Statement-Comparation

[Zizi17]

As a returning 2008 veteran of DO,I decided in late december to start an old account on one of GE servers,it was only a liberator.Now it's been 5-6 months since I started on it.Now I have almost full lf3,18 bo2 goliath thanks to daily log-in for sending&receiving promerium.

Ofc I could have more than 18 bo2 if the prices were lower,so I decided to start another account on a empty server(Eg:Br2,USA east,etc...),did same,and now I got 35 lf-3 and 38 bo2 after 5 months,without botting,just bidding daily.

Also I had an account from 2009 on GE5(the last server it was created in that time),I played daily and what did I get:A veng,full mp-1,no lf3,no bo2.For nearly 3 years.

Did you noticed that it matters the time you started to play DO?for example:If you played in 2010 for 4 months you wouldn't be a full elite goli with lvl 17,you would probably be a BB with full mp1 that get roasted every time on x-4 trying to do those hard missions.

How did I got so easy FE?
Answer it's simple:Thanks to the upgrades to the game(The good ones:Mission upgrades helps you level more,Auction you can see the bid,and more "evolved" players who decided not to pay anymore 60 million for a goliath,also the player who left the game).


Now in 2016 DO,after a decade,you can finally have a goliath full elite without paying.

Agree with me?This experiment still goes on.

[Viceroy-]

But with basic FE goliath you can not do anything to UFE players (20-25k x4 dmg lol)

[Zizi17]

Originally Posted by KaloianBG

But with basic FE goliath you can not do anything to UFE players (20-25k x4 dmg lol)

I can hit that hard with a FE as well if I updated with seprom.

The point is,if DO wouldn't had the game updated,FE lvl 16 would be still the greatest,not UFE lvl 22,the only reason why it transformed to p2w game.

[Arby]

Personally, I feel like it was from a pay to progress to a pay to win. What I mean is, back then, 5 years ago, you could spend real money to progress faster than the person whom had no money to get to FE and so on a lot quicker.

You could probably hit that hard with seprom, but they could hit even harder. When updates carry on, older things become less and less viable. You can easily to progress to the point where you are now (FE) because less and less people need that equipment. LF3s aren't the big thing, LF4s are. Bids were higher and so forth.

At this time, if they didn't give you some sort of progression you would be heavily out numbered. Having a goliath now will at least give you some sort of sense of "having the best ship" even though there are designs and so on.

I feel like it'll get easier, every game always does. I feel, if they were to make LF5s, come around in two years, LF4s will become the norm.

eg; FFXIV, having top tier gear from raiding is stupidly hard to get at that time. Come 6 months from now, that gear will be stupidly easy to get for everyone and is a lot more viable to get. It isn't the best anymore, but it's still considered good. It's a never ending cycle, things get easier to get, new things are the harder things to get.

Back to DO, if they didn't make changes. If they didn't make updates, it would have died a lot more quickly. They may have made poor choices in the past, but if they did nothing at all. It would have died out.