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Gaelon Thrace
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Posted - 2014.04.27 14:01:00 -
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Nocturnal Soul wrote:I'm honestly not a big fan of tiercide, don't know why but I just don't.
Probably because you, like everyone else who's against it, don't actually know what it is. |
Gaelon Thrace
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Posted - 2014.04.27 14:21:00 -
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Open question for anyone who opposes tiericide: What exactly do you think tiericide is? |
Gaelon Thrace
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Posted - 2014.04.27 14:32:00 -
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Zaaeed Massani wrote: Tiericide will greatly hamper the high degree of customizability the game currently offers imho.
How? I've seen several people make this claim but not a single argument to support it. |
Gaelon Thrace
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Posted - 2014.04.27 15:06:00 -
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Zaaeed Massani wrote:Gaelon Thrace wrote:Open question for anyone who opposes tiericide: What exactly do you think tiericide is? As I understand it (I googled it when I started hearing it thrown around a lot), it means the elimination of tiers (basic/enhance/complex, STD/ADV/PRO). No thank you. Imho, tiericide may improve the game experience in the short term, but it will damage it in the long term. If CCP can get its act together and introduce a new, revamped NPE, PvE, and a player market...the game will be very strongly positively impacted in both the short and long term.
It's a bit more involved than that. Based on how it worked in EVE, here's roughly how I see it working in DUST.
It should be noted that I personally only advocate for Dropsuit tiericide.
Instead of having basic frames and specialized frames each split up into a tiers you have "Rookie" Dropsuits, Faction Dropsuits, Tech I Dropsuits, and Tech II Dropsuits.
Rookie
Free newbie suits with racial or role specific bonuses
Has stats and layout of current Militia basic frames
Faction
Bought with LP
Gets racial bonus
Has stats and layout of current Standard basic frames
Tech I
Cheap basic Medium, Light, and Heavy suits
Gets racial bonuses, but no role bonuses
Stats and layout of current Advanced basic frames
Tech II
Specialized role suits (Assault, Logi, Scout, Pilot, Sentinel, Commando, whatever else they come up with in the future)
Gets racial bonuses as well as role bonuses
More expensive than Tech I, but not so much as to be prohibitive to newer players
Gets stats and layout of current Prototype specialized frames
That's the basic idea, anyway. I'm sure everything would get a balancing pass in the process as well like they did with the EVE ships.
This would actually make future additions easier as they wouldn't have to design and balance several different tiers for every new suit they decide to make, so in the long run it promotes more variety and customization. |
Gaelon Thrace
Villore Sec Ops
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.27 15:13:00 -
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Cat Merc wrote:
Actually, Factional < T1
Factional Gear can often surpass T2 too.
Didn't know that. I got the impression Faction ships were somewhere between Rookie and T1, but I've never actually played EVE.
That's why I prefaced it as a rough idea of how it might work. |
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