I consider that statement polemic, untruthful and close to a violation of forum rules. Of course there may be some who deeply dislike the loss or uselessnesss of their f2p helper account and don't speak out, but it is not up to you to judge upon whether or not the criticism is "honest".
I usually prefer to dig together with my fully subbed second account, but am not against accepting a lower level digger for CP (and, of course, prospection). During such interactions I like to tell those players about tricks how to dig effectively, which stanzas to acquire first etc. if such conversation is appreciated (most time it is).
I frequently read in uni that higher level diggers were asking for CPers. That won't be possible anymore with the recent change. As I experienced on uni, CP applications were serviced faster than calls for CPers. Not few of those accepting a real player CPer let their f2p alt pause during such activies.
Beneath all that, frustrating the subbed players, even those who resent the nerfing of their f2p alts, is a bad and wrong move. We cannot afford to lose active players.
And your other arguments aren't overly conclusive. A low level CPer, even a lvl 30-40 or so, so far was well able to provide sufficient ground stability in most cases, and so was a possible partner even for high level diggers, much more after crossing the lvl50 or 70. This is the most boring part of a digging career where solo diggers retrieve few mat and proceed slowly. So the "powerleveling" of "real" (I assume, non-alt is meant) freemiums is very much affected as they are losing partners. There are more active diggers in the 200-250 range than below.
Btw., why should it worry a f2p to receive mats of higher quality? That does not follow at all, they can do everything with those mats no less than with mats of their own level, even more, they may try to sell them to other players at a, say 2000% rate, which is 880 dapper/mat at q250 as compared to 40 dap/mat for q50 stuff. Btw, "degrade crafting" aka overcrafting is great for craft skill leveling.
But it is obvious that diggers able to harvest >q150 mat will not accept receiving q150 at maximum. It would not give any xp for any team member (or 5 or 9 xp or so) beyond digging lvl 170 of the subbed digger.
Btw you seem to have fairly low experience in foraging except you are one of the consistent digging haters (I accept that attitude, of course). Digging is exhausting between lvl 21 (where you get through Silan missions) and lvl 75 ca., there is not much yield and there are few stanzas to fine tune harvesting. Afterwards, many, including me, get addicted to digging. Though I have mastered all ecos, I am out to harvest regularly for several purposes. So do many other harvesting masters, and so far they liked to accept lower level CPers.
I usually prefer to dig together with my fully subbed second account, but am not against accepting a lower level digger for CP (and, of course, prospection). During such interactions I like to tell those players about tricks how to dig effectively, which stanzas to acquire first etc. if such conversation is appreciated (most time it is).
I frequently read in uni that higher level diggers were asking for CPers. That won't be possible anymore with the recent change. As I experienced on uni, CP applications were serviced faster than calls for CPers. Not few of those accepting a real player CPer let their f2p alt pause during such activies.
Beneath all that, frustrating the subbed players, even those who resent the nerfing of their f2p alts, is a bad and wrong move. We cannot afford to lose active players.
And your other arguments aren't overly conclusive. A low level CPer, even a lvl 30-40 or so, so far was well able to provide sufficient ground stability in most cases, and so was a possible partner even for high level diggers, much more after crossing the lvl50 or 70. This is the most boring part of a digging career where solo diggers retrieve few mat and proceed slowly. So the "powerleveling" of "real" (I assume, non-alt is meant) freemiums is very much affected as they are losing partners. There are more active diggers in the 200-250 range than below.
Btw., why should it worry a f2p to receive mats of higher quality? That does not follow at all, they can do everything with those mats no less than with mats of their own level, even more, they may try to sell them to other players at a, say 2000% rate, which is 880 dapper/mat at q250 as compared to 40 dap/mat for q50 stuff. Btw, "degrade crafting" aka overcrafting is great for craft skill leveling.
But it is obvious that diggers able to harvest >q150 mat will not accept receiving q150 at maximum. It would not give any xp for any team member (or 5 or 9 xp or so) beyond digging lvl 170 of the subbed digger.
Btw you seem to have fairly low experience in foraging except you are one of the consistent digging haters (I accept that attitude, of course). Digging is exhausting between lvl 21 (where you get through Silan missions) and lvl 75 ca., there is not much yield and there are few stanzas to fine tune harvesting. Afterwards, many, including me, get addicted to digging. Though I have mastered all ecos, I am out to harvest regularly for several purposes. So do many other harvesting masters, and so far they liked to accept lower level CPers.
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