PVP Incentive Proposal

[yin]

Hello Beyonders,

With the influx of new players we need to encourage spontaneous PVP to compete with Legends.
Flashpoint tokens as of now are near impossible to realistically get unless shot-callers move PVP to Flashpoints on Friday.
The changes below will encourage spontaneous PVP and attract more players to make accounts.

Scheduled PVP
Fridays - As normal
Add Saturdays

Flashpoint fixes
Re-evaluate flashpoint locations and fix turret bugs, remove certain flashpoints
Enable 50 25 Flashpoint tokens every 3 minutes passively while the flashpoints are controlled at 100% - 5 tokens passively under 100%
Remove the building phase
Disable macros to discourage multi-boxing
Vehicle Repair at Flashpoint load in locations
Have flashpoints start at the top of the hour and last 45 minutes, with 15 minute breaks (Identical to Legends for familiarity)
Increase the flashpoint token victory reward from 50 to 150
Give the losing faction 50 tokens if they are in the zone when the flashpoint ends

Extra ambitious suggestion - If a faction controls the flashpoint for over 20 minutes (One side unable to get numbers) either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker will spawn and move to the controlling circle, once the Flashpoint is flipped to the opposing faction they will despawn. The iconic characters will have similar health to an 8 man PVE boss and have heavy AOE attacks. This proposal adds flavor, something exciting to wait for, discourages leaving, and prevents solo afk farming.

Other iconic characters like Boba Fett or Han Solo could be used instead, it doesn't have to be Vader and Luke.

Battlefield vendor
Add a Biological Focus Crystal to the Battlefield vendor for 200 tokens
Add a Synapse Crystal to the Battlefield vendor for 200 tokens
Add Tactical Electrobinoculars to the Battlefield vendor for 50 tokens

Any and all suggestions/discussions welcome

 

[Khatani]

lit

 

[Vulture]

Well thought out and conveyed eloquently.
I definitely agree with the turret bug fix as this past friday, imperials were unable to get revived by medics due to being hit by the turrets and the turrets doing damage which they aren't supposed to do during the flashpoint.

 

[MURDER]

да

 

[Cyco-OWNZ]

Multi-boxing can't be done in flashpoints. I agree those turrets should just be removed if they can't be deactivated properly. The Friday night fight reward should be Flashpoint tokens to encourage players to return to pvp.

 

[Chinnbacca]

Hello Beyonders,

With the influx of new players we need to encourage spontaneous PVP to compete with Legends.
Flashpoint tokens as of now are near impossible to realistically get unless shot-callers move PVP to Flashpoints on Friday.
The changes below will encourage spontaneous PVP and attract more players to make accounts.

Scheduled PVP
Fridays - As normal
Add Saturdays

Flashpoint fixes
Re-evaluate flashpoint locations and fix turret bugs, remove certain flashpoints
Enable 50 Flashpoint tokens every 3 minutes passively while the flashpoints are controlled at 100% - 5 tokens passively under 100%
Remove the building phase
Disable macros to discourage multi-boxing
Vehicle Repair at Flashpoint load in locations
Have flashpoints start at the top of the hour and last 45 minutes, with 15 minute breaks (Identical to Legends for familiarity)
Increase the flashpoint token victory reward from 50 to 150

Extra ambitious suggestion - If a faction controls the flashpoint for over 20 minutes (One side unable to get numbers) either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker will spawn and move to the controlling circle, once the Flashpoint is flipped to the opposing faction they will despawn. The iconic characters will have similar health to an 8 man PVE boss and have heavy AOE attacks. This proposal adds flavor, something exciting to wait for, discourages leaving, and prevents solo afk farming.

Other iconic characters like Boba Fett or Han Solo could be used instead, it doesn't have to be Vader and Luke.

Battlefield vendor
Add a Biological Focus Crystal to the Battlefield vendor for 200 tokens
Add a Synapse Crystal to the Battlefield vendor for 200 tokens
Add Tactical Electrobinoculars to the Battlefield vendor for 50 tokens

Any and all suggestions/discussions welcome

There’s an option on Legends to buy insurance when youre at GCW invasion. Can we add something like that to battlefield so buffS don’t decay because sometimes the fights dwindle off when players have to go rebuff

 

[Butters321]

I like it. Maybe the flashpoint boss could be limited to one occurrence per day and give extra tokens if you defeat it. Just throwing out ideas.

