Eggsalicious Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 How it works: you buy a consumable for cartel coins, and each one makes a single item B2L. This solves a number of problems, not the least of which are: 1. obviates the need to design new legacy gear that people would actually wear. 2. allows people to play either faction without the disincentive of a second, identically massive itemization grind 3. encourages people to spend money at the Cartel Market. If you were really on the proverbial ball, you would add an additional item to the Cartel Market which makes any piece of armor adaptive. ~Eggsalicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPvP Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) people are gonna buy off the cartel markets regardless if its bind to legacy or not anyways i deffenatly agree to bind on legacy gear /sign edit: i dont realy agree to your aproach on B2L, i feel that whatever is gear or mounts that i spendoney on should be adaptive bound to legacy gear Edited January 24, 2013 by iPvP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggsalicious Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 edit: i dont realy agree to your aproach on B2L, i feel that whatever is gear or mounts that i spendoney on should be adaptive bound to legacy gear It'd be nice if they did, but I doubt it'll happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshua Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 /signed i would buy an item that makes items bind to legacy. that is a great idea I'd even go as far as being ok if this item that makes items BOL is BOP when you get it so you can only get it from the cartel market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moestuin Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 People will start to press need on all gear drops because their alt needs it. I don't like the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggsalicious Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) People will start to press need on all gear drops because their alt needs it. I don't like the idea. People can already do this, since except for troopers, every class has a companion that wears every kind of armor and uses almost every kind of weapon. But if you could bind gear to legacy and make everything adaptive, might this not reduce the need to roll on stuff you don't need? Edited January 24, 2013 by Eggsalicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmymillertime Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I like the idea if they changed endgame to give out tokens and not gear as like someone else said, they would need for alts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshua Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I like the idea if they changed endgame to give out tokens and not gear as like someone else said, they would need for alts. Tokens wouldn't make a difference for that. either way, people who need on gear that isnt meant for them are quickly ejected from my groups. worrying about something that is easily fixed to say no to a very good improvement confuses me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubytyr Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 /signed it would give legacy gear alot more funciontality (well, the removal of class restriction would help even more - or at the very least, remove calss restriction for its "mirror " class, IE, legacy sith war gear usable by jedi etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhysling Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Very good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthSylar Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 People will start to press need on all gear drops because their alt needs it. I don't like the idea. I don't agree. Levels 1-49, gear doesn't really matter, so you won't get any more people needing on alt gear, then you do companion gear. And once you hit 50, most op groups aren't random, most people group with guildmates to avoid this anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pscyon Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I like the idea, assuming said consumable had a reasonable price. Based on the current cartel market prices, I don't think it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dermitni Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Levels 1-49, gear doesn't really matter Of course it matters. Not everyone is fixated on the so-called endgame. Some of us enjoy leveling up alts more than they do doing those tedious daylies. I also really like the idea of a "change to 'bound to Legacy'"-item. It would be great to finally make some use of the Legacy and pass down out-leveled but nice-looking stuff to lower-level alts. So: /Signed Cheers, Niko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggsalicious Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 I like the idea, assuming said consumable had a reasonable price. I hope so too! ~Eggs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimG Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Not going to happen. They don't want people to be able to continually re-use Cartel Market armor without having to buy an additional set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thornsbane Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 It would just make the game to easy. You would have everything already from your main instead of having to ever earn anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Washingtoon Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) Or add a legacy kit, similar to the augmentation kits, that allowed us to take the item to a mod table and Legacy-lize it. Charge, 50K. Let crafters who can't make augmentation kits craft it. Edited January 25, 2013 by Washingtoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esno Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) Personally i think that anything that is flagged as "Bound" should be bound to legacy eg gear, schematics looted mounts (as they are usually bind on pickup) as sometimes you already have that item on current toon bur may want it on different. Already have several looted mounts/vanity pets in bank that bound to main on pickup that i have already used that cant do jack with em atm as want them on a different alt. Also got cartel gear that i boughtand used but didnt colour match properly till i got to current look, but cant sell to gear to junk dealer and cant send to alt as it is bound, i wont just delete items as spent abit on them so atm im stuck with em in my bank as well. So.... make Bound = Bound to Legacy Edited January 25, 2013 by Esno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirorx Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I suppose I think that all cartel stuff should be bind ot legacay anyway. It like freaking 15 dollars for armor set for one toon. Total rip off, plus where is the hat for some of those sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggsalicious Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) It would just make the game to easy. You would have everything already from your main instead of having to ever earn anything. We can already transfer the mods/armorings/enhancements (which, by the way, I must have already earned in order to have). This thread is about making armor B2L with an item from the Cartel Market. ~Eggs Edited January 25, 2013 by Eggsalicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyvid Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 (edited) Am I the only one who thinks items, excluding market packs, bought from the Cartel Market should be Legacy bound; meaning you can't sell them on the Auction House? Basically player are trading cash for credits. Just noticed the pod racer mount is going for 6 million credits or in other words, $18 for 6 million credits. It's a poor business model for BW because people are just going to buy from the AH rather than the real money It's a poor deal for player because if it was bound to Legacy then player could "redownload" the item to what ever character they want. Edited January 25, 2013 by Dyvid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dermitni Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Hmmm... Technically (and legally) speaking, it is the player (=account) that's buying the stuff, so yes, everything from Cartel Market should be "Bound to Legacy". And I also think, it would be a good idea to make CC items unsellable on GTN but sellable at vendors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_preib Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 what I always hoped for was an item that instead of making anything legacy bound, would convert any item to become adaptive. Given that I can already have a powertech in jedi robes or a consular in sand people armor you can't really argue the "people will run around with any goofy outfit they can think up" approach so I say go whole hog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuka Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Cartel stuff won't be bound to legacy because it'll cost them profit. Why give you that mount for $15 when they can have you buy it 12 times and make $180? BoL gear hurts crafter economy if it's craftable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggsalicious Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 Cartel stuff won't be bound to legacy because it'll cost them profit. Why give you that mount for $15 when they can have you buy it 12 times and make $180? BoL gear hurts crafter economy if it's craftable. You assume the cartel market is their only one source of profit. It isn't. It's not even their main source of profit, although it does exist to promote their main source of profit (subscriptions). I'm not sure what your point about mounts has to do with making armor B2L and adaptive. Finally, several responses to your third point: 1. We already have legacy gear which people use for alts. This would simply increase the pool of available outfits, which could 2. Increase the demand for what few crafted items aren't hideous. I might even impel them to design nicer things. 3. Your premise that SWTOR has a robust crafting economy is false. Low aesthetic appeal and utility of what can be crafted was never that high, and with the exception of a few endgame items not much is being crafted anyway. ~Eggs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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