The fact that the new recipes are only found at Basil... it's actually making the Arcade more of an option now.
Since we have to go through the Arcade to get these fancy new recipes, it's giving the Arcade more power over things like FSC. Do you think it might be a "hook", or an incentive for even more Arcade? Possibly paving the way for the actual Redux? Not to mention the fact that the Prize Wheel now gives a higher chance for materials for the new goodies.
/shrug
Basil is the Arcade Redux alpha?
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 11:55
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 12:48
#2
"it's giving the Arcade more power over things like FSC"
Firestorm Citadel is in tier 3 arcade. And with the removal of mist energy, I don't see why people still prefer the mission over tier 3 gates.
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 13:18
#3
Three reasons from the top of my head.
1) Money.
2) Time (Least Time Consumed / Efficiency for money)
3) Inconvenience of whether or not FSC is there, and its locatation on the stratum
(Being that it's Stratum 6, people don't want to run through Stratum 5 just to get to it; relating back to 1 and 2, it'll probably take more time and they'll earn less money)
Money money money.
But making players play Arcade for the recipes does seem... Redux-ish.
Maybe...
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 20:10
#4
yes, but it's part two
We already had part one of the Arcade Redux (release 2013-10-16). And yes, I do think that re-emphasis on Basil can be counted as part two. I hope that there's a part three to this story.
Sat, 12/06/2014 - 23:06
#5
I don't know if this was an intentional method to bring players into the Arcade, but that seems to be what it is doing. I can finally find a few players on just about any gate now. This may not last for very long, but it will be fun to finally play with new people in what is usually considered a uninhabited wasteland.
What I do know, hunting down new gun recipes and selling them over the Auction House is slowly rising my Crown counter.
Sun, 12/07/2014 - 13:55
#6
Tbh gunner update changed a lot in Basil, because there's so much recipes and this results in almost 100% of having at least one Basil-Only recipe. Now moslty he eats over 100k per run, if bought all Basil-Only recipes.
This builds some sure profit. Well, FSC is 8k if counting only crowns. Arcare run to Basil is ~3-4k of profit from levels and now from basil at least ~2-4k of sure profit, aka armor, because they go cheaiply now, which is enough to cover FSC and there goes chance for weapon, which is 2-15k of profit by chance.
Well, yeah, Gunner Update can be treated as Arcade Redux part 2, because motivation by profit is something. Though old Basil weren't that diffrent, now only very unlucky person will get 0 Basil-Only recipes, so... yeah, profit.
No.