I think there are two ways that buying turns could be implemented. One way that would allow everyone to buy extra turns on equal footing is to have the cost of buying additional turns scaled based on character level, or limited to a few extra turns only. I think this is a bad choice because, if buying an additional turn or two extra is relatively cheap, pretty much everyone would do it and in that case you might as well just give everyone more turns. I think it would be cooler if buying a turn was super expensive, and possibly something you did in order to gain an edge on the leaderboards so you could grab a cred / most forums pwnd ePeen award, or something.

About having more than 4 forum visits per go, I dunno. It seemed like to me that the 4 forum visits per turn pretty much introduced you to at least a couple of new things in each setting, whether it’s a new forum, mission or a level up with new abilities. If a higher amount of forum vists would translate into more grinding inbetween new stuff being introduced I’d rather just stick with 4 forum visits.

What Jalapeno Bootyhole said. It’s annoying when you are lower level because it takes like fifteen minutes to run through your forum visits, but when you get on to some of the later forums it starts taking a lot longer. Hell, at the forum I’ve been grinding on right now, I can kills threads one or two attacks and running through it four times still takes me a good twenty minutes. This is doing nothing but attacking, no healing, no support skills.

Okay, then a suggestion:

I agree (for the most part) on 4 is enough – I didn’t stop to think that later fourms got more difficult. Log in to see images! Kitsune edited this message on 11/15/2007 4:25PM

Kitsune Posted:

Okay, then a suggestion:

I agree (for the most part) on 4 is enough – I didn’t stop to think that later fourms got more difficult. Log in to see images!

You’ll soon find out why pwning old forums have quite a bit of value…I don’t want to spoil the game for you, but some shady gentlemen will soon make it fairly worth your while.

That’s not a bad idea regarding: bandwidth and how powerful the forum itself is. It would be tricky to work out the algorithms to make sure it seems fair…still, newbs can get very far ahead in just a couple days, partially because there are some bonus non-forum quests involved.

We’ll spend some time looking at how long people spend in forums throughout the lifespan of the game, and see where we can even it out. We want people to stay wanting moar, but we don’t want it to be over too soon.