tetra wrote:I'm not sure what the current time on making dp fade away is, but it seems to be quite long already. Changing it to to spend 3 days is just going to make people log off in frustration sometimes and quit playing for a few days. People log off and don't play for a few days often enough, and they one day wonder why they are paying for a game they don't play.
Just my 2 cents.
You can still lose DP in the normal ways harvest/kill/mame ect. Making it go away over time is an added bonus not a bad thing. I dont really see why people will get mad and stop playing. For me its great because I do not play everyday and after getting loads of DP I know that when i log back in after a couple days I wont have to waste my game time getting rid of it. Its hard to say that having the added bonus of max DP going away in 3 real life days is a bad thing.
plarfman wrote:You can still lose DP in the normal ways harvest/kill/mame ect. Making it go away over time is an added bonus not a bad thing. I dont really see why people will get mad and stop playing. For me its great because I do not play everyday and after getting loads of DP I know that when i log back in after a couple days I wont have to waste my game time getting rid of it. Its hard to say that having the added bonus of max DP going away in 3 real life days is a bad thing.
yes I know that it still goes away in the normal way by exp as well, what I was saying though is that the tick down from time for it already seems to be very slow. Making it slower is just going to make it rather unnoticable or turn it into a reason not to log back in today for a good number of folks. it seems like this is one more thing that nevrax is putting work into nerfing that isn't broken and nobody cares about.. as it is I can spend a whole evening chatting and watching tv and burn all of like one harvest pull worth of DP.
tetra wrote:yes I know that it still goes away in the normal way by exp as well, what I was saying though is that the tick down from time for it already seems to be very slow. Making it slower is just going to make it rather unnoticable or turn it into a reason not to log back in today for a good number of folks. it seems like this is one more thing that nevrax is putting work into nerfing that isn't broken and nobody cares about.. as it is I can spend a whole evening chatting and watching tv and burn all of like one harvest pull worth of DP.
I see you saying that they shouldnt spend the time messing w/ adjusting it to their initial plans because you think that time should be spent on another thing. Did you consider their time wasted when they added it? If i remember right this was added for those that cant play all the time. That way they dont log in for a little bit one day and die and then when they come back 3 days later due to work, school etc have to just get rid of the DP to log again. I believe this was the TRUE intent of it and I think that is the perfect way to do it.
caitiff wrote:I see you saying that they shouldnt spend the time messing w/ adjusting it to their initial plans because you think that time should be spent on another thing. Did you consider their time wasted when they added it? If i remember right this was added for those that cant play all the time. That way they dont log in for a little bit one day and die and then when they come back 3 days later due to work, school etc have to just get rid of the DP to log again. I believe this was the TRUE intent of it and I think that is the perfect way to do it.
Exactly it is BETTER then what we originaly had and added bonus doesnt hurt anything only benifits you.
caitiff wrote:I see you saying that they shouldnt spend the time messing w/ adjusting it to their initial plans because you think that time should be spent on another thing. Did you consider their time wasted when they added it? If i remember right this was added for those that cant play all the time. That way they dont log in for a little bit one day and die and then when they come back 3 days later due to work, school etc have to just get rid of the DP to log again. I believe this was the TRUE intent of it and I think that is the perfect way to do it.
no you see me saying that it already ticks down so slowly that it's almost a pointless thing. You aren't going to burn a death from an evening of escorting newbies around the newbie areas. You won't burn a death from a long guild meeting. You won't burn a death dealing with complaints and squabbles. You will burn all of about 1 minute's worth of harvesting in a few hours...
The DP degrade over time is so slow that it's almost unnoticable as it is. Spending time to make that degrade go even slower is just silly and makes it seem like things at Nevrax get fixed on a basis of how fun it is to do that fix rather than how much it's needed.
tetra wrote:no you see me saying that it already ticks down so slowly that it's almost a pointless thing. You aren't going to burn a death from an evening of escorting newbies around the newbie areas. You won't burn a death from a long guild meeting. You won't burn a death dealing with complaints and squabbles. You will burn all of about 1 minute's worth of harvesting in a few hours...
The DP degrade over time is so slow that it's almost unnoticable as it is. Spending time to make that degrade go even slower is just silly and makes it seem like things at Nevrax get fixed on a basis of how fun it is to do that fix rather than how much it's needed.
As I think was pointed out already the over time thing is more for those of use that dont play 24/7. So it isnt really unnoticable if I come back in 3 days after getting max DP and it is all gone seems like a good deal to me.
Yeah..it's like...free, and how often to you log off with DP anyways? It's a small % I believe. It's a good thing because once you max dp unintentionally and get a little fustrated you can log, cool off for a while, and know you got a good thing comin.
What I'm curious about is how the dp reduction functions. Is it a % base over time of dp at log, or is it a base % on your max dp?
Dont whine about DP. My highest level is 154. I get around 137,000 death penalty 'if' I die and dont find a rez. Am I saddened by the fact I have 137,000 DP? No. Why? Because I can work it off solo in 3 kills (no exageration). DP is fine as it is. But I do think this will be a cool feature.
nathan7 wrote:Dont whine about DP. My highest level is 154. I get around 137,000 death penalty 'if' I die and dont find a rez. Am I saddened by the fact I have 137,000 DP? No. Why? Because I can work it off solo in 3 kills (no exageration). DP is fine as it is. But I do think this will be a cool feature.
Zenith - Member of OmegaV.
thank you for making my point...
This feature already exists in game. The tick down is so slow that most people don't even notice it though. Making it even slower seems rather silly and pointless.
