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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TimeOut" data-source="post: 4300612" data-attributes="member: 68543">If I buy miniatures offline and must buy them online a second time... See my comment on Magic Online above. But I won't use the VTT, so perhaps I should have stayed silent with my opinion.I never said that it is a bad thing, I only said that I can't understand it and that I think it is a rather bad idea. If people like the VTT and are willing to pay money for another virtual miniature: Sure, its your hobby. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That is correct and that is the basic feature. It should be implemented that those people can reach everything faster, but not necessarily that other people are barred from attaining the same goals. That is something which many MMOGs failed to do yet.Which is exactly the wrong way to implement this system. Random drops, fixed instance lengths and unforgiving raid schedules are the main points that destabilize the actual system of balancing with effort.The "correct" way (Warning: User opinion detected!) of balancing via effort spent should work like this: To attain item X a player needs to spend 12h performing the following activities. A "power gamer" can do this in a 12h session and gains the item the day it is released. A "casual gamer" will play every day of the week for 2 hours after work. He gains the item one week after release. He has exactly the same chances as everyone else and can play the game in its own time frame. He merely gets the things later, which is not something bad.Additional rant: PvP is the stupidest thing that was ever implemented in any given MMOG. (This is no flamebait, but my honest opinion. But I won't comment it again if the issue creeps up.)And there is a natural limit. There is no such limit on money-based games.Actually that is true for the money based system. It is partially true for the time-based systems. Just replace "have-nots" with "have-notyets" and the statement fits.I was a longtime member of such a raiding guild. We played 3 times a week from 19:00-23:00. I don't see the problem here. It is the same time investment as my work as a volunteer took.Time sinks = Money. Since the world ends without money, or so it seems, such a game would be very hard to create.I think I wouldn't like such a game. Mostly because that was one developer sees as "skill" doesn't matter in the mind of the next.</blockquote>

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