Era: The Statistical Code of Arms (1st Gen.)
 

Era will currently undergo a massive statistical rebalance of its weaponry.
The process was geared to have minimal impact on prices, however, there will be impact (unavoidable). The standard of weaponry has been changed and all weapons were statistically altered to fit these new standards.

Oversight of the scheme is the creation of an all-time, Era Statistical Code of Arms.

Shown below is the opening statement of the document.
It can be read, in its entirety, at:

http://cid-c872bed260bf7325.office.l...of%20Arms.docx



Opening Statement:

The following is a guideline for the creation, maintenance, and distribution of all publicized weaponry or those made with said intent upon release on Era. By definition, a publicized / intent-to-publicize weapon is that which has or is being statistically set for the direct or indirect purpose of release to the Erian general public. Weapons of such caliber must adhere to the guidelines that hereby follow. These guidelines are set for the overall discrete balance amongst Era weaponry based on price, type, rarity, purpose, and, insignificantly, realism. The weapons will hereby be broken into brackets, classes and then tiers. Each class/tier possesses very specific statistics that must be adhered to. These statistics will be set for the sole purpose of adherence to the previous basis disclosed and the overall balance of all weaponry.

- Era Weapons Administration

Finally.

Looks like you really planned everything out. Broke it down into different 'tiers' with statistical standards for future weaponry/balance. Thank you for your time and effort despite the swarm of non-supporters.

Kudos to William for finally getting his chance and running with it.
/high5 Administration.

so i'm guessing u guys didnt enjoy pking with .05 freeze guns?

They were an abomination. When I first added the Mp5 It had .1 freeze...not sure who's brilliant idea it was to start the ****fest that followed.

So.....
POKING FUN GTFO
When are the globals taking over?


Lol@blank neutral rep.

Two blank neutral reps, and another neutral rep but its not blank!

Cool idea ^^

making me read now...

Edit: god damnt you screwed everything up, its like graal ghetto where all the guns are high freeze. slow paced pking now....

pics or it didn't happen

Thank god when i quit just in time lol that list makes pking fcking *** so
i guess era doesnt have nothing enjoyable anymore to do on it

Well, I like it.

So the same people that are crying about weapons are the people that shouldn't play in the first place. There's a good balancing now and it actually requires you to time your shots, OMG I CAN'T HOLD D AND RUN OMG IT ISN'T ERA ANYMOAR.

Shut the **** up. Learn how to play.

Too many new generation noobs loving the 0.0 freeze guns and speed potions :(

It isn't a match unless I can run into you with bullets, right? :D

That's the new mentality.

itt everyone pretends they're from "old era"

Yeah. Like you.

These settings are actually not "old era" settings.
They're more contemporary.
Old Era was MUCH slower.
Ex. The minimum freeze time on Old Era for a 20 damage weapon was .15.
This is .1 so this is in-between old era and now.

This needed to be done, I think Icarus said this last night on Era in a mass.

More players quit when guns were lame and skilless than more players will quit from guns being skill oriented again.

You guys just need to adjust to the gameplay, now you can't hold D and run up and down in gang bases or in spars...

I know a lot of these players haven't seen the days when guns were like this, and worse than this, but learn to adjust to it. In the long run this will greatly benefit the server.... If there is a long run haha.

Even so, the initial thought was to create a drastically different set of weapons and give them some distinction.

Tier 1, for example, isn't as good as tier 2, and there is a major difference between tier 1 and 3. Before the problem was there was a tier system and that was:

Consumer weapons, business weapons, rare weapons.

Everything up to the TG and MS could be considered consumer then you had the weapons that were purposely made godly (P2Ks, Enforcer, Ravson5, Ap7s, etc.) because they were locked to businesses, such as PI, PPA and EFBI. Plus it gave leverage to business players and made even casual players and "expert" players an easy target, but in a way that made Era's ecosystem, back then, functional.

Now the balancing is more friendly towards the new age but adds variety in the weapons. I welcome the change, those who don't simply are tied up in thinking about being able to run at you with a weapon, they don't like having to actually press D instead of pushing it down and also having to think of where they are going instead of having their strafe on and running up and down the map.

Lastly, be happy you'll save more ammo. Happy hunting ***s.

Indeed, and I've also tiered Gang Weapons to Tier 2.

There's no reason as to why gang or business weapons should be so far above regular weapons that they are in a tier of their own. They should provide members with a mid-grade weapon as a reward for making it into a gang.
That way, you can use the gang weapon as you work to earn a higher tier weapon.

In other words, gang members should have reached the point in the game to possess a Tier 2 weapon (your skill-level should warrant it).

In short, this'll promote gangs even more.

That'll make things interesting. The balancing of the weapons makes it so you almost need to rely on gangs to use the weapons they have, but the leaders, when raiding, will literally have to be careful on which members they decide to let use the weapons.

Sort of.
However, the Gang Weapons are equal to that of weapon such as: Sten, Thompson, etc etc.
So a player would find an exact weapon of his/her preference in that tier that'd still equal his/her's gang gun.

So it is interesting.

come at me bro.




lol sup neg rep, you mad?

sucker

guys listen... era isnt worth trying to change 1000x, its not going to be call of duty/battlefield popular, best thing to do to make more people play is make the game free!!!!!!!!!!!!

:3 i like this change... its awesome :3
Few things that would be nice.....
Some how make it to where it would be more enticing for people that are trials, obviously there is no incentive to try to upgrade if its the same things....at least make it desirable to be p2p.....im sure youve all heard that a million times though.
But the gun changes have been needed for a while and its nice to have seen them done , :P probably one of the single biggest changes to era since jenn Lmao...

i be eating ur neg repz nomnomnomnomnom

I'm from era when we were using pitchforks, catapults and beating women to death with torches for not having food on the table by the time we got home from a long hard day of catching and bludgeoning large cattle with our bear hands. I actually invented era with nothing more than a few quick strokes of the 's' key.

That's what I'm talking about. He's like the Chuck Norris of gscript.

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Also, I agree with what Queenofheartz said, Era needed change and the best way to do that is to directly strike the gameplay appeal. The balancing will only help players in the long run, it makes it so even newer players have a chance against those who actually have a large portion of money to buy the best of the best.

Anyway for the P2P the ability to perhaps purchase event items and participate in events could be a small venture that could be seen to make those want to upgrade.

It still amazes me how graal is P2P in the first place

Before your time... :(

If I started playing this now and didn't have a lifetime classic account I'd never buy this ****.

I am pretty sure you can figure out that US is me.

There are types of people in this world. Those with a lifetime classic account and those without.

Those without, feel free to lick on the ball of my sack, you may find eternal accounts there.

it's unfortunate ppl like me have access to various classic accounts whilst others need to get banned once a while for having to buy gelats in-game (2$ a day is a joke if u live in europe or maybe even america, but not in brazil or mexico)

thank god era isnt brazilinfested

every time I see that blood_warrior_p2p guy I just want to squawk at him like a chicken.

Maybe you should share your "wealth" with the others then. You make it sound like your rich rofl

my family is wealthy but im poor since i go to uni and have no job, but anyways 2$ a day is nothing..in london if u wanna have a decent lifestyle need atleast 800pounds a month which is prolly 1.2-1.3k usd..but yeah there's no place as expensive as london xD

lmao he spars with a pbp bottom hogging the whole time and complains when i use flak to counter his pbp

In short, you both suck and lag like hell.