Asno Masamang
Odd Shadows Inc
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Posted - 2012.07.29 17:55:00 -
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Greetings,
Ender Jettrix wrote:How to fix this: I would suggest dropping the training level of drop suits to 4x This still means that a good amount of time has to go into getting the next suit but nothing soo outrageous as 30-50 matches.
The first two weeks of this build I felt the same way, but then I looked at the power jumps between the tier 1 / 2, advanced. and the prototypes and though I don't like it, I feel that CCP got this right. All of the dropsuit classes should be rank 8, until they start coming out with tech 2 suits, which should prolly be around rank 10 - rank 12.
I base this on the rapid SP gain rate. Right now, we are gaining SP at 4x, however, we are also being restricted to 2 - 3 days a week of play. When the servers are turned up full time, I think you will see people gaining the same basic SP on a week per week basis as they do now. Additionally, we will have grouping and corp battles where I expect people will be gaining SP at near the same rate we are getting now.
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Asno Masamang
Odd Shadows Inc
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Posted - 2012.07.30 02:34:00 -
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Koranra wrote:Heh, I hate to be the person to point it out, but currently you're also earning SP with a 4x multiplier so in live it will be MUCH longer.
This is one of the fallacies that I pointed out above. Yes, we are gaining SP 4x speed, but we are only able to play for around 3 days, when it goes live, we will be able to place for all 7 days... Yes, for a few days SP gain will be slow for the people who are not in beta, but those of us in the beta will still be gaining SP, on a week per week basis pretty close to the same level we are getting now, it will just be spread out over 7 days instead of three.
To make matters worse, right now, we are not getting the full benefit of our implants, but when this goes live, again because we will be to play every day, we will get the full value from our implants.... 30 days for the Merc Pack SP booster is giving us roughly 14 days in the beta, but will give us a full 30 days when it goes live.
Finally, we will have grouping, corp, alliances and more to do which will give us more SP.
No, losing the 4x SP gain will not slow things down very much, if at all. |