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[Ronyn]

For my design i chose 7 different raritys ranging from common to transcendent, here is how it could be structured:
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Each rarity has 100 subsets ranging from 1 - 100, you can check them out by clicking the according number.
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That way you basically have 700 hundred shades of rarity for each type of Resource.

I really like a lot of what youre suggesting here. Though I am of the opinion that great variety of builds and deep customization can be achieved without the need for so many resource rarities.

 

[Grummz]

I'm not shy about being sex-positive. I think people know that about me. But anything like that will be optional and tasteful.

 

[Grummz]

TY, @Xeevis for getting all this set up. We are all more secure for your efforts

 

[Ronyn]

I felt player feedback was listened to too much. Part of the reason why they had rebuilt the game so many times in my opinion.

Just about every forum for just about every game has a bunch of conflicting feedback. It's the nature of the beast.
That isn't the source of the problem. It's a matter of cause verses symptom.
When those in charge of development are clear and unified on the vision internally the outside feedback has a more measured impact. But when those in charge are split or at odds with each other on what to do then outside feedback can be very disorienting and lead to strange changes.

EDIT: aaaaand grummz just made it abundantly clear that in house was where the issue was......heh. Ninja'd.

 

[Grummz]

To be honest, I had a hard time getting the upper mgt to go with my ideas. There was an internal struggle between doing something new (which is hard) and doing WoW with guns. You can see who won in the end.

I was very much a proponent of being hands off at the time, and for the last year of FF dev I was away fighting The9 constantly on other issues.

This time i'm going to remain on the ground level and shop floor and always be present to guide the vision on a daily basis. When we are small that's easy enough. If we get large that means hiring a President to run the business side of things so I can remain focused.

I threw wallet at Firefall. Will throw wallet Ember. However... one thing I never quite got to the bottom of is this: Firefall looked so close to the 2nd milestone. It had invasion. It had repulsors. It had bases. It had turrets. It had crafting. It had escalating enemy strength. The only thing left was adding deployable platforms that allow players to pour resource to push back the melding then build stuff to defend territory.

Why did the game abandon that and go into grinding INSTANCES? Why did it abandon that to go into arena eSport? Why did it abandon player-driven narrative to... static, play-once story quests? Why kill frame customization to become DotA-clone?

Then, whatever the reasons were, how will Ember tackle those issues to stay on course?

I want to hear Kern talk about this, but while we wait... we might as well speculate..