The Whale is Facing Extinction
This game is built on a 3 tier system of whales, dolphins and FTP. It has historically been a balanced ecosystem, where one cannot survive without the other. The whale is becoming an endangered specie...
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"gorjdesign;c-1112032" wrote:
Let me rephrase what he wants.
He wants to be able to spend 1000 $ on a character that is only available by paying for it and be able to defeat any team with it.
In your way of thinking you and 10 of your buddies would play on the server and I doubt you would enjoy it as much as you do now .
Rephrasing and interpreting are two very different things, as is shown here... He does not say that anywhere in his post.
What he says is two things, at least in the part you're "rephrasing":
1. Characters that someone pays for should take a certain amount of time before they become available/farmable in chromiums, shipments and shard shop. Where 'a certain amount of time' is a longer period than what it is now.
2. Having such a character should have synergy with a lineage of toons that were ones exclusive. In this case DN should have better synergy with SA and SiTr, who should also not become available so fast in shard shop, instead of doing great in a Rex triple cleanse team with easy obtainable toons.
THAT is what I THINK he means.
"Vertigo;c-1112036" wrote:"Jedi_Reach_;c-1112022" wrote:
Are you're basically asking to have every new character be overpowered and broken? There are other ways to reward huge spending than insisting game balance should be broken over it.
Agreed, I think the idea for a new game mode that rewards deeper rosters would be a better way to give whales an advantage without just destroying arena balance
Well, tournaments did exactly that... received more hate than mods and were flawed such that it is suspected that FTP players 'broke/cheated' it doing exactly the opposite of rewarding players with a deep roster...
By the way, since crystals is the only in-game currency that can be purchased with real life money. I (as a mainly FTP player) am all for giving whales the advantage in those game areas where crystals are the main reward.
Zeta's will soon be over the hype in which they were game-breaking and so I think whales should be top arena, without being challenged by FTP/dolphins with the same squads, leaving only competition for those who chose early on to take a different route and found a niche that is competitive (e.g. like droids were, like FO and Resistance will be in 1 - 2 months).
