Quote Originally Posted by Donald View Post
& rightly so my friend.
Back then the stats were reflective of their price.

Right now they are not.

They are still better just not to the extent at which they are currently priced at.

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Heres the drift I'm getting from Bitzsam.

Back then the prices were reflective of their stats.

This was before Bitzsam was the Gun Admin.

After Bitzsam became the Gun Admin he thought this was a bad idea.

He figured that maybe the reason people aren't basing, sparring & pking is because they can't afford to buy guns good enough to compete.

Therefore, he decided to nerf all the Top guns.

& Even though he would love to refund people their money he can't because Graal doesn't do refunds.

He thought having weapons priced at $200k was a mistake to begin with but theres nothing he can do about that.

So, the only thing he can do is maintain their hierarchy because he can't give refunds.
How are prices of guns not reflective of their respective statistics? Just because the BAR was balanced does not make it not good. Simply put, the BAR was overpowered. There were a few indicators, but the primary one was that the BAR was the obvious weapon of choice. When it’s so painstakingly clear to a player that there is such an obvious choice for a weapon, it is a sign that it’s too good/overpowered.

On a side note, when I say “overpowered,” I’m referring to what ‘overpowered’ by definition means. Contrary to the Era colloquialism, ‘overpowered’ means something is too good when taking into consideration its cost. Like Bitzsam has mentioned numerous times, the BAR’s statistics- for quite a long time- had never been altered to accommodate the price change of the BAR(for those of you that don’t know the BAR once cost 250k). The BAR is still a fantastic gun, but now it is more balanced.

As for “the nerf,” Gun variety is now actually a thing, and it makes basing and sparring for more interesting, and skill/personal-preference oriented, instead of an environment where there is one obvious weapon choice. That’s a definite improvement.