Tesfa Alem
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Posted - 2015.09.28 08:04:00 -
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On the idea of taking officer weapons away from warbarges:
That cuts down on a huge amount of meta gameplay, and definitly hurts player trade. You still need to invest some time and resources to produce officer gear. I like the idea that everyone who has saved thier own resources can produce something valuable. The only reason to trade officer weapons is that you dont have to worry about them becoming so rare that you are better off skilling into that weapon rather than trading them.
Personally, that would wreck my own meta, since i trade officer weapons for suits and skins. Strongbox drops just dont cut it.
Rattati's premise that officer gear should be for top PC corps:
Just, no. Instead of officer weapons being spread out according to the free market, what that entails is creating a marketplace bottleneck where only a relative few well have acess to large amounts OP gear.
That would drag PC's back into its elitist state, where up and commers will have alot of trouble going against a vet PC corp with bons's running about. And those same corps will turn around and stop the crap out of pubs. They have acess and nobody else does. Recipe for disaster that.
Redline for Thee, but no Redline for Me.
"I sometimes wonder why I share stuff "- CCP Rattati
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Tesfa Alem
Death by Disassociation
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Posted - 2015.09.30 10:54:00 -
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Breakin Stuff wrote:
Please do not interpret "spitballing" theorycrafting as a statement of intent tesfa.
There is not, thus far, any talk of removing or reducing battle salvage or lockbox weapons. The only reason it's being considered for the barge is the rapidity and comparative effortlessness of harvesting officer weapons from the barge.
My read is that Rattati wants the officer gear most prevalent and easily obtained via PC.
There is no talk about there being "only" PC methods of acquisition. None of us have issue with players being able to acquire as far as I know. But the incredible ease and rapidity of generation in the barge feels a bit much.
It would help player trade by forcing prices for officer gear upward.
But in my opinion officer gear shouldn't be so easily attained that people spam it in pubs without a second thought.
Sorry if tone seemed a bit off, thats the trouble with typing i suppose. I agree officer in pubs ought to be taken a look at. When players, not just PC players, but financialy smart ones have 100, 150, 200 mil isk in the wallet, how scarce would CCP have to make Officer gear that it would drive the market price up high enough to deter pub use?
Without a sort of meta lock, you would have to seriously cut down on warbarge production.
Creative ways of doing that might mean getting the other sub-systems up and running. Incentivize the players to spread the components out a lot more, instead of just pumping them into weapons.
Perhaps decrease the component costs of tier upgrades, coupled witha similar decrease in warbarge bonus drops. Right now, its either I pump in 10,000 components into a 1% damage bonus increase or just invest in weapons. The grind is so outstanding that it is niether worth the time or the aur to max out the warbarge, when i have something i can trade now, engage in the meta now, and indulge in myself from time to time.
I thinked i just talked my way into explaining why officer gear is so prevalent. Simply no other reasonable option to spend components on. Everybody therefore invests in officer gear, and now officer gear is everywhere.
Redline for Thee, but no Redline for Me.
"I sometimes wonder why I share stuff "- CCP Rattati
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