Thread: Can we try... In 5.0..

Originally Posted by ksuyen

Several reasons SE won't do uncap tomes: longevity, inventiveness to gear up with another way, reduce burn out, fairness, equality for both people with time and less time, etc.

People with limited play time is a reason to remove the cap. People that can't cap in a given week for whatever reason are permanently behind. Personally, I wish they'd do something like the hallmark system in FFXI.

Originally Posted by Brill_

People with limited play time is a reason to remove the cap. People that can't cap in a given week for whatever reason are permanently behind.

Releasing the cap would just mean they get even more behind. Their progress isn't affected by the cap in the first place - it's other players that are held back by it.

Say they can only get around 200 tomes per week. Other players get 450. They are getting about 50% of the maximum possible progress.

Uncap tomes, and they can still only get 200 tomes a week (restricted by their personal access), while other players could be getting 2000. They are only able to make 10% of that other player's progress.


Whether this is a problem or not is a separate argument. But it's incorrect to say that uncapping tomes will help them.

Originally Posted by Iscah

Releasing the cap would just mean they get even more behind. Their progress isn't affected by the cap in the first place - it's other players that are held back by it.

Say they can only get around 200 tomes per week. Other players get 450. They are getting about 50% of the maximum possible progress.

Uncap tomes, and they can still only get 200 tomes a week (restricted by their personal access), while other players could be getting 2000. They are only able to make 10% of that other player's progress.


Whether this is a problem or not is a separate argument. But it's incorrect to say that uncapping tomes will help them.

Actually it could help them in cases when they happen to get additional free time due to a holiday, vacation, etc and actually have a larger amount of time in a short window to play the game essentially to catch up. However with the current system their tome progress ends in just an hour or 2.

Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

Actually it could help them in cases when they happen to get additional free time due to a holiday, vacation, etc and actually have a larger amount of time in a short window to play the game essentially to catch up. However with the current system their tome progress ends in just an hour or 2.

It would still only help if somehow they were uncapped while everyone else still was. Because the "players with lots of time" would be making that sort of progress every week, not just on rare occasions.