IOTMs did one cool thing instead of be a 27th source for doing the same 18 different things all the other IOTMs do?



I guess I don't really disagree with you -- things like the He-Boulder (yellow ray), the Hipster (free wandering fights), the 'snatch and later the boots (familiar-controlled free runaways), and the angel (copying) all brought fundamental changes in mechanics that entirely reshuffled priorities in speed ascension. That is to say, they completely changed the ascension game. Yet another source of buffs to +/- combat or +ML or whatever isn't really going to have that effect.



At the same time, it's always a mistake to shit on an IOTM the day it is released -- god knows what other functionality is waiting to be discovered in it (or added to it). So I'm not going to damn this one by criticizing it right now. Just explore it a bit and form opinions later. Those 18 things are the mechanics that ascenders really care about, though. And as the playerbase contracts, it becomes more and more important to keep ascenders donating.I guess I don't really disagree with you -- things like the He-Boulder (yellow ray), the Hipster (free wandering fights), the 'snatch and later the boots (familiar-controlled free runaways), and the angel (copying) all brought fundamental changes in mechanics that entirely reshuffled priorities in speed ascension. That is to say, they completely changed the ascension game. Yet another source of buffs to +/- combat or +ML or whatever isn't really going to have that effect.At the same time, it's always a mistake to shit on an IOTM the day it is released -- god knows what other functionality is waiting to be discovered in it (or added to it). So I'm not going to damn this one by criticizing it right now. Just explore it a bit and form opinions later.

__________________ Last edited by schlurp; Wed, Jul 5th, 2017 at 09:48 PM . Reason: Sarcastic response removed. I should be better than this.