veteran points

[Yama]

Something planned for the future regarding veteran points ?

When somebody submits for 1 year he gets some FP (Funcom points).
But you are getting Veteran points for years spent with this game.

Currently i can see that some items from Veteran shop are available also in Item shop.

Although sometimes i do not understand prices. Like RK/SL recall beacon for 500 points and Insurance recall beacon for 1000. While in veteran shop RK/SL is for 10 while Insurance is for 50 !

Anyway Veteran shops does not get any love so far.
So maybe it will be possible to buy from Veteran shop some FP ?
So we can buy something from Item shop ?

[Psikie]

I suggested to at least add IPR's to vet booths...no response.

[RedWatr]

I suggested to at least add IPR's to vet booths...no response.

Full IPR for 25 points please.

[Abdominaux]

everything in the shop as to be in veteran shop imo.
fc policy for old customers is wierd, and that's why I canceled accounts lately.
i waited to much for new engine, no free mounths, no items for oldskooler, no way to bypass some stuff you done hundred of time etc.
but still bump for a review of vet shop

[User1337]

Full IPR for 25 points please.

I bump this idea.

everything in the shop as to be in veteran shop imo.
fc policy for old customers is wierd, and that's why I canceled accounts lately.
i waited to much for new engine, no free mounths, no items for oldskooler, no way to bypass some stuff you done hundred of time etc.
but still bump for a review of vet shop

Don't leave dude I was about to revamp Spydoggy for the old glory days Hahahahaha.

I'd also bump the idea of "old schooler" items and "bypassing stuff you've done hundreds of times" (like Plausibility Ring quest or Inferno Garden Key quest, for example).

[Ekarona]

Bazzit quest... Please ;D

[Wakizaka]

Bazzit quest... Please ;D

Scheol Quest with all the XP/SK rewards! Bazzit's is still quick and easy by comparison.

[Herkulease]

Allow vet points to purchase levels. Make it work like this. It would do no harm, and tons of good.

Levels 1-200 would cost 1 points each. 200 Vet points - Level 200.

Level 200-220 would cost 2 points each. 240 Vet points - Level 220.

AI Level 1-15 would cost 1 vet point. 15 Vet points - AI Level 15.

AI Level 15-30 would cost 2 vet point. 45 Vet points - AI Level 30.

Research would cost 1 vet point each. 70 Vet points - LE Level 70

In total. To get a completely leveled character. You would need 355 vet points.

This does not include any warp beacons, leet nanos, Insight nanos, vet backpack, yalm, or nano and health chargers.

Those things amount to 129 vet points.

And that does not include tokens. Which at 7 vet points each, add up very quickly.



Long story short. What you would have is people getting to a low twink level quickly. And then doing content related grinds for phats. (Finding teams). Or they would grind, and then use their vet points to finish off that really long, annoying part of the game. 215-220. Last 5 alien levels. Level 8-9-10 research.

Anyway, would be nice. Id like it.

Since you already made it possible to purchased level 200 for an obscene price. Why not make it possible for your most dedicated customers to have the same luxury.

I have played for 10+ years, almost 90% account paid and active. I only have 276 vet points.

I could not max out a character. And wouldn't. At best I would buy vet shop items, buy 50% of my tokens, then get some basic levels done (research, AI, Levels). Before I would spend the rest of my vet points. I might level to 100, grind max AI level, cap my research. Then I would do the unthinkable, and insta spawn a under-equip max level gimp. Who would be cannon fodder on the BS for a few months while I hunted down the phats I needed to enjoy him.

[Psikie]

Not bad Herk.

[Hell]

Allow vet points to purchase levels. Make it work like this. It would do no harm, and tons of good.

Levels 1-200 would cost 1 points each. 200 Vet points - Level 200.

Level 200-220 would cost 2 points each. 240 Vet points - Level 220.

AI Level 1-15 would cost 1 vet point. 15 Vet points - AI Level 15.

AI Level 15-30 would cost 2 vet point. 45 Vet points - AI Level 30.

Research would cost 1 vet point each. 70 Vet points - LE Level 70

In total. To get a completely leveled character. You would need 355 vet points.

This does not include any warp beacons, leet nanos, Insight nanos, vet backpack, yalm, or nano and health chargers.

Those things amount to 129 vet points.

And that does not include tokens. Which at 7 vet points each, add up very quickly.



Long story short. What you would have is people getting to a low twink level quickly. And then doing content related grinds for phats. (Finding teams). Or they would grind, and then use their vet points to finish off that really long, annoying part of the game. 215-220. Last 5 alien levels. Level 8-9-10 research.

Anyway, would be nice. Id like it.

Since you already made it possible to purchased level 200 for an obscene price. Why not make it possible for your most dedicated customers to have the same luxury.

I have played for 10+ years, almost 90% account paid and active. I only have 276 vet points.