 

[yin]

I like it. Maybe the flashpoint boss could be limited to one occurrence per day and give extra tokens if you defeat it. Just throwing out ideas.

I like this idea a lot. It was a rough draft to start so any more suggestions are welcome.

 

[Yekzunno]

45 minute up time is good, 10 minute down time with 5 minute build phase to give players time to know where the flashpoint is going to be. still giving the up every hour on the hour but giving players a chance to travel to the location prior to it starting so they can go in right away. Let the players who aren't grouped yet have a chance to get there and get grouped before having to run in.

Tokens per 3 minutes should reduced to 25 for 100% and 5 for under 100% that's still 150 tokens just for holding it for 20minutes prior to boss coming active. (relatively afk)

Flashpoint boss isnt a terrible idea. could be a fun additive to help the losing side. Make it give 100 tokens if its killed. Something the boss could have added to it. is an aura effect. different iconic characters give different auras. ie: Vader/Luke gives defense, Boba/Han Solo give dmg increase, Bossk/Chewbacca gives healing increase.
-Needs to be more than once per day because there would be zero incentive for losing side to come to the next flashpoint.
-Terminal spawn to vote for which hero you want to spawn. depending on what your team needs. (tie picks randomly between the tied votes) voting lasts 60 seconds

Vehicle Repair should be at every base/tent/camp for PvP events. Invasions, rebel/imp Restuss base, flashpoint camps, static base camps. etc.
- Add stim bot and med bot to all these locations as well

 

[Val]

I agree with Yek on reducing the passive token payout. I get the idea is to get people there to get engagements going, however you don't want to create what the other server has...which is multiple guilds just sitting there AFK, day after day after day and de-valuing the token currency. Enough to bring people in, but not enough to farm so to speak. Can also look at how it has affected the leaderboard over there as well.

Also, just my preference, but make the Saturday engagements before or after WB? Something a little sooner than the 8pm est time frame

Otherwise, nice proposal Deco Master Yin

 

[yin]

I agree with Yek on reducing the passive token payout. I get the idea is to get people there to get engagements going, however you don't want to create what the other server has...which is multiple guilds just sitting there AFK, day after day after day and de-valuing the token currency. Enough to bring people in, but not enough to farm so to speak. Can also look at how it has affected the leaderboard over there as well.

Also, just my preference, but make the Saturday engagements before or after WB? Something a little sooner than the 8pm est time frame

Otherwise, nice proposal Deco Master Yin

Thank you, I agree in terms of "penny farming" the amount should be reduced to 25 tokens every 3 minutes. Saturday PVP before or after world bosses was the idea, yes.

 

[Butters321]

If the boss needs to appear more than once per day, maybe it should only appear on certain days?

 

[Yekzunno]

I agree with Yek on reducing the passive token payout. I get the idea is to get people there to get engagements going, however you don't want to create what the other server has...which is multiple guilds just sitting there AFK, day after day after day and de-valuing the token currency. Enough to bring people in, but not enough to farm so to speak. Can also look at how it has affected the leaderboard over there as well.

Also, just my preference, but make the Saturday engagements before or after WB? Something a little sooner than the 8pm est time frame

Otherwise, nice proposal Deco Master Yin

we used to have saturday morning pvp at static bases. but lack of players showing up inevitably killed that. need to bring it back and revamp how static bases work, since this isnt live anymore. Create more of an incentive on those commendations. remove the ability to swap restuss comms to gcw comms and vice versa, update vendors with new items.

 

[Lobstaman]

I endorse this thread.

 

[Erotica]

Sat morning PVP Died cause staff put it to early for EU Players that never showed but one or two. doing it at 8 AM PST was way to early no one wanted to really get up for 2-3 fights

The time they switched it to later in the day no one showed as was holiday and never returned despite people asked.