Gear Crunch

"Starslayer;c-2283261" wrote:
Unpopular opinion: too much gear would be worse than not enough gear, because if everyone is able to max all the good teams, pvp will become boring pretty fast. Mods will become even more important that it is now, and it’s pretty important.
There is a major difficulty in balancing gear income imo: arena rewards. When some players gain 27000 crystals per month while other gain 3000 at best via both arenas, balancing the gear income is quite a challenge. Good luck CG !

I'm sure the recent additions to the game and the recently announced changes were made with "fun PVP" in mind.

I dont think they will ever change it. There were talks about the easing the gear crunch but then they added a new one (kyrotech) instead.

I now have 2 gl's and to get the prerequisites of the other 3 I already need way more than 3000 stun cuffs alone for example. And thats with me even already having geared up some of the required toons.

I just cant imagine how this must feel for people just starting

"Starslayer;c-2283261" wrote:
Unpopular opinion: too much gear would be worse than not enough gear, because if everyone is able to max all the good teams, pvp will become boring pretty fast. Mods will become even more important that it is now, and it’s pretty important.
There is a major difficulty in balancing gear income imo: arena rewards. When some players gain 27000 crystals per month while other gain 3000 at best via both arenas, balancing the gear income is quite a challenge. Good luck CG !

It's a fair point. I think many of thr players accept the need for pinch points for the reason you've stated. It is frustrating, however, to require the same key gear pieces repeatedly from around Gear 8 onwards. That level is irrelevant in the game now and has been for a long time. Some kind of adjustment there would be welcomed (well, by me anyway).

"DubbQ;c-2283277" wrote:
I dont think they will ever change it. There were talks about the easing the gear crunch but then they added a new one (kyrotech) instead.

The kyros did ease the cuff gun carb crunch, I now have many of those items that I purchased in different stores along the way. Trouble is I lack the kyros to use them.

"Ravens1113;c-2283288" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2283261" wrote:
Unpopular opinion: too much gear would be worse than not enough gear, because if everyone is able to max all the good teams, pvp will become boring pretty fast. Mods will become even more important that it is now, and it’s pretty important.
There is a major difficulty in balancing gear income imo: arena rewards. When some players gain 27000 crystals per month while other gain 3000 at best via both arenas, balancing the gear income is quite a challenge. Good luck CG !

Trivializing getting to G12 will not effect teams at R9. Or, more realistically, bringing the high bottlenecked gear of Mk5 guns, mk3 cuffs and mk8 bio components in line with mk3 carbantis will turn it into a pinch and not a choke.

For some characters that’s true, not for others. A lot of characters, like, about every support character, do not benefit a lot from relics and would function just fine at g13, because relics don’t upgrade speed (well, so far…). Think about all the characters you geared up to r5 because of rancor and not because you needed to, or all the characters that were perfectly fine at g13/r1 and that you geared up because of prerequisites.

Not saying easing the gear wouldn’t be good for the game, I have absolutely no idea. But I reckon it’s pretty hard to balance, for gameplay reasons and for business reasons.

I get it. Make money.

But Raid/challenge/conquest rewards are laughable. Always the stuff no one needs and you have 1000’s of. Always. Good trolling CG, Good trolling.

"Crayons;c-2283328" wrote:
I get it. Make money.

But Raid/challenge/conquest rewards are laughable. Always the stuff no one needs and you have 1000’s of. Always. Good trolling CG, Good trolling.

Send me all yours then.

"DarjeloSalas;c-2283337" wrote:

"Crayons;c-2283328" wrote:
I get it. Make money.

But Raid/challenge/conquest rewards are laughable. Always the stuff no one needs and you have 1000’s of. Always. Good trolling CG, Good trolling.

I’ll take “complete exaggeration” for £100, Alex

The exchange rate is 1:1?

"Ravens1113;c-2283361" wrote:
All jokes aside though, it’s no secret that there’s plenty they could do right now, today, that wouldn’t effect the end game meta. Changes that wouldn’t break the game economy. It’s because of that I’m so adamant and vocal about this gear economy. I’m not sitting here saying “give me R9 new toon first day”. I, and many many others are simply saying “Hey, can we have gear economy changes that make gear one crunches much less burdensome?”

add my voice to yours, wholeheartedly agree..

"Ravens1113;c-2283361" wrote:
All jokes aside though, it’s no secret that there’s plenty they could do right now, today, that wouldn’t effect the end game meta. Changes that wouldn’t break the game economy. It’s because of that I’m so adamant and vocal about this gear economy. I’m not sitting here saying “give me R9 new toon first day”. I, and many many others are simply saying “Hey, can we have gear economy changes that make gear one crunches much less burdensome?”

Well said.