Novus Meld Failure - Remove Please

[silentwindfr]

+1 Zfz

a lot of the tedious and boring stuff added to the relic system or other system of the game are there for please hardcore gamer. not the midcore nor the casual, only the small 3-7% of the population that ask long, hard and complexe stuff. but you know the best? this system don't work, since whatever the dev do the hardcore will always destroy the system. they have tons of time at them disposal and often are ready to do repetitive action for hours.

i fail to understand why it's soo important to please the hardcore gamer.... i means, it's impossible to please them from the start. whatever the dev try to do, the hardcore will always find a way to simply break it. the time they can invest in the game is far too important for create anything that will hold them for long. we can argue that it's not true, but for the past 10 years, the hardcore gamer in any mmorpg have prove it! extra hard content, tedious and long activity.... have never make them go slower, the one affected by this, are not the hardcore, but the rest of the population.

[KaedrianLiang]

it's not their fault if the Free Market economy of the Boards as set by the bot-army aka skynet

fixed.
10char

[Ilenya]

Back on topic, I feel that most RNG in games should have a cap, in the form that the more times one fails the same action, the higher the success rate becomes for that particular one action. So on a 60% chance meld, the probability becomes say 65% after one fail, 70% after two fails, 80% after 4 fails, and at worst will guarantee a success on the 8th time.

Last time I saw this type of comment, I mentioned City of Heroes Streakbreaker mechanic as a way to go about doing it. Sure, at 60% you'd have a chance to fail every 2 out of 5 tries, but after a certain amount (pretty sure in this case it was 5, but I'm used to the Streakbreaker's usual out of 20), it'd succeed automatically.

[Lemuria]

The chances look perfectly reasonable to me. (Especially compared to overmelding.)
You also don't lose your alexandrite upon failure.

I'd sooner lose the alexandrite than the materia, especially when melding T4s...

[Raiya]

With heavensward out in a month or 2 those grade 4 prices should drop quite a bit expecially with new areas and the increased lvl cap making it easier. Could be tier 5 materia as well for the new level cap so beware.