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A key feature of many online pvp based games is the ability to hide your build/skills from other players unless you voluntarily show them or if they really want to see pay a fee and given epic duel is pvp based, it could be incremental to introduce this into the game. Advantage of this function: 1. It encourges variety as no 2 player builds will be exactly the same e.g. 10 points into this skill and 5 into another. 2. Protect intellectual property - someone spending hours for a skill/attribute build should be protected from others that just copies builds. This will become more and more important as more skills/cores are introduced in the future. 3. Reduce the compliant of over powered, under powered classes/skills/cores/weapons/armors - if you dont know whats killing you so fast or you cant pinpoint what exact combination is making one player winning more than others (although you can probably guess when you are hit with the skill and work backwards, you may not be able to know the exact build as the number of skills/cores increases in the future and especially the amount to be put into each skill) and this makes hard for complianers to pinpoint exactly what is OPed and what is not. For example, currently many NPCs are OPed, players just say NPCs are OPed not which NPC skill build is OPed, same idea. If they complain Faybee is OPed, I dont think Epic duel staff would nerf a single player? LOL - No offense to Faybee shes an awesome fellow founder :P 4. Decrease the speed in which an OPed skill/class/weapon/what ever you call it spread like a virus among players. This is where the unknown factor, forgetful memory kicks in and requires players to actually make an educated guess about the opponent's build rather than click on the player and oh 10 levels in Masscare. 5. The biggest advantage is proabably more fun and less boring for a lot of the players when you see another player with the same build as you (they might even look like you for crying out loud lol) Suggestion for Implementation: 1. First, a 1 off fee to hide your skills/builds where other players can not see your build. now this one off fee can be varium or credits or both (e.g only: 500 varium or 10000 credits or some combination). The reason for this is that all players should have a right to hide their skills/attribute/cores build. 2. Now as I suggested above, although all players have a right to hide their build, if they do really really want to see other people's build to copy then they would have to pay a varium fee, you want to see my build, sure you need to pay for it. This is the disincentive for other players to copy your build. Overall, information asymmestry makes the world go around :) (even the NPCs know that lol)
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