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Ok, so I haven't been playing very long, but I know from my Psychology classes in college and high school econ where your problem is at, at least to some extent.
First, you can learn much from Hydra in Marvel. In WW2 (expansion 2, WW2? coincidence? I think not :rolleyes::D )they tried to take people's freedoms by force, and they were resisted with an incredible furor? (analogy hasn't broken down yet :P) But in "present day" marvel, Hydra created a world so chaotic that people were willing to hand over their freedoms for the feeling of security. You can learn much from them.
You must create a game so beautiful and functional that people are begging you to take their wallets from them. Now you're not gonna please everyone, but you can please probably about 80% of the player base. The forum captains are about 2% i'd say :P
Ideas, reduce the deliberate cash grabs. Either make the cost for upgrades (dilithium and upgrade points per upgrade token thingy) go down, or once an item reaches Mk 14, the upgrade cost does NOT go up as the rank goes up, and you're guaranteed a rarity upgrade per upgrade once Mk 14 is reached.
Second, the R&D system, make each school about as long as the reputations to reach max level, and give double XP R&D tokens for people who hit whatever the max is (20 i think)
Third, for all the little money items. Add more outfits, not fed outfits, but romulan and KDF. You're creative, think of something, like hakeev's outfits and Sela's, many romulan players would pay darn good cash for something like that. Increase the odds on lockbox gambling, right now many players won't do it because of that .5% chance, make it 5 %! I'd personally go and get about 100 keys, a bunch of lockboxes and go to town opening them right now if that was changed. Add a PvP season for gods sakes already. I asked around the PvP community, many of those people spent thousands of dollars, but their wallets are shut tighter than a clam right now.
I don't know all the stuff that would be in a pvp season, but remember this very important rule, when people feel like they're being forced to hand over cash, they're much more likely to resist, it's just human nature.
Edit #1, offer Mk 14 pvp weapons in the C-Store, Epic quality, Acc and Crt mods and the such, or in the D-Store. I'd shell out another 30 bucks to outfit a toon like that. I'm sure many ppl would. Make C-Store PvP quality equipment, like consoles, deflectors, shields, impulse stuff like that. Make sure it's not a C-STore exculsive, better to put it in the D-Store so ppl can grind if they wanna, but you still make money
First, you can learn much from Hydra in Marvel. In WW2 (expansion 2, WW2? coincidence? I think not :rolleyes::D )they tried to take people's freedoms by force, and they were resisted with an incredible furor? (analogy hasn't broken down yet :P) But in "present day" marvel, Hydra created a world so chaotic that people were willing to hand over their freedoms for the feeling of security. You can learn much from them.
You must create a game so beautiful and functional that people are begging you to take their wallets from them. Now you're not gonna please everyone, but you can please probably about 80% of the player base. The forum captains are about 2% i'd say :P
Ideas, reduce the deliberate cash grabs. Either make the cost for upgrades (dilithium and upgrade points per upgrade token thingy) go down, or once an item reaches Mk 14, the upgrade cost does NOT go up as the rank goes up, and you're guaranteed a rarity upgrade per upgrade once Mk 14 is reached.
Second, the R&D system, make each school about as long as the reputations to reach max level, and give double XP R&D tokens for people who hit whatever the max is (20 i think)
Third, for all the little money items. Add more outfits, not fed outfits, but romulan and KDF. You're creative, think of something, like hakeev's outfits and Sela's, many romulan players would pay darn good cash for something like that. Increase the odds on lockbox gambling, right now many players won't do it because of that .5% chance, make it 5 %! I'd personally go and get about 100 keys, a bunch of lockboxes and go to town opening them right now if that was changed. Add a PvP season for gods sakes already. I asked around the PvP community, many of those people spent thousands of dollars, but their wallets are shut tighter than a clam right now.
I don't know all the stuff that would be in a pvp season, but remember this very important rule, when people feel like they're being forced to hand over cash, they're much more likely to resist, it's just human nature.
Edit #1, offer Mk 14 pvp weapons in the C-Store, Epic quality, Acc and Crt mods and the such, or in the D-Store. I'd shell out another 30 bucks to outfit a toon like that. I'm sure many ppl would. Make C-Store PvP quality equipment, like consoles, deflectors, shields, impulse stuff like that. Make sure it's not a C-STore exculsive, better to put it in the D-Store so ppl can grind if they wanna, but you still make money
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Real join date September 2012
Real join date September 2012
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