Enhancer slots for sale in Paragon Market?

I be okay if you could buy up to 6 more max Slots per character maybe even make it so only VIPs could buy it or at least they have to be tier 9

I know that it happens now (fortunately, not in the channels that I hang out in). Adding this option would just give the l33t pwnzorz even more reason to wave their e-peens at each other.

And in the end, it would add nothing of real value to the game.

Absolutely no. Never.

Honestly, if you need an explanation why, you shouldn't even be posting any suggestion related to game balance.

No.

100% absolutely no reason for this. Mids works wounderfully for this type of thing. Plan your builds out before hand.

All that needs to be said here is "never sell power." This remains true regardless of which game it doing it - selling power is the worst thing you can do to a game. Even the most soulless of Korean grindfest MMOs don't sell power. If you need to sell something, sell convenience. Easier transport, easier acquisition of rewards, easier recovery from losses and so forth. That way paying customers get there faster, but the NET TOTAL is always the same. A "Pay to Win" player won't be any stronger than a basic subscriber, he'll just be strong sooner.

This is unballancing, because the game is designed with the expectation that you'll have to decide what to slot and what to NOT slot. Slotting everything to 6 or 7 completely invalidates that entire system. Do you know what happened the last time an entire system was validated?

ED

Yup, that's right. The game was originally designed and balanced around the idea that SOs would be rare, so people would have to choose what to slot with SOs very carefully, and would therefore be using a few SOs, some DOs and mostly Trainings. That didn't work, and when people ended up slotting all of their slots with SOs, ED became inevitable. Game balance broke, enhancements tiers became pointless and something had to be done. ED was it. Years later, Inventions were the answer to enhancements that you couldn't just buy 90 of and slot all your powers.

In short, never say power, especially such that breaks core game systems.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Just adding my two inf here as well: NO. Selling power is bad, period. I could get behind extra slots as a reward for a taskforce or whatever thing done ingame, maybe, but NOT in the store. It doesn't matter if I'd buy it or not, if one character is forever going to be stronger than another character simply because one player has money to spend and the other doesn't, the game may as well be dead already.

Thanks, Grouchybeast and Samuel_Tow for explaining the situation to me (even if Sam *did* invoke the accursed name of ED!).

As I have gotten feedback on this suggestion, I have adjusted my suggestion to be more in the tone of "just a few more to give some breathing room (as for Khelds)."

Even Rebel_Scum's idea of extra enhancer slots as a one-time TF reward would be something I could grab on to with both paws!

Thank you, Samuel, for explaining that better than I could ever have.

Sorry, Katt, for the outburst earlier. Game balance is a delicate thing, and selling power... yeah. Never a good idea. It turns the game into haves and have nots and there's already too many of those on the market.

If it's (some) Khelds that need help, then fix Khelds (without breaking the rest of the game to do it).

I'm not sure they really do, however. (Need help, that is.) Between Inherent Fitness, IOs, and letting Stamina et al carry over to all forms, it's (IMO) tons easier now to play now than it used to be. Pity they're still so overshadowed by the genuinely epic Arachnos ATs.