Newsfiend
12-07-2009, 04:31 PM
Angahran-Bertox wrote:
Elidroth wrote:
That was my point. It's difficult to justify increasing the cost per rank forever.
So why do you do it ?
If Rank 1, 2 and 3 each cost 5AA and you add Ranks 4, 5 and 6 make them also cost 5AA.
But you don't. You add Ranks 4, 5 and 6 and make them cost 6AA. Then you add Ranks 7,8 and 9 and you make them cost 7AA.
If you, the Dev's, "cannot justify increasing the cost per rank", then why do you do it ?
Ang.
Actually that's incorrect.
For most AA's, if they've been a single value cost for each rank, I've left it that way. Something that over time has cost 3AA per rank will always be 3AA per rank. But others have had increasing costs per rank.
The main reason I increase the cost per rank these days, is AA's are MUCH MUCH easier to acquire than in the past. So often times the time required to get a new rank is actually lower, even though the cost is higher.
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=158847&post_id=2359463#2359463)
Elidroth wrote:
That was my point. It's difficult to justify increasing the cost per rank forever.
So why do you do it ?
If Rank 1, 2 and 3 each cost 5AA and you add Ranks 4, 5 and 6 make them also cost 5AA.
But you don't. You add Ranks 4, 5 and 6 and make them cost 6AA. Then you add Ranks 7,8 and 9 and you make them cost 7AA.
If you, the Dev's, "cannot justify increasing the cost per rank", then why do you do it ?
Ang.
Actually that's incorrect.
For most AA's, if they've been a single value cost for each rank, I've left it that way. Something that over time has cost 3AA per rank will always be 3AA per rank. But others have had increasing costs per rank.
The main reason I increase the cost per rank these days, is AA's are MUCH MUCH easier to acquire than in the past. So often times the time required to get a new rank is actually lower, even though the cost is higher.
More... (http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=158847&post_id=2359463#2359463)