pieyum Posted:

You guys are also forgetting about one of the most underpowered things hackers have the starter pack.

Hacker

luck+2

ego+10

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Trolls

Defence+8

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Emo Kids

Charisma +1

Offense +4

Defense +3

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Camwhores

Charisma +5

Offense +1

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Compared to the rest hackers starter packs don’t give anything

For context, technically, that’s partially equipment balanced. Look at Hacker top tier equipment versus theirs. Hacker top tier primary equipment gives an awe inspiring +60 off, +60 def, +40 luck. About 400 upgrade points worth of stats.

Comparetively, the troll’s best primary equipment is +10 off, +35 off. About 135 upgrade points worth of stats. Outside of that, both clbumes equip pretty much the same secondary equipment (varied for their build needs).

so add in the points from the bonus pack (x4): Hackers add a meger about 10 upgrade points really (Rounding the +40 ego to 2). Trolls add an astonishing 96 points.

but sum those:

Hackers: 410

Trolls: 231

And it becomes fairly obvious that hackers should be killing trolls, and last I checked, statistically they really do. It’s largely their ridiculously weak and refresh ridden attack and their equipment based processing power set that holds them down in spite of pretty much having a huge base of stat points. Their equipment actually ends up producing lower upkeep costs since each one works off a lower cost base and the other clbumes have equipment costing four times as much. Having easier processing power (as another suggested) would really help them tons, but their starter pack looks pretty sensible in context of their primary equipment being vastly better on the stat front.

other fun numbers:

Summing the off and def on my hacker vs my troll: Troll 260 vs hacker 303. 43 stat points of difference, and they’re both pretty heavily into offense and defense. That’s nearly the trolls Primary Equipment value right there.