Boiled down, let's REALLY look at this situation here.
MA announces a tiering system.
Marco starts bragging about t10 mod mercs and t10 mod faps ("I've played with them, and boy are they impressive!" {someone find this quote please, search is failing horribly}).
Tiering comes about. People find out it's EXTREMELY expensive, oh ya - and you have a decent chance of losing the second item (at tier one, approximately ~3% loss chance {counting in 50% success rate!}).
Tierer profession begins, with ubers who either have, or know other ubers, who have multiples of uber items (or hell, 2-3 of every armor/weapon in the game) and begin a tiering service with insurance (the 30k insurance paid wasn't an exaggeration, that was for ONE click!).
Again, a new system ended up being for the rich and bold only, cutting out 95% of the playerbase from participating without cache-dumping their inventory for the ability to tier up their equipment (or depositing more money).
Also increased prices for various mid-level items, as tierers (or those who wanted their items tiered) begin to buy & hold onto 2, 3 or more of the same item (hoarding = reduced supply = higher demand = higher prices, artificially inflated not through use, but despair).
The community, about as near a whole as it's ever been, states vocally (ingame, forum, radio, etc) how this is WAY TO EXPENSIVE and how 'they' won't ever tier their UL gear because of the chance of item loss, which limits the market of enhancers to being used on either very low end (rarely some mid-level) UL gear that didn't cost much to tier, or on L weaponry/gear.
(bypass the drama in the middle of idiots tiering items worth $25k+ USD, few failing, some succeeding, flaming posts/threads, blah blah)
Now, with the new tiering system, the 95% of the players who WOULDN'T tier their gear, are going to be able to with zero chance of loss. The increased revenue on decay alone for the rest of the year is going to probably TRIPLE, if not increase above that (think how many will begin using dmg enhancers t1-t3 on their UL weapons now!). You will see people using enhancers on a much larger scale, which will increase the enhancer market... which will, in turn, increase both the hunting and mining profession on MU of looted items (maybe not much, but every % counts nowadays).
Effectively, what you have just seen, is an economic stimulus kick in the pants, which WILL bring in not only more peds, but more activity from players who are capable of handling this new system, without having to stress over spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to 'tier up' their favorite toy, so they can stay running 'with the pack'.
Does this seem fair to whomever it was that had their MM tiered to T4 recently? No, but it does certainly provide a nice laugh at someone who was willing to spend (over the course of 4 tierings) at
least what the MM was worth in insurance/ingredients just to do it, because they were impatient and/or had the money to spend (wonder how many, if any, MM's bit the dust on those attempts? Curious to know!). I stated, again and again,
everyone who tiered something that high on the current system, was a dumbass. Some of you who have done it, I like you guys & bs with you back and forth... but seriously, dumbass move. HUNDREDS of us kept saying "Wait, don't tier it yet, if you fail and lose that item, it's one less on the market for us to potentially buy!" (
paraphrased response for minor humor), "FU n00b, it's my item, my money, I do WTF I want with it, and if it increases the MU on MY item by succeeding or even failing, then so much the better! Stay down in that ditch where you belong, before I kick you back down!"
Now... ok. I haven't seen the 'new' costs to tier my delta SGA. But I can say that as long as I either have the components, or can stockpile them, I will finally be able to tier it up (which, btw, was a pain in the ass to do! Not many delta SGA's!). I'll also be able to look at tiering my faps, my armor (including my SGA martial pieces!), the rest of my weapons... etc etc. I hope to NOW see, more so than before, more tiering successes in the HoF window, and a VERY widespread use of enhancers!
THIS is what I hoped for when enhancers were announced originally, access by virtually ALL, regardless of ped card, and not reliant upon the elite few in the game to provide the service/items in order to do it.
Alright, getting back to work now
. Hope you enjoyed my Wall o' Text!
