Xindi Kraid
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
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Posted - 2015.10.16 02:19:03 -
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I'm not entirely sure how much this qualifies as pay to win, after all, skill points only translate to more effectiveness to a certain point, since you can't ever get past level V in all your support skills, and even then, actual player skill and good fits are often of more importance anyways. Aside from that we already have the ability to sell PLEX for cash to actually get that good equipment.
Still, I can't say I support this idea of cutting up characters to sell skills piecemeal. I do think it still removes the hard decisions inherent in the skill system since you can still straight up bypass hard trains by just buying that time and applying it to an existing character where before you had to make the hard choice to find a new character on the bazaar that fit your needs or just suck it up. Also, if it's a matter of, "I screwed up my skill train", which I think all of us have done at some point or another, I'd much rather have the ability to straight up move skillpoints around (for some sort of penalty of course) to fix minor mis-allocations, though even that may be dubious.
It also straight up seems odd to cut up an actual character as some sort of commodity. It might not be so bad if you could just sell the entire skill package and biomass the associated character, but the piecemeal approach allows the skills to be spread around too much. that's also the other problem I have with it. In the Bazaar there is a one to one approach, one person loses a character and another gains it, under this proposed system, a throwaway character can suddenly be split up and sold to multiple people for benefit.
In the devblog having a face you don't want, a name you find terrible, and a dubious history on a bought character. It's been suggested so many times before, that even outside of the character Bazaar , we'd appreciate the ability to change our name even if a name history were left attached. I'd much rather have a way to turn a sold character into a blank slate when it is sold to a different person, than to have the ability to just sell the SP. |