You know, my first reaction to this was "I kind of *like* grinding and getting good at one or two quests for the whole week", but I was specifically thinking of Silent Afterimage 2 where I enjoyed learning how to unlock all the secret areas of the quest and showing other party members how to do so.
This is foolish. I've been playing PSO on this server for almost a decade and still nowhere near where I want to be for gear. The game isn't anywhere near being too generous with late-game progression.
I thought you wanted the economy to be addressed? It was obvious from the beginning of RBR existing that the massive RDR compared to HBR was going to have the effect it's had, probably more so than less DAR. The Forge does not sink enough items either. More DAR than RDR should mean more PDs flowing, which is a primary lamentation about HBR.
Removal outright might be the best solution in all honestly but I do wonder if some people will quit though due to a lack dopamine from numbers being above 100% for a week. Then again the dopamine hit is stronger when something rare does drop but still. So, if these things were all removed, RBR, DAR and RDR it would return people to doing the most rewarding quests and leave the less desired quests as being well, less desired but now without some sort of reward. I sort of feel like this is something that should be polled by the community if all that was to be removed if only because this has been a stable for so long that community input is probably required, though the saying you can please some of the people some of the time comes to mind. So there will always going to be complaints one way or another by a vocal few. Personally speaking the weekly static boosts can go away and I wouldn't exactly weep tears. RBR is a tougher egg to crack though. I don't know if you can outright remove it and expect everyone to be okay with it but it should be de-emphasized or made more unique? I don't know I just keep coming back to the thought of making it just one quest and only for one day. Somehow that feels right to me and I'm not sure why but it keeps ringing right in my head. If not that then just removal and let people do what they would naturally do.I thought you wanted the economy to be addressed? It was obvious from the beginning of RBR existing that the massive RDR compared to HBR was going to have the effect it's had, probably more so than less DAR. The Forge does not sink enough items either. More DAR than RDR should mean more PDs flowing, which is a primary lamentation about HBR.
I'm not really feeling a lack of PDs dropping in general, and I've always had doubts about the amount of items and PDs actually being created compared to what people feel. People are complaining about how it's hard to build wealth. Well, yeah, it's a slow grind. However, farming for value is certainly exacerbating the problem and making everyone effectively more poor.
Idk, run simulations. Or just run PW and MA4 like people used to.
I don't actually care; if it's not one thing it's another. Playing PSO is foolish. Wabi-sabi.
From what I understood, HBR/RBR exists at all to just edge people into playing a variation of quests. And, with the disclaimer of me being biased and that I do agree that you can't make everyone happy, that's the intent I like the most about it at all.
This is from when hbr was first implemented. The main reason for it was because people only played the "good" quests and not much else. Hbr was obviously too powerful so staff found a good middle ground with rbr. Removing rbr would basically put us back to square 1 and significantly reduce the variety you will see in public games.
Well, as far as TTF goes there is always the old V2 fix for TTF which is to remove the EXP from the bosses themselves but that would cause a backlash I'm sure. Another option is to re-work TTF from the ground on up to have pacing similar to RT so people who are doing TTF for the bosses and their loot and not because of the XP per time spent with pretty good loot potential on top of a red ring. However that's not the point of this topic RBR is.
Doesn't this really just speak volumes to how versatile RBR actually is rather than it being an issue though? If you think about it, RBR quests were never meant to be the mandatory things you had to do every week to get your best chances at loot, as from what I seem to see a lot that's what HBR was, which is why it was scrapped and replaced.
I'd kind of like to see a boost for full runs too. Especially since those games are open and people can drop in and out as they please, unlike quests where the party is locked in as soon as it begins.
