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Enji Elric Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Zombie Ninja Space Bears 176	Posted - 2012.12.29 05:19:00 - [1] - Quote Active Boosters are Worthless.... Passive boosters work well though.... I dont see the point in Active boosters they are wasted at day 3 and I only play like 2 hours 2-3 times a week I guess all that AUR will be spent on passives and BPOs oh well CCP will still make their money what are your thoughts on the cap with/without ACTIVE/PASSIVE boosters?
Iron Wolf Saber BetaMax. 2866	Posted - 2012.12.29 05:26:00 - [2] - Quote Cap?
Enji Elric Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Zombie Ninja Space Bears 176	Posted - 2012.12.29 05:50:00 - [3] - Quote Iron Wolf Saber wrote: Cap? SP-Cap not the cap on your head
Elijah Sol' Dzusaki Onward Defrosted Tuna Team 485	Posted - 2012.12.29 05:51:00 - [4] - Quote Micro transactions should always be a little on the useless side for it to be a successful free to play game. Only for those who are weird enough to pay to get a slight advantage, or cosmetic stuff.
Enji Elric Matari Combat Research and Manufacture Inc. Zombie Ninja Space Bears 176	Posted - 2012.12.29 08:52:00 - [5] - Quote Elijah Sol' Dzusaki wrote: Micro transactions should always be a little on the useless side for it to be a successful free to play game. Only for those who are weird enough to pay to get a slight advantage, or cosmetic stuff. While I understand your point. I disagree. I think that if you are going to put money into a F2P game you should be able to stand out amongst your peers. Granted if you don't pay then you can't speak in corp chat.... (this is not good IMO) but things like cosmetics, and having access to better fittings or even day I say a better class of dropsuits would make sense..... Tribes Ascend is a good example
Anyanka Shadowmane Sanmatar Kelkoons Minmatar Republic 80	Posted - 2012.12.29 09:56:00 - [6] - Quote Enji Elric wrote: Elijah Sol' Dzusaki wrote: Micro transactions should always be a little on the useless side for it to be a successful free to play game. Only for those who are weird enough to pay to get a slight advantage, or cosmetic stuff. While I understand your point. I disagree. I think that if you are going to put money into a F2P game you should be able to stand out amongst your peers. Granted if you don't pay then you can't speak in corp chat.... (this is not good IMO) but things like cosmetics, and having access to better fittings or even day I say a better class of dropsuits would make sense..... Tribes Ascend is a good example In fairness, it's only the 7-day active boost that isn't useful for you, and only because you have enough time to to play to make it worthless. That being the case, don't buy the seven day boost, just buy the three day. I've not played tribes: ascend, but according to the first post on this page I googled about it the only thing you pay for that you can't get by just playing is cosmetic. In dust you can make yourself stand out amongst your peers, but it's with in game stuff, rather than by paying for SP. Also, the best stuff is available with ISK, but generally for a higher skill requirement. If the best stuff was AUR only, then that would be pay to win, which I believe CCP is trying to avoid.
Scheneighnay McBob Bojo's School of the Trades 1058	Posted - 2012.12.29 15:05:00 - [7] - Quote Don't boosters raise the cap, too?
Octavian Vetiver Dog Nation United Relativity Alliance 152	Posted - 2012.12.29 18:19:00 - [8] - Quote Scheneighnay McBob wrote: Don't boosters raise the cap, too? No, the cap stays the same. Booster just gives a bonus to how much you can get per match.
Obama DAT Doomheim 389	Posted - 2012.12.29 19:32:00 - [9] - Quote I use the 24 hour booster if I have a day off so I can get close to the cap and then not have to play the rest of the week if I have other things going on in life.
Sytonis Auran Valor Coalition RISE of LEGION 52	Posted - 2012.12.29 19:52:00 - [10] - Quote Scheneighnay McBob wrote: Don't boosters raise the cap, too? This was said in CCP's thread updated weekly on feedback forum.

Gunner Visari Crux Special Tasks Group Gallente Federation 163	Posted - 2012.12.29 20:07:00 - [11] - Quote Enji Elric wrote: Elijah Sol' Dzusaki wrote: Micro transactions should always be a little on the useless side for it to be a successful free to play game. Only for those who are weird enough to pay to get a slight advantage, or cosmetic stuff. While I understand your point. I disagree. I think that if you are going to put money into a F2P game you should be able to stand out amongst your peers. Granted if you don't pay then you can't speak in corp chat.... (this is not good IMO) but things like cosmetics, and having access to better fittings or even day I say a better class of dropsuits would make sense..... Tribes Ascend is a good example What you described is the very definition of Pay to win, and CCP said no no no. Every item that AUR can buy ISK will be able to buy eventually when launch. If they did that it would fall in line with just about every other F2P game out there and only perpetuate the stereotype and hate ppl have for F2P games. As the lady in the deployment center states, Aurum get their faster today. Basically money lets you achieve some items quicker that would not yet be available to you o/w until later on, but still available nonetheless. With regards to the topic of skill boosters. I find they are indeed worth the money since it allows you to again get there faster, you can hit the 0 SP mark much much quicker and more likely to hit the full amount of weekly SP with it than you are without it. However if you are a player that hits the upper limit of the curve and stops playing when the SP gets down to a few thousand to a few hundred than yes it is not worth it, but since playing from that point to until you get 0 SP is about 100-150ish thousand SP that is indeed worth it, since thats 400-600K SP a month.
Iron Wolf Saber BetaMax. 2866	Posted - 2012.12.29 21:24:00 - [12] - Quote Oh sorry thought you where talking about shield boosters and capacitor on vehicles.
KEROSIINI-TERO Seraphim Initiative. CRONOS. 248	Posted - 2012.12.29 23:03:00 - [13] - Quote Enji Elric wrote: Active Boosters are Worthless.... Passive boosters work well though.... I dont see the point in Active boosters they are wasted at day 3 and I only play like 2 hours 2-3 times a week I guess all that AUR will be spent on passives and BPOs oh well CCP will still make their money what are your thoughts on the cap with/without ACTIVE/PASSIVE boosters? They still make sense for some people: - Players who have only limited time to spend on Dust (limited in this means about 4h twice a week) - Harcore players who want to train two or more characters (alts) Who can save their AUR and not purchase: - Hardcore players who yet refuse to train alts We don't know what CCP's final purpose of the boosters is as it seems as if it shifted over time. But, IF current model is final it will work to give less time-investing people to invest RL money to catch up a bit. IF that is the purpose, it makes sense: why should the most hardcore players have to invest into them? If it would be worthwile, everyone NOT using a booster would be a sucker. And that would sound like a kind of a montly fee.
Goat of Dover Shadow Company HQ 161	Posted - 2012.12.29 23:16:00 - [14] - Quote Enji Elric wrote: I dont see the point in Active boosters they are wasted at day 3 and I only play like 2 hours 2-3 times a week This is the whole point of using them, for those who can't play more than 3 maybe 4 times a week for a couple hours. This is the reason I use them, and probably the reason all but the hardcore use them as well.
ALM1GHTY STATIUS Imperfects Negative-Feedback 261	Posted - 2012.12.30 00:05:00 - [15] - Quote Enji Elric wrote: Active Boosters are Worthless.... Passive boosters work well though.... I dont see the point in Active boosters they are wasted at day 3 and I only play like 2 hours 2-3 times a week I guess all that AUR will be spent on passives and BPOs oh well CCP will still make their money what are your thoughts on the cap with/without ACTIVE/PASSIVE boosters? they're supposed to be anti-grind for people who can't play as much, right now they boost cap by 50%, noob.


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