September>December 2024: Nuclear winter has struck, leaving room for the N5

I've been saying this since the Hatamoto was first shown, with just one loadout and a skill censored.

It's not a problem of nesting Vs denesting of skills/gear, it's a straight problem of the amount of skills and gear added to every new profile, in fact it was mentioned how the Hatamoto would, in N3 style of skill nesting, avoid three skills in the whole bible...

To be fair, those are the easier skills... an order/stat with a minus applies to all FtF rolls to the enemy, with a plus to almost all rolls to the unit with it, and the measures point to extra dodge distance when successfull.

Why are positives not always added? Blame the brilliant idea of the GangBomb (because flashbang was too easy to imagine, I suppose...), a skill that adds to the trooper's dodge... but only if FtF, and never against templates of any kind. So an exception to a general rule ("all positives are added to the troop's test") with two exceptions itself...

It's called power creep. And they have, in effect at least, decided to use it to phase out old profiles so they can churn out new models of troops that are mostly the same role as the old ones but with more bells and whistles, so they can claim that the old profiles are no longer being used, so they can stop producing those old models without suffering the backlash from retiring an "outdated" (that is, no longer selling as well as they want it to) sectorial.

It is quite depressing, but yes, most of the problems I have found in the game over the years come from badly written skills/gear that are needed to justify more entries in the Army, done to sell models otherwise unasked for while asked profiles get no model for years...

 

Do you mean a page like this?
https://infinitythewiki.com/Skills_and_Equipment_in_Infinity

 

In fact i think it would be possible to keep the old names and add modifiers like now, Camouflage 0/-3/-6 grant marker state, surprise attack and the stated modifier, TO Camouflage 0/-3/-6 grant hidden deployment, surprise attack, marker state and modifier, hyperdinamics +X instead of Lv 1, Lv 2, and so on.

You still have the possibility of give some troopers de-nested skills, like give only hidden deploy to someone and nothing else.

Would not be perfect and cause to some bugs but profiles could have been much cleaner

 

Yeah exactly that. To bad it doesn't exist at all, if it would competent people like me could easily find it. /Sarcasm

 

To be fair it could be easier to find.

 

Well, when you already created litteraly thousands of profiles, I guess you have to pile up skills to just make a new mini different than the previous ones. Otherwise, it'll just be a copy of something already existing, which is kind of boring. Or you have to multiply skills like crazy. Or to remove a lot of previous profiles to make room for the new ones.