Suggestion: Remove Sewer Elixers & Cookies

FullMetalJacket · #1 12-30-2011, 07:26 AM

I understand the purpose behind these two items, I really do. If you decide to spend your ECs on such items you get to be a one man army for awhile. That was fine back when ya' know, ECs were too valuable to waste on sewer elixers and cookies, and we all were saving up for the really big event prizes.

However, I think the wide spread use of these items is taking away from an important part of the game. Raiding. If you decide to raid and you don't have friends to back you up, then you shouldn't have the option of stacking armor, food, sewer elixers, and cookies to become a one man raid team. It isn't fun for the people that actually raid with their gangs when one guy just runs in stacked with all of these items and begins laming.

If you take away all of the "one man raid" items, and equal the playing field, then people will probably start consolidating into gangs again so that they stand a chance in raids again. Honestly in the raids I've done we've had 3 one man gangs running around using sewer elixers and cookies every single time they attack, and it gets really old. These items should not be that common.

An alternative fix would be to make it so you can't trade these items either, that'll take a lot of them off the street and make them rare again.

salesman · #2 12-30-2011, 07:45 AM

all event items should be removed from the economy (i.e. you can't trade them)

Supaman771 · #3 12-30-2011, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by salesman

all event items should be removed from the economy (i.e. you can't trade them)

I'd like to refute, and state that only the 'Consumable' event items should untradeable.

Trading, lending, and giving away Flaks, Lightsabers, Pencils, Sparklers, etc. shouldn't be limited.

salesman · #4 12-30-2011, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Supaman771

Trading, lending, and giving away Flaks, Lightsabers, Pencils, Sparklers, etc shouldn't be limited.

Ideas like this have turned Era into a breeding ground for kids who only care about their virtual currency and "rare" items.

Supaman771 · #5 12-30-2011, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by salesman

Ideas like this have turned Era into a breeding ground for kids who only care about their virtual currency and "rare" items.

That's how it already is though?

DuBsTeRmAn · #6 12-30-2011, 12:42 PM

Idiot, you don't remove cookies

Tim_Rocks · #7 12-30-2011, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by salesman

all event items should be removed from the economy (i.e. you can't trade them)

This.

Pelikano · #8 12-30-2011, 04:16 PM

Sewer Elixirs and cookies shouldn't exist to begin with.

WillaWonka · #9 12-30-2011, 04:57 PM

Name will get super pissed if you remove cookies.

So if you can't beat them, join them, win a few events, buy cookies and elixirs, some armor, then it will be just as easy to 10 v 1 the person.

-.-

FullMetalJacket · #10 12-30-2011, 05:31 PM

Winning a few events and getting a few supers every now and again isn't a big deal. Buying them in bulk and using them every time you attack to effectively double your HP and give yourself instant healing to full health... well, that's a problem.

You shouldn't be able to 10 v 1 in a raid this easily. You shouldn't be given advantages like this, advantages that allow you to raid solo.

salesman · #11 12-30-2011, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Supaman771

That's how it already is though?

Exactly why it's a problem.

smirt362 · #12 12-30-2011, 08:00 PM

Sewer Elixirs?

Sounds like you're drinking raw sewage

dude2020 · #13 12-31-2011, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by DuBsTeRmAn

Idiot, you don't remove cookies

yusoironic

bloodykiller · #14 01-02-2012, 07:25 PM

remove cookies they're just too fkn cheap..i'm saying this and i have 300+ cookies, sewer elixers r fine, on the other hand

Fiberwyre_P2P · #15 01-06-2012, 07:28 AM

remove all those things and add juggernaut bounties ;P

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Originally Posted by Fiberwyre_P2P

Juggernaut Bounties:
Every 30 minutes, a $1000 bounty is put on a random player's head (denoted by a black skull). (Only selects players that are in PK zones.) Whoever has the bounty on them gains regenerating armor (up to 25 armor max) and receives 5x the amount of money they would normally get for kills.

If you spend 10 minutes in a PK zone without dying, the bounty goes away. You don't receive anything besides the money you got from PKing.

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People can also buy Juggernaut Bounties, but may only place them on themselves, and they cost $1000.

punkrules · #16 01-13-2012, 01:31 AM

Could Tim possibly disable cookies, armor, and elixers from being used in the gang base?

Supaman771 · #17 01-13-2012, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by punkrules

Could Tim possibly disable cookies, armor, and elixers from being used in the gang base?

Please?

Kohola_KinG · #18 01-13-2012, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by punkrules

Could Tim possibly disable cookies, armor, and elixers from being used in the gang base?

If you disable them from gang bases it will resolve a problem then it will just create another problem. They are only ever used in raids very rarely are they used outside of raids. If you disable them then you might as well remove them from the shop as people won’t buy them as they are worthless to them. This leads to people not joining events because there EC’s become worthless to them. There isn’t a hell of a lot else to buy in the shop to be honest.

TheJames · #19 01-13-2012, 02:52 AM

Amen to Koho's post. They are a part of the game, let it be.

dude2020 · #20 01-13-2012, 03:27 AM

What's that old Era saying?

If you think this is a huge problem, wait until you see our solutions?

PerfectDark · #21 01-13-2012, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by punkrules

Could Tim possibly disable cookies, armor, and elixers from being used in the gang base?

Let it be...

bloodykiller · #22 01-13-2012, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by punkrules

Could Tim possibly disable cookies, armor, and elixers from being used in the gang base?

na tim likes to see ppl running around the "gang base" healing instead of fighting
i invite anyone who hasn't yet seen the gang bases to go check out what used to be BH, this will show you how incompetent tim is regarding gang matters
btw i have nothing against tim, it just irritates me that he thinks he knows what he's doing whilst he's building gang bases that'll only help noobs and runners..and if seeing the bases isnt enough try raiding in it, it basically works the same as avantgarde or w.e it was called

who of u actually likes to run in circles in these bases?

WillaWonka · #23 01-13-2012, 10:11 PM

Supaman771 · #24 01-13-2012, 10:15 PM

The running itself isn't exactly a problem per-say, you can easily team up and corner them.. or just capture the base and use the doors for shortcuts.

But at the point where I can run in circles backpedaling + shooting for over a minute and pretty much use as many cookies as I can possibly buy in succession.

bloodykiller · #25 01-14-2012, 05:39 AM

u can easily run around for 15 secs then escape from base or yeah run and heal shooting backwards at ppl chasing u..it's as lame as it gets, it's exactly y all the furniture/walls were removed from bh and bb bases