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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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As far as armor being won from other or taken on the battlefield that rarely happened to a common foot soldier. If you defeated a knight in battle you would probably ransom him. and even if you ransomed him you were most likely a person of some means. You had to be a knight to compete against other knights in tournaments and by extension you had to already have armor to compete in a tournament.
This leaves the door open for the Cosmetic Only cash shop to be used indirectly as a PTW. So NO THANK YOU dont want in game currency able to get Cash Shop items.
No trade, no sell no gift is the way to go, and I hope it stays that way.
There's a simple and easy solution to this. Make all cash shot items 100% cosmetic with no stats, no improvements, no nothing. What can be done, and I've seen this in other MMORPG's. Is you have your armor/items/weapons that all have the stats you need, and then there was an alternative slot for all of those items. So you had a Chest piece slot you could put another chest piece and that'll be what was seen. This was done for cosmetic look only where you could change out each of your pieces of armor for cosmetic only items with no stats.
That or don't have a Cash shop period.
I personally would slightly lean toward no cash shop because it makes earned cosmetics/armors more satisfying and a lot cooler. However, that is just a small annoyance and with the shop being 100% not p2w, I'm ok with it. I would like to see more reasonable prices though.
Actually, if anything I hope the cash shop is expensive. If it's all cosmetic I don't want $1 or $5 suits if armor that look amazing and everyone just running around with this badass look. You start making cosmetic $20, $30 then all of a sudden it'll start getting as rare as raid gear. But I also don't see the appeal to it. I don't want to start the game looking completely badass, kinda takes away from the progression of building up to something.