First off, literally everyone is up in arms to some degree about the resource changes. They will lead to quite a few balance issues down the line. I agree with most of your concerns to be honest. However..... I have a theory. In a couple of month's we are slated to get outfit specialization... Now stay with me here. But imagine if outfits were capable of putting specialization perks into reduced Vehicle cost? IE an armor dedicated outfit could reduce the MBT cost from 450 to 350-400. A Harasser may go from 400 to 300-350. etc etc. Basically make it much harder to pull vehicles in general to deal with spam. Then in two months or so allow those who wish to specialize to do so via outfit perks so the cost is reduced a bit. This prevents people from generally being able to chain pull air / armor and will eventually allow specialists to specialize. Thoughts?
The game won't recover from the 2 months of devastation GU11 will unleash though. If they are going to implement your awesome theory they need to do it with GU11, or immediately after or else the game will be done further harm and more players will likely be lost.
This is certainly true. Perhaps the best option is to... A) Ease up on the current changes. And make them a bit less drastic. B) Impliment the second half (IE similar numbers to what they have now.) of resource cost increases when the resource revamp / outfit specialization hits.
Or they could pay more attention to your suggestion threads and never run into these design wall-blocks in the first place.
Well unless SOE comes out with some sort of statement to support this theory, then this entire thread is just kind of wasted words. Its nice to think these things, but unfortunatly people take these kinds of threads seriously and get hopefull.
It seems like a good idea but it still screws over smaller outfits since their members would have to work harder to unlock perks versus the big outfits with lots of people.
You are still going to get spammed. Pick your choice hordes of HA rockets (which are infinite and cost nothing), or tanks. It's the nature of the game. This won't stop anything. People are going to use what is most effective to get the job done. Take Libs for instance - they used to be the farming choice. Then they nerfed them a handful of times to the point where they are more effective A to A than A to G. Then people moved to HE tanks. Then they nerfed the crap out of them. Then people moved to Maxes. Then they nerfed them. Keep on going until it's SLAPPERS ONLY. Uninstalled today. This game is too far gone. Call me when SOE has gifting allowed so I can give my SC to someone who will use it.
Lol thanks Devrailis I missed you man, and I've made a lot of good threads since the time lapse when you were gone. I recently made this cool one today. https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/gu11-and-resource-cost-shenanigans.134367/
