Psychological Difference

[Meliora 1,652]

After this new update, there seems to be a psychological difference regarding crystals. You see, if something is 4.99 pounds or dollars, businesses use that as a way of tricking the customer that it is 4.00 pounds or dollars. It is similar in this case, as everything has been multiplied by 10. Most oblivious players now are rushing like mad to get them. Someone should knock them on the head and say, 'What is the matter with you? It's the same as a 1 crystal box!'. Before this, no one was ever really in a craze to get a single crystal box, apart from those Isida-Hornets who used to run around maps collecting crystals while trying to pose no threat to enemy players. The gold box, well, that's another matter. The havoc when you see that nowadays is 10 times worse. People from all over the map are running to get it. If they happened to be around when there was a 1000 crystal box (when it was 10 times the normal gold), then they would think of it in the same way. Yet, it is the same as a normal 100 gold box. Don't they realise this? Don't they ever bother to do the Maths? Fractions, people, 1/2 is the same as 10/20, 10000/20000... All the same. Was this Tanki's way of intriguing people to join? By doing this? Then, it's cheap.

[Psycho 586]

the normal gold box is 10, 000 cry actually

 

 

They reduced the goldbox by 90% imagins if people so this today ?

[jokjinari 160]

You can't blame them. Tanki isn't a non-profit organization. They are trying to make money.

 

Still, it does seem, as you said, 'cheap'.

[splitterpoint 10,986]

I think this update wasn't neccesary, the fund seemed fair to me.

Players who didn't stayed long, deserve to have less crystals, because they didn't helped the team for that long.

 

Score and effort were rewarded both before this update, now you just have to earn the score to get crystals.

Effort isn't neccesary anymore... The system seems to bring fair share for everyone, but they're basically stealing the crystals,

from those, who have put a huge amount of time and effort (drugs) in the battle...

 

 

and this isn't a good move, people are not encouraged to play for longer in long battles.

It ruins the gameplay, I've already seen passive players wandering around.... they kill, but aren't doing their best.

The quality of the battles have dramatically decreased of the past few months, just look at all the XP buyers without any skill; playing on pro teams.... making them lose.

 

Top chart players deserve to have more crystals, they did their best to get there, and sometimes played for hours.

Effort needs to be rewarded aswell.

 

But I can't do anything about it, I think I'll just have to deal with it, just like I did with the XP buyers.

You will get used to it over time.

Edited February 13, 2013 by splitterpoint

[TonyBlairWarCriminal 0]

It's a 'balancing' act pun intended :)

 

Feed the little fishes a little food and they will stay around longer so the big fishes can come and gobble them up...

 

That's the theory, but I've yet to see any real difference in crystal share. Like I said in another post, in a battle today none of the other side got a single crystal.

[Panzer5454 3]

Actually I believe the purpose of this new update is to more equally distribute the battle fund. At lower ranks every bit of crystals is valued highly.

[Meliora 1,652]

Intriguing comments, certainly. Though what I was trying to get across was that 10 crystal boxes are viewed as 10 times that of the 1 crystal box we previously had, instead of the fact that in relation to proportion it's still 1 crystal.

However, splitter I do agree with you highly, there are more people lying around and getting a kill whenever they feel like it as they know that they will receive a high prize at the end of the battle.

[SuperNick95 5,312]

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