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Power recolouring for Silver accounts
xenonomad
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In the months I've been on CO. I have witnessed the number of perks and services that are by-and-large denied Silver characters. or only available in a fairly limited function and at steep price. Now for the most part this doesn't upset me. People have bills to pay. I don't personally agree with CO's business model but that is theirs to decide. not mine.
However one of the most irritating and frankly counter-productive features that are denied silver players is recolouring powers.
firstly on a practical sense.. you can recolour every other aspect of your characters. and having power colours that clash horrifically with one's outfit is demotivating to players. secondly silver player already have to either pay steeply or grind events that offer AT's in order to gain access to more then a third of the power trees in game. so not only are silver players ristricted in what powers they can use. but on top of that doubly restricted in colour.
Also as a side note the locked colours of powers extends to travel powers. which causes more then a little frustration for people, as often, the travel powers dont even match the power colours and of course, seldom match the characters look.
and the fact is recolouring powers is a very tiny feature. its barely even mentioned as a gold account perk. especially put alongside costume slots. new character slots at 40. being able to retrain AT characters into freeforms universal. AT access.. (which I admit i haven't done the full math on but for silvers to get full AT access that is alone. a very steep bill in zen prices) and access to unique monthly subscriber rewards and several other assorted perks.
so weighed against all of that power recolouring isn't really a "motivator" to go gold. however it does frustrate and irritate silvers who are denied it. and thus making them less willing to spend money.
So I suggest that power recolouring is made universal. the studio really isn't losing anything by doing it and it will go a long way to foster goodwill for your playerbase. and it can be proven that a little goodwill can make players much more willing to spend
However one of the most irritating and frankly counter-productive features that are denied silver players is recolouring powers.
firstly on a practical sense.. you can recolour every other aspect of your characters. and having power colours that clash horrifically with one's outfit is demotivating to players. secondly silver player already have to either pay steeply or grind events that offer AT's in order to gain access to more then a third of the power trees in game. so not only are silver players ristricted in what powers they can use. but on top of that doubly restricted in colour.
Also as a side note the locked colours of powers extends to travel powers. which causes more then a little frustration for people, as often, the travel powers dont even match the power colours and of course, seldom match the characters look.
and the fact is recolouring powers is a very tiny feature. its barely even mentioned as a gold account perk. especially put alongside costume slots. new character slots at 40. being able to retrain AT characters into freeforms universal. AT access.. (which I admit i haven't done the full math on but for silvers to get full AT access that is alone. a very steep bill in zen prices) and access to unique monthly subscriber rewards and several other assorted perks.
so weighed against all of that power recolouring isn't really a "motivator" to go gold. however it does frustrate and irritate silvers who are denied it. and thus making them less willing to spend money.
So I suggest that power recolouring is made universal. the studio really isn't losing anything by doing it and it will go a long way to foster goodwill for your playerbase. and it can be proven that a little goodwill can make players much more willing to spend
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I seem to recall something like that. To be on the safe side I suggest you take the word "petition" from your title (it's editable).
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Wierd.
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Currently are three commands, that are locked behind paywall - these are /powerhue, /poweremit, /powerentcreatecostume. These commands are used to adjust power color, emanation point and appearance of entities, such as pets, that power creates. All these features together I call Power Customization. Currently Power Customization feature is locked behind paywall.
Most point I completely disagree - is locking behind paywall last one feature - pet costumes. These were cases, when default costumes of pets got ruined, because of new costumes were added. These were fixed, but not completely, so Command Animals now summons Black-Black-Black wolves at R1-R2-R3, while formerly Black-Brown-Gray. Support Drones R3 summons another bot by default (gray one, instead of white one). There aren't ANY free issue AT, those use pets. You already pay for pets, when you buy your AT or FF slot. So, I think it would be safe to enable Pet customization for everyone, and it also means less work for devs fixing stuff, after adding new Pet costumes.
About Coloring and Emanation points - these are pretty big features, so I believe they could adjusted several ways: to require purchase of certain Tinting token on Z (Q/drift/etc)-store, or make it to deplete certain G from character account for single tint. Locking coloring behind paywall on one hand may do few players to sub, but otoh it makes another part of players to quit a game, and/or not pay to it. l think CO currently has pretty low playerbase, so it isn't too wise to cripple them and turn away from game. Also it creates certain uncomfortability in terms, that some players may not retcon, because it will defaultize their color settings. And at top of all - Gold players have watch to Silver characters as well. I think watching beautiful, color-adjusted ones, that clumsy default palettes would enjoy them more. "Brand" effect of colors that divides community on plebs and elites is very bad effect too lMO.
In any way I think it's double-edged sword, to continue to lock or stop this part of Customization behind paywall. It all depends what Devs want to - develop community intensively, by having possible more income (maybe) from each separate player, but with less # of players (although LTS is pretty out of this formula). In this case locking behind paywall will remain. Or develop extensively - be more friendly to mere players, and increase their numbers, but with theoretical loss of income from single player (although that value is within statistical error lMO). In this case is wise to break this paywall.
