Please Remove (or raise) the 10 rank SP cap

[Xenor]

At 10-ranks above mobs are extremely easy and can be disposed of quickly.

I actually think this is the bigger issue. Players are too strong. I can solo rank 64 mobs with ease, how on earth are you going to balance party play when players are that strong? Fight rank 75-80 mobs in party and get 1200 SP per mob? Oh wait, mobs that high two shot you at 50, not the best party mob any more when AoE goes off. The game should be optimised around the +10 situation.

Anything over 50 should be a challenge to solo while parties aim to kill mobs in the upper 50s during their 40s. Solo SP is soon to become leve based anyway, even with current over powered characters it's just not worth grinding solo. But they could boost the SP given for a soloer fighting difficult mobs which are now closer to their own rank.

[Raikki]

Discussed the possibility of removing the SP cap with Matsui. Due to balance issues this could be extremely risky, so we're not currently planning to do this.

This is a huge mistake and it's extremely discouraging to hear. I would seriously think twice about continuing to play the game when the level cap is raised from 50 if it's going to be more of the same +10 rank SP cap. This system encourages anyone not satisfied with leve SP (and quest SP when they implement SP rewards for those) to go mindlessly fight trivial enemies for hours on end while they watch TV to progress. That's completely unacceptable.

Think about DoW/DoM SP compared to DoH and DoL:

DoH: Max SP recipes are DIFFICULT to complete and carry a significant chance of failure.
DoL: Max SP nodes are DIFFICULT to gather from and carry a significant chance of failure.
DoW/DoM: Max SP enemies are EASY to defeat and carry virtually NO chance of failure, even solo.

It shouldn't be like this at all, and there's no excuse for it to be.

[BloodLotus]

I don't understand why this is important.

[Molly_Millions]

I don't understand why this is important.

Are you serious? This is an important step towards making battles fun. Easy mode mobs are not fun, difficult mobs are.

[BloodLotus]

Are you serious? This is an important step towards making battles fun. Easy mode mobs are not fun, difficult mobs are.

Then fight difficult mobs.

They're there and it can be done.

[viion]

its important because currently all mobs 60+ are absolute useless, if you want to fight them its just for shits n giggles but you'll never get anything worthwhile, thus trying to convince people is tough since its all about gain!

I mean it isn't hard to work out balance, a levelling curve is defined by the possible gains over time, so if you extend the time, you extend the game and it evens out.

Eg (currently)
- Kill mob 10 seconds whos 10 levels higher get 10 SP
- Kill mob in 20 seconds who's 20 levels higher get 10 SP (its capped)
- kill mob in 40 seconds who's 40 levels higher get 10 SP (again, capped)

Even if you made it so you got 40 SP from the 40 levels higher mob, its identical to what you can currently do if you fight 4 mobs who are 10 levels higher. So dont talk this nonsense about "Balance" when it isn't rocket science to balance it out.

If Matsui is seriously worried about balance in this and cant do the math in his head, then he seriouslt needs to be let go and a proper professional put in place. But I don't think he's that dumb and the excuse is probably a cover up for something else.

[Rentahamster]

Then fight difficult mobs.

They're there and it can be done.

There's no point to that since they give the same SP as easy mobs.

[BloodLotus]

its important because currently all mobs 60+ are absolute useless, if you want to fight them its just for shits n giggles but you'll never get anything worthwhile, thus trying to convince people is tough since its all about gain!

So doing something for S's and G's isn't worth it?
To some people that's plenty.

[BloodLotus]

There's no point to that since they give the same SP as easy mobs.

Are you serious? This is an important step towards making battles fun. Easy mode mobs are not fun, difficult mobs are.

So gaining sp is an indicator of how much fun you have?

[Rentahamster]

So doing something for S's and G's isn't worth it?

Nope, not worth it.

To some people that's plenty.

But that's no way to make a video game that is supposed to reward skill.