Time to go up a level - Vampire Wars
July 30th 2010 13:28
Random thought... One balancing mechanism, among many, that the game has built into it, and this is something that Reaniel commented on a while back, is this... After a while, it becomes very time-consuming to go up a level. There simply aren't enough hours in the day. There's diminishing returns for how much investiture of times equals how much level progress.
So the rate at which people progress kind of plateaus out, and if you're an energy vamp, you're catching up to high level vamps much faster than they're getting away from you (unless they're using some sort of clicking script).
Think of it this way. At level 2000, you need 44,011 xp points to go up a level. If you have a 100% Glyph of Wisdom, and are doing the missions with the best xp payout, and are e-vampish enough to level with missions, this will take you 319 clicks. Now, how fast could you do 319 clicks? Some people will take a few seconds per click, other people will take maybe 10 or more seconds, just depending on your computer and your internet connection, etc. (By the way, playing VW on iPhone -- aaargh!!....)
Say it takes you 5 seconds per click. At that rate, 319 clicks would take around 26 minutes of pure clicking.
At level 4000 -- 53 minutes to go up a level
At level 6000 -- 80 minutes
At level 8000 -- 106 minutes
At level 10,000 -- 133 minutes
Now, it's obviously an individual, personal thing how much is too much, but I suspect most people will have some sort of point where they'll say to themselves, "Fuck this. It's just not worth my time trying to go up a level. There's so many better things to do with my life."
At that point, Vampire Wars might still be fun -- it might still be fun to talk to people in your clan, or to bite random strangers, or to dress up your toon, or to collect jpegs of abilities or whatever -- but I think a lot of the fun of feeling you're making progress will go out of the game, so in this case the inbuilt balancing is also a sort of inbuilt dying.
Energy vamps are inexorably drawn into being CC vamps. If you're going up levels basically for the sake of the favor points, and you're already level 2000, which would you rather do? Spend $120 to get 880 FP, or invest around 500 hours into clicking?
So the rate at which people progress kind of plateaus out, and if you're an energy vamp, you're catching up to high level vamps much faster than they're getting away from you (unless they're using some sort of clicking script).
Think of it this way. At level 2000, you need 44,011 xp points to go up a level. If you have a 100% Glyph of Wisdom, and are doing the missions with the best xp payout, and are e-vampish enough to level with missions, this will take you 319 clicks. Now, how fast could you do 319 clicks? Some people will take a few seconds per click, other people will take maybe 10 or more seconds, just depending on your computer and your internet connection, etc. (By the way, playing VW on iPhone -- aaargh!!....)
Say it takes you 5 seconds per click. At that rate, 319 clicks would take around 26 minutes of pure clicking.
At level 4000 -- 53 minutes to go up a level
At level 6000 -- 80 minutes
At level 8000 -- 106 minutes
At level 10,000 -- 133 minutes
Now, it's obviously an individual, personal thing how much is too much, but I suspect most people will have some sort of point where they'll say to themselves, "Fuck this. It's just not worth my time trying to go up a level. There's so many better things to do with my life."
At that point, Vampire Wars might still be fun -- it might still be fun to talk to people in your clan, or to bite random strangers, or to dress up your toon, or to collect jpegs of abilities or whatever -- but I think a lot of the fun of feeling you're making progress will go out of the game, so in this case the inbuilt balancing is also a sort of inbuilt dying.
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Energy vamps are inexorably drawn into being CC vamps. If you're going up levels basically for the sake of the favor points, and you're already level 2000, which would you rather do? Spend $120 to get 880 FP, or invest around 500 hours into clicking?
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