Curse

Phineas · Jun 17, 2008, 02:22 AM // 02:22

I've been watching the favor drop recently, and a rough estimate is that it's dropping about 200 minutes a day. At time of writing /favor was 5,639 minutes whereas four and a half days previous it was over 6,700.

I did enough maths at school to work out that gives us a little over 4 weeks should it remain constant.

I had hoped that favor would rise somewhat over the weekend, and maybe the rate did increase during that time but it just bolstered a higher average loss during the working week. I'll know better by this coming weekend I guess.

So, it's time to dust that scroll collection off I guess, but I wonder if ANet will eventually replace the current system for just perma access, in line with the recent perma-sin buff.

I pwnd U · Jun 17, 2008, 02:24 AM // 02:24

Less people playing, less titles being maxed, more and more people are getting GWAMM. So people are working on titles thare are much harder to max.

fenix · Jun 17, 2008, 02:25 AM // 02:25

It's okay, once it gets down pretty low Anet will just do another 2x SS/LB weekend, and it'll jump up to 25k again!

FengShuiDove · Jun 17, 2008, 02:26 AM // 02:26

The reason it was so high was just because of the favor spike over the SS/LB weekend. Yes, it was a long time ago, but it popped it up to well over 20,000 (been a long time, I know it was much higher than that). Once it drops down it'll be the way A-Net intended it when they implemented the new favor method.

evenfall · Jun 17, 2008, 02:28 AM // 02:28

It won't make a difference because loss of ~200min per day means people are earning favor at ~1200min/day. So even if the current stockpile of favor runs out, we will still have favor for 80% of a day.

Phineas · Jun 17, 2008, 02:36 AM // 02:36

It's a gimmick, I know, but how often can they keep extending its longevity? I'd love to see the data on what % of the population has whatever maxed titles.

As 'I pwnd You' stated, the titles will naturally start to dry up as only the harder to obtain titles remain for some players and who's to say that most people haven't already done the easy ones. Any chance of the stats Regina?

@evenfall, your statement is true if the achievement rate does not drop, but surely the rate can only drop over time in absolute terms?

MMSDome · Jun 17, 2008, 02:42 AM // 02:42

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Originally Posted by fenix

It's okay, once it gets down pretty low Anet will just do another 2x SS/LB weekend, and it'll jump up to 25k again!

Sadly i am 97% confident this is true because the community needs their favor!

Hopefully when favor wears off they will let it sit for a while and let ectos and shards jump in price a tad.

fenix · Jun 17, 2008, 02:44 AM // 02:44

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Originally Posted by MMSDome

Sadly i am 97% confident this is true because the community needs their favor!

Hopefully when favor wears off they will let it sit for a while and let ectos and shards jump in price a tad.

A tad? Before favor was for free, ecto used to vary by at least 1 plat in the times that we didn't have favor.

MMSDome · Jun 17, 2008, 02:46 AM // 02:46

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Originally Posted by fenix

A tad? Before favor was for free, ecto used to vary by at least 1 plat in the times that we didn't have favor.

to be honest fenix 1k is only a tad in my book

I doubt a lack of favor would drop prices with the innovation of scrolls. Those that have been farming enough have been getting UW scrolls and will have them when we lose favor. As for FoW scrolls if you dont have at least 20 where the RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO have you been!

Brianna · Jun 17, 2008, 03:20 AM // 03:20

It was a good run. Just to think that it got so high in one weekend is a true milestone.

Cheers to it. Till 0!

Mac Sidewinder · Jun 17, 2008, 03:21 AM // 03:21

20? Lol I have 68 of them. They drop pretty regularly for me it seems.

fenix · Jun 17, 2008, 03:23 AM // 03:23

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Originally Posted by MMSDome

to be honest fenix 1k is only a tad in my book

I doubt a lack of favor would drop prices with the innovation of scrolls. Those that have been farming enough have been getting UW scrolls and will have them when we lose favor. As for FoW scrolls if you dont have at least 20 where the RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO have you been!

Well, I assumed that you were one of those poor guys with no ecto, so 1k would be more than a tad.

As for me, that 'tad' would be quite profitable.

Jefferson Airplane · Jun 17, 2008, 03:29 AM // 03:29

Lol some of you act like if the /favor hits 0, the economy will crash... I really hope the /favor hits 0 and stays there for a while. In fact, Anet needs to get rid of scrolls all together, and make it so we have favor less often. Ectos/shards are getting REDICULOUSLY low. Easy farming is the biggest, if not only contributer to the economy being so terrible. They need to make EVERYTHING harder to farm, including ectos/shards.

Neo Nugget · Jun 17, 2008, 03:42 AM // 03:42

it's been what, 6 months since we got the double ss/lb weekend??lol

it's at 5k right now, but come on, half a year of favor all the time isn't bad :P

TGgold · Jun 17, 2008, 03:50 AM // 03:50

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Originally Posted by Jefferson Airplane

Lol some of you act like if the /favor hits 0, the economy will crash... I really hope the /favor hits 0 and stays there for a while. In fact, Anet needs to get rid of scrolls all together, and make it so we have favor less often. Ectos/shards are getting REDICULOUSLY low. Easy farming is the biggest, if not only contributer to the economy being so terrible. They need to make EVERYTHING harder to farm, including ectos/shards.

Honestly, no. Right now ANET is concerned with producing GW2 and having people grind out what they'll need for when it comes out. The fact that getting these things is now easier is just the way things go. So, after 3 years in a game, do you really feel the need to have yourself distinguished among the other players in the game? Do you really need that? By now, people are looking for something to work on, especially among multiple characters, and this is the route ANET is taking to please them.

To put it simply, getting FoW and prestige armor still requires a ridiculous amount of grind, though it is less than what it was before. It gives people motivation to actually go for it instead of moving on to another game...

kazjun · Jun 17, 2008, 04:27 AM // 04:27

I'm not so sure that a double SS/LB weekend will increase it anywhere near as much as the last one two did. By now, most people who can be bothered getting those titles have already done so over those weekends, so the only ones left are newbies, the handful who missed out, or those who want the title on more than one character. And I don't think there are that many working on titles for anyone other than their mains...

Chthon · Jun 17, 2008, 05:07 AM // 05:07

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Originally Posted by fenix

It's okay, once it gets down pretty low Anet will just do another 2x SS/LB weekend, and it'll jump up to 25k again!

In case you had forgotten, back in January the counter lost track of 35791 minutes of favor that players had earned due to a programming error. A-net could -- and should -- restore that favor when the timer runs out. Or rather, to stop it from breaking again, they should reset the counter to 17896 when it runs out this time, and then to 17895 the next time it runs out.

Bowstring Badass · Jun 17, 2008, 05:12 AM // 05:12

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Originally Posted by Brianna

It was a good run. Just to think that it got so high in one weekend is a true milestone.

Cheers to it. Till 0!

Drinking to a timer. lulz

But when is the next LB/SS weekend I could go for more points.

Dragonious · Jun 17, 2008, 05:33 AM // 05:33

and the new sins that want to maximize damage potential with intensity and my favorite, cry of pain

Age · Jun 17, 2008, 05:39 AM // 05:39

They could alway put it back to the old system where you need to win favour.Why would they do this for the perma buff just for Sins how about everyone else but that is what mostly what you see there A/E or A/Mes all walking around?