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xxomegafaustxx -> RE: The Gap (8/7/2011 4:42:21)
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@goldslayer1
A rational varium user would see such a GAP to be impeding to ED's future development as a game. Continuing to embrace irradical views will only serve to falsify our perceptions to cling onto a hopeless endeavor of dueling which separates both nonvrarium and varium users. But reaching rationality will be hard because it takes a certain amount of individuals to hit rockbottom. Nonvariums hit it first whilst the upper tier varium players are floating above the surface. Eventually, like the bird and worm analogy, the condition of the ecology for competition would gradually deteriorate over time. Challenged by such circumstances, the fate of ED indefinitely remains in the decision of varium users who have the choice to faithfully cling onto or lessen the GAP.
The real question as you adverted to is whether the developers of the game will respond to this crisis. As a player of ED, I would say the chances are minuscule. This is because I would feel the developers would try not to have no bias or make it apparent onward in the game. The only bias I would believe developers would have are the fancy offers and promos and such that they rain on varium users. And this is only because they want to make profit proportional to their interest to earn capital which in my mind is normal and totally acceptable for a game enterprise such as this. Even if the developers do consider this post thoughtfully, they in their powers as developers can't do anything.
Why? Because the only way such an issue can be resolved is if varium users are enlightened by such a perspective and enact proper initiation to include the nonvarium as an ecological competitor and take steps to further rectify the obtuse hole of imbalance created by the GAP. The change is not in the developers or game infrastructure, or in the ecology but rather, it involves the change starting with the ecological abuser who has created the GAP-varium users who still rigidly believe that the GAP is perfect and maintain that it will continue to sustain itself. However, if varium users move away from such views and adopt a stance of enlightenment, only then would ED surface from this purgatory.
Having already exasperated my knowledge and perspective to it's fullest extent in my previous posts, I will not feel the need to regurgitate it once more. I'm glad such an enlightened individual as yourself shares similar views.
@nico0las
Thank you for reading my lengthy posts. It is glad to see that some one has the time to reflect and think about it. Though the last comment you made concerning the GAP deflected the value of my posts entirely. I don't expect you to be changed by what I said or want to force what I preached to you in this forum but consider this line of thinking:
Of course, as a varium user yourself, you feel enchanted by the idea that it has granted you a far greater advantage over the players you have encountered abroad in your battles over the lifespan of your character. And of course, not all your battles were easily won, some were difficult and some were close to being very easy. But throughout your battle career, have you noticed the shortage of nonvarium users out in the bleak lvl 30-33 frontier? How many are nonvarium warlords and commanders? How many of these warlords and commanders varium users?
This is evidence that nonvariums are slowly being withdrawn from the ecology of competition. And why is this important? As I already addressed and stated several times in my posts, nonvariums provide an ecology for competition-like the bird and worm, they are mutually contracted to fulfill their biological potential within the community. Remove the worm and you also deprive the bird's ability to maximize it's potential in the community. Saying that the GAP is perfect is far from being remotely aware of the situation at hand. And why is this? For varium users, the gap has enlarged so greatly that now varium users battle against varium users as correlated because of a decline of nonvarium users within the game. The GAP has essentially starved nonvarium users and have discouraged them to play the game on an enjoyable level whilst varium users are battling it out on eachother. Naturally, ecology of competition shouldn't be absurd of having birds eating birds, rather birds eating worms. The nonvarium class is for the same and very purpose in Alpha, suppose to enrich the varium community by providing competition. The average nonvarium user should pose at least SOME challenge to a varium user. And it shouldn't just be winning them all the ten times. It should be roughly 3 or 4 out of the ten times and maybe 5-6 times if you're a nonvarium fully enhanced.
So, if you do believe the GAP I suggest you take my advice. The value of varium will only in due time increase; you'll be constantly spending varium to compete with varium players and soon, you'll lose interest in the game as nonvarium players would be forced to become varium as yourself or quit the game altogether. The GAP has been tightening and squeezing the living life out of nonvarium players that it seems almost impossible to compete whilst varium users are facing the same struggle. Because they are more varium users, more varium must be extradited to obtain upper-edge. If you still believe the GAP is just fine, I challenge you to play as a lvl 33 nonvarium. Hopefully, then, it will shed some light.
And yes, there are many great nonvarium players who continue to aspire and pose as challenges against varium users as yourself but let me riddle you with this notion: How many nonvarium commanders have you fought with today or even seen openly 1v1ing or 2v2ing? I would imagine like myself, that the majority of us "great" nonvarium players are in the shadows NPCing most of the time. And when we do come out, we are horrified by gaping unfairness in terms of stats that varium users have.
