Piercing Serenity
Immortal Guides
Learning Alliance
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Posted - 2015.10.17 21:14:00 -
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1) How do you feel about the proliferation of Officer Weapons?
The proliferation is real, and the effects are negative. Officer weapons were introduced as "OP by design", and was limited by their extreme rarity. With their passive generation, we now have officer weapons dominating the highest tier of play, and spilling out into Pubs. This is not good.
2) How do you feel about passive generation of these weapons?
Passive generation of officer weapons is a poor design choice, and it seems that passive generation has had very low positive feedback when implemented in Dust. My suggestion would be to remove passive generation in the Warbarge and continue work on the salvage/crafting mechanic. Create salvage of different rarities that have the same chance to drop as officer weapons, and allow players to craft these weapons. By adding them to the EoM salvage, there should be an officer weapon sink
3) How do you feel about changes and how they'd affect the investments of players?
Its a ***** position to be in, but it is also of CCP's own doing. Every time something gets monetized, the mechanic can only be buffed. If anyone speaks of reductions - even very sensible ones - people cry out that their X is being devalued. This has been true about BPOs, Apex suits, and will be true about cutting off passive generation. I would just accept the tears and cut off the passive generation, making sure that I did it during a time where I had goodwill to spare. Furthermore, moving forward, I would only monetize aesthetic and/or assets that can be purchased in market for ISK. Otherwise you run the risk of this problem in the future
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3a) In order to stem the tears from cutting off the generation, I would offer an AUR credit to mercs based on their warbarge and sub-system levels. Off of the top of my head, it could be: (1000AUR x Warbarge Level) + ([Sigma 0-->n]) Sub-system(500AUR x n). If my math was correct, the above equation would pay back 1000AUR per warbarge level, plus an additional 500AUR per level of each sub-system. Of course, these numbers are just examples.
People would still complain, because they always do. But I'd bet money that they would accept the credit and move on after a while. And it would be a fair credit to give.
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