15 Res for a Jetpack?

CataclyzmCataclyzm Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33031Members
in NS2 General Discussion
I don't typically complain, but seriously... raising the res cost for a jetpack from 10 to 15 is a complete and utter ripoff. Why would anyone pay for a jetpack, now, when Verizon is giving them away for free?

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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    edited June 2013
    Rofl... I was this close to deleting, thinking you were an ad bot at first glance of that pic.
    Well played.


    Edit : also, as someone who has been playing ns2 exclusively with Verizon 4g for the past 6 months... Don't do it. Go with anyone else - preferably someone who has unlimited data.
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  • cyanidecyanide Join Date: 2013-06-15 Member: 185567Members
    ns2 eats data, i had issues with my wireless connetion @ work. get unlimited.
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  • CrushaKCrushaK Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167195Members, NS2 Playtester
    edited June 2013
    The jetpack got buffed. It's definitely worth that price. The goal was also to make it so that marines could actually run out of jetpacks, rather than being able to afford a new one right away after dying. A Jetpack-Shotgunner is the bane of any alien and the cost should reflect that.
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  • CD121CD121 Join Date: 2013-04-04 Member: 184635Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    I don't know the specifics behind the reason for the change, but I feel it has to do with how jet-packs were moved from a 2 tech point upgrade to a 1 tech point upgrade.

    I would assume it has something to do with how the game progresses from early-game to mid (reducing jet-pack "explosions"). Plus, considering all turtles end in 1 tech point, I'm guessing the increased price is a turtling "deterrent".
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  • RoobubbaRoobubba Who you gonna call? Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11930Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    This absolutely needed to happen: 10 res was too cheap for something that allows marines to destroy oni. Of all the changes in 250, I'm surprised to see this getting special mention!
    It's not like marines aren't currently super strong anyway!
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  • CataclyzmCataclyzm Join Date: 2005-01-06 Member: 33031Members
    cyanide wrote: »
    ns2 eats data, i had issues with my wireless connetion @ work. get unlimited.
    IronHorse wrote: »
    Rofl... I was this close to deleting, thinking you were an ad bot at first glance of that pic.
    Well played.


    Edit : also, as someone who has been playing ns2 exclusively with Verizon 4g for the past 6 months... Don't do it. Go with anyone else - preferably someone who has unlimited data.

    From a technical view, what are you saying? My 3mbps DSL connection through ATT has always served me well. Now granted I'm not dealing with the anomalies of wireless, but it looks like 4G boasts between 3mbps-6mbps.

    Edit : You must be talking strictly from a total data usage standpoint?
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  • matsomatso Master of Patches Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7000Members, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver, Squad Five Gold, Reinforced - Shadow, NS2 Community Developer
    An average ns2 game probably draws about 10-15kb/sec on average so say about 50Mb/hour or so ... 20 hours of playing should be pretty close to a gigabyte worth of data.

    At 10 hours a day, that would be 15Gb a month.

    At 20 hours a week, about 4Gb a month.

    Plan accordingly.
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  • shonanshonan Join Date: 2013-01-28 Member: 182562Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Why do you even play on a wireless connection
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  • RisingSunRisingSun Rising California Join Date: 2004-04-19 Member: 28015Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    I play at work and after 5-6 hours i pull about 150 -180 Mb for the night. Not bad, but i wish i had unlimited.
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  • sjusju Join Date: 2013-03-17 Member: 184042Members
    matso wrote: »
    An average ns2 game probably draws about 10-15kb/sec on average so say about 50Mb/hour or so ... 20 hours of playing should be pretty close to a gigabyte worth of data.

    At 10 hours a day, that would be 15Gb a month.

    At 20 hours a week, about 4Gb a month.

    Plan accordingly.

    Australians beware. You can play double the amount of other online games than NS2.

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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    Why Australians beware?
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  • kalakujakalakuja Join Date: 2012-09-11 Member: 159045Members, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter
    3rd country problems. free student 100mb net gg.
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  • ezekelezekel Join Date: 2012-11-29 Member: 173589Members, NS2 Map Tester
    unlimited net with 2.5 mb/dl

    Thanks america =D>
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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    I'm on unlimited but only 1.4mb/s, stupid Australia, only $60/month though so I guess that's something. wtb NBN.
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  • TheriusTherius Join Date: 2009-03-06 Member: 66642Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Supporter
    Unlimited, 20mb/s download, 10mb/s upload, free of charge.

