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General Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Feedback Thread for Economy Overhaul on Test Server
« on: August 22, 2021, 11:16:26 pm »
Alignment Merits Overhaul
When Going Rogue was introduced it added the Alignment system to the game. In addition to straight up allowing turncoat / redemption stories of Heroes becoming Villains(H/V) and vice versa, it added two in-between steps, Rogue & Vigilante (R/V), which had the special advantage of playing in both CoH and CoV areas. In order to give the system a meaningful choice this was contrasted with giving those that remained one of the pure alignments access to unique vendors.
This meaningful choice has been removed on Almost Tested. Other balance way out of whack is the alignment vendors themselves are now far inferior sources for what they were previously coveted for. Example: Previously confirming a R/V alignment granted 60 reward merits, now it will be 1 R/V alignment merit. A purple costs 300 reward merits (5 old R/V moralities) or 20 alignment merits (20 H/V or new R/V moralities). The new R/V merits are a straight downgrade.
The original devs set the value of an alignment merit of at least 100 reward merits, sometimes a fair bit more with rounding down costs (LotG: Def/Rech = 150 reward merits or 1 alignment merit). This was already eroded with the previous merit cost reduction issue, though that was fair enough in bringing a bit of parity. Even if you halved their effective worth due to the 10->5 tip requirement you're looking at reward merit costs for purples/pvpios being ~75-100% too low (200% if you ignore or there wasn't an Inf cost) or alignment merit costs being that much too high.
Combine this with all the new streamlined ways to acquire purples / pvpios more efficiently elsewhere and the alignment vendors will be ignored except for a few orange recipes.
I don't have any suggestions for minor or moderate tweaks here, things are just too far out of alignment.
This needs to go back to the drawing board, and the first question answered should be "What gameplay reason would anyone have to stay a Hero / Villain now?"
When Going Rogue was introduced it added the Alignment system to the game. In addition to straight up allowing turncoat / redemption stories of Heroes becoming Villains(H/V) and vice versa, it added two in-between steps, Rogue & Vigilante (R/V), which had the special advantage of playing in both CoH and CoV areas. In order to give the system a meaningful choice this was contrasted with giving those that remained one of the pure alignments access to unique vendors.
This meaningful choice has been removed on Almost Tested. Other balance way out of whack is the alignment vendors themselves are now far inferior sources for what they were previously coveted for. Example: Previously confirming a R/V alignment granted 60 reward merits, now it will be 1 R/V alignment merit. A purple costs 300 reward merits (5 old R/V moralities) or 20 alignment merits (20 H/V or new R/V moralities). The new R/V merits are a straight downgrade.
The original devs set the value of an alignment merit of at least 100 reward merits, sometimes a fair bit more with rounding down costs (LotG: Def/Rech = 150 reward merits or 1 alignment merit). This was already eroded with the previous merit cost reduction issue, though that was fair enough in bringing a bit of parity. Even if you halved their effective worth due to the 10->5 tip requirement you're looking at reward merit costs for purples/pvpios being ~75-100% too low (200% if you ignore or there wasn't an Inf cost) or alignment merit costs being that much too high.
Combine this with all the new streamlined ways to acquire purples / pvpios more efficiently elsewhere and the alignment vendors will be ignored except for a few orange recipes.
I don't have any suggestions for minor or moderate tweaks here, things are just too far out of alignment.
This needs to go back to the drawing board, and the first question answered should be "What gameplay reason would anyone have to stay a Hero / Villain now?"