Mike_W

Yea, there we go, same page! As soon as we opened up multiplayer, RMT was possible. It’s going to be an ongoing situation to navigate and we have plans to contain it.

Ohhhhh, with the assumption being that MG would be notably faster to obtain gear in.

I don’t understand at all. The stuff you get from (the bazaar) being MG would instantly become unusable when you switched and the stuff you found would be more plentiful if you had just started as CoF in the first place.

There is no efficiency gain to be had by switching.

SSF stands for Solo Self Found.

CoF players can play with MG or CoF players that are also non-SSF

SSF-MG is a little weird and I suspect that it will become a sort of meme challenge mode as a joke.

Yes, the thing is that it will be just better to play CoF from the outset in this situation.

You can’t gift in SSF. The confusion here comes from using SSF and CoF interchangeably.

this is changing in 0.9

You go to the boots stall and it lists all boots that you could possibly buy. Then you go to the gloves stall right beside it and it lists all glove that you could possibly buy.

These switching strategies will ultimately slow down your progression.

I agree that the primary issue with this system is the complexity. It is something we have tried very hard to mitigate. Unfortunately it is quite heavy and as such, there are some misunderstandings and assumptions going on. I’ve got a dozen other questions to get to here so I won’t go too deep but the short version is that we don’t intend for switching to be a common thing to do but rather a safeguard to prevent players from wasting their time in one and deciding that they want to switch.

Edit: Our community has also made it very clear that there is something between SSF and free trade that is extremely desired by a very significant portion of the community.

Progression as a CoF vs MG will be very similar. Forgoing all the MG specific items to switch to CoF will be slower than just starting and playing as CoF in the first place.

Each Resonance will be usable on specific item types, see the example image.

As for ‘very extended period of time’, we don’t have any more specific information available at this time. It is something that will come down a lot to testing a feedback.

Exactly how favor costs are calculated could change and will likely include more than just the category that they fit into but the main distinction is planned to be which category.

You can play cross factions so you won’t need to distinguish like that. I’m not sure if we will have a specific forum badge or something.

What if you could play without them and still use the same content? The concern I usually see here is not being able to play with the new updates as they come out. We are currently planning on having cycles (leagues, seasons, ladders) but not locking content to the cycle itself.

No, the gear you trade for as MG will not be usable when you switch to CoF. If you plan to play CoF long term, it is best to start, and stay as, CoF.

Welcome back! Yea, 4 years is a while eh?

The current plan is to include this in offline too.

Yes.

There is no such thing as party drop rates so it is unaffected.

None of this will be included in 0.9 at all. Gifting only in 0.9.

The gifting system is unchanged at its core so you can still gift CoF tagged items and they retain the CoF tag.