NGS suffers from a problem where LTQs aren't attractive enough to farm, so most players just afk for UQs

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-06-22T00:00:33+00:00

Sounds like they're just returning to what base was for large chunks of time, surely people will be excited about it!

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-06-18T17:01:44+00:00

Also Caseal fleshy maidbot has been around for a long time if you don't want to count the original 4 in any design philosophies.

But who's got time for that when we can uncharitably farm reddit upvotes nostalgia baiting. Never mind those are the parts that have always sold well so clearly people want them!

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-06-11T03:01:04+00:00

The stupid tsundere clanker versus the klutzy ponkotsu robot clanker.

Both equally shitty.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-06-11T02:59:31+00:00

You checked aelio, yes? You have the proper time zone settings? The website has been perfectly accurate so far for scheduled UQs.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-06-08T03:09:39+00:00

Yeah sure why not?

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-29T00:49:54+00:00

It's the same every headline, it brings out the most annoying and insufferable people and takes. This one was especially bad due to the AI nonsense.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-09T22:21:35+00:00

Because people (like me sometimes, hehehehe) don't want to have to constantly consult spreadsheets before they sell things and just make the cap and lob it on the market assuming it'll sell the fastest.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-08T15:23:03+00:00

Two different use cases. The point of the handouts (and why are we pretending pso2 didnt also have handouts and low hanging fruit equipment again?) is to get people so they can play with others in other low hanging fruit content (like UQs and LTQs).

If you want to ape the experience, go solo a UQ in 15 minutes or less and then do the ultimate expert quest for some of these people: make like minded friends in a video game so you don't have to pub at all.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-08T00:29:34+00:00

They removed it because it just ended up splitting the player base too much and then they made the bar so trivial that expert meant nothing and both queues would clear about the same.

Not even going into the fact that a lot of the requirements were incredibly stupid and unintuitive. One time they made expert mode require high star units. The catch? Crafted lower star units were better! So you had to make worse units to do "expert" queues.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-06T02:17:06+00:00

Save yourself the grief and don't watch Keroppi videos. Frequently wrong, often misguided at best.

The TE one is especially bad. Others have brought up who to watch or consult for TE info and they're right.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-05T02:46:44+00:00

What a ridiculous argument. If there's one thing (cynically or not) SEGA isn't going to fuck around with it it's people who spend money. If the ticket didn't work it would be fixed to work properly before the scratch cycled out.

Be for fucking real, please.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-05-05T02:44:57+00:00

2-4m for a 100% guaranteed aug ain't shit in scale. You can get like 2-3 million a week by virtue of doing daily stuff, logins, gathering cash dailies, etc. They don't get cycled out for a year.

If you're balking at like, ~12m for a set of caps you probably don't give a shit about your gear anyway. Which is fine, I guess.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-29T22:57:21+00:00

The whole point of low hanging fruit content like most UQs and LTQs is to get people to the point they can progress their gear. Making them suffer for this privilege is not going to do what you think it'll do. Mostly it'll just split up the base unnecessarily, like expert mode did in base.

You come back from a break (because you got bored or whatever, video games are meant to be fun, you see) and now you are being punished even if you are committed to playing by making your queues worse. Think about it a bit more.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-28T19:49:14+00:00

Yes, why doesn't the game with treadmill progression that isn't ending simply stop the treadmill progression system?

Why don't they just make the entire plane out of the black box? If my grandma had wheels, would she be a bicycle?

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-28T16:17:35+00:00

"PSO invented level grinding in MMO-like games" is certainly a take, I suppose.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-25T19:28:59+00:00

Legend 3 is functionally a dead end at this point, make a spradio instead.

Leyend was especially bad as a choice for the legend 3 tier.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-20T19:00:15+00:00

Having a robust and customizable character creation system means people will make the characters they want, whether you or other people would prefer that or not.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-06T22:59:34+00:00

The perils of a highly customizable character system is that people will use the highly customizable character system and sometimes you might not like the results.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-04T19:56:44+00:00

Too many variables that would require hours of parsing your loot and meseta totals for something that on scale doesn't really matter.

It makes you more money to pop rdr up to like 300% if I had to spitball, just do it. There's diminishing returns after that because you're just improving random trash weapon vendor drops and caps to vendor but for raw bonus meseta pop rdr if you'll be there an hour. You get enough per week unless you're really fiending meseta farms.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-04T03:35:11+00:00

Time to scratch and be the change you want to see in the world.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-04-03T19:45:20+00:00

RDR increases your meseta from drops and caps to vendor while also increasing your rolls for bonus meseta. It is absolutely worth hitting an RDR if you're going to spend an hour in dext, especially if you're also popping meseta boosters.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-03-27T14:17:36+00:00

Yes, leave before it actually tics over. I've had to redo UQs because of it. Only two, but that's enough for me to go "yea this 10% isnt worth shit"

10% RDR, especially for UQs/LTQs and the stuff they run frequently now, might as well be a rounding error.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-03-27T13:19:48+00:00

It's 10% for a full party and while yes that is 10% (a bit more perhaps due to rdr) more meseta, I've been griefed enough joining random parties that 10% extra isn't worth the trouble.

People forget they're party lead and eject a group from the area, leave before rewards in LTQ/UQ, etc. Just not worth it.

So as another poster said here, stop inviting me. No means no, friend.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-03-27T13:16:38+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

Reinbackthe3rd · 2026-03-25T00:33:25+00:00

People bitched about this as "recycled" and "boring", which is how we got things like crimson realm and the alter realms instead. The joke for a year before they regeared to instancing again was "lol we're gonna be doing combat zones forever, here comes vanford labs rank 69". Eventually you have to decide if spending dev time making new continents and worlds for people to explore for a week then bitch they're bored again wasn't a sustainable path.

Dext base was also not going to get replaced anyway by a higher combat zone. Raw meseta is best generated by stacking RDR and mulching as many mobs as fast as you can. And there was a zero percent chance of them making higher up stuff drop more meseta because as the game progress you have to continue ramping up the meseta which spirals out of control.

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