Curse

Phoenix Tears · Jan 08, 2008, 10:49 PM // 22:49

Example:

Luck/Unluck Title could need 2-3 more ways of getting points.
Sure using Lockpicks is 1 good way...but it's alone imo not good enough...because all the other existing ways are either senseless, because they would cost money, have not ever success to give points, or the points you get by them are absolute crap (1) wow is that much ... at a title..that requires to get maxed 2 Million and 500 thousand points (Luck) !!!
There it even helps not very much.. that Luck is an accountwide title.

Heres my suggestion about this title:

Why give not certain items.. fun items to be more precise.. which have no meaning at all yet also something..for what they can be good.

All those Party items, like Rockets, Snowman Summoners, Yuletide Tonics, Beetle Tonics and so on...they make fun..they make your character theoretically "happy" thus being lucky...so imo all those items should give you some Lucky Points.. when you use them ...

And to make this balanced.. there will also be then some consumeable fun items... which will count then for the Unlucky Title.. when you use them.

Example:

Anything else, then Tonics: 1-2 Points
Any Tonics: 3-5 Points
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For Unlucky:

Make for this Itrms like:

Black Cat Summoner
Broken Mirror
Fake Birthday Presents
using these will count then for unlucky track

Also breaking lockpicks should give more points: raise them from 25 to 50
Just to ensure..that Unlucky will get maxed before Lucky...
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There should be more ways also to receive Luxon/kurzick points...

then only donating 5000k points 8what means again 10000x donations just to max one of the both titles ....
that the only way to get points.. how crappy is that please ?

Change it so.. that winning competitive alliance Battles in either Fort Aspenwood or the Jade qarry will give also automatically points to the Titles in the heitgh of the Reward Points ...

this will also motivate then sure more players to play more those competitive missions.. as when you get only alliance points for a side..which you have then to donate first to increase your luxon/kurzick title and maybe deleting by this any points from the other side you maybe have at the moment ...
*as if it doesn't suck hard alone..that we can't buy/sell anything from the other sides, stil lwhen we#ve played through Factions oO*

Ok.. there's FFF...but imo that way is absolute lame.
Why can't also give any QUESTS, not only the repeatable ones give faction points to 1 of the 2 factions.. in regard of on which side the quest giver npc stands ..

also the missions of Factions should give faction points as reward for doing masters!!! direct to the title ...
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Commander Title required points should be rearranged and slightly lowered...
It looks silly.. when all other titles require amounts of points like 10000, 250000 or 10000000 and then there is a title.. which requires for max such a silly number, like 10800 points

raise tier amount to 10 and then make every tier 1000 points, so

r1: 1000 Points, r 2..2000..r3 ..3000, r10 10000
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Sweettooth:

There should be more things to eat, also more thigns, which give more than only 1 signle point ..

How about also sweets and food, which give 4-10 points ..naturally so more poijhts. so more valuable (maybe make also some more that are buyable, liek the red bean pie as alternative)

say for red bean you get 2 points.. these cost you 400 g oO *imo not really cheap for lousy 2 points)

say there would be now also sokmethign new to buy.. that gives 5 points and will cost 1 Platin? and then something, that will give 2x 10 points..first 10 direct after eating.. last 10 after the effect of that stuff ends... (say after 5 minutes)

this way the player has at least there an alterna<tive.. if you use all your money for example now on red bean pies...or for somethign else, what costs a bit more...but gives also more points over time
this thing will cost then for example 2 platin and 500 g

Also the game would receive some new little money sinks by selling more sweets via npc
Also it would reduce over time the required amount of money ...

while you need for 10000 via red bean pies (400g/2 points) 2000 Platin ..with this new method...2500g/10 points/ 10 points after 5 mins*20*) you would need "only" 1250 Platin therefore that you lose quicker your money ...

thats it so far

Legacy Virus · Jan 08, 2008, 10:56 PM // 22:56

I agree with you on the lucky and unlucky title track, it seems like forever just to get a point when having to spend that money and time on a lock pick.

and further more once it finally gets high enough to not break constantly you then have an even harder time working on your unlucky title.

all in all there should definitely be more then just the 9 rings (which are seldom active) to work on your unlucky and lucky title

seut · Jan 08, 2008, 11:58 PM // 23:58

Max lucky & unlucky should be at the same level. Why is is there an additional rank for unlucky, while the gain through lockpick regaining/breaking are equal pace? Double the current unlucky points and raise points gained for breaking lockpicks to 50... and still you would hit max lucky first.
But i'm against introducing new consumables for these titles. It would just benefit goldbuyers.

Kurzick/Luxon ranks should raise the respective faction cap like PvP ranks raise the Balthazar cap. Adding EotN's hunt mechanics like "rampage" or "boss kill bounty" to the PvE blessings in Factions would give PvE'ers a little more variety for gaining points.

TaCktiX · Jan 09, 2008, 01:49 AM // 01:49

The reason why they don't raise faction cap is because of the faction tax. If people could store up 50k of Luxon faction, a guild of them could dump it all and own Cavalon for a day. 10k is to keep mass-dumps from ever happening.

And while I'd like more ways than mindless moneysink to get Lucky/Unlucky, festival items aren't the way to go.

