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Ashari -> RE: Credits: Not Enough? (6/14/2011 3:32:13)
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Looking at the numbers, players are actually on a very tight credit budget as they level up.
Here's an example of the total credits earned by a player as they are leveling up with a 60% win rate. Even at 70% win rate, these credit numbers only go up by 5%.
Listed below is the total experience required to get to a level, the total number of 1v1 or 2v2 matches it would take, and the total amount of credits earned.
Matches Credits Earned
Level XP Req 1v1 2v2 1v1 2v2
25 10290 1029 515 22638 20168
26 12620 1262 631 27764 24735
27 16200 1620 810 35640 31752
28 21030 2103 1052 46266 41219
29 27110 2711 1356 59642 53136
30 34440 3444 1722 75768 67502
31 48020 4802 2401 105644 94119
32 61600 6160 3080 135520 120736
33 75180 7518 3759 165396 147353
Going on the model that a player would buy a new Primary, Gun and Auxiliary every 5 levels a player will on average spend 30,109 credits by level 25 and 81,609 credits by level 30 solely on equipment. This is without buying armor at level 15 which many new players do make the mistake of doing, leaving them even further behind on credits.
This is given the best case scenario, where the player buys all the right weapons for their level and still this leaves a player grossly overbudget. A normal player will probably buy the wrong weapon or buy weapons more often than every 5 levels, not to mention the cost of retraining which is probably done at least 5 times by the time a player reaches level 30.
Now Missions and Power Hour are a nice boost, but neither are enough to cover the gap yet. Doing all the pre level 30 missions will only get you 4070 credits (including sellback of weapons you are rewarded). Not everyone can play during power hour, so when taken into consideration, that should be considered a boost to give players some breathing room in terms of credits, not to cover the gap.
I think Missions are going to be the greatest boost we'll see in terms of credits at lower levels. Right now there still aren't that many, but as we'll get more it'll be a big help in covering the gap.
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