Soulbinding - how it could work
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Soul binding sucks :)
Soul binding by choice reduces its effectiveness for the only thing you can use to justify it at all. It would just be another game mechanic and if it was cheap people would mostly soul bind junk for the bonus and keep uber items to trade or use on other characters. Making it expensive would make it even less effective at its intended purpose. GGG don't have an answer to inflation apart from letting the default realm rot and encouraging players to start in new empty worlds and that sucks as well. The only way to create a stable long term economy and stable game difficulty is to have the game world take away as much as it gives and that means items (not just including but especially the very best quality items) have to leave the world. My suggestion is to have items wear out from use and break. Yes knowing that 150% ed uber sword you found is only going to last a couple of months will make you sad, but, but finding a 145% ed not quite so uber sword during those couple of months will make you happy and you will put it in your stash for when you need it. It would keep end game drops more relevant and interesting. You wouldn't be able to play for months without finding anything worth picking up because none of it was better than you were already using. It would stimulate trade because high level characters would need to replace equipment instead of using the same stuff till they quit the game. It would also remove the consumable currency items from the world that were spent on the broken equipment. Skill gems and flasks should also wear out so they and the upgrades spent on them get to leave the world. For those who think they don't like the idea, what is worse, loosing all your items at once when you join a new league to escape the default league which is drowning in items and nothing has value or loosing all your items slowly over time in a stable league where things have value and are actively traded? |
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"Your idea is much much MUCH worse With the first choice it is a choice I choose to leave the default league (which won't ever be as bad as you all seem to think) to join a more stable league that will only last a few months/year before it joins the default league With your suggesting it would make me not want to use my best items for grinding because I don't want to lose my items which is NOT a fun mechanic (it's about as far from good as you can get) |
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" Look at D2, only PVPers a noobs play off ladder so there is no real choice. The default league will get as bad as we all think because there is no limit to how bad it can get, just a matter of time. As for a new league being more stable what are you talking about? A new league starts completely empty and inflates for the rest of its life, the opposite of stable and only better than the default league in that it gets put out of its misery eventually. |
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We ask Chris Wilson, Producer and Lead about the Influation and show him this Thread.
The complete Interview is here: http://www.modulopfer.de/2011/10/18/interview-mit-chris-wilson-lead-designer-und-producer-von-path-of-exile/ |
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