Paraduck posted:
The real solution to "catching up" should be vastly increasing quest XP rewards, as Gouru has suggested.
*cough* I've suggested it too *cough*
But it won't happen, not for a good long time. Heck, Turbine isn't even mentioning it on their "Things to do list" on the LttP, so the odds of them actually working on it without "trumpetting their own horn" are slim. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. That would be AWESOME news to the playing community and get people psyched, so I see no good reason not to mention that they are at least looking at doing it months down the road.
IMO, Turbine has adopted a "deadly stance". They set up a system where it takes hundreds of millions of XPs to move a skill or stat ONE point, and several BILLION XPs to make ONE level, and do not have a system for advancing through questing. Sure they hand out a few million here, and a few million there, but let's get real, aside from a handful of quests that are able to be done once every 1 or 3 months or ONCE, the ones that are out there give "chump change" for XPs, and when you have pathetically thin patches as far as content go, that makes for a lower player base. So what is a player who wants to advance their character of 3+ years to do? Macro.
Basically Turbine should either adopt a "
ou can UCM here, but not here." stance, or make it so you can REALISTICALLY advance via questing. Noing NEITHER will only cause long time subscribers to do what I've done ... unsubscribe ALL accounts and take my money to another game company that "has a plan and is actually implementing it".
I personally don't think it was wrong of Paraduck or anyone else to remove "feature x" from their plugin. Turbine asked and they made a choice. It's not like they were bribed by some third party group, this came from Turbine. Personally, I wish there was no need for LTx, or even Decal for that matter. I wish Turbine would do what they should have done YEARS ago, and made an in game macro system to remove the mind numbing tasks of clapping your hands together, yet didn't allow you to kill monsters while you slept. If they had done that, then we wouldn't be in this mess we are now, and Turbine could have told ALL Third Party Developers to "step off" and the game would have remained "pure". But Turbine failed, and out of need, Decal and other TPAs came into being. Likewise, Combat Macros came into being. Sure that may not be what the current crop of Decal Devs think should be done, but people don't UCM for the "joy of it", they do it out of need (or greed, but that is another story, and another failure of Turbine).
/rant off
Carlon 
