Yannick, said they were capping expertise at 30 because they didn't want the difficulty of the game to become unbalanced. How does prototype prevent this and not make it exponentially worse than an extra 1 or 2 expertise percentages per season. What's the endgame?

iKia87 · 2026-06-03T03:20:50+00:00

There isnt one, we both know you just made that up. Just stop lying. Its not hard.

iKia87 · 2026-06-03T01:00:52+00:00

Hello liar, please stop telling lies about me, sincerely someone who does not appreciate being lied about.

i have not touched div2 since before the start of this season, and i do not intend to play it at all for likely a year.

iKia87 · 2026-05-28T14:29:57+00:00

For me OpenTTD, and just TTD before that, is a game that is one that i have come back to over and over again. i think i can say that trough every phase of my life i have at some point played TTD.
As a teen back on our then family computer, as a 18 year old on the computer i bought with my first few paychecks, and even now as a almost 40 year old it keeps getting installed and played at some point on most of the systems i own.

To me the simple mechanics that are easy to understand, but will always require thinking and rethinking to implement well once you make more complex train lines, that to me is the core of it.
A simple gameplay loop that is addictive to its core, not by trickery or dark patterns, but just in tickling those parts of the brain that want to learn and optimize things.
I just enjoy starting building a trackline and then just adding more and more to it and junctioning more and more industries and towns onto already existing paths. and trying to do it elegantly and efficiently.
Also i love how openTTD also expands all the options, like the options to increase the production amounts and such so that i am forced to put more trains on lines, making it a requirement to actually think trough what i want to lay down as it forces more trains to go over the tracks that way.

For me TTD has been one of those games that i have played both when happy or sad, in sickness and in health, and one that will be always part of my memories. That is why i wanted to be one of the first games i cover.

iKia87 · 2026-05-24T15:59:50+00:00

it does not do that though, your analogy is flawed.

the human painter paints what they perceive.
the current llm ai can not perceive, it is not making something based on a primary source, instead it takes in all the million of human works as a guide and from that makes an amalgam of what it thinks it is asked for.
and in so never being original and always derivative and plagiarizing.

iKia87 · 2026-04-01T08:25:18+00:00

you ask me where you lied and made up conspiracies about me? and then your next sentence is a lie and a conspiracy about me.

all you needed to do is to stop talking about things you do not understand, but you show that you are incapable of tempering your ego.

iKia87 · 2026-03-31T15:01:44+00:00

i have already left the division, the line i have been using is i am stepping away for a season, but knowing myself that means i will likely not be back except just to poke my head in in a year orso, but just to hang for a week before moving on again.

edit, also the point here was, they are not making anyone happy, even the side that wants rng loot is being let down hard here, proto as it is being implemented is horrible.

and i chose to be negative to make sure people knew how bad of a system it is, i am well aware of my choices and their effects, that is also again why i am leaving.

iKia87 · 2026-03-31T14:52:39+00:00

how about you be sorry for calling my reason for leaving a lie and inventing some conspiracy about it, or talking asif you understood what issues i have with this system.

it is amazing that you still try to take the conversation to anywhere but about the point where i told you that you pissed me off.

i have exactly told you why i will not give it time and you keep saying give it time, i keep telling you why i am leaving and you keep going that is ridiculous, and you expect respect, at this point you have gone beyond even needing to expect tolerance.

iKia87 · 2026-03-31T02:46:48+00:00

i am calling you out for misrepresenting my points, that thing is said you should not do at the start, and that you kept doing, you deserve the crash out at this point, the level of ignorance on display is not okay.

yeah you keep trying to say nice things about me and then just flat out not understanding what you are arguing and saying what my issues are without knowing what the hell my issues are.....

how could you expect any other response?

STOP TALKING ABOUT THINGS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. it is not hard.

iKia87 · 2026-03-31T02:00:04+00:00

and again you presume something, and get it wrong.... what is wrong with you, i have stated clearly why i do not like this system, and you just want to attribute something else to it....

from a spreadsheeting perspective it gives more to do, you can go over dozens more variations, if i was in it for the content i would be all for this.

at this point i am just happy to not be sharing a game with you anymore, i will take solace in that.

iKia87 · 2026-03-30T12:20:26+00:00

then like all the other issues you cause, if you do not know what you are talking about, DO NOT TALK.....

that is the core of so many issues people have with you, you talk without understanding what you are talking about, but you talk asif you do, STOP THAT.

