Armor Deterioration Changes

[Moonfish]

Originally Posted by itree

Taxation is a means to discourage consumption of a product. Consider for example taxes on tobacco products which are intended to disincent people from smoking by making cigarettes more expensive. Adding a tax to equip clothes will drive many people into keeping the same outfit instead of buying new ones. So instead of encouraging the tailoring profession it will have the opposite effect, as can already be seen by many people posting on this forum static they don't mind the tax since they plan on never changing their outfit to avoid it. The knock-on effects of a reduced tailoring throughput will have far reaching effects on the economy of EU as a whole, so we are not talking just about the tax, but its implications. 2 PEC isn't a big deal, but when it ultimately translates in reduced turnover of crafting materials it becomes a big problem.

Hunters, will find it harder to sell there Tailoring related loots - there loots for tailoring items will fall - there % profit on Hunts will fall - and I just lost a job - now my expensive Tailoring skills are pointless... What a mess dam waste of time......



Nails in who's coffins
Moonfish

[trance]

thx marco, welcome back to EU, we all need your help

[Theren Strange]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

I am still gathering info about the foot guards and before I know more I will refrain from comments. I hope to comment tomorrow. I hope you understand.

Hmm. Are you confused by this item being introduced?

Originally Posted by phstuckey

is everyone seriously happy about it being changed to only 1pec???

Im not. tax is tax,1 pec remains the same in my eyes - its wrong.

[JohnCapital]

• Decay on clothes? Fine. Many of us were expecting it anyway.
• New piece of armor? Fine. We'll deal with it.
• Decay equipping armor? Unacceptable at any price.

Simple.

[Paolo]

Welcome back from your vacation, Marco... hope you had lots of fun and came back fresh and relaxed, since you'll need some karma those few days...
Here's your hug , even if I'm not sure you deserve it! ;P

I'm sorry to think about the poor Frank left all alone looking at this mess the VU made... Heck, his last post was so nice and full of promises:

Originally Posted by Frank|MindArk

[...]
Everything is going alright though

poor Frank!

Now let's roll...

First of all:

Originally Posted by aridash

Why can we not have a delay of 5 sec and NO decay? i for one welcome the hotkey addition, and can happily wait a considerable time between reloads for this feature. there is no need to charge us at all.

Can't add anymore to what aridash said.
Let me just elaborate a bit on it, since it would be great to be able to assign armor sets to hotkeys instead of the single parts, even with a longer delay.

Second:
If modifying the armor decay from 2 to 1 pec needed a delay increase of 0.5seconds, can you please add another 0.5seconds to the delay and reduce the decay of another 1 pec?
Thanks!

Third:

Originally Posted by aridash

And will the issue with auto removing certain clothing (hats, sunglasses, Ninja Jackets) be address?

again aridash's suggestion. Let me add shoes, jeans, coats, etc... There's no sense in having those removed when you put your armor on...

Fourth:
What is the reason behind the footguards? Seems nobody's able to grasp WHY you did that, so maybe you could help us all understand. Ain't that your work afterall?
Please enlighten us!

And, last but not least:
Where did you went on vacation, again?

[UnaAlconbury]

Originally Posted by Kirov

Because then they wouldn't be making the thousands of extra dollars that they are making off the new tax.

Was curious about Marco's answer on that one. But yeah, I guess making money is the only reason, as he's not answering.

[Aardy]

My only complaint so far has been the tax, but the foot guards is also a major issue. I play on a limited budget (Yes I do/did deposit) and my best set of Armour is Nemesis.

I worked hard to loot 3 pieces of my "set" and deposited in more $'s than I can really to spare to complete my set....It was a really happy and proud day..

Now I find my set is incomplete? How the **** is that right? I already spent peds to get this set of armour which offers protection of a certain level, now when the VU 9.1 comes my level of protection has gone down? Or to mantain the same protection I have to spend god knows how many extra peds to either loot or buy the foot guards!?

Talk about moving the goalposts! Marco, you'll get your hug the day MA play fair!

[phstuckey]

Im glad that not everyone in this community is totally dumb, and can see the manipulation from MA on this armor decay.

[Wolfclan]

All this talk about changing armor and clothes causing lag but in the same update you add new text to combat tell us that an item is in use so we can not change to another weapon/fap. As if that wasnt bad enough alot of the time this message keeps coming up after the bar for the last item has cleared meaning we are getting hit more without been able to do anything. Apart from the fact that when we equip some items it auto removes other which in turn leads to even more stuff having to be equiped again.

[Dion Red Strike]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

And I am back from my vacation. I didn't think that it would be warmer here than in real life, but I am ready.

In the future MA will convey more information about changes and upgrades before hand and have discussions about it. I will also make sure that the MA mission statement/vision will be made available in the next couple of weeks, to present how and why MA do things and what we intend to create, long-term.

Can I please have a hug before I get flamed? ,-)

I still love you Marco, are you coming to LA?