Curse

leeky baby · Aug 13, 2008, 07:56 PM // 19:56

Each token cost 1k balth faction so 5 Tokens = 1 Key would be very fair, iv got about 1000 tokens, which i will never use!

Some sort of trade system needs to be implemented, but ino nothing will... so i dont even know why i am bothering!

Frozy · Aug 13, 2008, 08:04 PM // 20:04

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Originally Posted by leeky baby

Each token cost 1k balth faction so 5 Tokens = 1 Key would be very fair, iv got about 1000 tokens, which i will never use!

Some sort of trade system needs to be implemented, but ino nothing will... so i dont even know why i am bothering!

Trade system? all it takes is a Collector... very easy to implement.
And while i prefer 5:1, 10:1 is good as well.

/signed.

lutz · Aug 13, 2008, 08:14 PM // 20:14

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Originally Posted by Kanyatta

If you whine about how you gave something away willingly, you are probably stupid.

Faction-wise, the ratio makes sense, but I would be in favor of 10:1 or 15:1.

I just don't think people should be punished for maxing out their faction earlier than others.

Nobody is being punished. You need to get your terminology straight. You're making it sound a lot worse than it really is.

There's a difference between "punished" and "introducing something that isn't retroactive".

Punished means using hexes against a team with 3 monk smiters with Smite Hex and an HEV. You get punished for using your hexes, and they get neutralized anyway. Punished means you used your Balthazar Faction before the Zaishen Keys AND now you have some consequence - maybe... your account is now bugged and can't purchase Zaishen Keys, or you can't gain any more Balthazar Faction.

However, none of that is the case. People who have tournament tokens are not being restricted from getting Zaishen Keys now. This is like the Survivor title or the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title. It isn't like you can't gain faction or can't gain experience or can't get God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals. It's just a non-retroactive feature. I'm pretty sure ANet intended it this way.

Entreri · Aug 14, 2008, 02:43 AM // 02:43

If something like this was implemented then people would have less incentive to do things like AFK in automated tournaments to get some benefit out of their 'worthless' tokens.

The best solution would be to make automated tournaments more fun for the general playerbase. If ATs were more fun then tokens would actually get used and people wouldn't still be trying to pawn off stacks 9 months after z keys got introduced. However, making ATs fun would require more work.

/signed

Dr.Jones · Aug 14, 2008, 03:09 AM // 03:09

i would like to see this and a 1:1 for bath to rp so people who dont want to do AT or HB can get cool armor for there pvp ch as well.