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GAME CHANGE: New Bodyguards Info | Started by: Squishy on Dec 28, '12 01:44 |
The new bodyguard system can be used to purchase bodyguards immediately. There is a link to purchase bodyguards under the old pricing on the page which will allow you to purchase the old style up until January 12th, at 23:59:59. |
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Can I just ask if this will affect the amount of BG's any one person can now have? |
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Reply by: VinceNoir at Dec 28, '12 02:19 | |
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The cap is the same as before. |
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Reply by: Squishy at Dec 28, '12 02:20 | |
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Does the skill of the Bg change from to the rank of the buyer? Like if A don buys a BG at 10 skill and train's it up to 100 skill would it be more effective then a Goomba with a bg at the same skill? |
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Reply by: TheSosa at Dec 28, '12 05:14 | |
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A BG at 10 is a BG at 10, regardless of what rank the owner is, the BGs provide a static amount of defense based only on their current HP. |
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Reply by: Squishy at Dec 28, '12 05:15 | |
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Do BGs still lose 1 hp per day ? In which case, for example, one hp from a GF's BG would be worth 57.5k since it costs 575k to recover 10hp at that rank (instead of the usual 12k per hp for any rank) ? It sounds like a great increase in costs for maintaining BG's at a high level... |
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Reply by: -iocaste at Dec 28, '12 13:05 | |
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I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding things, but this doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I hadn't had time to really look into it before, but now with the numbers being there it seems to be rather counterintuitive.
As far as I understood it, the change was made with the intention of dissuading the use of the 'loophole' of demoting for BGS. Obviously most people are getting 100bgs when demoted but for ease of maths, I'll use an example of 1 for ease of maths:
Buying 1 BG at Thug:
Of course, another alternative is that you could potentially take a demotion back to thug each day for 10 days ensuring each upgrade would only be 150k. In other words, the amount you pay for a 'demotion' BG under the new system is between the range of $1,500,000 - $2,605,000
Buying 1 BG at Don:
This is baffling to me. Yes, under the new system, demoting to buy can be up to 2-3 times more expensive than it used to be whereas staying at rank to buy only adds a small increase (325k for example). However, that is frankly inconsequential because as of the 12th the old system will cease to exist. If given the option of paying as little as 1.5m up to 2.6 mill or paying pretty much double that for the top ranks, the most sensible option will be to demote for your BGS, just as it is now; so this change doesn't actually change anything in my view.
In addition, although I can see the appeal behind the initial buy in price for BGs as it allows members who normally wouldn't have the funds to 'get involved' so to speak, but long term I feel this change could create a huge gulf between young and old; although those of us who have active accounts now have till the 12th to take advantage of the old bg pricing system, what of new players who come after? They have no choice but to pay at least twice as much, if not more than 3 times as much, to get fully bged up at thug than accounts which are already established. I don't see how that's a good thing at all.
Again, massive apologies if I've misunderstood how this works (if I have, I'm going to look like a massive mong); and I hate being overly critical without being able to provide a realistic alternative myself but, to be honest, I wasn't a fan of the old system but that is much preferable to this in my view. |
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Reply by: NoahLevenstein at Dec 28, '12 14:29 | |||||||||||||||||||
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When you buy a bg at 10 skill is the not counted as a full bg like say a 20 bg made that all have 10 skill is that equal 2 full skill Bg's? |
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Reply by: TheSosa at Dec 28, '12 15:14 | |
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"When you buy a bg at 10 skill is the not counted as a full bg like say a 20 bg made that all have 10 skill is that equal 2 full skill Bg's?" |
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Reply by: Squishy at Dec 28, '12 19:45 | |
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NoahLevenstein, |
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Reply by: Squishy at Dec 28, '12 19:48 | |
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Can you train your all BG's up to 100 skill in one day? |
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Reply by: TheSosa at Dec 28, '12 22:55 | |
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"Can you train your all BG's up to 100 skill in one day?" |
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Reply by: Squishy at Dec 28, '12 23:59 | |
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Reply by: Vegeta at Jan 12, '13 14:08 | |
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Another thing to mention since I do not know. Do BGs have to have health in order to upgrade them? |
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Reply by: MichaelLaMotta at Jan 14, '13 16:23 | |
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" do I have to heal them before I upgrade them to 20 health?" |
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Reply by: Squishy at Jan 14, '13 18:11 | |
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I might misunderstand it all but if you buy 100 bgs at 10 hp at gangster.. if you just start gangster and fix them every 24 hrs can you get them to 100 hp like a normal bg used to be, at a cheaper rate due to staying gangster? Or is the system built to be fair so that cant happen |
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Reply by: TonyGambino at Jan 25, '13 05:07 | |
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**stay at gangster and not rank sorry typo.. so say I demote for bgs and just stay at 5 units fixing them every 24 hrs until 100hp then rank up |
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Reply by: TonyGambino at Jan 25, '13 05:09 | |
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Yes, you can do things to stay at gangster for the 10 days, however, that is now 10 days of lost forward progress which helps offset the lower price you are given. |
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Reply by: Squishy at Jan 25, '13 16:12 | |
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That is terrible! |
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Reply by: TonyGambino at Jan 26, '13 02:02 | |
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I still say that a Don should be able to buy a 100HP BG at once. A consig should be able to buy a 90HP BG and need to upgrade it only once. |
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Reply by: Aidan at Feb 14, '13 17:42 | |
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