Juliette wrote:Oh, dream on, cheapskate Unknowns who mucked up their ascension process.
APP are worth what we pay for them. Right now, it is still cheaper to buy DMU for Naquadah than it is to convert APP to LF. So no. There is no economical reason to change it. (Except the emotional one: "OMG they will catch up to me who ascended so cheaply". Jealousy is not a good reason for change.)
I was rather hoping for more of an argument rather than an accusation of being a cheapskate or Jealous, especially from somebody who represents one of the game servers and should be behind promoting 'play'.
To cover your points Juliette, while I was ascending the conversion ratio for APP to LF was almost nothing, not that it really matters, I am quite happy with where I have taken my account via play.
I mentioned nothing about an economical reason the for the change, so I dont know why you focused your reply on that. If you want to trade NAQ for DMU, go right ahead
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In another thread (which i might look for later), I have already mentioned that purely using the APP to TURN conversion you can farm around ~70trill LF in a 5 month period, and thats only using ~300b DMU hits.
My suggestion is based purely around getting more people to actively 'play' the ascended server, rather than login every X weeks to convert APP to LF and boost thier account. If I was suggesting the idea just to mess with people ascending, then I would not have included removing the time limit between conversion, rather I would have suggested the option be removed alltogether in favour of ability buffs such as the 'double strike' stuff we have on the main server. (Jealousy is not a good reason for change, true, but the same can be said for arguing against change for personal gain)
Xiaoli wrote:I see 3 Unknown accounts, who most likely speeded their ascension to gain the main bonusses, and getting completely trashed in ascended by people who take their time.
Speaking personaly, I think it took me around 3.5 years to ascend to Unknown, not really 'rushing', and as I have mentioned above, the conversion rate for APP to LF was not really an issue back then. As for being 'trashed' by people who take their time, I am not sure what you are refering to
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I know exactly how much it 'costs' to get ~96 Trill LF from the APP conversion, while it requires a reasonable amount of effort (if your not a paypal pimp) to gather the resources on main, it's not a 'huge' effort.
Anyway, you both seem to think my suggestion is an attack on ascenders rather than an idea to promote actual 'play' on the ascended server. Perhaps the following alteration to my original suggestion would alleviate that concern.
Maintain the current APP to LF conversion ration, remove the current time limit between conversion, but introduce a minimum number of 'TURNS' to be used between conversions, based on the amount of APP converted. Say 10 - 20k Turns used OR 6 months if you fail to use the turns. (exact scale of turns / app to be discussed)
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