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[–] Roucan@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You don’t think they should try to prevent players from “fucking” the game mode, or are you just saying there’s a different way to do it?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm saying to figure out a better way to cater to the players. If they're specifically not "playing right" it's the design that's wrong.

An example I can remember was in Warframe. A specific bot would have a chance to drop the resource Oxium, but it only spawns sometimes...

Exterminate missions had the most enemies in a set spawn amount. But that meant clearing the map. A "capture" mission would keep spawning enemies at high rate once incapacitating the target. So... make the guy go down, don't capture him, and just mow down high density enemies at a high rate and maximize how many oxium enemies spawn over time.

The devs basically said "y'all're spending hours in these missions to farm oxium. New deal:" targets bleed out in 30 seconds, enemies stop spawning after a few initial waves, and oxium enemies have a much higher chance to spawn anywhere the normal variant of the enemy could spawn.

They basically undid the trick to grind for it. It's still rare-ish, but it's not improbably hard to find even by passively killing stuff.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have the game yet because Linux doesn't work, but I assume these are community servers, where the admins changed settings to make grinds easier. Are you saying they shouldn't give these tools out? I guess it does mess with the game design, but I think giving the community tools to make the game their own is also good.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Warframe doesn't have community servers AFAIK.

they should just make a game mode where fucking is the goal