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seconded. Just put it up for sale directly. Or at least make all the leased weapons Joker Tickets.

so you are telling me that executing the cop is the same as arresting the crim? LTL is a joke in this game. The TTS is longer than any lethal weapons TTK plus stunning is only the first step. Then you have to reach your opponent (without dying), arrest the player (without dying), then hope the player is not released. When they are released the next arrest won't count on the cop role until that player dies. If you want to handicap your team with LTL that is fine, but stick with the same rules as the Enforcers. if a team using LTL is "powerful" then a team using lethal is even more dangerous. Lethal has a much shorter TTK than LTLs TTS. Lethal only requires one step to take you out of the game. Lethal damages cars and other destructible cover because it does soft and hard damage. Lethal can have a range limit up to 100 meters, more if you are using explosives. Lethal also has a lot more varieties and the ability to customize your weapon. If a team of 2-3 players are each using LTL they are handicapping themselves. If that same team is besting you, they would completely destroy you if they used lethal weapons. The simple act of getting into your Balkan Varzuga (starter car) basically puts you in a mobile tank no LTL can penetrate.

but if you miss a few shots with the .45 you basically have to reload. You could miss the majority of FBW shots and still kill without reloading.

Well that doesn't make sense.

Smash and grab farming on a dead district.

There were a few of us who understood that the lack of segregation on NA was a good thing. But a few were completely against it because they had to play against golds... which I guess they didn't think was a problem before (no, it was just a bunch of silvers who enjoyed going to the bronze server to pound on low skilled targets).

have they fixed the steering? It was pulling to one direction the last time I drove it.

in the capable hands of a veteran (I'm going to say your basic gold player), the blowtorch is a viable weapon. The pig+perc requires about 3 times the amount of time to execute just to stun a player compared to the TTK of most weapons that are barely hovering around half a second.

PIG: 10 meter range and has to reload every shot. So use your pistol and stay at least 11 meters away.

I run into people just flat out not trying but only a few actual dethreaters. When a bronze/silver is going 0-15 against a team of golds I completely understand giving up.

jacket is nothing new and won't work on character well if I remember right.

I am but I still think our lack of population is the larger issue. With so few people there really isn't a middle ground for real silvers to play in. I've been stuck as gold since segregation came back. Just can't seem to bother playing knowing I can't keep going full out without being able to access to the both districts or even the one available due to 40/40

a person who goes gold in the bronze district (because their real threat is silver) but is suddenly kicked when they turn gold will only be in the silver district against other silvers and golds for about one match (as long as it takes to become silver again). Then they will drop back down to bronze, go gold and repeat. I do not feel dethreating is the massive issue people think it is. The NA population is so small that the only stable group of players (threat wise) are the bronze and golds. Silvers will jump from bronze to gold depending on who they fight. But since the population is so small you see them constantly going gold in the bronze district, getting stomped in the silver district until they drop back to silver threat, then hit up bronze where they do the stomping. Some people do intentionally throw games and run straight into gunfire to die and dethreat, but most of what I see are people who are completely out matched, know they have zero chance at winning and just afk until the next match. Our real problem is the tiny population that NA deals with. If the population were larger people could get games that were more fair, but that is basically impossible when you have less than 200 people during prime time for mission districts.

The thing is they are not playing any better than they would in the silver/gold district, they are just playing against people way below their skill level. If they were kicked out of bronze and into silver, they would only drop back to silver the very next game because that is their real threat level against silvers and golds. It wouldn't change much considering how low our population is.

you serious? When we have 1 silver at 40/40, then a spattering of bronze districts... there aren't enough people playing NA to have multiple silver districts running. I could sit there in the empty silver Waterfront for hours and not get more than 5 people on, and most of those will be smash/grab farming or just driving around their Vegas for fun.

I don't start up the forums to find it is at max capacity and sit there trying to log on for 5 minutes spamming the same button over and over then quit in frustration.

My fix was simple, I don't play. There are so many games out there and even though I have spent thousands in the cash shop over the years, it means nothing if I can't enjoy playing. Logging on and seeing a full silver district with no other options to play just irritates me into staying away for days or weeks at a time.

people get bothered by losing a pretend gunfight... so yeah, I could see those same types being pissed at something they 100% can't read (someone maybe talking about them without them knowing!!)

Innova, the Russian APB closed. I think they transferred what they could to the EU APB which is where they now play as it is their only option save NA servers (lol). Merged. I usually /whisper that person then replace /whisper to /report due to some people using I and l to confuse spellings.

Peak time in NA may have 200 people in mission districts if we are lucky. Phasing may help a little but it won't solve anything for NA because our overall population is just too small.

I maybe confusing you with another player,. Thought you were EU.

You have stated you don't play NA. Do you? I dethreat naturally by not going after objectives unless I need them for a daily or to extend a fight to complete a daily. Personally I don't care about winning, I'm maxed, money means almost nothing to me. What I do care about is being locked out of Waterfront/Financial when trying to do dailies. I liked NA better without threat restrictions. With no restrictions I could actually play to win and be challenged without locking myself out of a district or the WHOLE game because the only district I can play is at 40/40. Merged. When THE ONLY ONE is available. There is only one active district golds can play and that one district is at 40/40 during prime while the gold or other silver districts have 3-5 people just driving their Vegas around for fun.

or how about the system be updated to recognize Cyrillic so you can report people.

I play enough to sadly maintain gold threat by using cheap tactics like radar, flares, explosives, ntecs and being smart enough to grenade people using cover.

spawning so far from a safe area that you basically choke before reaching it was stupid. The whole thing was a mess and the same teams won over and over because preset teams dominated against pugs. That's why people stopped even trying.