Slingshot mechanic

"Nothingface;d-196623" wrote:
I think adding a slingshot mechanic for old characters would improve the game greatly and it could be done in a fair way. 2 ideas:
1. Significantly lower the energy required for old toons. Vets should be done with a 5 energy, not 20. Use 20 energy nodes for new characters.
2. Gear: after a length of time change the gear requirements for a character. This is tough since different gear pieces have different stats but I think it could be figured out. After a character has been out for a year swap out stun guns, carbantis and biotech implants for the gear we have thousands of.

This would have several benefits:
1. Increase profits: it's much harder to justify spending money on droideka and b1 when I don't have b2 and magmaguard.
2. I could recommend this game to friends. I actually discourage friends from joining due to how long it would take for them to have even 1 good team. It would take minimum a year to get them into my guild.
3. Competition, especially in GA. One of the biggest complaints about GA is people who have lots of g7, 7 st

Not sure I agree with the second no2. I want there to be a grind element, and assuming you're in a decent guild I see no reason people shouldn't have to put a shift in to earn entry. I also think it's all relative - it may take them a year or whatever to get 1 good team as defined by you, but they'd join a new shard and what's good to them may well be very different, in the same way I was astounded to learn Phoenix are the go to team for new folk nowadays.