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Conqueror's Shards exchange facility needed
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When strongholds arrived on preview it was loudly pointed out to Cryptic that making a PvE building, The Barracks need PvP shards was a mistake. But was it a mistake or a deliberate marketing strategy, When this issue was not fixed in the initial patches that followed Strongholds release to the live world, most guilds adapted, some PvP'ed , many others bought shards, no doubt this provided Cryptic with a nice cash boost.
As the months dragged on it become clear that this was infact a subtle and I suspect highly successful marketing ploy, a fact confirmed by the sudden and unannounced fix with mod 14 to swap the Barracks to Adventurers shards. Enough Guilds had finished building that Fixing this mistake now has very linited cash implications to Cryptic. Those guilds which did not, could not or would not adapt to get conqeror shards are now happy, bur did Cryptic give any thought to those guilds who have spent hard cash buying shards that they will now never use, I think they did, why else make this change with no announcement or fanfare, because they were biting the hand that feeds them, those of us who put hard cash into this game.
If Cryptic want to keep getting my cash and I suspect many other players caught out by the Mod 14 change they need to give us a way to exchange shards, those rotting in our Guild coffers and those stashed in our banks awaiting donation.
What I am going to propose is not a free exchange, I am far to much of a realist to believe that could happen, but a facility to swap conqueror's shards to Adventurer's shards with an AD charge applied, this game needs more AD sinks and this could be one that actually helps players and developers alike. I would also suggest that this is a temporary measure for say 3 months to allow us to get rid of the now useless conquerors shards without making a large impact on the games Zen market. But then again people my actually buy Shards packs just to swap them so generating more Zen store sales and removing more AD from the game via the proposed exchange charge.
My idea is that for shards in players storage they have a vendor/npc in the stronghold who they can exchange shards with at a cost of 100AD per shard, So to swap a 1000 conqueror shards to Adventurers would cost 100,000 AD , for those shards already in the guild coffer there should be a facility for guild leaders to swap conquerors shards , again with an AD charge, As a Guild leader I am happy to cover this cost as I set the long term strategy for my guild, so members who have bought shard packs at my request do not suffer twice over.
Players of Neverwinter, please leave your constructive thoughts and feed back on this subject and maybe the powers that be in this game will take notice and do something that helps us the players and I believe helps the game designers and the games Public image as well.
As the months dragged on it become clear that this was infact a subtle and I suspect highly successful marketing ploy, a fact confirmed by the sudden and unannounced fix with mod 14 to swap the Barracks to Adventurers shards. Enough Guilds had finished building that Fixing this mistake now has very linited cash implications to Cryptic. Those guilds which did not, could not or would not adapt to get conqeror shards are now happy, bur did Cryptic give any thought to those guilds who have spent hard cash buying shards that they will now never use, I think they did, why else make this change with no announcement or fanfare, because they were biting the hand that feeds them, those of us who put hard cash into this game.
If Cryptic want to keep getting my cash and I suspect many other players caught out by the Mod 14 change they need to give us a way to exchange shards, those rotting in our Guild coffers and those stashed in our banks awaiting donation.
What I am going to propose is not a free exchange, I am far to much of a realist to believe that could happen, but a facility to swap conqueror's shards to Adventurer's shards with an AD charge applied, this game needs more AD sinks and this could be one that actually helps players and developers alike. I would also suggest that this is a temporary measure for say 3 months to allow us to get rid of the now useless conquerors shards without making a large impact on the games Zen market. But then again people my actually buy Shards packs just to swap them so generating more Zen store sales and removing more AD from the game via the proposed exchange charge.
My idea is that for shards in players storage they have a vendor/npc in the stronghold who they can exchange shards with at a cost of 100AD per shard, So to swap a 1000 conqueror shards to Adventurers would cost 100,000 AD , for those shards already in the guild coffer there should be a facility for guild leaders to swap conquerors shards , again with an AD charge, As a Guild leader I am happy to cover this cost as I set the long term strategy for my guild, so members who have bought shard packs at my request do not suffer twice over.
Players of Neverwinter, please leave your constructive thoughts and feed back on this subject and maybe the powers that be in this game will take notice and do something that helps us the players and I believe helps the game designers and the games Public image as well.
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My guild is a PVE guild, with people that can not stomach pvp. So me and the other guild leader took it upon ourselves to dive into BiD as often as we could and, for months and months, we farmed conqueror's shards. I really dont like pvp either, but it's what had to be done. We have 3 more barracks upgrades to do and had enough shards to compete 2 upgrades plus 1/2 way to the last. Then this change happens no warning. My Guild Hall was in the middle of a upgrade, so there was no way I could even attempt to "rush" one more Barracks upgrade with the few hour notice I had.
Guilds have been out for nearly 3 years now, and people have been asking for this change since the very beginning. At some point, they put it on their list of things to do so why not give some of us a warning? With some warning, we could have made at least 1 if not 2 upgrades and used up the majority of our shards. But no warning was given, so I agree with everyone else that some sort of exchange would be nice. After all, we worked hard on the task that you layed out before us...a task that had been the same for YEARS and is not part of some grand Guild Hall overhaul.
So now we aren't far off from being able to do another Barracks upgrade. Do I wait and hope for an exchange? Or use up a resource needed for other structures for the Barracks and hope that whatever "fix" may be implemented isn't Barracks specific?
As it stands my guild is sitting with nearly 30k conqueror shards that will never be used. The sudden nature of this change versus the long term process of building these shards really deserves some work to tamp down the ill will coming from an otherwise welcome change.
The devs could do the same for shards easily. It's just some additional code to add to the seal vendor. At least that way players who still have conquerer shards in inventory could swap them.
Shards already donated to the coffer are harder to deal with because guilds can use them for pvp buildings regardless if you want to do that or not.
My suggestion would be this. Get rid of the 4 different types of guild shards and replace with just 1. Change all the SH building costs to use 1 shard type and change the Sh chest of power to reward 400 of that 1 type. Tweak the rewards of quests to reward the 1 type of shard. Players will still have to do the same tasks as before to earn the same amount of shards.
It would just be a nice QoL change. They did it with seals so no reason why they can't do it to shards as well. There are too many currencies in this game.