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STARS - Let's talk about that change!
spinnytop
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So stars were pretty much meaningless before and they still are. I don't really care about the change, it doesn't really matter to me. I can just discard stars if they clutter my inventory too much or whatever. Doesn't matter.
That's a problem though because the reason given for the change was that it was meant to make us care about stars, and use them instead of hoarding them. So in regard to the reason given, the change completely failed. I still don't really care about stars, aaaaaaand....lets look at a character's stars ever since this change:
I'm dumping them in my bank, since my characters' banks are generally empty. So where before I just let them collect in a single inventory slot, now I am actively going to the bank to dump my stars. I'm more of a star hoarder than I was before! This is because the problem that causes stars to pile up still exists: I get them faster than I can use them. The problem was never that I didn't use my stars. In fact I popped those things like they come out of a bottomless PEZ dispenser... because effectively they do, they're a resource that gets restocked faster than I can use it. This would hold true even if they made it so you can only ever have 1 stack of 20 on a character ever by preventing us from dumping them in our bank and somehow making the stack unique. That stack would just be at 20 nearly all of the time because it would rise back to that number faster than I could make it fall.
Ya dun goofed and made me into some crazy star hoarder o3o why you do this
PS - I know I already largely made this argument in the PTS thread, but I wanted to include this screen shot as an example of the actual effect of this change vs the intended effect.
That's a problem though because the reason given for the change was that it was meant to make us care about stars, and use them instead of hoarding them. So in regard to the reason given, the change completely failed. I still don't really care about stars, aaaaaaand....lets look at a character's stars ever since this change:
I'm dumping them in my bank, since my characters' banks are generally empty. So where before I just let them collect in a single inventory slot, now I am actively going to the bank to dump my stars. I'm more of a star hoarder than I was before! This is because the problem that causes stars to pile up still exists: I get them faster than I can use them. The problem was never that I didn't use my stars. In fact I popped those things like they come out of a bottomless PEZ dispenser... because effectively they do, they're a resource that gets restocked faster than I can use it. This would hold true even if they made it so you can only ever have 1 stack of 20 on a character ever by preventing us from dumping them in our bank and somehow making the stack unique. That stack would just be at 20 nearly all of the time because it would rise back to that number faster than I could make it fall.
Ya dun goofed and made me into some crazy star hoarder o3o why you do this
PS - I know I already largely made this argument in the PTS thread, but I wanted to include this screen shot as an example of the actual effect of this change vs the intended effect.
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Just now I took a stack of 300 stars and split off a stack of 37. It didn't even try to explode into stacks of 20 so I don't think that's gonna happen with our old stacks. I just wasn't able to merge that 37 back into the big lump afterwards.
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At this point, the stars are effectively another form of, pretty useless, currency. I'd be happy enough if they simply got rid of the "5 Star" system and converted the stars into "Hero Recognition". It's unlikely that the devs would add a new vendor with new devices/costumes/consumables etc, so this could be a sort of universal recognition if you are a short of few until/scr/gcr.
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