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Thor McStrut
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Posted - 2013.11.13 13:25:00 -
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Himiko Kuronaga wrote:The roll over system was stopped because it would completely destroy CCP's profit margin.
Why waste several boosters on a month of grinding when you can simply opt to not play, then activate a booster once the rollover total is maxed and blow it all out of the park at once?
This is a free to play game. They aren't making any money if you aren't paying for something.
Let them have their profit on that. There are plenty of other legitimate things to ***** about.
Here's an idea. How bout a 30 day booster that allows your SP to roll over. At the end of your boosters life, all rolled SP that are not earned are lost. Extended boosters continue the roll over.
Was that so hard? Win/win CCP. FFS, if I can come up with it, surely you can. Get it done!  |
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Posted - 2013.11.13 14:05:00 -
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Vyzion Eyri wrote:Potential solution to the argument that "CCP won't make money because people will buy 1 booster and grind like Tony Hawk for the duration of the booster once their SP pool is ginormous."
Make all boosters 1 week boosters, and cap the amount of extra SP to the amount of extra SP a player who caps for two weeks with the current system gets with a booster.
For example, the maximum extra SP you can earn with a 3 day booster occurs when you use the booster a day or two before the sp cap resets, then grind like mad, then continuing grinding like mad after the cap resets for the remaining duration of the booster.
So make that amount of SP the cap on the new weekly boosters. This way no one can actually earn more SP than currently, with boosters or without, but we still get rollover SP.
Unless there is a flaw in my suggestion. I could be missing something obvious, because I've never actually used boosters.
^^ complicated.
Thor McStrut wrote:Here's an idea. How bout a 30 day booster that allows your SP to roll over. At the end of your boosters life, all rolled SP that are not earned are lost. Extended boosters continue the roll over.
^^Simple and elegent.
You could even go so far as offer a 14, 21, and 60 day version.
Damn, this game design stuff is easy. I think I need to start a new career!  /notserious
Seriously though, if money is the issue here, here's your solution. You guys have no problems releasing boosters for cash, so this isn't P2W outside of your current model. And it's something that players want, instead of renamed variants of what we already have. |
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Posted - 2013.11.13 14:11:00 -
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Takahiro Kashuken wrote:Rollover im fine with aslong as i can get al the SP i missed
So if i dont log in for 3 weeks that means i have 190400 x3 to grind for not including the 4th weeks SP cap
So overall i have 761600 to grind out in 1 week
Now if i use an active omega it means i can basically double that to 1.5mil SP for that 1 week, but i dont want to be punished because i can do this and that i have figured it out, it would be unfair because i may have legit missed a month of DUST for what ever reason and i have a active omega spare to use
This is a fine line here. Is your active Omega a 30 day? If not, if it was just a 7 day, then I would say no to this idea. Your active booster should only double (or .5x for standard) the current active week. The rolled over SP should be the base 190k, or whatever the weekly cap is based on what active boosters you had during the previous weeks rolled over.
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Posted - 2013.11.13 18:02:00 -
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Takahiro Kashuken wrote:Thor McStrut wrote:Takahiro Kashuken wrote:Rollover im fine with aslong as i can get al the SP i missed
So if i dont log in for 3 weeks that means i have 190400 x3 to grind for not including the 4th weeks SP cap
So overall i have 761600 to grind out in 1 week
Now if i use an active omega it means i can basically double that to 1.5mil SP for that 1 week, but i dont want to be punished because i can do this and that i have figured it out, it would be unfair because i may have legit missed a month of DUST for what ever reason and i have a active omega spare to use This is a fine line here. Is your active Omega a 30 day? If not, if it was just a 7 day, then I would say no to this idea. Your active booster should only double (or .5x for standard) the current active week. The rolled over SP should be the base 190k, or whatever the weekly cap is based on what active boosters you had during the previous weeks rolled over. For this example its a 7day active Its not being used, not queued up either, in my hanger waiting to be activated Why shouldnt i be allowed to use it? sure 1.5mil to grind in 7days is tough but why cant i do it? The rollover SP is so that even if you missed weeks and weeks of DUST for whatever reason it means that you can come back and still gain all the SP you have missed, its the whole point of the rollover so why cant i use a booster if i have some
Well, that's a good question. My answer would be based on money, as that is what the initial response was that I responded to.
If you were allowed to use it like you suggest, then CCP would be losing out on $$ because you would be doubling SP that you otherwise would not have been doubling had you capped every week without a booster.
Now, if you would have had an Active Omega going for those previous weeks that were rolled over, then yes, I think those rolled doubled SP are fair game.
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