It doesn't sound like a game breaker.... but, I think offline gains should be a fairer bit less then online. Not sure exactly what number-- but you guys are talking 95; 90%...? At 95%-- you could be offline a full 19 days before you'd lose a day's worth of progress vs. someone who is actually logged. 90%-- 10 days to make a day.
I think a week should be the furthest stretch in this aspect... soo.... anything more then 85% or so is IMO overkill. The game needs to still feel like a world; where your pets and character is actually hitting the mob to inflict the dmg. If its just "this is what your skills are, this is what the people in your teams skills are and "expected" dmg--- So here is your xp for the day congrats!"
Thats boring.
RNG is needed for each and every lick preferably-- but if an offline gain is a MUST-- then it should definitely be a "incase my net goes out" situation; not a resort.
I think Zathras brought up an excellent point with the guild full of alts thing. I do believe you would see that eventually in the game with offline gains; I'm sure lots of people already have like 50+ alts heh.. And they'd be leveling without even having to bother with anything. This will be a real issue-- Especially if all these alts are in a guild with only the creator being a real account; once pvp is introduced it could potentially be further a problem.
To me whats being suggested just sounds like cheapened game play. I imagine rows and columns with names; dps; exp gain and its just you check "ok this is what I got yesterday-- oh look my party members BillyBob got 5% less xp then me-- good thing I got those guild personal xp levels" -- like-- I'm picturing the game being reduced to essentially reading score cards. =\
Reinterating, overall-- I don't support offline gains at all. Maybe beef up the rested time to encompass a little longer periods that are more leniant. But, if it is coming to the game..I think it doesn't need to take away the sense of the game being a world and shouldnt reduce it to simply reading your score board every other day or so and only checking in to mine/wc (which, offline xp gains is probably a "gateway drug" to offline mining/wc/etc =\)
Edit: Basically what I'm saying is it reduces the "gameplay" of the game to the level of a text based game in practicality's sense.
I think a week should be the furthest stretch in this aspect... soo.... anything more then 85% or so is IMO overkill. The game needs to still feel like a world; where your pets and character is actually hitting the mob to inflict the dmg. If its just "this is what your skills are, this is what the people in your teams skills are and "expected" dmg--- So here is your xp for the day congrats!"
Thats boring.
RNG is needed for each and every lick preferably-- but if an offline gain is a MUST-- then it should definitely be a "incase my net goes out" situation; not a resort.
I think Zathras brought up an excellent point with the guild full of alts thing. I do believe you would see that eventually in the game with offline gains; I'm sure lots of people already have like 50+ alts heh.. And they'd be leveling without even having to bother with anything. This will be a real issue-- Especially if all these alts are in a guild with only the creator being a real account; once pvp is introduced it could potentially be further a problem.
To me whats being suggested just sounds like cheapened game play. I imagine rows and columns with names; dps; exp gain and its just you check "ok this is what I got yesterday-- oh look my party members BillyBob got 5% less xp then me-- good thing I got those guild personal xp levels" -- like-- I'm picturing the game being reduced to essentially reading score cards. =\
Reinterating, overall-- I don't support offline gains at all. Maybe beef up the rested time to encompass a little longer periods that are more leniant. But, if it is coming to the game..I think it doesn't need to take away the sense of the game being a world and shouldnt reduce it to simply reading your score board every other day or so and only checking in to mine/wc (which, offline xp gains is probably a "gateway drug" to offline mining/wc/etc =\)
Edit: Basically what I'm saying is it reduces the "gameplay" of the game to the level of a text based game in practicality's sense.
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