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Vrain Matari
Mikramurka Shock Troop
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Posted - 2015.12.20 15:57:00 -
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Pokey Dravon wrote:This is really linked to the article I wrote last night, but I wanted to start a thread out of curiosity for how people feel about my prediction that character progression and asets in the port will be wiped. Just assume that you're in my world of Boundless Optimism, and a port happens, may that be on PS4 or PC or whatever. What would you want to transfer over from this game to the next? ISK AUR SP LP Faction Standing DK BPOs SKINs Gear/Suits/Assets ect. What do you think would be appropriate for CCP to allow to be transferred?
Good stuff Pokey.
Posted all philosophical-like on your Biomassed blog article.
In terms of nuts and bolts, what i'd like to see in terms of carry-over from Dust to Dust2 is:
No ISK - given the original PC income still floating around, and how easily vets can make ISK.
Yes AUR - Consumables not refunded, BPOs transitioned to BPOs in a truly EVE-like sense, where materiel's/ISK would still be required for item manufacture.
SP - We steal a page from 'Age of Elyria': Vets get skill-wiped but....in Dust2, they relearn at double speed until they hit their original sp level pre-migration.
Faction - This really depends on game design. Neutral on this.
DK - same as faction, depends on game design. Neutral.
BPOs - Go full New Eden on this, we'd get BPOs but production of items would still cost resources/ISK.
SKINS - keep 'em. This seems to be the way CCP wants to go, no harm in transferring cosmetics.
Gear/Suits/Assets - reduce to nanites/resources, which is how the new game will be designed ;)
PSN: RationalSpark
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Vrain Matari
Mikramurka Shock Troop
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.12.21 03:54:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:I don't get why a direct SP transfer would be a bad thing. What does it matter if vets have a SP advantage at launch or 2 years down the road? If the ported game can expect to draw in new players 2 years down the road when we all have button of SP, it can expect to draw them in when we have buttons of SP at launch.
This is an important point, one of the crucial make-or-break issue for Dust2.
Really the question of whether sp or ISK should transfer is moot, the real question is: 'will CCP be willing and able to design a game that preserves a quality player experience in the face of sp and ISK imbalances?'. If they can achieve such a lofty goal then transferring vet's progress will do no harm, if they can't then Alena has predicted the future of Dust2.
It's a problem common to all persistent mmorpgs, and if CCP is going to solve it they're going to have to step up their game-design game.
PSN: RationalSpark
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Vrain Matari
Mikramurka Shock Troop
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2016.01.01 02:55:00 -
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Reign Omega wrote:If its just a port, transfer all my shxt. If it's an upgrade or rebuild of the game, I don't need anything but my name.
If it's a rebuild, I could live with this too, tbh, but i do want to bring one thing with me: My Exile assault rifle - she's got a lotta notches carved in her now.
PSN: RationalSpark
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