I’m saying to figure out a better way to cater to the players. If they’re specifically not “playing right” it’s the design that’s wrong.
An example I can remember was in Warframe. A specific bot would have a chance to drop the resource Oxium, but it only spawns sometimes…
Exterminate missions had the most enemies in a set spawn amount. But that meant clearing the map. A “capture” mission would keep spawning enemies at high rate once incapacitating the target. So… make the guy go down, don’t capture him, and just mow down high density enemies at a high rate and maximize how many oxium enemies spawn over time.
The devs basically said “y’all’re spending hours in these missions to farm oxium. New deal:” targets bleed out in 30 seconds, enemies stop spawning after a few initial waves, and oxium enemies have a much higher chance to spawn anywhere the normal variant of the enemy could spawn.
They basically undid the trick to grind for it. It’s still rare-ish, but it’s not improbably hard to find even by passively killing stuff.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I don’t have the game yet because Linux doesn’t work, but I assume these are community servers, where the admins changed settings to make grinds easier. Are you saying they shouldn’t give these tools out? I guess it does mess with the game design, but I think giving the community tools to make the game their own is also good.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Warframe doesn’t have community servers AFAIK.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
We’re talking about Wardogs. The OP wasn’t discussing abusing normal game mechanics. It was talking about going to servers to “cheat” the mechanics.
Anyway, if Warframe did have community servers then they’d have this issue too. In fact, it does have this issue IIRC in the PvP mode. People will (or would) host games and not play the game mode just to farm the PvP currency/unlocks. If you could host your own servers, where you can modify the rules, this would get so much worse. It’s potentially still be worth doing though, in my opinion. Community servers breathe so much life into games. You still have to try to combat abuse though, or just don’t let them have any effect on progress, which would also suck.