I strongly disagree that teleports are a luxury (in terms of game utility -- they most definitely are a luxury item atm). Not being able to afford tps means that I can't go rescue homins who are in need, that I can't conveniently harvest in such a way as to level my craft, and basically mean that I cannot play the game the way that I wish to play it.
The game is good, but right now the prices for mats are ridiculous. For a level 250 mat I get 35 dapper in Dyron, but the same vendor will charge another homin a *minimum* of 250 dapper!!! I can't set it any lower, even if I want to, and I want to so that some poor schmuck can afford to buy the dappers I dig. How is he going to afford it if all he can sell looted mats for is the same low dapper?? The devs said they wanted to make the dapper more valuable. It isn't -- it's even more worthless than before because no one has any.
Someone said that we should buy meks and make treks to get lots of mats. Sorry, I can put a maximum of about 450 mats on a mek if I'm going to feed it, too. I get to buy three meks for 1.5M dapper. Even at 10K dapper per tp, thats 150 tps! As a newb I'm not going to be able to earn enough while digging or hunting (at 1-3dapper per q50 mat) to buy any tps, or a mek, or feed my mount -- not if I want to buy a new pick.
The current situation is a drastic over-correction. It makes the game difficult for multi-masters and impossible for newbs. It needs to be adjusted and soon. It is similar to the case with wear when it was first introduced. Too much.
As for NPC tasks -- I didn't join this game to do FedEx missions. I can do them in WoW. (Yeah, I played the WoW card, so sue me.)
-- Bittty
The game is good, but right now the prices for mats are ridiculous. For a level 250 mat I get 35 dapper in Dyron, but the same vendor will charge another homin a *minimum* of 250 dapper!!! I can't set it any lower, even if I want to, and I want to so that some poor schmuck can afford to buy the dappers I dig. How is he going to afford it if all he can sell looted mats for is the same low dapper?? The devs said they wanted to make the dapper more valuable. It isn't -- it's even more worthless than before because no one has any.
Someone said that we should buy meks and make treks to get lots of mats. Sorry, I can put a maximum of about 450 mats on a mek if I'm going to feed it, too. I get to buy three meks for 1.5M dapper. Even at 10K dapper per tp, thats 150 tps! As a newb I'm not going to be able to earn enough while digging or hunting (at 1-3dapper per q50 mat) to buy any tps, or a mek, or feed my mount -- not if I want to buy a new pick.
The current situation is a drastic over-correction. It makes the game difficult for multi-masters and impossible for newbs. It needs to be adjusted and soon. It is similar to the case with wear when it was first introduced. Too much.
As for NPC tasks -- I didn't join this game to do FedEx missions. I can do them in WoW. (Yeah, I played the WoW card, so sue me.)
-- Bittty
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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