Yeah makes sense.
The thing is if you make it a sidegrade item that requires farming, it would still kinda break the balance. As this kind of item would still be better than regular item in certain situation. You can take sPA for example which require some farming, the idea already kinda backfired and crying ensued (even with such small playerbase).
Or imagine flamer was taken out regular item pool and now require farming, as it is a niche item you wouldnt see it too often but still pretty powerful in certain situation. How would you feel about it ? same could be said for armor.
Just roll with it. #yolo #aopdev
Off topic, but I have always hated sPA just because of what you said, farming. It makes like half the guns in the game no next to no damage. Thats not a sidegrade, thats a straight upgrade for people with no lives. Would also be just as salty with the flamer suggestion.
My problem, and I think I'm not alone, is that I have a "life". I have a person whos needs I need to satisfy, I have a job, I have obligations/responsibilities. I know it's not fallout's fault that I can't play all the time, but even though I know it isn't I still get mad at the game sometimes because it's run by "no-lifers" (for lack of a better term). Make anything farmable, like what has been done with Robco/Warmart/etc, and 90 percent of the regular playerbase will never see it except for the recieving end. I just don't have time to do PVE farming, and why I have always loved this server. I was a bum in the beggining yes, but it wasn't a hardcore grind to get to where I am currently, level 42 with a stockpile that would make Texas jelly.
And yet, I've never used an MG42
Never seen sPA in my inventory
saw an alien blaster recently because luck
In fact, the only weapon I have that isn't buyable is the Turbo Plas Cannon, and I got real lucky with finding that one.
and I'm fighting people who have been grinding out Robco and etc encounters to get Bozars and Vindicators and blue/yellow nukas. Half the time when I loot a vtec I go, "damn, thats some gear, I would never have taken all of this to ZC." but to them its nothing, because farming pve is fucking easy with the right amount of people.
You figure out a formula, you go in, and you do it X amount of times until you get Y loot.^ That is my biggest problem with PVE (WHEN YOU ADD ITEM FARMING). Its simply exploitable for people who dont have anything better to do.
Im totally ok with having tons of PVE, but ya'll can go to hell if you think it should be incredibly rewarding.
