the first tag on a fox nets you full xp. Foxes respawn as soon as a required amount in the immediate area are killed.
It's likely they'll be able to craft better stuff (like gear) before you because they'll get cap proficiency way faster with cash shop's labor pots. They'll also be able to craft a lot of top tier stuff like Alchemy before non Labor Pot users. If you don't buy Labor Pots you'll never be able to catch up with them, they'll have better shit and they'll be able to do more shit with their almost unlimited Labor. Granted it's not like they can buy Mythic quality weapons out of cash shop, but not being restricted by Labor once you fuel it with real money is a problem.
You're saying that now, I'd love to hear what you say when some guy 1v1's you and full heals constantly because uber pots.
Yep. It seems like gear hits a logarithmic soft cap really quickly. Based on the numbers I've seen after 100+ /played we're talking hundreds of dollars to get a 15% edge, right?
You don't count Tuco, you've got a pretty expansive resource supply chain. For the smaller player running into that shit is going to be brutal.
Logarithmic soft cap on gear in Archeage ? Could you elaborate ? Also even a +15% advantage based on money only isn't good, just imagine 40 of those people grouped together, destroying everyone with each one of them a +15% advantage ? Also gear isn't the only issue, as Vitality said there's also Alchemy, etc.
As in each improvement to quality increases the value by some ~5-10%:
In my opinion it gives advantage. Of course it's not "Best In-Slot Worlds Destroyer Mythic Death Star Bow Of The Death now for $29.99 !" but trivializing Labor by making the ressource / use / regen management meaningless once you hit it with your wallet is bad. On the other hand, there will be Labor Pots in AH, so you can say "hey le faggot, if you're poor IRL just farm golds and buy Labor Pots in game !" I don't know, maybe it's their way of injecting value to economy, maybe it's a good change for the long run. But doing this 10 days before release is just a dick move, same for Archeum chests, getting almost 1 crystal every 2 sets isn't bad, of course it's kind of expensive for some people, but since they went full retard with Archeum drop, right now it's not an awful way to get some.
That was fucking painful to read. When he started using commas instead of periods for decimals, I was like, maybe the guy is just a Euro (which it turns out he is). It's annoying to read, but you get used to it. But then a few paragraphs later it'd change to the US method with commas and decimals. He switched back and forth several times. Fucking infuriating.
Haha that's fucked.
Back in WoW arenas days people were buying Gladiator characters $1000-3000, depending of rank (r1) and gear (warglaives). While being a market with lots of scamming (people selling WoW accounts and getting them back with Customer Support) there is a lot of people out there not giving a single fuck about spending thousand of dollars / euros on online gaming, just because they can afford it / don't care about it. Even I was surprised when I sold one of my WoW Gladiator character, it's stunning to see people fronting verified Paypal cash over a single MSN chat with some random pics. You should see Camelot Unchained kickstarter, there are hundreds of people throwing $250 money on it just because "Mark Jacobs" and "DAoC".