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by nosuchthing 4116 days ago
In competitive video games, if you give the client a large open window of freedom sooner or later you'll notice that window being used as a door by swaths of your userbase.
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I thought long and hard about this. I would love it if there were tons of kamikaze tactics exploiting the additional half second of firing you have after you died. Maybe people could use this to defeat an otherwise powerful and untenable enemy.

Great!

That would mean groups of people were playing my game and cooperating to overcome huge odds in creative ways. (Players could use alts to do this, but there is already plans for a facility to let players build kamikaze drone ships without making an alt, and rigged to make this more economical.)