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Free gold for alpha testing

IllyriniaIllyrinia Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
edited November 7 in General Discussion
Would love to see free gold for new char during alpha to buy a set of gear right from the start. I didnt even bother keeping resources for crafting or dust. i just sold everything to get silver i needed for my level.

Comments

  • BaSkA_9x2BaSkA_9x2 Member, Alpha Two
    What if they want to test how the economy works, organically?
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  • nanfoodlenanfoodle Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    This should only be done if they are testing raids and don't have enoughat the right level and gear to do it. Just my two cents.
  • Zapatos80Zapatos80 Member, Alpha Two
    Illyrinia wrote: »
    Would love to see free gold for new char during alpha to buy a set of gear right from the start. I didnt even bother keeping resources for crafting or dust. i just sold everything to get silver i needed for my level.

    Isn't that what the PTR will be for? (Giving levels/ressources to test specific systems)
  • IllyriniaIllyrinia Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    This is an ALPHA ... there is plenty of time to test for economy etc. if they want people to test different classes and systems. why make it difficult to get there. from level 1-10 there is no need to make people scrap for silver to buy a set of armor/weapons at this point in the game. we are here to test the game mechanics and find bugs. Which a lot of people fail to understand... this is not a final game this is our PTR server! thats my point.
  • Hutchy1989Hutchy1989 Member, Alpha Two
    They are testing performance and networking during phase 1, not actual content and balancing.
  • novercalisnovercalis Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Illyrinia wrote: »
    This is an ALPHA ... there is plenty of time to test for economy etc. if they want people to test different classes and systems. why make it difficult to get there. from level 1-10 there is no need to make people scrap for silver to buy a set of armor/weapons at this point in the game. we are here to test the game mechanics and find bugs. Which a lot of people fail to understand... this is not a final game this is our PTR server! thats my point.

    no and A1 folks are testing the items, equipments, sets and all other things with gold. So that's taken care of on their end. While the masses does the economy. There will be a few wipes until Release and each wipe will gather data points on economy.
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  • SpifSpif Member, Alpha Two
    I would guess that the lack of gold sources is because they want us to be grinding mobs, as that tests the servers the hardest. People running traveling to quests or gathering don't impact the servers nearly as much
  • VeeshanVeeshan Member, Alpha Two
    kill some mobs get glint run a 2 caravan trips buy full set of lvl 10 gear
  • VeeshanVeeshan Member, Alpha Two
    Hutchy1989 wrote: »
    They are testing performance and networking during phase 1, not actual content and balancing.

    And progression which also includes gear progression
  • VeeshanVeeshan Member, Alpha Two
    Spif wrote: »
    I would guess that the lack of gold sources is because they want us to be grinding mobs, as that tests the servers the hardest. People running traveling to quests or gathering don't impact the servers nearly as much

    to be fair gold not hard to get if servers didnt crash :p i lost like about 20g from crashing while caravanning so far :P
  • RocketFarmerRocketFarmer Member, Alpha Two
    Your gold is with the commodities vendor.
  • nanfoodlenanfoodle Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Found out they have done this already. When testing certain content there was a vendor you could buy gear that suited your play style.
  • VeeshanVeeshan Member, Alpha Two
    nanfoodle wrote: »
    Found out they have done this already. When testing certain content there was a vendor you could buy gear that suited your play style.

    they do all that on PTR cause there trying not to wipe live Alpha 2 there only wiping basicly the forced to wipe. So yeah they cant give people free shit even when steven died earlier while corrupted with lvl 20 legendary gear he summoned them to a room and took it back off them :p not to mess with people character progression adding things to game that shouldnt be at that stage :pensive:
  • nanfoodlenanfoodle Member, Founder, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Veeshan wrote: »
    nanfoodle wrote: »
    Found out they have done this already. When testing certain content there was a vendor you could buy gear that suited your play style.

    they do all that on PTR cause there trying not to wipe live Alpha 2 there only wiping basicly the forced to wipe. So yeah they cant give people free shit even when steven died earlier while corrupted with lvl 20 legendary gear he summoned them to a room and took it back off them :p not to mess with people character progression adding things to game that shouldnt be at that stage :pensive:

    Ya I saw the video. They are collecting data and we are the data pawns. I'm fine with it.
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