I think you need to re-read my post. We could give the 720 bonus to everyone. I could care less.
If you amp it up to 720, someone will complain, so you need to find a median. Hence the 750 suggestion.
It's important for veterans to feel like they've been there a long time, because they have. I remember when we didn't have veteran rewards at all, and when they first came, an ethy horse was a Godsend that made everyone happy.
I justified why it does matter, and doesn't matter.
You think it will make some huge gap to have 20 more skillpoints, but as I previously stated, this gap is moot due to the items currently available.
You can't take a subjective viewpoint and expect to win, sir/madam.
Additionally, your personal attack was
entirely unjustified.
I think that you make some half decent points, but calling me:
1) a selfish trammy and 2) a horrible player, be it at PvP or whatever else you do, so you ask for anything that will give you an advantage over someone else.
No, I think AoS was responsible for screwing up the skill-based ratio, and how does how well I play the game come into this? Did we even discuss Trammel?
No, we didn't. Ask any of my friends, and you may very well confirm I'm very good at any facet I touch.
I started this game in 98', so you can't very well say I'm a 'trammie', as I do play all facets. You state you have played four years, which means you did not have to endure endless server resets and warps that would cost entire days of hard work on a routine and random basis.
There was britannia. Then, there was the Lost Lands (The Second Age). There was no tram, there was no fel, the gold cursor was a dream in someone's head. Designer Dragon brought up the initial plans for Necromancy to be 'an evil version of magery' with a mirror version of spells.
There was the Abyss Shard, Santa's Slay, Farmageddon, Good/Evil, Chaos/Order, full-scale wars at the bank between guilds, corpses everywhere, and more than you could
ever imagine.
I come from a day when Felucca and Trammel were simply moons you could peer in the spyglass to determine where the public moongate would take you next. We didn't have gumps for choosing this at the time, nor would we for years.
You never even went to a Seer event. Sorry
Just because I don't play on siege or some other exclusively frag-happy shard, doesn't give you the right to attack me. Having anything to do with people that talk trash on forums is generally against my convictions.
Additionally, I didn't ask for more veteran rewards, holiday gifts, whatever. I proposed that we could
possibly take something into consideration and gave an example based on said consideration, ie, 750 skill-points vs 720. Again, I think you need to re-read my post after you've calmed down.
Ethys have a counter-balance; the charger of the fallen, and the quiver of infinity mostly replaces the cloak slot for anyone who wants to use it.
Robe? You could use the Robe of the Eclipse, and get 95 luck instead of a paltry 3% physical resist.
The only thing that doesn't have an equal replacement is a ridable polar mount; I don't really care for looking like the beast master, so I don't have one.
Perhaps your argument is against soulstones, but these won't be going away any time soon.
If you want to see things changed, I suggest you post a formal proposal instead of venting your frustration on me.
You claim to be making a point as a justification for a personal attack that you have no basis or right to make.
Your logic is so cyclic and redundant that it's borderline narcissism.
You want to assume I'm some crying noob who feels mistreated about not getting shiny things, I'll make assumptions too.
No, but I will make a confirmation of this if you continue to behave in this manner, not an assumption. I have words in my vocabulary for people such as yourself, but I pity your ignorance too much to use them.
It seems to me like you said ya wouldn't want to suggest a change and lose the skill bonus, but you said in your previous post that we should get rid of veteran rewards...you know that the skill bonus is a veteran reward...
So you say you want to 'keep the advantage' instead of asking for a change.
Good, you've helped me make my point.
For someone who touts wanting to be fair so much, you sure are wanting to hold on to your self-titled 'advantages'. However, that's the only 20 you're gonna get, bud. It doesn't get any better than that.
You already got your incentive. I was suggesting that we possibly give everyone 720 and stack an extra 20-30 points on for 10 year vets only.
Again, it does matter, but it doesn't. It just depends on who you ask.
There is a difference between good incentive to stay, and fairness. Incentive is something to work for, fairness is everyone being spoon fed from a silver platter, the latter which you seem to favor.
Speaking of advantages, newer players do have one;
They have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.