I could not max out a character. And wouldn't. At best I would buy vet shop items, buy 50% of my tokens, then get some basic levels done (research, AI, Levels). Before I would spend the rest of my vet points. I might level to 100, grind max AI level, cap my research. Then I would do the unthinkable, and insta spawn a under-equip max level gimp. Who would be cannon fodder on the BS for a few months while I hunted down the phats I needed to enjoy him.

LOL, this would be all wrong ... sorry mate. That literally means I could have 12x/10x 220/30/70 in like 1 hour according to fact that I've got 430 Veteran points on my account which are re-newed on every new character I make. Not to mention that getting a leveling team, even in inferno can be really hard nowadays and this would make it even worse. In that case I could actually make a veteran account for any of my orgmate/friend with brand trasfered 430 VP and just make them to do the same and no one would notice this. So nope thanks.

edit: Just found out you can have 18 character slots on a paid account so this idea is even funnier. Sorry.

[Le-Quack]

something planned for the future regarding veteran points ?

When somebody submits for 1 year he gets some fp (funcom points).
But you are getting veteran points for years spent with this game.

Currently i can see that some items from veteran shop are available also in item shop.

Although sometimes i do not understand prices. Like rk/sl recall beacon for 500 points and insurance recall beacon for 1000. While in veteran shop rk/sl is for 10 while insurance is for 50 !

Anyway veteran shops does not get any love so far.
So maybe it will be possible to buy from veteran shop some fp ?
So we can buy something from item shop ?

b u m p ! ! !

[User1337]

Allow vet points to purchase levels. Make it work like this. It would do no harm, and tons of good.

Levels 1-200 would cost 1 points each. 200 Vet points - Level 200.

Level 200-220 would cost 2 points each. 240 Vet points - Level 220.

AI Level 1-15 would cost 1 vet point. 15 Vet points - AI Level 15.

AI Level 15-30 would cost 2 vet point. 45 Vet points - AI Level 30.

Research would cost 1 vet point each. 70 Vet points - LE Level 70

In total. To get a completely leveled character. You would need 355 vet points.

This does not include any warp beacons, leet nanos, Insight nanos, vet backpack, yalm, or nano and health chargers.

Those things amount to 129 vet points.

And that does not include tokens. Which at 7 vet points each, add up very quickly.



Long story short. What you would have is people getting to a low twink level quickly. And then doing content related grinds for phats. (Finding teams). Or they would grind, and then use their vet points to finish off that really long, annoying part of the game. 215-220. Last 5 alien levels. Level 8-9-10 research.

Anyway, would be nice. Id like it.

Since you already made it possible to purchased level 200 for an obscene price. Why not make it possible for your most dedicated customers to have the same luxury.

I have played for 10+ years, almost 90% account paid and active. I only have 276 vet points.

I could not max out a character. And wouldn't. At best I would buy vet shop items, buy 50% of my tokens, then get some basic levels done (research, AI, Levels). Before I would spend the rest of my vet points. I might level to 100, grind max AI level, cap my research. Then I would do the unthinkable, and insta spawn a under-equip max level gimp. Who would be cannon fodder on the BS for a few months while I hunted down the phats I needed to enjoy him.

While this could potentially be a good idea, Hell's point about someone being able to insta make 10, 12 or 18 top of the line chars could easily ruin the game. Perhaps raising those estimated prices Herk talks about might make it work.

You want AI 30 or LE70? Go to your bank and transfer a crapload of cash to FC hehe. It's an elite service, and those tend to cost a lot.

Not a bad idea tho, so I KIDNA bump it ;p

[Herkulease]

Hell is an extreme example of vet points. So yes, scale it up a bit so even he is inconvenienced by it.

Nanos, armor, hud/util/belt items and the twink gear to equip good symbiants for your level.

Id love to see how long it took someone to grind 18 burdens. Beast stars, all the quests required for the good nanos. Just buying up the regular nanos would be difficult itself. Setting up 18 GUI's in a manner that was functional ect... Getting the important items like Trimmers/2k absorb tank armor. Blind Rings. Stims. Grafts....1,000,000 other things.


What you would really have is some people making 1 or 2 characters and playing around with em.

A few nuts would try and make 6 for a team. And do something interesting with it. That's it. (No different then the people soloing end game bosses with Crat+Doc combo's, and selling loot for 1+billion.

I personally would enjoy an influx of players with crap armor/util/imps. All pvping or looking for teams to get their stuff done. Thats exactly what AO used to be like. Think we just got used to having next to nobody playing.

And in regards to "makin it too easy". I got past that when AI kills dropped from 60,000 to 1000. 2.5k Tokens became buyable with vet points. Levels became purchasable with cash. Rare spawn mobs became 20m Dynas, and every end game boss became an Instance. Don't forget the daily missions, and the kiting of hecklers that has become the way to Adonis.

It wouldn't ruin the game, might make it more lively though. I would personally make a Martial Artist.

