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Originally Posted by Minomato
Lol. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Gelats ARE there to give people with beefy wallets overpowered weaponry and abilities over those who don't, as long as the "gelat noobs" supply Stefan and Uni-...Err, the Game, with a steady supply of funds.
If your opinion is that they "alter" gameplay positively to allow players to "explore" new ways of playing, that's fine by me, but to be blunt, it's just a nice, glucosed lathered way of exchanging your money for pixels.
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You misunderstand me, what I'm saying is that Gelats shouldn't be a quick access path to becoming better than everyone else. This entire idea of using gelats was just forced onto Zone with barely any thought.
Stefan should have taken the time to decide what kind of things he could provide players with for an extra bit of cash. You could have armour which would be added to your character that wouldn't go and add tons of extra Hitpoints, but gives you immunity to fire and ice.
That's just one example of how gelats can be used to expand the gameplay which I took off the top of my head.
If you bought the armour, great! You would be immune to ice and/or fire and you would look like a total badass too. Fire and ice are used not so much that you would become invincible, but they aren't used so little that buying the armour isn't worth it.
Some more examples would be a little anti-emp thing which would passively make any vehicle you are in immune to becoming disabled by a beam, a helmet that reduces damage caused by explosions or even something to help increase your movement speed slightly when flying in a jetpack.
You could then have bundles to increase revenue for your products. For example, what would be the point in buying an item to increase your jetpack's mobility speed if you didn't have a jetpack? There wouldn't be one, so the staff could bundle the jetpack and the jetpack speed increaser together. The player would then receive a small discount for buying two things together, it would be a sort of way to tell the "Thanks for buying our products"!
You see? I've typed for a couple of minutes and come up with a better starting plan for gelats than what was actually used.