New 2 Week Rule

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New 2 week rule ... all new players will now have to wait 2 weeks from account start date to trade, gift or use auction. Reaching LVL 20 is now void.

This may discourage people from creating multiple alt accounts but it also kills any excitement new players might have if all they can do is missions for 2 weeks (battling is even worse cause all they'll do is lose w/o being able to trade cards).

Its basically what happened on Rage of Bahamut.

I think they should do 7 days at max... indeed 2 weeks is 2 long.

Anyway, nobody here is concerned so...

Thats advantage for old players with hundreds alt accs created long time ago

I don't really see this being an issue.
It took me 2 weeks at least to figure the whole thing out,.. and its not like you really have a great chance to compete in the events with a new account anyway.

i don't really care about alt accounts ...

i just think there will be less new players to the game because of the new 2 week restriction. why would someone install a game only to have to wait 14 days to get all the features unlocked.

i can't remember exactly but i got to level 20 in a day or two and then spent most of the time talking and trading, trying to get better monsters.

and then it was all downhill after that, lol.

The only trades I've done are on the forum,. the ingame auction system - i could care less if it was removed. It's terrible.

No search function,. nothing.

The Skill wrote:I think they should do 7 days at max... indeed 2 weeks is 2 long.

I agree! Two weeks is too long, this will just cause more new players to become bored and quit.

The only people affected are alt farmers with ADD. Legit new players aren't clamoring to jump into trades and auctions.

I like to give friends who join the game an A+ team once they hit 20. It sort of works to motivate them and give them the feeling of having an advantage.

But now all I can do is say...

Hey download this game and in two weeks I can give you some cool stuff.

Why is it less motivating if they might have to wait a few extra days?

Hitting lvl 20 is actually very fast and easy. I would say this at least doubles the wait time.

Right... so we're talking a whole entire week? Geez... like I said, this is only going to affect people with ADD. If someone really is a new player, and not farming an alt, if they want a game with instant gratification, they came to the wrong place.

i think any "free" game that makes you wait any amount of time for additional features is going to suffer in new players.

I've definitely downloaded a game, immediately found a feature restricted or costing money to unlock and have deleted it within a day.

Trading and Gifting is a huge part of DS so I don't think its instant gratification but rather giving someone half a game to play and hoping they like it enough to stick around for 2 weeks.

Dagodz wrote:Hitting lvl 20 is actually very fast and easy. I would say this at least doubles the wait time.

lol it take me a whole 2 hours to lvl a new account to 20

That's because it's your alt and you're feeding it ep. I think we were talking about how long it would take an actual new player to reach lv20, since the whole point of the 14-day rule is that it's an anti-alt rule.

I thought we could still gift to them, but they couldn't gift back? No?

Vallette wrote:I thought we could still gift to them, but they couldn't gift back? No?

That's how I had understood it as well.

Fenix00 wrote:
.... (battling is even worse cause all they'll do is lose w/o being able to trade cards)....

like if they could trade stuff as it is already with all those chumps asking for overpay.

Noc3 wrote:

Fenix00 wrote:
.... (battling is even worse cause all they'll do is lose w/o being able to trade cards)....

like if they could trade stuff as it is already with all those chumps asking for overpay.

....because they must be free players? Grab some dark summons to get your team up. Honestly those people would be excited by all of that trash, because that trash would still be an upgrade. The is obviously an attempt to get people to stop creating alts, abusing alts, which in turn rapes the games economy with stuff like 5,000 random spirits being released. "I can't get my 150ep, oh no, I wonder why?" Probably cause Jimmy Dark Summoner and his 50 alts got fifty spirits already, and so did his 50 people in the 50 divisions of "Underworld" did too...

ryesteve wrote:That's because it's your alt and you're feeding it ep. I think we were talking about how long it would take an actual new player to reach lv20, since the whole point of the 14-day rule is that it's an anti-alt rule.

not at all, during tower events where 1 energy point spent = 2 xp gained, it seriously takes about 2 hours to lvl to 20 without me using any extra sources of eps, the only "cheat" i use is i give the account a low bp AA+m so i win every battle

Revisiting this one a bit, mainly because I'm really tired of the amount of crap in the auction house. Obviously the whole thing needs a revamp, but I would be all for A-Team not allowing players under X level to post auctions (still allow them to bid on auctions, just not post). Almost 700 pages, and maybe a 100 pages of stuff actually worth looking at because the rest of it is a bunch of newbies trying to sell their crappy A's that most peeps use as sac fodder for way too much ep. At least if there was a level limit before running an auction, the chances of new players understanding what values actually are would improve, and they wouldn't jam up the already crappy auction function with so much junk.
Sorry, just had to vent a bit- I know there's lots of comments already out there about how badly the auction needs to get updated.