1. Don't really see an issue here ... like getting rid of pennies. Possibly addresses a potential integer value issue as well as reading the numbers ... like 2^16 limit of 65,536. So instead of getting paid on pennies, we get paid in dollars. Rewards and costs have same factor involved so no real change. So "reform wise", nothing has really changed. We basically went from paying in pesos or yen to dollars / Euro.
2. New rewards ....
a) You can buy faction death penalty reduction and now those that don't subscribe to the higher powers can too. Cool.
b) You can buy names for your animals.... Ok cool, not forced on anyone.
c) Ok I like the naming thing ... but if we gonna have names .... we gotta have colors .... How much for hair dye ?
3. Lore ... not really interested.
As to concerns expressed ... let's look at this.
To earn 36 products, for NH fair to say a time investment of 1-2 hours. That would earn you ...
100 Fame = 7200 faction points / 360,000 dappers
50 Fame = 1800 faction points / 180,000 dappers
I never liked this arrangement ... wasn't really fair to neutrals, rangers and marauders. Seemed that a fairer way would be to allow each person to spend half their total fame:
100-75-25 could spend the 100 ... 100% x 36 mats in nationn that they were 100 in ... 1 visit / all done .... or 75 in one spot / 25 in another
50-50-50-50 guy could spend 50 in 2 lands or 25 in 4 lands.
Using Bubba's numbers, if I did math right, old way was 100 QL500 crystals would cost you 1100 points. A days NH would net you @ 650 crystals.
The new way you can get on average 12 Elypsies (depending on settings) per mission for 7 missions... so you'd get 700 crystals. ... pretty much same thing. Tho if you set no fame restrictions, you get 18 per mission or just about 1050 crystals. So yes potentially more lucrative ... but you not getting fame, you not getting dapper (other than what mission gives you anyway).
I haven't experienced any "lengthy tasks". I hit the scroll icon, I see 7 missions and I choose which ones I wanna do. It's easier, well better said "less time intensive", than the normal a) find NPC b) take mission c) Go do stuff d) bring back to that BPC again .... is reduced to just c) and d), so far, I usually knock of all 7 in 30 minutes or so. Today I only did 6 as I decided I didn't want to do one of them cuz it was kill a tribe.
A brief description does appears on the Daily Mission window, you click it and you get a full description. Don't wanna do it, abandon the mission. Change ya mind, retake it. Not only that, the map shows you who you have to deliver to. No searching all over the region to find those wandering NPCs.
As to the faction picks, I stopped using them .... are they actually gone or are they just not purchasable any more ? Can you still buy with FP ? Can you do the original delivery missions ? If they have in effect been removed from purchase ... I imagine they could be restored or made available thru the original tour procedure.
When I visit the NPC, he's basically offering the same items through faction points (left click) or elipsies (right click). I haven't actually spent any cause I have so few of each left that.
Isn't the NH / Occupations thing still working as it was. I haven't found a reason to do occupations for about 2.5 years. When I did, I mostly did scroll maker as the Q70 scrolls sold for far more on the market than NH paid .... especially w/ 50-50-50-50 fame. But I talk to folks most days who are running Occs / NH but not as part of Daily Missions.
The problem for me is, and I have said this often. There's a mindset in every industry were having experts write manuals is believed to be a good idea .... and that's why no one in the world every had the correct time on their VCR and everyone struggles assembling their furniture bought at IKEA.
Every software manual begins with "Open the [ xxxx ] Window and ...." wait how do I open the [ xxxx ] Window ... WTH is a [ xxxx ] Window ?
I find it nice that we now have more options. I like that this, so far, appears to treat players with different approaches to game more equally. A significant number will be dismayed by that ... the ole "I deserve more because ..." thing.
My issue, in reference to the economy again, is not that any path has been devalued .... it's that I have nothing to spend the rewards on.
-Cats ? = More ways to get cats ? Each week after the NPC Hunt, we can't give them away.
-Wundahmat = It's OK, I like the no bulk thing for completing craft missions. The T & E required to get the wundahmat is far far greater then just digging ... and far more lucrative.
-Names for animals ... this I like, and if hair dyes were added it would be a kick. I have this image in my head of the movie "Earth Girls are Easy" and the brightly colored aliens ... tho on Atys Id prefer more of a subdued tint.
- Iron Ons ! ... Remember iron on images for T-Shirts ? I'd spend a few elipsies on s one time sigil that I could apply to a shield or breastplate. Once used, it's gone.