As famously said "You can only compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges". And why may this be the case? Because a small percentage of "great nonvarium players" don't necessarily categorize the large overwelming populace of the nonvarium race. Such a conjecture is a glaring fallacy~most nonvarium players are not as competitive in scale in comparison to the evolved nonvarium user. Accomplishing a feat like that would take many months of farming and NPCing, painstakingly modifying costly builds all the time. (And in honesty, yes, I have experience this before and continue to experience it). Such a feat is only percentage of those willing to commit.
I hope you see through my speculation as well as your's upon the gravity and enormity that the GAP has created.
@DeathSpawn
20 stats seem to be a large stat marginalization difference in my perspective and I'm sure it holds entirely true to yours. Simply see this on a smaller scale. Two nonvarium players (one is at lvl one and the other lvl 5 no enhancments) go face to face with each other. Obviously, the lvl 5 nonvarium would win most of the occasions. Also consider that the stat marginalization given this scenario is less than 20 (16) and we haven't factored in whether or not, the users in this context have enhanced their weaponry or not. Varium users would be ideally 4 levels or 5 greater than the fully enhanced nonvarium player which I think is way more balanced.
Yes, Nonvariums can compete but only a certain, qualified range or them do. Consider what Ashari voiced in her response:
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The first problem is the difficulty in getting to that veteran non-Varium level. New players rarely manage their credits wisely and by the time they reach the 30s, they are usually very broke. Fully equipping a non-Varium character with the best equipment and buying max credit Enhancements takes a very long time. This uphill climb is only made longer by the losses they face against Varium players who can immediately get the best equipment. This just leads to many players getting frustrated and quitting before they can gear up to become competitive.
Of course, every player has the capacity and capable to certainly engineer this feat but a few do. And if you suggest that it would "crush" varium players, I ask you to also reconsider the stages during early alpha and beta. The stat marginalization was on par roughly 20 or even less. During the phases, there evolved creative new builds and diverse platforms of strategy that are not seen in Delta or in Gamma. This is because the smaller GAP provided simple builds to develop, limited O'PED builds, and encouraged newcomers to try the game. As a player of beta, I don't remember Varium users at the time that were being "crushed". Varium users were in a a period of golden success as well as the nonvarium populace that didn't suffere drastically to them. Though at the time, I was still being crushed as a lvl 30 nonvarium mage. Fast-forward to the present: the GAP has enlarged up to 40-50 stats and Varium users are crushing not only other less deprived varium users, but in generally, the whole nonvarium community! And because there're more stats, it actually compromises creative and unique builds as player must resort to standard O'PED or focus builds to win. Was this the ever case in the early Alpha and Beta? I think not. Does it hurt to tone down the GAP? As I see it right now, both sides are suffering: no more creative builds, less nonvarium players, harder competition for varium users, etc. What then, do I ask, could negatively resolve from closing the GAP other than varium users to falter? We must not be conscientious of one single party but the multiple parties involved. No one has really pitied the nonvarium race and truly were empathetic to their suffering. We should be looking out for both varium and nonvarium users, not just varium.
And is it wrong to mirror the success that was experienced in the early Alpha and Beta stage in terms of stat marginalization?
All I'm saying is that varium users still would obtain an advantage but not a too great one.
As you quoted in your post "The game needs money to survive". But I would have to disagree; I believe the game needs far more than that. The game, as I firmly stand upon, needs much more players that channel interest, energy and livelyhood within the PvP atmosphere. What good is money in the game if there are few and close to no players playing it? And you may argue that of course, there are about 800ish players that play this game daily but how many play this game because they like to PvP? How many people play because they enjoy the experience? To be honest, even as a nonvarium user, I constantly feel pressured to purchase varium every time I lose to varium users. But this should never be the case! Varium should be a voluntary purchase not a forced one! The ecology among both groups should have a choice to follow such paths.
And yes, there are going to be extremes but such extremes should not be embedded within the ecology or competition. Such extremes should not be seen in the advancement of only one extreme side of the ED spectrum (varium users), and not the other. The extremes should not breed into the further separation or divide of the two ecological competitors but rather reinforce and support an ecological fair relationship so that both may exercise their potential.
I like the remarks you made in your posts (Credit advancements and providing better weaponry to players to employ incentive for players of the game), however I don't think they will help bring closure to the GAP. We need to assess and evaluate ED's current condition and close the GAP by creating a small gap in stats between varium and nonvarium users. And that's just only one step to remedy this problem; we as a community need to take multiple steps to ensure fairness and equality.
I favour rationale and reasoning~
"Unknown" lvl 33 nonvarium Mage
For those who haven't read my posts, please read them and RECONSIDER. The future of ED is one post away.
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