Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
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Posted - 2015.10.07 23:18:00 -
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I agree that this is a problem, a fairly big one earlier in the game's life. I have often wondered why the bonuses are not more flattened. For example, EVE did a massive re-work on their skills. It used to be that X Missile Operation would give you 2% damage per level and X Missile Specialization gave you like 5% more damage per level. Now Operation was an easier skill to level than Specialization, so it was easy to get a small benefit and very hard to get the huge benefit. The change made it to where the easier skill would give you the bigger number and the harder skill the smaller number. They did it with most weapon skills.
DUST could certainly do the same thing. Buff Shield, Armor, CPU, and PG on Suits but lower the effectiveness on Engineering, Electronics, and the skills that govern defensive stats. It would mean that the difference between "I have 2 million SP" and "I have 15 million SP unspent because I have everything I want" would be smaller but one would still clearly be better. Engineering would be nerfed to be only 10% PG rather than 25% but every suit would have a PG buff so that Level 5 Engineering would be the same but people with lower skills invested would have a bigger benefit.
The change can also be done by front loading skills. The first level would give you 50% of the total bonus and the next 4 levels would fill in the rest. IE, Engineering would give 12.5% more PG at level 1 but levels 2, 3, 4, and 5 would only give 3.125%. Total is still 25%.
And if DUST weren't fully dependent on like 2,200ish veterans that continue to play, I think it would be a bigger concern. There are virtually no new players coming into the game. Anyone who is still playing this game at this point is a veteran. The people that are still playing have probably been playing long enough to have amassed enough money to run prototype. It is the same thing that happened to me when I finally realized "Why am I still using Standard gear when I have 80,000,000 ISK?" That wasn't "locked PC" or "playing in Squads"; that was just "I played the game long enough that it built up." If my mediocre ass can do it, I assure that anyone can.
Trying to help the newer player now is like trying to figure out the best way to prevent white rhinos from killing people; there is a larger concern here.
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