As for me - l'm totally for it. Currently I have 3 excess Freeform slots, but I can't imagine character concepts, because all my fantasies must have certain colors attached to them. So I don't fill them, but if I was able to change colors, perhaps I'll be short on those slots.
Some of the monitization in CO doesn't make sense. Wouldn't you want silver players to be able to buy a bunch of stuff piecemeal that subs get in a bundle? You know, to make more money? The whole point of going f2p in the first place.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
If they somehow manage to make Power Colouring for Silvers available, it will be a pleasant surprise but i'm not going to get my hopes up
I even removed my own Silver Colouring suggestion thread from my signature to stop reminding me
Stop acting like you don't get enough privileges.
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Stop acting like you don't get enough privileges."
OP didn't say anything one way or another about how color tinting should be added for silvers and made some criticisms about things being overpriced or too grindy. There are also fair points on how it's stupid that silvers can engage in all other manners of color customization but not with powers. None of those things have anything to do with privileges.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
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Other than that no. It's an incentive to sub reward.
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A Color re-tinting token for a single toon should be an item in the store. That way Silvers get to change the colors of powers and it still remains a bonus for subbing.
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When you hit the "Color All" button, colors of device powers/effects (and vehicle attacks and effects) change, too.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
Pay once to unlock it as a silver, or subscribe to get it account-wide along with the older (And still very good) costume packs.
ALSO! Silvers should be able to change the emanation points of their powers! (Hands/wrists/head/chest)
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The attitude that silver players don't contribute financially to the game is odd. The whole point of the Freemium business model is to offer micro-transactions. I.E offer up purchasable services and items piecemeal. So rather than sub a player can choose which parts of the game they want to pay for.
I think a "power hue" aura token would be an interesting move. It might stimulate the purchase of aura slots as well. Something like that exists in DCUO I believe. You buy a token that colors your powers in a designated hue.
If I fly over to edinburg once a month and hand you fifteen dollars is that the same as you standing at the border of your country and preventing me from entering your country until I give you fifteen dollars? Also does that mean I get to complain that you won't paint my toenails? The answer is no in case you were wondering u3u
There is actually currently an item that you can buy to enable power coloring. It costs about 15 dollars and will unlock power coloring for a whole month on all your characters! Yeah yeah I know, just having a laugh with ya there, get that sourpuss off your face. It's still true though. Considering the actual item is likely to be almost as expensive as a FF slot when it does get released you can't even get mad.
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NW, designed as a Free to Pay has added a subs option, called the VIP program.
Now all they need to do is FIND the part in files,
amend it and decide on a suitably high price. Which of course, everyone will complain is too high.
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Fact is, it's not free and just like Gold Costumes, you should be able to sub and get them or pay to get them.
Either way, they should not be free.
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For the sake of the game's health, silver players sampling the game really should get more "nice things" to make them want to stick around. Since power/aura tinting gives literally zero gameplay advantages, but is still a very cool feature which adds even more depth to this game's character customization, there's absolutely zero reason to not make it free for everyone, everywhere.
It's usually the ones who have been playing a while who ask about it.
Now I'll repeat my previous post.
First they have to FIND THE FILES, with the power colouring in. Then work out how to attach them to separate silver characters without getting the whole acct. Mind you, one for trials and one for whole account would be sensible..... a word not to be used with Cryptic.
Next , i've been getting messages from the person who posted how to change colours for silvers.
He thinks, we're getting colour tinting because HIS POSTS ALL GOT WIPED, along with eveyone else's on how to change colours.
I have been trying to explain to him, that this is not a good thing.
SO far I've managed to keep it polite and not call him a F..ing idiot for posting how to do it, in detail,as the OP of a thread.
I've just sent him a message, telling him, If he's doing something.. dubious, to keep his mouth shut and only tell people in private chat. I'm against exploits but I'm more against that level of stupidity.
There is no facepalm big enough for this guy's action.
anyway, I'll sign the petition.
As long as my powers aren't yellow(too bright for me) I'm not worried, I 'm more worried about their effectiveness.
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l posted that, because l wanted to see a bit less improperly tinted players amongst mah teammates. And it hung on forum for almost a year.
By all means, I agree, it shouldn't be something given for free
I would be happy with an Account Wide Z-Store item that unlocks this Feature for 1500 Zen (INCLUDING Emanations points and pet skins)
or like someone else mentioned, with a character bound token for 300 Zen each, I don't mind, i may have a lot of characters but NOT all of them need to be able to change colours
Getting Silvers having to pay for features Subscriber get for Free is actually a really good marketing strategy, it means more Microtransactions
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Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
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Not for free.
It's like the mall. They let you in there for free. If you end up buying something, it doesn't mean you didn't get in the mall for free.
Some people play for free and then buy stuff to use while playing for free.
I guess I gotta post a gif now or something...
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It doesn't matter if you're subbed or not. the moment you spend money on something you have more ground to ask for a certain service.
By ur logic that means LTS are playing for free.
Nepht and Dr Deflecto on primus
They all thought I was out of the game....But I'm holding all the lockboxes now..
I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!