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Post by Lorhayden on Jan 6, 2013 9:12:08 GMT -6
I've contributed at the $100 - Crowdforger and am considering bumping that up to the $400 - Crowdforger Geography Buff level. I'm wondering what level, if any others have contributed at. Who else will be with me in EE Beta and who will be setting up the Company in EE.
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Post by Dario Tashavan on Jan 6, 2013 9:55:30 GMT -6
I'm in at alpha level. I was initially considering the item master or spell master level (and may bump up to them if it looks like we're going to be cutting it close), but wasn't sure if I felt the benefit was worth an extra 500-800 bucks.
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Post by WxCougar on Jan 6, 2013 10:20:29 GMT -6
I'll be in on the early enrollment, but will be able to watch my husband on the Alpha enrollment.
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Post by kvalandur on Jan 6, 2013 10:22:49 GMT -6
I'll be there for EE, I won't be in the first month or three though, but I will make it in.
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Post by Nymerias on Jan 6, 2013 10:34:49 GMT -6
I currently won't be I find it hard to pay a lot more money for a game I won't be playing for ~1.5 years. Mainly just because I don't know where I will be at, what my schedule will be like, etc. I start my student teaching at the end of this month (so you'll likely see me vanish from the boards until the summer ) But on the other hand I am really excited about this game and really want it to be something I love playing. Playing at the crowdforager level sounds like the best way to ensure that. I am also worried about what not being there for EE is going to mean for my character. I am turned off by the EVE model where if I wanted to jump in right now I would be drowning amidst giants. The whole EE system feels like a turn off for people who missed out on the whole kickstarter and haven't heard about the game until the release. That is the very reason my better half doesn't really want to back it at all and why we just aren't at the buddy level already. TL;DR I'm at $35 but you should talk me up to $100....
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Post by Dario Tashavan on Jan 6, 2013 10:45:42 GMT -6
Well, for one thing, I don't think the power differential in this game is going to be what it is in Eve, so being "behind" as it were isn't as critical an issue. You won't be in a rowboat trying to take on a carrier group.
That said, I'd bump up to crowdforger, since EE is supposed to start in the summer when teaching won't be as busy =P
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Post by Hroderich Gottfrei on Jan 6, 2013 11:00:29 GMT -6
If you bump to your pledge to the buddy level, you can choose when to apply those 4 months and all the other bonuses still apply. If you find you can't hop in during EE, you still get all that stuff and the 4 months of subscription whenever you do have time to drop in. If you figure that it's $15/mo, that's $90 (since it applies to both of you) in sub time alone. Plus all the other stuff.
Aggra, Leo, Cal, Karter, Bristol, and I are on a guild pledge (which saved this name for us), Braith, Augustine, Augustine's wife (not on the boards yet), Braith, and two others (trying to get people to sign on for $75 each - I'm subsidizing the total cost) will make up a second guild pledge.
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Post by kvalandur on Jan 6, 2013 11:07:44 GMT -6
Yea, I think they are planning for ways to have all characters be useful within the community, not just the uber high Levi's leaving the new players to go on some time consuming raid, heh.
They mentioned the narrowed level gap, which I really like. And having a slower progression then pretty much any other game that's been made lately, which I love!
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Post by Lorhayden on Jan 6, 2013 11:16:48 GMT -6
They were saying that for a person to reach the equivalent of lvl 20 in one skill tree would take 2.5 years. Which I find to be great. It will be a real accomplishment to have a high level toon. You also will not have a bunch of high level toons running around lording it over noobs. It kind of sounds like the majority of people for the majority of time will be mid-level.
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Post by Nymerias on Jan 6, 2013 12:47:44 GMT -6
If one of you did go up to the Geo or Item Master levels I think it would be crazy cool to know you.
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Post by kvalandur on Jan 6, 2013 12:58:17 GMT -6
They were saying that for a person to reach the equivalent of lvl 20 in one skill tree would take 2.5 years. Which I find to be great. It will be a real accomplishment to have a high level toon. You also will not have a bunch of high level toons running around lording it over noobs. It kind of sounds like the majority of people for the majority of time will be mid-level. Way before even EQ there was a 2D game called Drakkar. It's still around, but back then I played it for close to 3 years straight and only reached 19th level. It was quite an accomplishment and I was proud of my character. Now games are made that allow you to reach max in a month. It cheapens the sense of accomplishment and work you put into a character.
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Post by Gintigael Gemweaver on Jan 7, 2013 11:03:28 GMT -6
I did the Geography Buff level. I'm trying to come up with a good backstory for the character. I'm thinking about using Ordos, who's father was killed by a necromancer, so Ordos joined Cheliax because they promised they'd help him find his father's murderer. Either that or Aldinyr, a paladin who had fallen from grace.
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Post by Gintigael Gemweaver on Jan 7, 2013 13:12:39 GMT -6
That is unless I want to make up something about a Gemweaver ancestor.
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Post by Dario Tashavan on Jan 7, 2013 13:17:03 GMT -6
Yeah, I was a little nervous with those levels. Technically the character becomes their property, so I'm not sure how that would work with trying to play them, or someone related to them in game.
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Post by Nymerias on Jan 7, 2013 13:21:39 GMT -6
Regardless of what you use for the background I'm going to love exploring until I find the place you named. Perhaps we shall add it to the Ring of Wood charter to guide and escort people there
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