While most of us still playing PS, play for fun. If we all started with max br and never got xp, we would still play because we are here to have fun. However the other 95+% of the population play for goals, whether they realize it or not. Whether its the illusion of gettin somethin better than other people or flexing their e-peen, they will play to get those carrots. The carrots keep the majority playing. Look at CoD vs BF. CoD is nowhere near as good but has a much better carrot system to keep people playing and they do. You cap out much earlier on BF and then have nothin to go for. CoD ends up with much more longevity on its mulitplayer because of this despite being an inferior game in multiplayer.
So we have to come up with some kind of carrot in PS:N. The key difference tho, we dont want the type that just make it a gear grind, we dont want it to make you stronger than the noobie. BR/CR is one type but once you cap out, you need things to continue to work on.
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Ideas:
My ideas are purely cosmetic but still fun, they dont affect balance but give you somethin to show off and look damn cool with em.
Cosmetic armor upgrades. Different armor types and helmets, or helmet-less options. Sort of like a few games such as halo reach did with the various shoulder pads and helmets etc you could earn. In essence you could earn these cool lookin armors but they dont actually do anything but make ya look good. If they add more types of armor, aka pilot suits etc. You would earn different sets for each armor type.
Cosmetic vechile paint schemes. You could earn different paint schemes for your vehicle. Not so much camo, but things that would still be clearly empire colors, but different designs. Let you show off how you specialize in your specific vehicle.
Weapon paint jobs. Not as interesting to me but you could match em up with your armor for some cool looks.
This would be stuff you get with your xp past 20. You would not get these because of merits (merit rewards are down below). Easier to lead your groups when your guys dont wanna run off to play with some vehicle and killwhore, ignoring tactical objectives, only to get a merit. Then you can just work as a team to get your xp and everyone is happy.
Titles.-- This would be for merits. You could be Boris the Conquerer or whatever the title is. You only get the titles via merits. So if you get your x number of knife kills you get Boris the Ripper, get a merit for healing or reviving others and you get Doctor Boris, get your flight kill merits and you get Ace Boris. And so forth with the other merits.
This is a good start imo, but i wanna hear your ideas and comments. If we can get a good carrot system goin we in turn get more players, more dev time, more content and a much better game. SoE knows this, and maybe they can steal a few of our ideas rather than adding the awful carrots that do affect how good you are and we end up with CoD with lots of players which i will never play.
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2011-04-16, 11:19 AM
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