Currently marquee events show up, last for a week and give out some decent mods (for low levels) and 50 shards of a toon. This is a nice bonus, but I feel it also grants an unfair advantage for older players over new. What I propose:Marquee events last for a week, and if completed, they vanish at the end of the week. However for any players who have never completed them, they will remain indefinitely. The system is already in place, legendary events dont show up for players who have them at 7☆. This would allow new players to get a significant boost by earning a lot of toons at 3☆. I would eliminate the mod rewards after the initial week and just leave the shards, so there is still a slight advantage for being there when they first drop.This would help speed up the lower levels of play and maybe break up the meta some at the start of the game. I realized how nice this would be when starting a new alt, and realizing how difficult it was to get dark toons, and what a benefit the marquee was to low level players.

The point of marquees now is to introduce new characters and their kits. It's a fair way to introduce new characters into the game as we have a cadence for characters. It also promotes the "rewards"/benefit of players being active and for a long time.

Other people getting nice things is not you getting punished.

"Daishi;c-1578439" wrote:I agree that they should reward activity, but something like marquee should be available to everyone once they've been released. I agree with rewarding activity, but the way marquee events work actually punish players who weren't playing for any period. For instance, my account was inactive for awhile, and I missed DNihilus release. Now farming DN from a single hard mode means I avg 1-3 a day at best. Meaning that missing the 50 shards from marquee put me a month or more behind anyone else... Go on vacation for a week and miss a marquee (they dont announce) and if the toon is meta changing (DN/Sion) you're just out of luck for months and then when they become farmable you're a month behind or more.I feel the free mods are enough of an activity reward but putting new players or returning players even farther behind the curve is just punishing correct, they want people to stay active. Yes you lose out if you are not regularly active. thats the reward people get for not taking breaks. If you agree with rewarding activity, then you can see why they shouldn't do what you are suggesting. yes, missing an event means you are behind. yes that can put you back a month longer than someone who was there for the event. thats the point. someone who logs in multiple times a day will be able to get all refreshes on stores and the free energy, someone who can't misses out. its the same concept, just on a larger timescale.

You should be happy that we have marquee events at all, they used to release most of the new characters straight into chromium packs without any deadline for them to go to farmable location.

You mean for player just joining the game or hitting the level when they unlock? They would just have access to every marquee event as soon as they hit the level to unlock?Have you thought about that being the point, it's a reward for people who have been committed and play the game at X time.Marquee events are release events, they are not meant to be farming locations. New players are for the most part not going to be playing against anyone else that will have these toons, except in rare cases of timing. Not sure why they should get this advantage. When in the early stages this could also be a huge detriment as it would almost inevitably spread them too thin and cause other issues with a flood of toons.Also just like log in bonuses in this game and many others, they reward activity.

Marquee events - A more fair system

XxiCOLOSSUSxX
7 years ago
The point of marquees now is to introduce new characters and their kits. It's a fair way to introduce new characters into the game as we have a cadence for characters. It also promotes the "rewards"/benefit of players being active and for a long time.
BlueRoseBlade
7 years ago
Other people getting nice things is not you getting punished.
NyKynoe
7 years ago
"Daishi;c-1578439" wrote:
I agree that they should reward activity, but something like marquee should be available to everyone once they've been released. I agree with rewarding activity, but the way marquee events work actually punish players who weren't playing for any period.

For instance, my account was inactive for awhile, and I missed DNihilus release. Now farming DN from a single hard mode means I avg 1-3 a day at best. Meaning that missing the 50 shards from marquee put me a month or more behind anyone else...

Go on vacation for a week and miss a marquee (they dont announce) and if the toon is meta changing (DN/Sion) you're just out of luck for months and then when they become farmable you're a month behind or more.

I feel the free mods are enough of an activity reward but putting new players or returning players even farther behind the curve is just punishing

correct, they want people to stay active. Yes you lose out if you are not regularly active. thats the reward people get for not taking breaks. If you agree with rewarding activity, then you can see why they shouldn't do what you are suggesting.

yes, missing an event means you are behind. yes that can put you back a month longer than someone who was there for the event. thats the point.

someone who logs in multiple times a day will be able to get all refreshes on stores and the free energy, someone who can't misses out. its the same concept, just on a larger timescale.
BionicGolem
7 years ago
You should be happy that we have marquee events at all, they used to release most of the new characters straight into chromium packs without any deadline for them to go to farmable location.
NyKynoe
7 years ago
You mean for player just joining the game or hitting the level when they unlock? They would just have access to every marquee event as soon as they hit the level to unlock?

Have you thought about that being the point, it's a reward for people who have been committed and play the game at X time.

Marquee events are release events, they are not meant to be farming locations.

New players are for the most part not going to be playing against anyone else that will have these toons, except in rare cases of timing. Not sure why they should get this advantage. When in the early stages this could also be a huge detriment as it would almost inevitably spread them too thin and cause other issues with a flood of toons.

Also just like log in bonuses in this game and many others, they reward activity.
spiffy4433
7 years ago
I agree that they should reward activity, but something like marquee should be available to everyone once they've been released. I agree with rewarding activity, but the way marquee events work actually punish players who weren't playing for any period.

For instance, my account was inactive for awhile, and I missed DNihilus release. Now farming DN from a single hard mode means I avg 1-3 a day at best. Meaning that missing the 50 shards from marquee put me a month or more behind anyone else...

Go on vacation for a week and miss a marquee (they dont announce) and if the toon is meta changing (DN/Sion) you're just out of luck for months and then when they become farmable you're a month behind or more.

I feel the free mods are enough of an activity reward but putting new players or returning players even farther behind the curve is just punishing
spiffy4433
7 years ago
Others also getting nice things doesnt degrade your special status. The same argument can be applied both ways. As a player who returned from an extended break, and started an alt... I see the benefit to all players allowing all marquee events to be finished by all players.

Why did they give the quest rewards to players who had already completed those tasks? They could have added quest system and only made it available for new players... them getting nice things wouldn't have effected existing high levels. But everyone would have lost their minds. But the discussion of making the game easier for new players or equal availability for returning players upsets people.
BlueRoseBlade
7 years ago
Also, from a design perspective, *ding*, fifty quests just dropped is a terrible and grindy mechanic.

Further, as the vast majority of those characters are already available to farm F2P, they don't need a marquee event for you to pursue them.
rodandreelguy
7 years ago
"YaeVizsla;c-1578440" wrote:
Other people getting nice things is not you getting punished.
Waquira
7 years ago
"Daishi;c-1578439" wrote:
I agree that they should reward activity, but something like marquee should be available to everyone once they've been released. I agree with rewarding activity, but the way marquee events work actually punish players who weren't playing for any period.

Players who are inactive during the events are not punished in any way. They don't have anything at all removed from their accounts or rosters. However, players that are active during the events and play the events will be rewarded with 50 shards of new characters and a bunch of mods of various quality.

If you agree with rewarding activity, why do you oppose this?