You deployed a lot of lightposts without balancing it out by taking Destroyer missions.

It doesn't seem that total classpoints are taken into consideration--I can change my Association every three days just by monitoring what type of missions I take.
Start repeating all the Destroyer missions, and you'll change back.

by pixielo 6 months ago
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I agree with @orangerineman (see related topic:
http://pmog.com/forums/gameplay/... ) that the way Associations change is frustrating.

If this is a game, I would rather be able to actively choose my Associations rather than just passively become them based on my statistical use of PMOG.

Because as a gamer, now I'm changing my PMOG behavior > to skew my stats > in order to CHOOSE my Associations. It is a frustrating method.

Basically I'm asking that Associations ALSO be a choice. AND since I don't want to upset all the passively playing PMOGers: keep Associations the way they are.

Since "Passively Gaming" is an oxymoron in my mind; what if PMOG expands the Active part by branching. You could use on and off switches. So in your Profile under Associations you have two choices

(*) Passive (Association determined by stats)
( ) Active (Association determined by choice)
... choose your Association here

This would be one way to add interest to the game without interrupting the passive nature of PMOG.

I hope I don't draw too many flames here. Remember I'm coming to PMOG with a gamer mentality. And I understand there is a very fine line that PMOG cannot cross over if passive players are going to have the game turned on 24/7 while they surf. You cannot interrupt the use of the web with a game or people are going to turn it off most of the time, which defeats the point.

Perhaps a solution is to start a rival AMOG (Actively MOG) that gamers are interested in that they can turn on and off when they want to play. Or better yet; A hybrid method for PMOG to work passively in the background, but when you feel the active urge to play, you click the tool bar and now you are actively in a game?

I do love PMOG. I hope it will become the next fad on the Internet.

by czarchron 6 months ago
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I think the problem with that is that once you reach a higher level, you cannot buy things not associated with your "class" for lack of a better word. I'd be fine with the "pick your own" method if say it was a semi-permanent method. That is, that you couldn't just change association and then buy stuff that you want then.

I do agree that the associations are way too bleepin' random for my tastes.

Even if it were based on me making all those missions that in itself is insanely lame as we are required to make missions to level.

by dromlarid 6 months ago
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I think "choosing" your Associations would work the same. Once you hit a certain level, you are stuck with your Associations. That would give you a chance to try them all out as you are leveling up (so if you have only one 'character') but on the last level, you are given a warning or mission to make your final Association choices that will be permanent.

But since you can switch users in PMOG, you could create a "Pathmaker > Seer > Bedouin" and another "Vigilante > Benefactor > Destroyer"

by czarchron 6 months ago
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I don't want to do missions over and over but I did a couple destroyer ones I hadn't done. We'll see how that goes.

by orangerineman 6 months ago
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We shouldn't have to keep re-doing missions purely because we want to change association. Maybe if we could choose our association but this affected how much DP it costs to buy tools or is earned by certain things.

So as a Pathmaker lightposts are cheap and you earn 10DP for every person who takes your mission but portals are expensive and only earn you 1 or 2 DP if someone takes it (I understand that you currently don't earn DP from portals) however if you are a Seer portals are cheap and earn you 10 DP per use but conversely lightposts are expensive and you only earn 1 or 2 DP per person taking your mission.

How expensive the tools not associated with your class could also do with whether your class is order or chaos so if you are a pathmaker portals would be more expensive than they would be for destroyers.

The problem is the only tool which earns you DP is the lightpost (AFAIK) by people taking your missions if DP was earned by people taking portals etc then

by black-halo 6 months ago
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You'll care when you get to a level where you cant buy things that you're not associated with.

by dromlarid 6 months ago
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@dromlarid I'm sorry that you feel re-taking missions is a stupid concept. I find it useful.

But you created 6 missions in one day, no? That seems rather creative and Pathmaker-ish to me. Why not just make one a day for a week? That seems to be a more prudent course of action.

I also don't have any problems with being over level 5 and doing any 'Shopping.' Come visit IRC and get yourself a personal shopper until you figure out how to work with your Associations to maintain a proper stock of Tools.

by pixielo 6 months ago
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Also, if its related to missions I made, it's also silly because I'm required to make missions to level.

by dromlarid 6 months ago
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But as I've said, if you're making the argument that deploying 43 mines in one day makes me a pathmaker, deploying 200 mines in an hour should make me a destoyer, as I've done several times.

by dromlarid 6 months ago
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I didn't care about Associations until about level 7...and then I realized that it was getting easier and easier to change them by the missions that I took...

To me, since I don't know what the algorithms are, a guess that it's easier to change your Association after level 5--and much, much easier after level 9, is a good thing.

by pixielo 6 months ago
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...and now a primary Beodin... sigh..

by dromlarid 6 months ago
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