Alternative Methods for Access to Award Races
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 12:11 pm
I don't think the current system is acceptable, at all, especially seeing as there are no alternatives to gain access to the awards. It greatly rewards xp grinding, and bars good players from Role-Playing the specific characters they want to.
Instead the access to the rarer, oftentimes more challenging to RP, races is entirely random. Not to the players who will make something interesting out of them, but to those who were lucky with their roll.
Not only does it reward players who spend less time RPing and more time grinding, as they will be able to sacrifice characters more often and have a higher chance of access to these awards, but it also forces players into the grind if they wish to play something special.
Have a great idea for an Aasimar, a Yuan-Ti, or something along those lines? Well you'll have to level a character to 26, a lengthy process for most people, where the more you RP the longer it'll take to be able to play the character that you really want to. Then, to make matters worse, you have a higher chance of not even getting access to it in the first place, as the normal award is the most likely outcome.
Can we agree that there's something wrong here? I'm not saying abolish the system entirely, but offer an alternative to play the specific races locked behind awards. If it's a problem of rarity, then keep people on hold until there are "free spots." I wouldn't mind waiting for months if at the very least I knew that by the end of it, I'd be able to play what I want. I assume an application is the way to go about it.
I am positive an application based system, or something of the sort, will bring many diverse and interesting characters into the game and enrich the RP overall. Players who truly wanted to create something compelling, through one of these races, will now have an avenue of going about it. Please consider it. Thank you.
Instead the access to the rarer, oftentimes more challenging to RP, races is entirely random. Not to the players who will make something interesting out of them, but to those who were lucky with their roll.
Not only does it reward players who spend less time RPing and more time grinding, as they will be able to sacrifice characters more often and have a higher chance of access to these awards, but it also forces players into the grind if they wish to play something special.
Have a great idea for an Aasimar, a Yuan-Ti, or something along those lines? Well you'll have to level a character to 26, a lengthy process for most people, where the more you RP the longer it'll take to be able to play the character that you really want to. Then, to make matters worse, you have a higher chance of not even getting access to it in the first place, as the normal award is the most likely outcome.
Can we agree that there's something wrong here? I'm not saying abolish the system entirely, but offer an alternative to play the specific races locked behind awards. If it's a problem of rarity, then keep people on hold until there are "free spots." I wouldn't mind waiting for months if at the very least I knew that by the end of it, I'd be able to play what I want. I assume an application is the way to go about it.
I am positive an application based system, or something of the sort, will bring many diverse and interesting characters into the game and enrich the RP overall. Players who truly wanted to create something compelling, through one of these races, will now have an avenue of going about it. Please consider it. Thank you.