Work In Progress What's Next For DCUO: New Plans For Future Episodes.

What about Utility belt slots that cost marks ? will day get 60 days to ? And why we get no marks from lower content ? It should get decreased amount of marks as lower the the content is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The suggestion that there might be more stuff coming for T4 sold me on this

One thing I couldn't seem to find in the thread, and I apologise if I missed it, was what is going to happen with the weekly/monthly reward boxes? Will they remain in the game? Will they contain multiple MoV?

Also a question for the community: With the change to mods, do you think we'll see a shift in people using beta mods in top tier content just to get the crit bonuses? And if so, how will this affect stats (and therefore pug groups - will we see a run of threads complaining about this?) and marketplace sales (radar enhancers and recovery kits)?

Exciting news!

While I am looking forward to almost everything stated, I do have some concerns that I wonder if we could get some feedback on:

1. If everything will be Marks of Victory, why has the cap been set so low? 100 hardly seems like a good number when gear will still cost a high percentage of those marks and the mainframe will require to be maintained with those same marks.
2. I’m concerned with no longer awarding marks for out of CR range. Anyone who is new to the game or has created toons lately will realize how hardly anyone is Que’ing up to instances. I myself will still do the FOS’ because they dropped MoT. I will have absolutely no reason to run those again and I can’t be the only one who feels this way. Perhaps considering giving a diminishing # of marks might be something to consider.

Regards,

Menelaos

I've been playing this game since Jan 2011, and in my inventory I have saved at least 1 of every different type of mark that has come out.

My question is what's going to happen to the 79 Marks of Victory I already have?

I'm assuming you guys are going to use a different symbol than that red fist and I'll just end up having 2 different sets of MoV. It's a shame that my fury and triumph will be completely gone not by choice, but only because I like the collection I have.

I think a diminishing system could work. Maybe the prestige calculations can be referenced. It favors the tier you're on with a small overlap into the previous tier. Then the penalties increase as you go lower. This allows us to earn max marks at tier and go down a bit if we want. Now it does open up the possibility of a high tiered player farming lower content to earn marks toward the current episode's gear, but realistically it would be painful to do that!

this doesn't look great. I'm not a great group player. I just prefer to poodle along on my own, take my time, &, as such, I end up doing a great deal of lower content. ever morning, I do the Ace & Stryker's dailies, & the Cultists daily, & the Sbot/Mbot runs. what this means is that content will now be useless to me, right? so, I'm being forced into group content that I don't want to play if I want to progress? hardly seems fair. I went Legendary so that I would have access to everything, lower and higher tier. but now, any perks for doing the lower stuff has been removed? in what way is this improving anything? this is not a knee-jerk throwing my toys out of the pram reaction, but, honestly, a genuine concern that these changes are going to force me out of the only MMO I have ever played.

Thanks for your clarification.

I think this new system will be a great change to DCUO that can make up for the shortcommings of the previous system while having shortcomings of it's own that are small or rather generally irrelevant.

I understood that part, as it wasn't really my question. I wanted to know the time frame for when we would be seeing this go live as it has been spend your marks now, so that you don't have overflow that goes away to nothing and you lose the extra when it hits. Others have said in perhaps 2 months, so that answers my question.

If you are only doing the solos and duos then I think you will be fine still. You will still have 2 solos that give you marks plus 4 duos that give you marks....all relevant in your cr bracket. Plus those are replayable daily so you can earn 10 marks every day. In the endgame if it stayed how it was you may not have that much content until the end of the tier but with it this way you would always have that much content. So you may be able to gear up faster...depending on how you play

That's what I asked, and Mepps said no because you still have to have the CR to get the higher gear, so you can't just jump in tiers even though all of the armors cost the same.

I like that.
Much better than telling me I won't get a thing.

Regards,
M

I think having no incentive to do old content will be a big mistake in the long run for this game.

New system seems to be very alt friendly

I do not mind the no marks for the old content...i only run it for styles and to help league anyway. Plus the marks did not matter much or at all unless I was paying rent...which will now be easier to afford with the new system

that was the old system, with the new one those marks will be just as good on T1 and they are on T6 since all gear will be the same, so we would be force to only grind the current tier content (which for anyone T6b isn't a lot), to buy vendor gear.

true to start it is not a lot but we do have more content coming our soon so that should help and tbh if this change was not happening everyone would be replaying the next dlc into the ground for marks and symbols and complaining about how there was not enough content anyway. Plus after they get things goin there will always be 6 months of content that is "relevant" for your cr which is better than only the first dlc of a new tier any day of the week. IMO of course

long run?, this will impact as soon as it's out, we will only get marks from the new content, which it self it's limited to the monthly window, so if I happen to max out whatever gear is out during that month, what else will I have to do then?, grind for styles and base items on lower content, sorry but I wont spend replay just looking for one single piece of gear, that's not what my money is worth. I'll do the current content, and if I maxed it our in 2 weeks, then I'll only log in once a week, run whatever piece of content that has anything I need (which isn't a lot), and leave until the next one.

And no one will replay the hell of the new content?, people will still use their replay on whatever piece of content is out for the month, within 2 weeks tops the limited content will be maxed by many, then what do they have for the next 2 weeks?, nothing.

btw don't forget this will be for all tiers, so a player in T4, the worst tier possible, if he doesn't have any DLC for it, will be stuck with 1 alert to grind for gear.