    Oh you guys.
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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    edited June 2013
    Wait till you guys see the blog I'm making on how to bring Internet to a farmland using parabolic dishes for the average Joe (not satellite) it was a nightmare

    @cataclyzm yeah I've been over the max data limit of 10 GB a month every single month.. Without ever streaming a single video or using drop box. But that's half my issue.. The other half is i get about 6 servers to show up, have to type retry after failing each connection from the server list, and about once an hour the connection just dies and needs resetting. The latency is not bad on west coast servers, but anything else is un playable, oh and frequently latency instability is always a joy. I have 116 db signal strength btw.

    50mbps @ 2ms latency, here I come!
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  • _Necro__Necro_ Join Date: 2011-02-15 Member: 81895Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Silly Americans. 100Mb/s down and 6Mb/s up for 40,-€. Theoretical Traffic Limit of 10GB per day. But... come on...

    (Sorry for the e-peen)
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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    edited July 2013
    In 1-3 years I'll have 1000/400 mbit/s :D

    Or maybe better we'll see.
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  • joshhhjoshhh Milwaukee, WI Join Date: 2011-06-21 Member: 105717Members, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, Reinforced - Supporter, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Playtester
    How about we all move down to Kansas City and bask in the glorious 1GB down/1GB up of Google Fiber.

    inb4 streaming in 4k.
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  • RoobubbaRoobubba Who you gonna call? Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11930Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    Ghosthree3 wrote: »
    In 1-3 years I'll have 1000/400 mbit/s :D

    Or maybe better we'll see.

    Phat lot it'll do you on the wrong end of the planet, @Ghostthree3 ;)
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  • VenatosVenatos Join Date: 2012-03-31 Member: 149762Members, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold
    well let me jump in here and say 50mb/s dn to 5mb/s up unlimited for 25€.(thats like 32$)
    and i find the jetpack price absolutley reasonable.
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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    Roobubba wrote: »
    Ghosthree3 wrote: »
    In 1-3 years I'll have 1000/400 mbit/s :D

    Or maybe better we'll see.

    Phat lot it'll do you on the wrong end of the planet, @Ghostthree3 ;)

    Eh, the speed will be solid, and with the improved infrastructure I'll be getting around 140 ping to america if that. Beats the 280 I get now, and it's about 1,000 times faster.
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  • GoldenGolden Join Date: 2004-09-01 Member: 31169Members, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Playtester, NS2 Map Tester, WC 2013 - Silver, NS2 Community Developer
    joshhh wrote: »
    How about we all move down to Kansas City and bask in the glorious 1GB down/1GB up of Google Fiber.

    inb4 streaming in 4k.

    I can stream at 5k, my in-game FPS just drops by 30-40.

    I get 60 down, 20 up
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  • StrikerX3StrikerX3 Join Date: 2012-11-08 Member: 168423Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Golden wrote: »
    joshhh wrote: »
    How about we all move down to Kansas City and bask in the glorious 1GB down/1GB up of Google Fiber.

    inb4 streaming in 4k.

    I can stream at 5k, my in-game FPS just drops by 30-40.

    I get 60 down, 20 up

    I think he meant the 4K resolution aka 4096x2304, as opposed to 1080p or 1920x1080.
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    edited July 2013
    StrikerX3 wrote: »
    Golden wrote: »
    joshhh wrote: »
    How about we all move down to Kansas City and bask in the glorious 1GB down/1GB up of Google Fiber.

    inb4 streaming in 4k.

    I can stream at 5k, my in-game FPS just drops by 30-40.

    I get 60 down, 20 up

    I think he meant the 4K resolution aka 4096x2304, as opposed to 1080p or 1920x1080.
    This.

    Ironically, although you could stream 4K on Google Fiber, the Twitch servers couldn't handle it atm. They start to act up once you go past 5000Kbps, which you can easily surpass on 1080p. Though on 1GB up/down, you could probably host your own RTP server and stream to people directly.
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  • 1dominator11dominator1 Join Date: 2010-11-19 Member: 75011Members
    New 2 year activation required. Thats a lot more than 15 res.
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  • KamamuraKamamura Join Date: 2013-03-06 Member: 183736Members, Reinforced - Gold
    edited July 2013
    It's not the bandwidth that matters, it's latency...
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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    For JUST playing a video game. Yes.
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