Alaika Arbosa
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.07.19 15:09:00 -
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demens grimwulff wrote:There is a lot that needs to be done to Faction Warfare...
1) 16 man deploy
2) Better isk compensation
3) More reason to run FW other than the fact that it avoids the current bad matchmaking
4) Better racial parity, as far as LP rewards... some factions, almost literally, have nothing good. Example: outside of the APEX suits/skins, and the needle, Caldari have nothing of real use in their store. You can subsidize your purchases of nanohives, but it is, literally, cheaper to buy with isk when you take into account isk lost to get the LP.
Just to bring up a few
Personally, I think it'd be great if they redesigned the Dust FW Store to be more like the Eve one. Give us more options like Boosters or Faction Item options that are quantifiably better in every regard that matters than their non-FW Item equivalent though cost significantly more (e.g. 1 MFW Complex Myofibril costs as much as 10 Complex Myofibril Stimulant but provides nearly twice the benefit as one of them, btw, please do NOT make double power myos). Take the items that are on the market now and sell them as stacks of 5 or 10 at the current price they go for. Select certain items (high/low slot items) that reflect a particular factions fighting style and make new versions of them that would fit the "Faction Items" description above.
I think that'd go a long way towards improving the experience.
I won't dodge another silver bullet
Just to save a little face
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Alaika Arbosa
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.07.19 20:43:00 -
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Forever ETC wrote:Aeon Amadi wrote:I'll update the Trello soon but I just wanted to take a moment to input a consideration on making LP items more worthwhile.
The only two ways I can see that being done:
a) Is if the items themselves were brought up slightly (Std assault rifle with ADV assault rifle stats, adv AR with proto stats, Proto AR with Experimental stats)
b) If all other items were brought down to compensate (std AR to militia, adv AR to std, proto AR to adv, etc)
Both of which institute a very high level of powercreep across the entire game spectrum and would, in my opinion, make players feel forced into playing FW to compete. FW should be more natural and based on the player's own specific loyalty, not gear chasing. First we need to flesh out the Loyalty Store(add remaining gear and give suits unique skins). As for the LP vs ISK I think there should only be slight advantages kind of similar how the Pro Caldari Needle works. Make all LP weapons be specialist with added clip size, ammo cap etc, gear would have slightly better fitting and stats 5% Regen bonus. Small stuff... Also make there a reason to reach level 10! New avatar portraits, change Merc Quarters, and something in Kill feed that shows you reached level 10(instead of Sergeant or whatever it would be Imperial Guard, Federal Marine etc)
I think that they'd be fine as stacks of cheaper copy-pastes of the non-FW gear. However, if they went this route, I'd hope that they'd be making all High/Low-Slot items available from all four stores.
We need something more along the lines of Republic Fleet Gyrostabilizers for the gear that is "Improved". Items that are quantifiably better than their non-FW counterparts though are too prohibitively expensive to be run exclusively. Each store should only offer improved items which are associated with the Factions fighting style (Amarr Plates, Caldari Shields, Gallente Reppers, Minmatar KinCats etc).
I think this would be a better solution than all LP Store items seeing an improvement (however slight) over non-LP Store counterparts.
I won't dodge another silver bullet
Just to save a little face
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