Completing the BP is now extremely easy to do with just an hour every week for 6 or 7 weeks. The weekly challenges are swift enough to accomplish and reward generously.
The rewards for the BP are cosmetics (other than a few bits of ammunition). These cosmetics are obviously a top priority for builders, many of whom may only use the game as a set of building blocks and dolls dresses. Keeping the rewards accessible for those who will appreciate them isn’t telling anyone else how to play the game. Quite the contrary, forcing the builders to leave admin mode, ect, is telling them how to play the game.
Those wibbles aside, of all the things this one is snarling about regarding this update…
The BP change isn’t one of them
Honestly, this one likes it in concept and almost likes it in execution.
The Weekly rewards are solid and make chunky progress. The only issue being that they are inconsistent in whether they are applied. 4 dragons = 3 demonic creatures… Heheheh… new feature is a little buggy, news at 11.
The other progression having hidden caps and also this one has been unable to get any other progression except on official servers, that’s not so good… Especially the lack of transparency… but it is likely also still in a rough phase. If it is sorted, then this one could judge based on the rate of Pass XP vs Time, but as matters stand, insufficient data on this one’s end.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the hidden aspect was a poor decision/oversight to not share. But the cap itself? Yeah I’m alright with being able to wait. What I don’t want is people screaming left and right and suddenly we lose a method to quick complete because they didn’t get their favorite sippy cup and so had to press the situation more.
This one has said it before and may say it again.
While this one detests, loathes, despises, hates as they hate Helium double hockey sticks, Battle Passes as a system…
The one in this game is amongst the least odious that this one has encountered.
Another factor, both in the limiting and in the weekly rather than daily focus, is the CCP.
This isn’t supposed to be a political rant, not at all, but there are legal realities.
The NPPA has moved against incentives for daily spending of time on video games.
Tencent is based in China and it behooves them to not only obey the laws but act in a manner so as not to draw the ire of the governing party/administrations.
This is not a judgement or anything of the sort.
Capping daily BP gains and moving BP challenges from daily to weekly are very consistent with NPPA’s suggestions.
Realistically speaking, this may be a matter of legal expedience/regulation adjacency as anything else.
I highly doubt that would happen, not only because Pippi is/has been essential to a huge number of servers, but we also don’t know if the admin spawned creature issue is intentional or not. Seems strange to have restrictions on that alongside an XP cap, as the cap itself cancels out the effects of admin spawned XP.
I’m leaning towards it being an oversight when working out XP per creature and their spawn source
Good points it might not get completely taken down but then again Look what happened with Tot!
Mod other could just get a warning whether They stopped admin spawned creature xp for a reason maybe intentional or not but if for any reason if Pipi looks like it could effect their money flow it could happen.
I dont know, reading topic it looks like for others its improved for real while to me (personally ) no, its day 4 and around day 4 usually i was already half done, while now i am around level 19 i think or 20… even it resets daily, its more grindable than before…
From what I remember of the Tot! situation, I don’t think that was anything to do with cash flow? Pippi’s mob spawner wouldn’t really do the same, from the sounds of the small amount of data we’ve heard, a lot of people were taking quite a while to finish their BP prior to this update. Sounds like the people that were rushing it in single player were quite the minority, and of course those on PC that run Pippi to rush it would be a minority of a minority.
Obviously nothing’s for certain until we hear a definitive yes or no on if the admin spawned creatures nerf was intentional, though even if it is, the BP is still quite fast without Pippi’s spawner
Yep us console players can zip right along. 8 levels a day just means we can enjoy the scenery more and still have it completed by this time next week.
Yea I try to avoid the mods that alter large elements of gameplay pipi, Tot I know players that use these mods that rely so heavily on them they wouldn’t play the game without them.
The only mods I use are mods that give new outfits or new building styles. Plus iv already got a faster way to cheese the BP but I’m not gonna say incase Funcom decide to fix it.
As long as I can keep building I’m happy.
Exactly. It was ridiculous to return back from stone gathering 100k and ask me after 5 minutes to go and gather stones.
They should do exactly the same thing with journey steps. A players actions must fill boxes on journey steps automatically, so people don’t have to do another one time the thing they already done 100 times.
