More options for 12 and 33 month vets...
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Posted on: 2009-08-03 08:52 in Suggestions and Ideas
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Originally Posted by Boxcars
Could we get more options for the 12 and 33 month veteran's rewards?
Specifically, the 33 month reward. (I almost always pick Sands of Whiff for 12 month.) I've got a Natural origin scrapper who's a superspy and neither the Blackwand nor the Nemesis Staff really fit the concept. Any chance of choosing some kind of Assault Rifle or Rocket Launcher, instead? |
Those vet reward power choices are permanent once selected. Any changes like that will only screw over the vets that have already earned those rewards and made their selections.
Now if you want to suggest a new temp power selection as say the 72 month reward that's different.
Yeah since I couldn't then respec any of my many, many characters out of their current rewards - no. Not really fair since many of us *start* the game with a new toon carrying all those rewards already.
More options would be nice, but maybe not at those levels. I'd actually be all for replacing or enhancing one of the "respec only" or "grats you get a free costume token only" levels with something, but still - anyone who'se CHOSEN that months' worth will not get anything new.
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I'm not sure why allowing my characters who have not yet redeemed their 33 month vet reward to choose an Assault Rifle, Grenade Launcher etc, would cause your pre-existing characters to lose the use of their Nemmy Staves or Blackwands....
How does giving me something cause you to lose something?
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Because they would not have the same choice. That grenade launcher could be a more appropriate thematic choice for their character, and they cannot take it because they have already selected their 12 month, 33 month and 54 month vet reward. By adding the choice to an existing teir, as you suggest, you get the option, and deny it to every character that already made their choices before the option was added.|
Originally Posted by Boxcars
I'm not sure why allowing my characters who have not yet redeemed their 33 month vet reward to choose an Assault Rifle, Grenade Launcher etc, would cause your pre-existing characters to lose the use of their Nemmy Staves or Blackwands....
How does giving me something cause you to lose something? |
I wouldn't mind seeing things added to the tiers, but they should be things that everyone at that tier or beyond gets access to, and not tied to a choice that someone may have already made.
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Originally Posted by Boxcars
I'm not sure why allowing my characters who have not yet redeemed their 33 month vet reward to choose an Assault Rifle, Grenade Launcher etc, would cause your pre-existing characters to lose the use of their Nemmy Staves or Blackwands....
How does giving me something cause you to lose something? |
Because that isn't how vet rewards work. You are in effect saying to the players that have more than 33 months vet rewards that they aren't entitled to an assault rifle or grenade launcher on their pre-existing characters because they have been loyal customers longer than you have.
Not gonna happen.
In order for your idea to work the devs would have to yank all the temp powers for the modified vet reward and then allow ALL the eligible players to rechoose from the new list.
Unlikely that this will happen.
Having new temp powers to choose from as a future vet reward?
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Wow... It's amazing you could think about wanting more choices for -your- Vet Award powers without considering the idea that maybe -other- people would want access to those same new choices for their existing characters. How is it fair (in terms of Vet Awards) to allow newer characters to have more choices than older ones? |
Originally Posted by Boxcars
I'm not sure why allowing my characters who have not yet redeemed their 33 month vet reward to choose an Assault Rifle, Grenade Launcher etc, would cause your pre-existing characters to lose the use of their Nemmy Staves or Blackwands....
How does giving me something cause you to lose something? |
Like you I have always thought we should have had more choices for the Vet Award combat powers. I have many alts where none of the current choices really "fit" them very well. But as Forbin mentioned the only fair way add more choices would be is if we also had a way to respec our current Vet Award choices so that anybody could have access to any of the new choices.
There's nothing wrong with your original suggestion.
It just needs to also include the idea of Vet power respecs as well.
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Since they did change the way that Patron pools work, it's a possibility maybe that someday, we may get this.
Was I qualifying that enough? I would hope some day we DO get this ability, and with any new cool vet temps too.
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Could we get more options for the 12 and 33 month veteran's rewards?
Specifically, the 33 month reward. (I almost always pick Sands of Whiff for 12 month.)
I've got a Natural origin scrapper who's a superspy and neither the Blackwand nor the Nemesis Staff really fit the concept. Any chance of choosing some kind of Assault Rifle or Rocket Launcher, instead?
"Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves." -Tolstoy