Comments on: SMT Online: Imagine, And Why It Is Failing.

By: 大霊母Finella

大霊母Finella — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:53:43 +0000

Come back to me when you run gold dungeons on a frequent basis, and learn the true nature of the economy.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:01:17 +0000

This is nuts. Yes I understand everything, and have from post one in this thread. I don’t understand why you think there should be an alternative to CP items when it is just a matter of degree you speak of.

+20% +40% it doesn’t all that much matter. If people wanna spend money to lower the difficulty of the game, then that’s their business.

By: 大霊母Finella

大霊母Finella — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:59:58 +0000

A 5 slot fully mod kotetsu is still going to do significantly less ice damage than a Rei, since you need to enchant an aquans to it for ice damage, and you can enchant a +20% racial enchant on Rei.

A 5 slot fully moded ranbus SVD is still going to do significantly less magic damage than a Gamic since you need to enchant chu chulain to it for magic damage, and you can enchant a +20% racial enchant on Gamic.

My point is that CP items offer a relatively huge advantage over conventional items, and Michael, in his infinite wisdom denies this.

Other than zan/lightning, how are you going to get a +35% fire elemental weapon before level 81, without using CP? Same goes ice, magic, nerv etc…

Same goes for guns which has no “easy” special enchant alternatives, unlike melee weapons.

This is which is why I used Avalon as an example, as there really isn’t a realistic alternative to it, other than another CP weapon.

By: 大霊母Finella

大霊母Finella — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:53:32 +0000

I already went though this with you: no proper money sink in this game = makka worth decays overtime = economy will eventually reach a saturation point where barter trading is the only form of economy left.

CP alternatives that acts as money sink are needed to prevent this grim situation that will hit the game sooner or later.

Case in point, the one month without melon and the period between 14th to 18th of January where the farmer flooded the market.

After effects of it is still visible now.

And you miss the point of my reply to Michael. He’s claiming there are no difference between CP and non-cp items.

While they are SOME alternatives for weapons, there are practically none for armor other than aegis/glepnir.

A CP ring that ads +10% spin damage is still a CP ring even if you bought it off the bazaar.

By: DiabloTerrorGF

DiabloTerrorGF — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Since most crafted weapons aren’t incredibly difficult to make(in fact only a few melee weapons are and not even worth it), slot 3 percentage buffs are rather easy(don’t forget big success can give +20% on a level 3, like my lovely lightning blade*hugs*). Yeah you’re gonna break few weapons but that’s the point.