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I may have jumped in late, but based on what I've read from everyone, era needs a reset.
Frankie hit the nail on the head in the previous "exclusive" feel of gangs, and Rogue's and other's reiteration of the ease of items, joining gangs, and etc. literally made apparent where era has gone wrong.
Where era has gone wrong is that everything is simply too easy to come by. There's no distinction between "elites" and "newbs" in any respect, especially gangs. There's no "Tachi" (newb gang) or Los Carteles (elite gang).
Everything is mixed and muddled together and this starts from the steady downturn in gangs and gang leadership over the past few years.
This was all caused by a myriad of issues such as being overly concerned with the economy (replacing money with extremely lame guns, lol.), lack of willing and potential gang leaders, crappy managers, etc.
Without writing a 5-page essay, the simple way to fix era and gangs is to reset and restore things to the way they were.
- Limit the number of guns on the server, you can maintain your .05 standards.
- Place EXTREME control on the availability of items, literally micromanage how items are released on the server and the balance of those items in relation to others. The more precisely this is done, the less to worry about afterwards.
- Each gang gets only ONE gun that is LOCATED in their base and must be purchased weekly by their gang points. This gun is updated to a higher tier as higher tier weapons become available (giving an incentive to being in gangs - free highest tier gun).
- Make extremely expensive the novelty items (any item that players waste their time with at unstick me).
- One hat per gang, a specific rank format, and quit releasing an abundance of hats in stores, you simply depreciate the value of hats as a whole.
- IMPORTANT: Be extremely selective as to who becomes a gang leader. In that select one person to formulate an ELITE gang, 1 to formulate a NEWB gang, and another two with expected average results (you know who'll do what based on who you choose, you don't really have to tell them lol).
- Provide the newb gang leader with a member limit of 45-50, the Elite Gang Leader with a member limit of 25-30, and the other two with 35-40 (I guess this lets the cat out of the bag).
In all, Mary had a little lamb who's sheet was white as snow and she treasured it, but when her Grand Uncle gave her 10,000 other Lambs with similar white coats, she couldn't care less about any one and used some as toilet paper.
Basically, the answer isn't more or newer, its less.
There is currently an abundance of everything on era when there used to be fewer everything.
Fewer guns, fewer rare guns, fewer money, fewer things to do, fewer people allowed in gangs, etc.
In all, even if this is ALL ignored, era simply needs its periodic RESET and this will, at least for now, cure everything until we get to this point again.
The rich players, all 6 of them, will whine and say they'll quit, but honestly, they won't. It's Tk, Godzilla, SM, and other kids who've spent a LOT of time on here and will not hesitate to do so again. If they don't, its - 6 and plus 60, we're good. |
01-06-2013, 04:01 AM
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