/Not signed

Witchblade · Jan 09, 2008, 02:18 AM // 02:18

the only one that needs more ways to get points is gamer

Phoenix Tears · Jan 09, 2008, 09:51 PM // 21:51

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Originally Posted by Witchblade

the only one that needs more ways to get points is gamer

nah.. that one needs just finally minigames.. which give points for success..which are playable whenever you want...

minigames like polymock, rollerbeetle race, dwarven boxing and so on, but especially polymock ...
otherwise this minigame is only one part of the biggest disappointments of GW:EN ...

playing polymock is total senseless....you play it only first timer per character so long, until you beaten all once to get the quests done and the pve only skills unlocked on that character..then you never play polymock anymore..because as said.. its senseless, because you have nothing from it..other then maybe frustration ... the reputation you get from polymock wins sucks...simple too less

For what have all those rare polymock pieces..when the ones you get through first time playing are later good enough.
Thes no PvP Version of Polymock, that could give gamer points..so why bother playing it at all ? Like the minigame is concepted atm..it's just another FAIL.
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Roller Beetle racing could be somewhat of improved.. if anet would implement only more race tracks, then 1 boring one, make rollerbeetle race al time playable and makes then for the gamer title a big pvp-minigame out of it..with like world championships (making races on 18 tracks all over the world of tyria similar to formula 1)
That would be imo the funniest minigame in an online game I could imagine ...

But when anet seems to love to give us only senseless useless minigames...which should be only playable every now and then on special events... I hope only...the ones of GW2 will be better and that they will be playable..whenever we want...because the sense of a minigame is it.. so that players can relax on them, whenever they want to play them....when you are bored for a moment of the normal game or when you don't come further in it for the moment...

When they a<re nly playable every now and then every x year(s) on events days(weekends), then they are maybe a bit special.. but that helps nothing when they get extreme quick boring....because on beetle race u make the race ever and ever and ever ...... again on the SAME 1 Race Track.

Snowball Fights are absolutely unbalanced...and you make the fights also ever on the same field..really boring, espcially when the concept behind the minigame has nothign to do with snowball fights at all and reduces the theoretically funny minigame only to a "Run...Forest..Run" with Presents

Kronos Ledaloth · Jan 09, 2008, 10:07 PM // 22:07

i think it's a good idea

dts720666 · Jan 09, 2008, 10:29 PM // 22:29

/signed on all of it...except for maybe the faction increase

Kanyatta · Jan 09, 2008, 10:40 PM // 22:40

This makes no sense here

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phoenix Tears

Change it so.. that winning competitive alliance Battles in either Fort Aspenwood or the Jade qarry will give also automatically points to the Titles in the heitgh of the Reward Points ...

So, you want it so that, whenever you compete in Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry, to give you Luxon/Kurzick Title Points AND Reward Points?

Grammer FTW:
will give also automatically points
qarry
heitgh
The entire sentence...

Phoenix Tears · Jan 10, 2008, 12:52 AM // 00:52

... god...has it become here now a running gag...to show others ever their grammar failures oO Are we here in School or what..that people have the need to act like teachers >.>
Can't you people simple accept the fact, that not everybody is a native born English person ? Only because people learn English in School doesn't mean, that all of them can speak/write it ever perfect.
Especially here in Forums, when you write too quick you mostly do also more failures due to too quick writing, then due to bad grammar knowledge.

Not to mention, that people can also forget over time quick their learned things over years, when you have no chance to keep up your knowledge about an other Language, for example by going for some years into an other country where peoples all speak English (thats for non native English people the best way to learn English - I never had yet the chance to make this, but would love to get the chance to do so)
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however, back to topic: (I at least try my best, so that people here will understand me, if you couldn't understood something, theres the PM-Feature to ask me)

@Kanyatta:

I meant with the point you quoted from me, so when you participate on one of those 2 Alliance Battles - and you win - it is so in the moment, that you receive just only Reward Points for the faction you've won for.
These points need you to donate then first, before you will increase the points on your title.

The change that I've suggested now is, that these Reward Points from winning in Fort Aspenwood/ Jade Quarry should count instantly to the title points, so that you have not to donate them anymore to let your points count for your title.

Same could be with farming faction points by killing enemies with the faction buff...why collect first points to donate them then...when farmed points can count instantly to the faction title.
You also don't collect faction points of the race titles and donate them to some race npc's, so that those points count to the title - no..the points count all instantly to the title.

you kill enemies with race faction buff active and the points you get by killing enemies count direct to your title and os more you kill.. so more raise instantly the points of your title ...
So should it work also with Luxon/Kurzick Points ...there is no need to collect these points like Balthazar Points, other then tradign them in for Access Scrolls to the Elite Areas or to donate them to your Guild (for Double Point Bonus)

Shayne Hawke · Jan 10, 2008, 01:15 AM // 01:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Witchblade

the only one that needs more ways to get points is gamer

Not necessarily more points. Just more opportunities.

IslandHermet · Jan 10, 2008, 03:46 PM // 15:46

Great ideas we do need more options to work on these titles. But Anet must not want a gold sink that bad the perfect gold sink is the 9 rings considering that it is a afk title and people throw alot of money into it why not just make is easy and let everyone have any time they want to go to the boardwalk at the current rate, even with the lockpicks it will still take years to max these titles but if Anet just left the 9 rings open people could max it in a few days or weeks just depends on how much money you have.