Thoughts on ETA-0

[Jay_225]

The new trade agent.

[thorin.hannahs]

I hope he is good for offloading duplicate parts that everyone has built up. How good he is for that depends on what he has on offer and what sort of limit they apply to it. We will see next week.

[Rogue]

400% difficulty here I come for special exchange tokens...

ETA-0 might be a good way to mitigate black market trading, common to f2p games that allow player to player trading. Slaves farming 24/7 to sell you the stuff they farmed followed by the incessant chat spamming their RMT services...

[oilreg]

i am not much hopefull with the game ... they took all the good ideas from other games and made it significant worse .. at least thats how they did so far ...
.. it would be nice if the ETA-0 vendor is just a guy like Baro KTeer .. but track record of any TFD so far doesnt give me much hope for this. I am quite sure they will attach some grindy strings to it

[😎Astran😾]

Judging by the Freyna event where you can get only entry-level ultimate guns - the trader will be meh as well

[Jundah 101]

for someone that already have every descendant minus esiemo (missing stab ;v), and all ultimate weapon minus peacmaker (F gluttony) there is very little offer ETA-0 can give me other than cosmetic or high value enchantment material like activator or catalyst

[Jay_225]

Originally posted by Jundah 101:

for someone that already have every descendant minus esiemo (missing stab ;v), and all ultimate weapon minus peacmaker (F gluttony) there is very little offer ETA-0 can give me other than cosmetic or high value enchantment material like activator or catalyst

I hope he can give us ultimate weapons so we can max out the abilities quicker.

[oilreg]

the way i read ... what they said about it ..
you can either exchange stuff for a New Currency, or you can farm the New Currency in the new 400% Missions ...
i wouldnt be surprised if you dont get what you actually need and and with the new currency you just can buy the Amorphous Pattern for the drop you want ...
could turn out to be just more of the same .. RNG on top of RNG .. on top of RNG

[mmxcore]

I assume they will make it horrible, so that when they do a patch to make it meh, it will seem fine, as opposed to launching meh, and not being able to "fix" it. Not getting my hopes up, tickets sound weird, and I am sure there is a crazy limit on how much you can trade per week. But yeah, guess we can't just sit here and guess, have to fine out next week.

[Havok]

If i can get rid of the 10+ random BPs for characters I have already researched, regardless of what I get, that would be okay with me.

Not really looking for gains so much as i am a way to dump bps.

[ceil]

Originally posted by thorin.hannahs:

I hope he is good for offloading duplicate parts that everyone has built up.

This is what I'm waiting for, tbh. I don't even need to get much back from it, I really just want to clear out my inventory a bit. Literally have over 20 units of an Ajax component, and like 150 of a Hailey part ._.

[Delphinus]

Yeah after all a lot stuff that has happen i am losing faith in Nexon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UwP3i67B0

[Jade Succubus]

We know virtually nothing about it. It seems like the 400% difficulty modes will have the most items for it.

I suspect they'll continue putting in lukewarm features like this while they argue with Nexon on player trading being a thing.

[Max]

Meh just adverment and less about game...

will be nice to give thunderbolt tho because no way I'm gonna farm in normal missions...

[devilmalice]

Heh, I was about to make a similar thread about ETA-0. However, the focus would be on predictions and speculations about what'll be implemented not what players want/need.

I'm gonna speak from the perspective of the developers and the approach of "give problem, sell solution".

They want player retention and we have excess materials, so my predictions was:
- Atrocious exchange rate. Those materials won't net much
- Expensive items. You need a lot of currency to buy stuff
- Both

From what info we currently have they kinda proved 1st point:
- Exchange one of the currencies is from Weapons BPs (which ones we'll see), and no mention of Descendants mats
- Limited numbers of exchanges due to limited currency (gotta keep em coming back each week, no?)

Further speculations:
- It's a high probability that the 400% dungeon is farmable.
- Goods are limited not just in variety, but quantity also. You wont be able to buy to craft 5 copies of a weapon.
- To the point above, I don't think they're gonna put few BPs for a single weapon (meaning, just 2 of the of the 4 Thundercage materials needed). That would just spark a "not calculated" outrage.

[顔黒]

Originally posted by oilreg:

the way i read ... what they said about it ..
you can either exchange stuff for a New Currency, or you can farm the New Currency in the new 400% Missions ...
i wouldnt be surprised if you dont get what you actually need and and with the new currency you just can buy the Amorphous Pattern for the drop you want ...
could turn out to be just more of the same .. RNG on top of RNG .. on top of RNG

The merchant itself will be RNG there is a reason it's time gated.