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Game balance changes

Bling Fling Posted:

As in we’d have different clbumes with different strengths and weaknesses, and not just different background themes to look at while we mindlessly press 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2… ad infinitum, which seems to be where we’re heading at the moment.

You should try playing as a Hacker, then you get the benefits of pressing 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4…. ad infinitum. It makes for a good change of pace.

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Earbleeders in ppwn shop!

Hooray, now that I have these, flezz is worthless again!

Pay to play = teh suckz

Vuron Posted:

As if KoL doesn’t require money in order to be truly competitive.

Actually, it doesn’t. I know of several very competitive players, and some of the richest players in the game who have, as a point of pride, the fact that they’ve never donated. This is possible because KoL has a functioning, and somewhat vibrant, player economy. So any donation content can be obtained by a certain amount of in-game effort. This is the reason why any suggestions of an optional “donation model” for advantages of limited time availability that don’t eliminate you from competitive play would be a terrible idea for this game, since people who weren’t there at the time simply would never be able to get their hands on whatever it is. If anybody suggests making whatever little edges people would donate for not have limited time availability, does anybody honestly think that Jick would make half as much money as he does if there wasn’t a new little thing every month? Not only does it work from a “buy now, quantities are limited” point of view, but it also coaxes people to buy more than they need to resell later, which simply isn’t possible here.

What works for KoL works for KoL, but that doesn’t mean it would work here. I don’t play this game because I want a second KoL, and I was more than happy to pay for Episode 2 before I even finished Episode One. The production values here are high enough that asking $10 for the level of content in the game is far from unreasonable. If the OP is really unhappy about being “forced” to pay for episode two, I’m sure CZ would be more than happy to refund the full price of episode one to that player.

ENEMY LISP

While clearly inferior to Haskell due to lack of curried functions and non-strict semantics, LISP is clearly a superior programming language. No enemy of LISP is a friend of mine.

No word can describe my frustration now that my 55 hard earned Venus de Milos have become half priced

Vuron Posted:

Honestly both   and forums pwned need to be retired as active leaderboards. Flezz isn’t quite as static as forums pwned but it’s getting there. If leaderboards require that someone ahead of you goes inactive then they are more a function of endurance rather than any sort of gamebased skill. Further they’ve always inspired a mbumive amount of angst as people struggle to catch up with the people in front of them.

I agree entirely. There is an essential problem with lifetime leaderboards that a new player will never be able to challenge for; since they will never be able to challenge for those boards they just won’t pay attention to them. Because people don’t pay attention to those boards, they don’t care about them or really respect them. As the game ages, more and more of game’s demographics will be made up of people who were newbies when those boards were entirely unavailable to them and more and more of the oldbies who are or were in position to challenge for those boards will get bored and wander off/become inactive.

I have to say though, that if a functioning player economy is implemented, whereby people can buy and sell BP, moar files, and pieces of .moar files, the Flezz leaderboard could become relevant to players who aren’t already close. Simply because a new player could show up, make a donation for some BP, sell them for mad flezz, and play the market on .moar files (or whatever) and eventually become filthy stinking rich.

As it stands, though, the Flezz leaderboard probably doesn’t mean that much except to people who are on it, are close to it, or are easily impressed.

Did the Flezz economy just get raped overnight?

was Posted:

And it is still a stupid idea. We need a better and more challenging game, not more “achievements”.

A game where scarcity is an issue (i.e. you don’t have enough currency to purchase everything you could possibly want every time you’re made aware of it) is a better game.

I personally don’t believe that it’s possible to make a “web RPG” challenging, short of putting in content that’s designed for levels above the current cap, because any other challenge be made trivial by simply “grinding more.” I think trying to make this game challenging is a lost cause, ultimately the goal should be to make it entertaining.

Did the Flezz economy just get raped overnight?

was Posted:

Tell me how it would be a lasting solution? Tell me how a flezz sink will affect every player in a continual way, not just once?

A flezz sink is not necessarily a one time thing, it’s anything that gets currency out of the game. It could be something that happens once, it could be something that happens every day.

Suppose ET does the following: a bot is set up that accepts donations of any amount of flezz. Every day at rollover, an ePeen is awarded to the player or players (if a tie) who donated the most flezz that day.

Sure, people would stop giving away flezz to that source after they get that ePeen, but it’s going to take a long time for everybody who wants it to win that one. By the time that stops sinking much in the way of flezz, Evil Trout will have come up with other sinks.

Did the Flezz economy just get raped overnight?

Evil Trout Posted:

People are earning much more than they’re spending and that has to be addressed.

Could this be addressed by giving us more things to spend Flezz on at some point? Once you buy all your gear, it just sort of piles up. I spend maybe 16k on repairs and that’s still less than the current Venus price. Decreasing the flow of flezz into the game is all well and good, but it doesn’t seem to solve the problem of there being very little flow out. Some sort of flezz sink, with bumociated Peen or some other non-monetary reward would go a long way, and would probably make make people happier than continually ramping back deliveries.

Pro hackers - Ideal proc power?

BaconSupreme Posted:

Beast0r Cables are the most useless item in A&A. By the time you make enough money to buy them, you should already have 3 50TB HDDs and 4 Polka Dot Boxes for rollover.

What the heck else am I supposed to spend all this Flezz on? “Not having to adjust your hardware for rollover” is a minor benefit, but a benefit nonetheless; and after you buy Beast0r Cables, the finger implant, and the best hacker book, you have essentially nothing else useful to spend flezz on. So rather than “let the flezz pile up earlier” why not get the last useful thing, and let the flezz start piling up a little bit later.

Personally, I don’t devote any hardware spots to proc power. I use the finger implant, the hacker book, and I’ve been fiddling around with my .moars to see what works best, some of which give proc. power.

For the record, my stats are Offense 104 Defense 81 Luck 57, and I have 160 Proc Power. Nothing really gives me trouble