Perception

you need to study the combat system a lil more. Everyone has 200 CT at lvl 50, which means everyone is equal in terms of overall CT, when you equip soldier you get another +5 to CT, putting you at 205 overall CT. For most anyone who uses operative abilities for duels and pvp unless they buff, they will never exceed 205 CT. That means thoes little differences that you think are worthless are what will decide who rolls higher in most circumstances. I put my focus up to 43 which means i can buff it up to 60 giving me a bonus of 5 to my RCT, because I went for RCT instead of MCT, my MA sucks but I do very very well with guns and knives and assassin moves. Just take a look around at what people are wearing, most people are dressed alike for their class, and if you see someone who isnt dressed alike it means one of 3 things, 1. they're wearing inferior clothing, 2. they found something new that has better buffs, or 3. they just wanna look cool. When everyone's stats are virtually the same, it is thoes small things that can make all the difference.

And what you said about attributes is way way off.

Vitality - Adds more health points to your character allowing you to essentially take more damage before dying. The bennifits arent worth the attribute points.

Belief - Adds to awakened abilities such as hyper jump, and more than that it adds to your damage reistance and over all toughness. Toughness is very important because if you can increase your toughness, your increasing your damage absorbtion, you cant hurt me if i absorb most of the damage you deal. Adding points to belief will basically make you tougher to kill. With a mix of akido and my prison mastery device and my belief, I can get my toughness to the point where I dont take damage at all for a short period of time.

Perception - Adds to your MCT (melee combat tactics) this is a must have for anyone who is gonna go down the MA path. It also adds to your ability to detect sneaking characters and often players with high perception are able to out roll assassin attacks.

Focus - Adds to your RCT (ranged combat tactics) a must have for anyone who is gonna specialize in using guns, increasing your RCT increases your chances of hitting who your trying to shoot at in free ranged attacks, and will substantially increase your rolls in inter lock. Adding to your focus will also grant you more viral deflection, and adds to the sneak ability by giving you more points of stealth.

Reason - the one entirely useless attribute. Adding to reason will give you more viral transmission and will add points to your write code when you go to code something. What it adds to hacking is virtually nothing. And since you can max your viral transmission out with other hacking abilities, it is entirely pointless. It doesnt add to your rolls with hacks in interlock, and it doesnt increase your odds of hitting someone who has the viral deflection maxed.

to the original poster: just do like what I said in my first post and you'll be fine, get your perception up to 43, and put the rest of your points into your belief.

In this post you said the difference perception makes and the added 5 points of MCT is worthelss and pointless and wont change anything in the overall big picture. and that you think vitality is useless and belief doesnt help people who use operative abilities. I understand and comprehend what you said completly, And what I said is you are incorrect.

In this game, everyones stats are virtually similar, every one using MA or guns has 205 CT, in a duel with both people wearing very similar clothing in terms of buffs, the difference is gonna be the players MCT and RCT, and the player with the higher MCT or RCT has a better chance to win the roll. The entire combat system in this game is all luck, it comes down to who rolls a higher dice roll and thats all based on luck, to say you won a fight because you are skilled is crap, only skill this game requires is the knowledge of knowing which move to use when, but simply knowing which move to use when wont save you if the number you roll is extreamly low, and the the number you roll is all luck.

However... Like most things in life there are things you can do to increase your chances to win, or one could also say there are things you can do to increase your luck. These things being have a high MCT or a high RCT, finding good clothing that adds buffs that help your ability class. And putting your attributes into the right areas such as belief. These things are what matter, these are often the deciding factors in who will win a roll. As I stated in my last post, I have a high RCT, so when I go to use an all MCT load out, I get my butt whooped because my rolls suck because I dont have the added MCT that they do.

Its the small differences that count and can make all the difference. In a game where everyone is very similar, you can only have small differences, and thoes differences are very noticable once you see how the person performs in a duel.

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ZenShin wrote:

I think I'll just leave now, there's no point actually holding a discussion here. You are obviously not listening to anyone else and you are obviously too wound up in your own "brilliance". Take your aggression elsewhere...

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there is no need to flame and its completly uncalled for. No where in any one of my posts did I attack you or flame you, you have no reason nor right to flame me. I read what you had to say, and said you were wrong and gave examples of why I think you are wrong. Thats what a forum is, its a place to post ideas and discuss things, and debate things. I posted with my point of view and what I think, I cited my examples of why I think the way I do and have the opinions that I do. And if you think what im saying is wrong and incorrect, its upon you to come up with a constructive reply to say why you think what I just said is completly wrong and why your point of view is right. In any debate you have one side thats right, one side thats wrong, and the only way you have a tie is if both sides are arguing the same thing but dont realize until the end of the debate that the other is simply arguing the same point but from a much different perspective. But if you cant or dont want to take the time to do that, dont flame, its uncalled for, it ruins threads, ruins good debates, and is childish.