Quote Originally Posted by Emitans View Post
Why do you want the game to be boring?
I think something that cannot be understated is how much MMO players, and video game players in general, are extremely motive-driven, and getting 6 million XP for 5 minutes of work is extremely practical, nobody wants them to be boring, but many will favor practical yet boring over obnoxious yet engaging, in an ideal world we would get practical and engaging, but those are counter to each other, so the perfect equilibrium can be extremely hard to find.

Makes me wonder if SE has metrics for this stuff, and they have evidence that more people saw, for example, Pixies to max rank, than they saw Sylphs to their max rank, so it pushed them to make future ones more like the former and less like the latter... though honestly Pixies are still my second favorite Allied Society after Omicrons, and Omicrons kind of cheat by being 5 or 6 species wrapped in one, so I wish they had taken the cues from the writing rather than the gameplay... if I have to hear about "inner abacus" one more time, I am going to learn if Pelupelu are an amphibious by trial and error...