Doer
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- David "Doer" Falkayn
The general thought among most of the regular players is that the Core and HM are a step in the right direction.
As they sit now, they are a mixture of dps and luck. These 2 events are fair enough that I will continue to do them, even though I haven't ever won...
This is because after looking at the winner lists, I feel like though dps is still favored, ALL have a chance.
These events are how MM should be I suppose.
Ideally, the only way to make it truly random would be equalization of all avatars in each category:
Have 10 categories. You chose one. In each cat you get the same armor and fap, and you choose one of a variety of weapons that each has same dps and dpp. No helms, no buffs, no pills, no other gear. Everyone does x amount of hours.
Each cat has a rough cost per hour of something like this: 10 ped, 100 ped, 200 ped, 400 ped, 600 ped, 800 ped, 1000 ped, 1200 ped, and 1500 ped depending on the level.
If people want to use their alts for more chances, fine, because we are all equal. So the alt problem is eliminated and uber item trading is eliminated.
The amount of people that would depo and participate if an event was structured like this would blow MA"s mind.
I understand this takes away from the people that paid big money for uber gear! But this isnt about YOU so save the drama on this issue for your mama. You can still have MM and CM and HM. That is why MA should try this once as an additional event to see what happens. Let MA see which one gets more people cycling and depoing more.
I promise you, if they ran an event like this, there would be a 10-fold increase in depos and players cycling. This is about MA trying to survive, and not about the ubers getting all the awesome prizes every year because they can afford the best guns. The ubers do not depo anywhere close to the other 90%. We need an event that is fair for the OTHER 90%!
Just try it once MA. If it doesn't work out then stop, but I am so confident that you would see the 90% playing harder than they have ever played before, if you started running events like this!
Highly vulnerable to exploits though. Tiny little advantage-giving exploits that a normal player wouldn't think of would be found and abused and instead of DPS winning, the most willing to cheat would win.
Maybe i'm just too jaded when it comes to MA's ability to make a bulletproof arena and agressively prosecute exploiters, but that's how i'd see that type of event going down.
have multiple event types where killing one of the wrong type counts against your score.
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