Suggestion: a new unlockable bonus when you hit 50
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2009-05-06 24:48 in Suggestions and Ideas
Post number, what, 6 or 7, on this same thing in the past couple of days?
There are threads here and in the AT and Power Forums on this already.
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This would kind of defeat the purpose of playing the game. Gaining level 50 by playing the game allows players to learn to use their powers and find exactly what they want. I for one use Mids Hero Designer to plan my heroes out from 1-50 before I actually level them and I make so many changes when actually using the character cause I see that things don't work the way I thought they would in Mids or I just don't like the skill.
There would be a demand for free respecs if then happens or people would just do respec TFs, and the price of respec Recipes would sky rocket. It best people earn their levels 
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Dark Age of Camelot tried this. One of their devs went on record saying it was the one of the worst things they ever implemented.
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yeah it was so evil seeing all my old friends come back to the game. I hated it so much, those evil bastards in daoc! How dare they make there game fun!
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yeah it was so evil seeing all my old friends come back to the game. I hated it so much, those evil bastards in daoc! How dare they make there game fun!
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No, the point was that it wasn't fun. It didn't work. It FAILED there.
So to the OP: /no. Just ... no.
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Post number, what, 6 or 7, on this same thing in the past couple of days?
There are threads here and in the AT and Power Forums on this already.
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Sorry. I realize the general concept was brought up many times, but I didn't know if it was ever suggested to be tied to leveling rewards, and feel it's worthwhile to bring up again.
I specifically chose to tie it to leveling several characters to 50 because if you stick through all of the levels and content enough to progress several characters to level 50, you should be knowledgeable enough and seasoned enough to deserve that option of making a mid-rank character. Even at 25, the majority of work is still ahead of you to it to 50 if you want.
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As a former player of DAOC, man it was a big idea there and it will be a bad idea here. It's a sign that your game is not growing and you are looking for anything to keep your numbers from falling anymore. ANYTHING!!!
But it still fails to be a good idea no matter HOW many 50s you have.
** By leveling individually, and not being allowed to powerlevel (too much anyway), each character represents a chunk of time spent by a player. Players must spend money on the game. Therefore, allowing players to skip that time they'd normally spend in the game, would be ... skipping money. No profit in that, sorry.
** By leveling a bunch of 50s, if you're not already *good* at it, going past the lower levels won't help. If you ARE already good at it, the lower levels are great for drops, salvage, and making sure your build is what you want it to be without burning a respec. Or two. Or three.
** If you've got a 50, and spend some time at it, by the time you're ready to level another character (provided you aren't just alting everywhere like a lot of us are) there may very well be new content or changed content that you missed the first time around. I know that I outleveled pretty much everything every time I started a new dedicated character - hollows? Winterlorded through it. Striga? Just missed it with that same character. Croatoa? Already 50 on that toon, too low to get there with anyone else. New Faultline? Thankfully I slowed myself down to get that content on my 3rd 50.
So... those are just a couple of the many, many reasons why it wouldn't be a good idea.
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Bad idea for all the reasons explained above.
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One of the biggest wishes for players who have created multiple level 50 characters is that they could create characters higher than level 1. A player, when they hit 50, unlocks new archetypes, so why not have it so that if you hit a certain amount of level 50 characters, you unlock the ability to either advance a low-level character to a certain level, or create one at that level.
Maybe have it so that if you have three level 50 characters, you can advance a character to level 25, or start them out there?
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The only problem with defeating the Tsoo is that an hour later, you want to defeat them again!
"Life is just better boosted!" -- LadyMage
"I'm a big believer in Personal Force Field on a blaster. ... It's your happy place." -- Fulmens