CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.12 04:19:00 -
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For me, Decryptor Keys are a very annoying item for me.
That is because I do like the Key idea. I like to imagine the concept that the District was populated with personnel/scientists/security staff, and when they heard the "Mercenaries" were going to assault the place, they ran for their lives and left locked personal articles in trunks and lockers, etc.
And a hacked techno-key is the way to crack the boxes,GǪ but they're illegal (hacked) and will always need to be bought,GǪ and will always be fewer in number than the boxes/trunks we salvage after a battle.
I also DIS-like the Keys themselves. The NPC (CCP + Sony) have the market on these illegal Keys, and only accept Aurum to buy 'em. If I weren't already affluent (err, um, yes I've played Dust well enough that "Celesta Aungm" has graduated beyond simply "wealthy")GǪ if I weren't already affluent, I'd go nuts sitting on a pile of locked suitcases while someone holds her grubby hands out for me to PAY them for 10 keys at a time.
So, although your cost-adjustment idea is cool, I'm hoping to see new ways to "bypass" the Decryptor key.
 Maybe "Black Market" waysGǪ(agents other than Jara Kumora may be willing to sell us "other" kinds of keying devices).
 Maybe home-made waysGǪ (Rattati was mentioning "nanite" mining through the warbarge---I'd love to be able to "construct" a counterfeit Key in my personal barge---one key that lasts 24hours).
 Maybe Skill-grind waysGǪ (Codebreaker skills raised to Level 12 will permit 5x strongbox opening per Key).
But whatever way, it should be an 'adventurous' way. One of those cool "other means" of opening strongboxes that the game mentions in its screen-description.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
598
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Posted - 2015.07.15 03:20:00 -
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Jenni Welsh wrote:I LOVE THESE SUGGESTIONS!!!! Especially number 2!!!!!!!  (Except the 24 hour thing... maybe you might explain your thought process about that.  )
Hello again, Jenni! Thought #2 could be described as a temporary BPO, or a BPO with an expiration date.
Legitimate Decryptor Keys are with the true owner of the strongboxes that were left behind (or maybe the legit Key is lost forever behind the parking garage--or in the dead hand of the owner who wasn't lucky enough to escape before we assaulted the District in our HAVs and Lavs. GǪpoor owner).
Hacked Decryptor Keys are NPO forged SEMI-legal gadgets, sold over the table and controlled by the Faction Empires. We can't get in trouble for buying them, but we have to buy them one at a time---only one strongbox opened for each Key we buy.
A "construct" Decryptor Key would be FULLY-illegal. So it can't be bought from the Faction Empires, and can only be manufactured under the table (like the reverse-engineered construct weapons we're starting to see a lot in our salvage). If it took a lot of raw material and time to be "built" in our warbarges, the player could sell it to other players, or use it herself, to open strongbox after strongbox after strongbox with only one "construct" Key.
That would be something worth dedicating tons of raw material in our mobile factory to create. It would be a NON-consumbable Decryptor Key. A BPO Key.
GǪBut of course, since the "Faction Empires" is really just another name for "CCP/Sony", it wouldn't be fair that we permanently have a BPO Decryptor Key to destroy the Aurum-profit Sony gets from selling Hacked Decryptor Keys.
So if the BPO Key (or Construct Key, or whatever we want to call it) was TEMPORARY (let's say it "malfunctions" after 8-hours or after 1-day), it would be equally fair to both us and Sony. Sony's profit from selling me a Hacked Key will only be postponed for 24 hours---and in 24 hours a player could open up 50% of her strongboxes before her "Construct" Key expires.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
No story can have life without writers and publishers.
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