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A friend of mine made a good suggestion to me the other day and was wondering if the following changes could be made for more variety options:
1. Remove the Ballista Points limit
2. Increase the Experience Points accumulation with each Ballista Match
3. Allow Experience Points, and Ballista Points to be an eligible reward from Non-Official Ballista Matches(such as Diorama Abdhaljs-Ghelsba and Abdhaljs Isle-Purgonorgo)
4. Allow Ballista Points to be usable toward purchasing Pouches of Voiddust and Cells used for VoidWatch
5. Increase Ballista Points accumulations with each Ballista Match
Bad idea, PvP could then be abused horribly to stock up a tonne of points quickly in order to get cheap cells.
I'm 99% certain within a month we'd have figured out a way to just sit and grind ballista points and not actually play the ballista game properly.
I can see your concern with the system being abused and I'm certain that the issue is already addressed as they already have a performance system going for the Official Ballista Matches, so this isn't a problem. If people sit around it's likely they aren't going to get close to squat for Ballista Points.
I remember this because Ballista Points varied widely when I participated.
Alhanelem
01-21-2012, 03:05 PM
Bad idea, PvP could then be abused horribly to stock up a tonne of points quickly in order to get cheap cells.
I'm 99% certain within a month we'd have figured out a way to just sit and grind ballista points and not actually play the ballista game properly.
You have to play ballista for an hour to get points. You cannot just "grind out" ballista points, because official matches only happen every other hour, The people on the winning team who score the most petras get more points, but never more than a certain amount (Even in a steamroll of a match, ive never seen someone get more than 350 points), and you have to kill people to score petras- so there's really no magic way to get points without "really" playing the game. But anything that makes people actually play ballista (since you have to do stuff to get points) is not really a bad thing.
I would rather have PvP-related gear rewards ("Conflict: STR+10", e.g. only works in PvP), or for-show gear rewards that you can keep (instead of the ballista chevron and title, which you can't keep forever) than voiddust or any other kind of crap though. There are two PvP peices of gear, the laurel crown and stars cap (which teleport you to a ballista match from anywhere), but these were only awarded to Ballista Royale participants, and sadly it was only a one time event and never came back.
These are not the improvements I had in mind, however, I wish they'd do SOMETHING to improve ballista, but the devs have not commented on one single thread on the subject.
They even commented on a Pankration thread, which arguably even fewer players care about...
Allowing EXP/points from the diorama matches probably wouldn't happen, because the player has morecontrol over the conditions of the match and it's easier to "rig" a match the way you want. I suppose you could add an "official mode" which locks the parameters of the match to official standards.
I'd welcome updates to Ballista/Brenner/Diorama (or "Conflict", as that is the all-encompassing title of these events).
Could the devs give any indication of whether or not Conflict will be updated in any way? If Pankration is getting an update, it seems extremely odd that Ballista isn't being updated, considering Ballista was around long before Pankration, and saw much more player use than Pankration ever did.
Well, it was the thought that counts. I just figure it would have drawn a larger account if we could use Ballista Points to also get Voiddust/Cells along w/ Temp.'s for Ballista matches. I'm sure the Ballista Specific Gear has been mentioned in many of the threads already existing, so adding that as another optional reward would still be choice. Just saying you get more variety to choose from with your Ballista Points.
I honestly think it's pretty unfair that Conflict Fans have been neglected for so long that SquareEnix hasn't tried to even fix long-time bugs w/ the Brenner/Diorama zones and how the /search function would show Wyvern members as Griffons and vise-versa or how Brenner Mid-Match entry has yet to be addressed since they broke it in the first place. It's retarded that I have to stop a match repeatively to let someone sign up.
But at any rate, I encourage people who enjoy Conflict to thumbs up the thread or even post a little something and hope that SquareEnix hears us!
Alhanelem
01-23-2012, 04:48 PM
They don't improve it because nobody does it, but if they improved it, more people would do it... it's a catch 22.