Tranfer MA tickets into Reward Merits

Hi:

I don't know about you, but I have experienced aweful luck in those darned random recipe rolls. It seems the most common golden roll is pacing of the turtle, I thought you were supposed to have an equal opportunity to get something else, and thus getting pacing of the turtle so commonly, seems simply wrong.

This issue was also true with the reward merits, but at least the system was set up to let you pay a high price in merits for the right to choose what you want. That is the specific recipe and the level of the recipe.

MA tickets, does not let you choose the recipe type, nor the level of the recipe as well. So instead of making a whole new construct to allow this in MA; why not have the MA vendor "convert" MA tickets to rewards; thus the player can actually choose the recipe and level of the recipe as well.

If we can buy into this suggestion, the challenge would be to define how many tickets is needed to get 1 merit. I would suggest 100 tickets = 1 merit; thus 9000 tickets would be worth 90 merits. Although if we have the rule of thumb, of 1 merit per 5 mins played, then the excahnge value of the tickets may be much less, perhaps 10 instead of 100.

What do you all think? and please, provide constructive criticism, and avoid the valuless lone "unsign" replies. Lets have an intelligent dialog here.

Hugs

Stormy

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Well we can compare your suggestion to the only other obvious "currency conversion" the game supports which is the INF to Prestige conversion.

The INF to Prestige conversion rate has been set at 500:1 for years now. Many think that it's generally not worth it under any circumstances. There have been people who've suggested that if that rate was more like 100:1 then it would be much closer to what the two things are "worth" in terms of time and effort to earn playing the game.

So based on this example I believe that even if the Devs decided to give us a MA ticket to Merit conversion capability the rate for it would likely be prohibitive. My guess is that they would make it more like 500:1 or even 1000:1 (as in 1000 MA tickets per merit) to make it something people -could- use but would not go out of their way to farm for.

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