2015-08-12, 11:47 AM
Grey Wrote:I think the argument that the rich get better equipment is unfounded. Additional options isn't a system that distinguishes between rich and poor. Sure, richer players can do more bosses, but that's only a marginal increase in the amount of flames they can get, especially since most of the more difficult bosses, except like, Hard Hilla and Chaos Pink Bean, are once a week rather than something they can do every day to widen the gap. Not to mention the possibility that those flames would be possibly be unhelpful anyway because those only work on equips from before additional options were a thing (you need to extract them and craft the new flames with Accessory Crafting to use them on newer equipments, so they do still have value). Being rich doesn't give you that much of an advantage over the poor, it doesn't let you spam flames infinitely more often. Being rich also doesn't mean you'll always have the best stats on your equips, either. Sure, you can buy the equips with the best additional options, but a poorer player could easily save up for a cheap, terrible additional option equip and flame that until it's good (something else which we've lost since they also got rid of stat variation as whole is price variation on equips). This is more speaking from the game as it is now, but even at the point we would've gotten it, I think it would've been quite a bit more helpful for poorer players than the rich.
The rich get the best equips because they can afford to buy them pre-flamed.
For example, right now in GMS, one of the best ways for the unfunded to get meso is Commerci. Grind for Denaro, buy face/eye accessory, sell for 300m or so if it's got 7% stat.
If a poor person lucks onto a 14% face accessory, will they use it themselves, or will they sell it to buy a full CRA set?
Same with flames. Yes, you can get lucky with flames. Or you can get so lucky that you would rather sell that one godly equip to buy a dozen mediocre ones (that are still better than what you're wearing).
We have cubes dropping from bosses. So, theoretically, one could get lucky with their cubing, too.
Granted, flames don't have ranks like cubes, so it's less of an uphill grind, but still. Most of the time you won't get anything good. And when you do, it might be "too good" to keep.
While I don't object to flames, because, as said before, the rich are already capping, I do believe they will help the almost-capping rich quite a bit more than they'll help the poor.