Contacts: Archranis.2375 // Neksis Syxx.6983
Gathering tools: Next Generation
Contacts: Archranis.2375 // Neksis Syxx.6983
Wouldn’t there be the same concerns? Buying these unlimited items for your tools’ upgrade slots, then something ‘better’ coming along?
Few things make a mmo player more ready to argue than gear progression. That shouldn’t be an excuse to design sloppy gear progression. Sloppy gear progression penalizes the players who are willing to participate in gear progression.
Archranis, in my opinion, your design is too complex, but I completely support the general idea.
They’re special! They got aspirations.”
Finn the human
Wouldn’t there be the same concerns? Buying these unlimited items for your tools’ upgrade slots, then something ‘better’ coming along?
I think the suggestion allows for that. It just left out a method to easily swap out what’s in the “special” slot so one can choose session to session what extras one might want to get from nodes.
Certainly I would hope the idea isn’t that you are permanently locked to whatever you put in the bonus slots (or lose the upgrade if you change it), especially if these are gem-bought.
I also support the general idea of keeping all gem-bought utility useful as much as possible — I mean, sure, sometimes some fundamental game redesign might make something obsolete, and ANet’s generally been good about compensating players for that — and think this is a well thought out way of mix-matching the various features of the gathering tools.
Well, right now, one can purchase a different Gathering Tool to replace the one(s) one has slotted. I’m not sure purchasing an upgrade to go into a Gathering Tool slot would be much different. It seems there would still be the same concerns: “I bought this upgrade, and now there is a ‘better’ one I must purchase”. /shrug
Well, right now, one can purchase a different Gathering Tool to replace the one(s) one has slotted. I’m not sure purchasing an upgrade to go into a Gathering Tool slot would be much different. It seems there would still be the same concerns: “I bought this upgrade, and now there is a ‘better’ one I must purchase”. /shrug
Right now, players have to decide between aesthetic freedom and an upgrade to harvesting function. Only one set of tools has the objectively superior harvesting upgrade, so players who want that upgrade and have other infinite tools must repurchase the infinite function. It is those qualities that give players, even the irrationally whiny ones, a firm position to argue about those quotation marks you put around the word better. If the studio unbundled the upgrade and avoided offering increasing percentage bonuses (ie buffs with increasing percentage to drop the same item) then no one would have a defensible position.
They’re special! They got aspirations.”
Finn the human
I think you are misunderstanding.
But, I will let it go. If there are no complaints when different ‘upgrades’ are offered, and no one feels one is ‘better’ than the other, fantastic.
Remember, though, these ‘upgrades’ are likely to cost the same as the Unlimited Tools do now to recoup the losses in Tools purchases.
Good luck.