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[Mephansteras]

Well, damn.

[Ruludos]

Just started playing a few days ago, and this thread was very confusing to read for a while there. All this talk about tiers and pilot seats and such made me wonder if I had stumbled into some bizarre alternate universe accidentally.

I'm looking at the tech tree right now, and while there's plenty of electroplate designs I don't see any armor. Am I blind, or is there a way to harden your robot without using electroplates? The low-level ones I have are really awkwardly shaped and get in the way of my firing arcs a lot. I've seen a lot of heavy designs with light electroplating over key areas, but I've built a few gunbeds and they get shredded by simple SMG fire really quickly.

[Mephansteras]

Basic building blocks are armor. So, more layers of blocks will make you better armored.

[Ruludos]

Hmm. I was hoping for blocks with more hp/damage resistance. I suppose part of the problem is that I haven't quite got the scale down yet; I can make a robo that looks huge from my first-person perspective, but at only five blocks high it's barely medium-sized. I'm having a lot more luck with fragile hover-bombers than with anything on treads or wheels.

[flabort]

The game began much different than it is now.
As far as I know, there's only one tier of armor now. When the game began, there was 10 tiers of every object in existence.
The tech tree looked much different, too. Rather than hexagons branching out from the center, it was more of an actual tech-tree, with an individual branch for each piece of tech.

[Aklyon]

Aye,it was. You had to grind tier-bound TP to unlock crap (or pay gc to unbind tp into global tp).
And then you did not, and there was much confusion. Instead it was level-based.

And the Big Flattening happened, which brought paint and armor cube compresion into one single type, and basically dismantled the remains of the tiered system. Then weapon rebalancing into what is to come in a few hours and finally, the vanishment of the tech tree entirely, and the economy rework.

[crazysheep]

Spoiler: My reaction to every patch since the dev announcement of the game rework (click to show/hide)

I hope Extra Loot brings something fun again...

[Aklyon]

So basic cubes are still 10 robits each. Lettered/numbered C6 cubes are 250 robits each. Glass cubes are 100 robits each. Headlamps are 1k robits to forge, and are the cheapest non-glass cosmetic in the cosmetics section.
A single mech leg spartan is 2k robits to forge and 400 if recycled. The power booster (previously the mega module) is 145000 robits to forge, and previously was 1 million rp, wasn't it?

The protoseeker has had an immense reduction in price compared to the other, previously very expensive newer weapons: PSK is now only 10k robits to forge, but a LOML is 137500 to forge and an aeroflak is 75k.

For other stuff you can find out yourself, I just thought I'd show some of the new prices.

Edit: Rail Erazers are hella effective against tiny missile drones, and I'm quite impressed with this BA match.

[MrRoboto75]

You could have the 100,000 RP, or whatever is inside this box

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(its a bunch of blocks worth a total of 70 robits)

[Aklyon]

100,000 rp divided by 63, actually.

[MrRoboto75]

The amount you had, sure.

But the prices are all over the place, and the returns on recycling unwanted parts are pretty awful.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. I think you're meant to get most stuff as loot rather than forge it, mostly. Unless you have a ton of bits built up already from the old days.

My frigate design is due for another overhaul what with all the changes. Still super happy with the overall design, considering that it is only going to be at Mk V despite being in the game for pretty much forever.

[crazysheep]

Extra Loot brought me the same fun as before, namely dying to all the fancy new weapons that I couldn't afford to buy.

The grind has never ended.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

Very disappointed by the Epic Loot update. Robocraft subreddit is flooded by rants, but here is a constructive feedback:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Robocraft/comments/4gxmfg/why_the_rngrecycling_is_bad_design_and_what_can/

[JacobVR]

I've played this game for over a year. At one point, my robo was the number one in the medic class by other user's ratings in the rental shop. I just want you to know that I've loved and enjoyed this game for a year. This most recent change alienates all previous competitive builders in the game. It reduces the engineering challenge and building complexity. It is a step backwards.