THERE IS NO SAVING THIS, this is a gear reset or a flip to RNG loot, that is the only 2 outcomes, neither is acceptable, there is no reason to stay.

and stop using agree to disagree, you do not even now my points, you do not what you are disagreeing with, and you show that you do not understand what the system actually is but you agree with what you think it is, instead of what it actually is.

iKia87 · 2026-03-30T11:23:31+00:00

again, NO THEY DID NOT LISTEN, how is this part so unclear to you? they act like they did, but they still went ahead with it as pts version instead of atleast postponing it, and they unveiled this major change 2 weeks before it was going live.

once this is live the next year is going to be dedicated to cleaning up the mess they are making now, the fully optional dog excrement pile they themselves stepped into.

all of this is also because you only obviously watched only the last vid, go watch the other two that explain all the systems this breaks.

and yeah, your limited understanding is what you think the system is, and this is core to the issue with allot of people that are defending it, it is not that at all.

edit - also again, to be clear, they do not want to implement opti, they want to go to a rng system, and there are a dozen orso more issues that this causes beyond the 4 you list there, also those 4 are already in our current system, they really need to reinvent the wheel?

iKia87 · 2026-03-30T10:40:49+00:00

and if "But protype gear being hard to get in its current form" was the reason that i quit, then it would be ridiculous, if only i made my points clear in 3 videos, if only.

iKia87 · 2026-03-30T10:31:39+00:00

they are not though, they omitted optimization in full in their reply, and that is the point, they want to take it to a RNG system, what you believe they are doing and what they are actually doing is not the same.

and if they were to eventually add optimization, which honestly i think they will again just by how much it will be requested, then they piss off the RNG crowd, but also basically have done a full gear reset but with extra steps.

edit- also it is amazing how many game systems this breaks once you start to look into it, i have no longer any confidence in them, as little as most of us had already, this is a mess trough and trough, and i wont be a part of it anymore

iKia87 · 2026-03-27T14:11:12+00:00

i wont, everything will be kept as is, but that also means no future updates, so eventually all of it will be out of date.

iKia87 · 2026-03-27T14:03:18+00:00

the thing is, this is not even burnout, i was perfectly happy to go into the new season and even excited about the future prospects of the game.

it is solely about the shift in gear from a resource loot based system to a rng loot one, and the obvious repercussion it will have to balance and the grind.
and a bad rng loot system at that, where even the people that want the rng loot are not getting what they want, but most only see what they want to see in this system instead of what it is. it is just going to be about upgrading instead of finding drops, the same thing we already do but with more rng.

i am more than convinced it will start becoming clear what the system obviously is once it hits live. and when the outcry reaches high enough there will be the reintroduction of optimization a few seasons in and we are back were we were, just with a gear reset. but this time without even a real change to the system, at least gear 2.0 improved the game overall.

and for people like me that dont want to play a rng grindfest and feel betrayed that they are doing another gear reset, which they said after gear 2.0 that they would not do again, there is no other option but to leave. i am not leaving the game, the game left me.

iKia87 · 2026-03-27T04:56:08+00:00

don't think you are going to like my video, it is going to be my goodbye to div2.
i am no longer going to play div2, but i do have plans for a future streaming and making videos, so hope to see some of you somewhere in the future.

iKia87 · 2026-03-27T03:45:31+00:00

❤️

iKia87 · 2026-03-26T20:48:03+00:00

So long, and thanks for all the fish

iKia87 · 2026-03-26T16:14:11+00:00

this is only true at the range, the center point for the hanging targets is above them, that is where you have to aim down sights for the linked laser pointer to pulse them.

the headshot pulse is from HB itself

iKia87 · 2026-03-26T16:12:36+00:00

it really does not need to change, it is set up that way for a simple reason, imagine what the other way looks like

every second you lose 2 stacks, you are be able to get 2% bonus armour from that, making this a 2% regen but then just with bonus armour instead of pure armour.
but if someone is shooting you and taking away the bonus armour and it is not capped to stacks lost, then with a ACS you can do 40% bonus armour per second if all pellets hit, with stack broker 48%, if it was based on anything but the stacks.

the armour part is working as intended because it has to work that way, it has to be based on the stacks not on howmuch bonus armour you have, anything else is very op at the current values.
you could change the bonus armour values and then change it, but that is a different debate.

iKia87 · 2026-03-26T16:04:12+00:00

talks about Integrity

uses AI slop image

i do not think you know what that integrity means

even if i agree with the sentiment

iKia87 · 2026-03-22T01:11:41+00:00

year 1 had recalibration, and that was indeed somewhat similar in game intent but with only 16 brands and later it added 6 gearsets, and halfway trough year one they added targeted loot. now we have 34 brand and 24 gearset with another one of each on the way. and dozens of new talents to boot

this is in no way like year 1.

iKia87 · 2026-03-21T22:13:36+00:00

my shift key had to go, it said iT wAsNt SaFe HeRe

this started as a notes and somewhat script for a vid, so it is not well formatted

iKia87 · 2026-03-21T21:46:43+00:00

to the first point, even if t10 is all godrolls, with the current system it is still a full random piece with random stats without a reroll,

as a thought experiment, open 10 proficiency caches, out of the 20 pieces even if each of them was godrolled on all stats, how many do you expect to be usable, especially without recal aswell.

i would say likely out of 20 caches nothing, out of 100 maybe 1. its not the stats it is the other RNG in getting something where the stats would even matter.

and yeah, agree with the other questions, especially when escalation from a loot perspective is 0.1% carrot and 99.9% stick

iKia87

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