First things first, all the St Patrick's day event features and special will end on Sunday, so get what you can whilst it lasts :)
A few of my thoughts
It always makes me happy knowing a big new feature is so widely liked by many of you. The main criticism being the prices, which is of course natural. There are a few things I would like to say about it and a couple changes/bug fixes I would like to announce.
First thing is about the prices. The prices are meant to be high, we need more expensive things (that are still worth the price tags I may add) in the game. It gives the rich something to drain their money on, and something for everyone else to work towards. The problem with the money is that it increases daily with people battling, and it has effects on the market, for example plasma prices being pushed up because as there is more money around, people want more of it. People are still buying at these high prices, but hopefully putting some new money draining features into the game will help get them down just a little, so they're more accessible to everyone, not just the rich buying them every day.
If you work out that for $15mil you can increase your weapon power by 100. Compare it to plasma prices, its well worth it (As some have figured out) :)
There has been heated discussion over the $10mil price for renaming a weapon. Is that expensive for just a status thing? Hell yeah! If you want it, you'll pay for it, and if you don't, no harm. You can argue people will use it more if it was cheaper, but I currently intend for it not to be a mainstream thing.
Bugs
- Analyze page now shows the second weapon information.
- Second weapon having no effect in NPC arena has been addressed
- Second weapon not included in your test damage has been addressed
Changes
Weapon directory - On the equipment page there is a new link at the top titled "Rename directory", it shows off the players who have paid the $10mil to get their weapon or armour renamed.
Battle Avatars - They can now be hidden. I knew as soon as i added this some would rather them not be there, so the avatars can now be hidden.
Summary
The positive effects of Thermoden - Plasma market prices have now gone down a little, could that be due to the special also? Maybe. But prices were getting very close to a $1million a few weeks ago, but we're down now to below $750k. Because of the money being taken out the game because of it, the bar prices have decreased, and this is why....
The question that many are asking, and I'm happy to answer, is that Thermoden in the last 6 days (since it opened) has drained a massive $2.7billion from our economy. Pretty impressive!
Thanks for all the great feedback, keep it coming [Thermoden thread] :)
Enjoy,
Ash
