Quote from: JustRK on August 31, 2014, 04:14:58 AM
The stats would not only reduce solo time, but overall group completion for 258. 10-20 seconds faster would shave several hours / days it would take to get from 1 - 270.
A full group doing 258 with rt3 efficiently is basically the time it would take a novice hacker to complete it creating absolutely no merit in grinding to max level (even worse than now)
I understand your concerns RK and it's a valid point, but here are some numbers:
For simplicities sake, say that you could get a consistent time of 1:20 on 258 with RT2 (I'd say that's fair for most ppl I see doing it on average, even though under a minute is fairly easy with good teammates). 20 seconds faster would bring it down to 1:00
So we're looking at 80 seconds vs 60 seconds, with say 15 seconds extra for win screen, start timer, switching games, etc.
That's 37.8 games/hour vs 48 games/hour
Or 2,477,233 exp/hr vs 3,145,680 exp/hr
That means that level 270 would take roughly 46 hours to achieve with RT2, and 36 hours with RT3. That's a difference of 10 hours. Prolly lower cause mistakes on maps would average those numbers out a bit more.
To achieve 500m exp, it would take 202 hours with rt2 and 159 hours with RT3. A difference of 43 hours that only 2 players would feel. In the long-run that doesn't seem game breaking. I mean rly if you think about it, rt2 is 1.5x RT1 already. RT3 would be 2.0x RT1, which isn't altogether a massive increase.
These are my thoughts on it as far as sector goes.
And tbh I want it pretty much just for it's looks, it's so damn hawt...