Most of all the Dailies give you something else to do ... options ... other ways to do things. I didn't really look at them with regard to the economy ... my problem has never been earning, but having something to spend it on.
2. New rewards ....
a) You can buy faction death penalty reduction and now those that don't subscribe to the higher powers can too. Cool.
b) You can buy names for your animals.... Ok cool, not forced on anyone.
c) Ok I like the naming thing ... but if we gonna have names .... we gotta have colors .... How much for hair dye ?
3. Lore ... not really interested.
As to concerns expressed ... let's look at this.
To earn 36 products, for NH fair to say a time investment of 1-2 hours. That would earn you ...
100 Fame = 7200 faction points / 360,000 dappers
50 Fame = 1800 faction points / 180,000 dappers
I never liked this arrangement ... wasn't really fair to neutrals, rangers and marauders. Seemed that a fairer way would be to allow each person to spend half their total fame:
100-75-25 could spend the 100 ... 100% x 36 mats in nationn that they were 100 in ... 1 visit / all done .... or 75 in one spot / 25 in another
50-50-50-50 guy could spend 50 in 2 lands or 25 in 4 lands.
Using Bubba's numbers, if I did math right, old way was 100 QL500 crystals would cost you 1100 points. A days NH would net you @ 650 crystals.
The new way you can get on average 12 Elypsies (depending on settings) per mission for 7 missions... so you'd get 700 crystals. ... pretty much same thing. Tho if you set no fame restrictions, you get 18 per mission or just about 1050 crystals. So yes potentially more lucrative ... but you not getting fame, you not getting dapper (other than what mission gives you anyway).
I haven't experienced any "lengthy tasks". I hit the scroll icon, I see 7 missions and I choose which ones I wanna do. It's easier, well better said "less time intensive", than the normal a) find NPC b) take mission c) Go do stuff d) bring back to that BPC again .... is reduced to just c) and d), so far, I usually knock of all 7 in 30 minutes or so. Today I only did 6 as I decided I didn't want to do one of them cuz it was kill a tribe.
A brief description does appears on the Daily Mission window, you click it and you get a full description. Don't wanna do it, abandon the mission. Change ya mind, retake it. Not only that, the map shows you who you have to deliver to. No searching all over the region to find those wandering NPCs.
As to the faction picks, I stopped using them .... are they actually gone or are they just not purchasable any more ? Can you still buy with FP ? Can you do the original delivery missions ? If they have in effect been removed from purchase ... I imagine they could be restored or made available thru the original tour procedure.
When I visit the NPC, he's basically offering the same items through faction points (left click) or elipsies (right click). I haven't actually spent any cause I have so few of each left that.
Isn't the NH / Occupations thing still working as it was. I haven't found a reason to do occupations for about 2.5 years. When I did, I mostly did scroll maker as the Q70 scrolls sold for far more on the market than NH paid .... especially w/ 50-50-50-50 fame. But I talk to folks most days who are running Occs / NH but not as part of Daily Missions.
The problem for me is, and I have said this often. There's a mindset in every industry were having experts write manuals is believed to be a good idea .... and that's why no one in the world every had the correct time on their VCR and everyone struggles assembling their furniture bought at IKEA.
Every software manual begins with "Open the [ xxxx ] Window and ...." wait how do I open the [ xxxx ] Window ... WTH is a [ xxxx ] Window ?
I find it nice that we now have more options. I like that this, so far, appears to treat players with different approaches to game more equally. A significant number will be dismayed by that ... the ole "I deserve more because ..." thing.
My issue, in reference to the economy again, is not that any path has been devalued .... it's that I have nothing to spend the rewards on.
-Cats ? = More ways to get cats ? Each week after the NPC Hunt, we can't give them away.
-Wundahmat = It's OK, I like the no bulk thing for completing craft missions. The T & E required to get the wundahmat is far far greater then just digging ... and far more lucrative.
-Names for animals ... this I like, and if hair dyes were added it would be a kick. I have this image in my head of the movie "Earth Girls are Easy" and the brightly colored aliens ... tho on Atys Id prefer more of a subdued tint.
- Iron Ons ! ... Remember iron on images for T-Shirts ? I'd spend a few elipsies on s one time sigil that I could apply to a shield or breastplate. Once used, it's gone.
Most of all the Dailies give you something else to do ... options ... other ways to do things. I didn't really look at them with regard to the economy ... my problem has never been earning, but having something to spend it on.
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