Gear Crunch

"Legend91;c-2286770" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2286763" wrote:

"Legend91;c-2286759" wrote:

Kyno: "BuT wE gEt MoRe StUfF!!!1!1!11"

Stuff you WANT.

And no that's not what I'm saying, but that's ok.

I cannot use my imaginary wishlist of things that I'd like to have right now (like more impulse detectors) to upgrade my charaters, sorry. But maybe that's a new gearing model? Tell CG on what you want to upgrade and promise them "hey, eventually I'll have that stuff together so let me upgrade that char right now and you can add that cost to my current deficit".
The fact is: We get a certain amount of resource income (that has increased over time) while at the same time the resource requirements are increasing at a higher rate. New chars require more gear (old stuff like carbs, guns, cuffs, etc. and the new kyros on top), that's easy to see when comparing gear requirements of older chars (like from 2016 or 2017) with newer ones (like 2020-2021). The newer GLs are requiring far more relics than the older ones (relic 5.18 avg on Rey vs 5.57 avg on JMK and we're alrdy on 6.18 avg for LV - unless the last reqs are going to be "only" R3 to push the avg down he's going to be on top of all GLs --> and all that is not even taking into account that the new GLs have a higher relic 7+8 count, relic 8's being a first time thing). Oh sure, we have a good income of Aeromagnifiers with CPit (and CG shills keep on arguing that CPit is that super awesome thing to solve our R8 problems - so "getting your chars on R5 from GL requirements is a good thing because of CPit"), too bad that the real bottleneck are Zinbiddles and Impulse Detectors both of which are not dropping there. The solution: Farm IDs via 9F bayonets (which takes an eternity and can only be done if you're not farming 4 LS hard nodes for BB at the same time) or buy them from weekly shipments.




"If you think we have the exact same income despite more events being added, that give us stuff, no amount of linking will help."

Sounds like "we get more stuff" to me.

Well wanting things "right now" is probably the issues here, and what I am trying to say. You will never have everything "right now" and how you gauge that is what determines what you want, and how long it "should take".

Despite what anyone wants, the amount of toons you can get to X relic level in Y amount of time will never be fast enough, and that is literally part of the game. That is what drives decisions, balance, and yes, profits.


Players confusing want and need, because they want to win doesnt mean they actually need those things at the pace they want. They want them at that pace, but as we have always seen that requires focus and planning and the understanding that to "get them all" requires a lot of patience and/or $$.

Despite whatever changes happen, we will always be fighting against the pace to get what we want, and recognizing that and working within it will always be required.

Since we are all on the same scale, we dont "need" things to be competitive, as you are just as competitive as the person next to you. Even if that pace moves or pinch points change, we are all still against the same pace. If someone has an advantage over you, then maybe they made different choices or were able to use $$ to get there. Does that mean they will always win, no, but that is all part of the game.

I'm not saying the gear crunch shouldn't be addressed in some direct way, just trying to keep perspective on the pace that we are always going at, and how that will not go away, even if it does change.

Yes, new and shiny may require more stuff, and yes it may require the new high end stuff. That is part of chasing end game stuff. Addressing the gear crunch is not likely to be directly related to that, it is more likely to address the gear levels leaving relics as the "new system" for end game stuff.