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China will work with Belgium to improve political trust and substantial cooperation so as to make new progress in bilateral relations, said Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping here Saturday.

       In talks with Prime Minister of Belgium Herman Van Rompuy, Xi put us on a four-point proposal to cement bilateral relations:

       - Maintain high-level contacts and political dialogue. China welcomes King Albert II to participate in Shanghai Expo 2010 and hopes to increase the governments, parliaments and political parties of both countries to exchange for greater understanding and cheap champions online resources;

       - Taking into account the fundamental interests and concerns of others. China hopes that both sides, bilateral relations from a strategic perspective and long-term treatment can be treated properly to disputes over the principles of mutual respect, equal treatment and non-interference in their internal affairs, further development of bilateral relations in a healthy and stable;

       - Active to strengthen practical cooperation, including investment and technological cooperation. China welcomes Belgian businesses to invest in China, and puts his own contractor to do in Belgium;

       - Increase in trade and human culture. China will continue to trade with India in various fields such as culture, education and tourism.

I never really had a problem with interrealm class balance in DAoC until they started messing with it. In the end they had ruinined a lot of the diversity by making most speclines pointless and they had added new classes that supposedly fixed old classes that had been nerfed so much they were unfixable. Biggest balancing issue I had was new classes compared to old ones. Hate how they nerfed my zerker and then nerfed him again and then forgot about the class and made a new one, savage, that did the berserkers job only better and without any drawbacks.

But I wasnt really too jealous of the berserkers counterparts from the other realms as they didnt have the same role to fill in a group. Sure there were some skills that were a little too easier to use or had a sligthly bigger effect when compared across realms, but the only problem I had when some other class from my realm took my place in a group.

In my oppinion it wasnt the numerical imbalance that was the problem in DAoC. Or the differences in classes between the realms. Atleast thats not why I stopped playing. I mainly got fed up with the gear being too much a part of the game and also most of the people I knew had stopped playing.

 But I do realize if the factions have differences either in numbers of abilites of the classes/races people tend to point to that even if its hard to prove if they are to blame. It is dificult if not impossible to balance and even more so to see that it is balanced. It is however very easy to see that someone else has a nice toy and forget that you actually have pretty nice toys too.

But ofcourse that only applies after people have picked their side/race/class/build or after stuff has beed added/changed/removed in the game.

From the start, people will either pick based on lore or looks or from a powergamer perspective so they can min/max the stats or pick a short character that can hide in the grass and based on what they think of the skills set of a given class.

Personally I hate setting stats from the start.. and I hate having to make a choice that I can never undo. Especially since that choice might have been a good one in the beginning, but has suddenly been made the worst choice because of a game change that was out of my hands.

Also Im kinda fed up with having to play classes. Its often  a problem to find a healer or a buffer or a tank, or even dps with half a brain. Wouldnt mind a fantasy themed game where I could switch gear or memorize spells to fit the circumstances. Although I dont think it should be the norm for mmos to come. :P

Think Im getting of the point. But it seems to me that if there is any difference between characters, there are some that are going to think that its unbalanced. Atleast if you have reason to compare them.

Either everyone has access to the same and it all comes out to how well you play. Or you could have 3 basic classes; healer, tank, and dps. with noone stepping on anyones toes. Atleast as long as they are in a group. Cause I know someone will point out that their healer cant solo or whatever.  Or we do allow for diversity but make sure that it wont become a major issue.

How can we make sure that diversity wont become an issue? Well 3rd side wild card would do it for RvR. And as far as everyone being welcome? I think it would be a good idea either to have as little diversity as possible or an insane amount of diversity. Either 4 different classes or 100 different classes. And I think we all know which of those is the easier to balance.