Annihilator wrote:Progression is vertical, because the game is developed as "themepark" game, and most player suggestions i see, support that development. Just look at Jitas "Conference" - most talk was about the themepark area "Beta".
Extensions - there are so many of them, but 90% of all combat-extensions are upgrades, not sidegrades. combine that with fixed-role robots with way to many equip-decision factors (CPU/Reactor + slot types + accumulator + specific bonuses) and you get pure vertical progression.
balance is a foreign word in perp, simply because the basic rule is not considered: KISS - keep it stupid simple.
-> ask someone how much damage his weapon does. 99% cannot really answer that question.
Its "Keep it Simple, Stupid".
A few thoughts on your post, as it can be misleading.
Your annalsis of what beta is, far from the picture at all. You imply that beta is more pay to win, rather its the opposite.
Further more, the idea of PVP becoming a pure vertical progression is correct. This is due to the simple min, max mentality that comes with all games of this type.
As for the KiSS mentality, this CAN be take a bit to literally. You can dumb this game down and remove some of the general ?? about the game. We could have a system base on a 1 + - 1 Damage. This GREATLY takes away from the general feel of the game. Critical, skills and how they play into the general game project this Feel.
I can feel in the Dev team the sense of another rebalance pass will becoming. Why, The GREAT *** that will be T5.
Zoom if you still read my stuff, you need to make your other TEIR's FULLY useful FIRST, then add in other content LATER.
Example!
T1 - Base ***.
T2 - Great Base Speed (REALLY push it) - *** up Base Ammo Count
T3 - Great Base Range (REALLY push it) - *** up Reload Times (Redo Reload times and UPPPP!!! Them)
T4 - Best Ammo Amount / Energy Usage
Notice how Damage is not in the balancing of ANY of those? Why, EVERYONE just works backward from base DPS at a set range in all the current builds. All big fights will fight on max range of any weapon set.
***, I can go on and on and on and on. But Good base, other ways to skin a Zenith. Deal with it!
I am Perpetuum.