[Psikie]

LOL, this would be all wrong ... sorry mate. That literally means I could have 12x/10x 220/30/70 in like 1 hour according to fact that I've got 430 Veteran points on my account which are re-newed on every new character I make.

Although vets with that many pts are not really going to be teaming anyway, mostly power lvling to 220 which can be done in a month truthfully.

Nanos, armor, hud/util/belt items and the twink gear to equip good symbiants for your level.

Id love to see how long it took someone to grind 18 burdens. Beast stars, all the quests required for the good nanos. Just buying up the regular nanos would be difficult itself. Setting up 18 GUI's in a manner that was functional ect... Getting the important items like Trimmers/2k absorb tank armor. Blind Rings. Stims. Grafts....1,000,000 other things.

This is the only time vets really play the game honestly. Getting all those bits to flesh out the toon.

For vets that have been playing for years we pretty much have all the toons we want anyway. I don't see it as having a negative impact. Most vets team when they WANT to not because they NEED to.

[MachSchau]

I'd like to see more things added to the vet shop that cater to vets and their needs. I really dont see a problem with Herk's idea. Any time I have fiddled on test and I ask Auto for levels I have a completely naked 220/30/70 toon and I would need various nodrop gear as well as certain quests done to equip various armors, weapons and symbs. So there is some amount of work involved in gearing that toon via raids.

However, to be able to just bypass all of that (if you have that many VP) isn't really fun. You essentially dont learn the toon, dont get a feel for it, and the game becomes stale more quickly. But then again, at that point the game might just be stale, or at least certain aspects of it.

[Leetlover]

hecklerjuice! (and that bot that is on test that gives nanos and research) 15-20 vp, thx

[Satisguard]

his idea has some merit, though........ worth thinking about

[User1337]

Hell is an extreme example of vet points. So yes, scale it up a bit so even he is inconvenienced by it.

Nanos, armor, hud/util/belt items and the twink gear to equip good symbiants for your level.

Id love to see how long it took someone to grind 18 burdens. Beast stars, all the quests required for the good nanos. Just buying up the regular nanos would be difficult itself. Setting up 18 GUI's in a manner that was functional ect... Getting the important items like Trimmers/2k absorb tank armor. Blind Rings. Stims. Grafts....1,000,000 other things.

What you would really have is some people making 1 or 2 characters and playing around with em.

A few nuts would try and make 6 for a team. And do something interesting with it. That's it. (No different then the people soloing end game bosses with Crat+Doc combo's, and selling loot for 1+billion.

I personally would enjoy an influx of players with crap armor/util/imps. All pvping or looking for teams to get their stuff done. Thats exactly what AO used to be like. Think we just got used to having next to nobody playing.

And in regards to "makin it too easy". I got past that when AI kills dropped from 60,000 to 1000. 2.5k Tokens became buyable with vet points. Levels became purchasable with cash. Rare spawn mobs became 20m Dynas, and every end game boss became an Instance. Don't forget the daily missions, and the kiting of hecklers that has become the way to Adonis.

This is all very true. Especially the last part. FC has made this game way easier for the new generation than it was for us. Time to balance the equation perhaps.

[RedWatr]

Hell is an extreme example of vet points. So yes, scale it up a bit so even he is inconvenienced by it.

Nanos, armor, hud/util/belt items and the twink gear to equip good symbiants for your level.

Id love to see how long it took someone to grind 18 burdens. Beast stars, all the quests required for the good nanos. Just buying up the regular nanos would be difficult itself. Setting up 18 GUI's in a manner that was functional ect... Getting the important items like Trimmers/2k absorb tank armor. Blind Rings. Stims. Grafts....1,000,000 other things.


What you would really have is some people making 1 or 2 characters and playing around with em.

A few nuts would try and make 6 for a team. And do something interesting with it. That's it. (No different then the people soloing end game bosses with Crat+Doc combo's, and selling loot for 1+billion.

I personally would enjoy an influx of players with crap armor/util/imps. All pvping or looking for teams to get their stuff done. Thats exactly what AO used to be like. Think we just got used to having next to nobody playing.

And in regards to "makin it too easy". I got past that when AI kills dropped from 60,000 to 1000. 2.5k Tokens became buyable with vet points. Levels became purchasable with cash. Rare spawn mobs became 20m Dynas, and every end game boss became an Instance. Don't forget the daily missions, and the kiting of hecklers that has become the way to Adonis.

It wouldn't ruin the game, might make it more lively though. I would personally make a Martial Artist.

I'm starting to like you Herk. if I could read, that would be great, but you make pretty words, so that is good enough! maybe one of these days melee adv and keeper will get attention, and I can read again, and my sex life won't be so bad. until then, you've typed out what I would have, if I knew how to type, so thanks buddy.

[Kinkstaah]

12 years of vet points should allow me to use mongo rage as a solitus.