Allagan Tomestone of Astronomy should have a seasonal cap, not a weekly cap

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Sorry, but all artifical caps are FOMO because you can never catch up them if you miss one. IMHO those caps should be removed and the devs should give the players the choice how much tombstones the want to farm.

Cheers

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You're looking at this exactly backwards.

The weekly cap means that, with respect to the tomestones, people who no-life the game and people who have lives outside of the game are on a par. People can run some roulettes/etc. here and there throughout the week and cap tomestones and 'keep up' in that sense.

While the forums/reddit/discord likely bias toward no lifers, I would suggest that the player base as a whole strongly biases toward the other end of the spectrum. That being said, EX, savage, etc. offer alternative gearing paths for people who want to do that content to 'get ahead' of the weekly tomestone cap. All in all, I find the mix of capped tomestones giving good gear over time and savage giving better gear faster to be a good mix for different sorts of players.

I like the OP's suggestion. Doesn't put the tomes out there any faster, but you can make up if you happen to miss a week.

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

I don't really understand the point of the cap. Why is it so important to keep people away from gear that they clearly need?

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my thots exactly!!

besides having a weekly cap of the new tomes capped at 450, which I find stupid (just my opinion), I also wonder why doing a 24 man raid or an 8 man raid gives us fewer tomes than the normal max leveled dungeons??

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Originally Posted by lezard21

It's called Content Padding, and it's important when you don't develop enough content to prevent your playerbase from unsubscribing

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It's literally impossible to develop content fast enough when players can clear that content faster than you can make it.

It takes several weeks to make a raid tier. With uncapped tomes everyone would clear it within a week.

That's why time gating exists in MMOs.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

It's literally impossible to develop content fast enough when players can clear that content faster than you can make it.

It takes several weeks to make a raid tier. With uncapped tomes everyone would clear it within a week.

That's why time gating exists in MMOs.

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As someone upthread succinctly puts it:

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

It's to keep people from running a hundred dungeons on patch day and then spending the next 4 months complaining about how there's nothing to do.

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Sorry but the cap should be removed entirely. Such caps are only FOMO mechanics.

Cheers

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I wouldn't call the cap a FOMO mechanic that doesn't really make sense cause all the content and stone gear is always available.

Ppl who hardcore no life will just grab what they can and get crafted... but it would be nice if i can just farm a few pieces at once and then dont bother tome for some time.

OR. Give me tome for all my rouletts, even if in leveling, not just with an capped job so i dont have to choose between leveling or tome. That would already help a lot.

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

Ppl who hardcore no life will just grab what they can and get crafted... but it would be nice if i can just farm a few pieces at once and then dont bother tome for some time.

OR. Give me tome for all my rouletts, even if in leveling, not just with an capped job so i dont have to choose between leveling or tome. That would already help a lot.

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This I agree with. I really wish, once you had one job at cap, you got like half as much tomestones using a non-capped job for dailies or something.

Honestly, the caps just contribute to why I unsub after story complete and would come back at the end of an expansion... I could get all the goodies... do all the things, and then move on to the next expansion. Totally bypass the farming/gating mechanics.