Hello Everyone, Sombra here, 

Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about the current state of the game. I know attacking isn’t everyone’s thing as some players feel it’s more efficient to just boost stats and chill. But the reality is, most of us are just logging in, training, sending out expeditions, and logging off.

There’s very little reason right now to attack, engage in conflict, or interact with other players outside of the occasional chat. Sure, hanging out in global is always fun, we’ve got an awesome community, and it’s great to be able to talk with people outside of our own cartels. But for a game centered around cartels, warfare, and territory, I feel like we need more incentive to fight and grow, not just sit idle.

I’d like to believe I’m not the only one who feels this way.

On that note, I want to take a moment to give a sincere thank you to Diablo for all the incredible work he’s done on the game, especially while juggling real life and welcoming a child into the world. That kind of dedication is rare, and on behalf of the entire Cartel community, I want to say we see you, and we appreciate you. Now, with Jointo joining the team and everything you’ve both been building, the future looks promising. Also, shoutout to everyone who’s helped Diablo along the way.

While I am not a coder nor do I know website design, I would like to pitch a prestige system to help give players something to chase. I will post the break down below:

Players can Prestige after reaching key levels:
30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 100

When you Prestige:

• Your level resets to 1

• You keep Intelligence, Job Progress, and Expeditions

• Your combat stats are reduced, but you gain bonus gym gains

• You unlock stronger weapons, armor, cosmetics, and exclusive perks

Prestige Breakdown

While this is just a basic idea, I encourage others to pitch in and together as a community and lets fine tune this and bring a system we can all enjoy. 

* edit - gym percentages scaled down 

Much Love,

Sombra  

A great point and nice suggestion on the current state of the game. I agree completely with you things need to be done but I'm not for the resetting part (and secretly against any system that forces me to level up lol) . What we probably need is a new war system that is actually worth fighting with rewards and all, like cartels can declare war on other cartels that's within lets say 30% of their rep, events for most attacks, most rep  etc to encourage fights and also my personally sort after revamp of the attack system to be more tactical and interactive instead of the current system that you have no control over how you fight your fight. But I believe in D and I'm sure there will be a lot of very cool things to come  

I upvoted and do like the idea behind it, however I'm afraid it could widen the gap between larger and smaller players.  

You might have something interesting though 

I would maybe tie this to the reputation, not level, as some people clearly wants to stay low level. On the other hand - this would be a possibility to lower your level :)

Also speaking of stats loss and bonus gains - this would clearly benefit the smaller stat players as the gains of 50m stat and 500m stat are the same due to gains cap. But prestiging would reduce stat by 5m and 50m respectively. To get that 50m back you will need 10times more energy... Lets take the last prestige and 100b stats(it will surely take a lot of time to reach lvl 100 :D) - you lose 30b. Even with combined 80% increase for gains - it will take around 2 years just to come back to 100b

IMO together with this, stat gains system should be reworked as well :) or benefits should be so good that you would be willing to sacrifice a long hard earned stats

I would maybe tie this to the reputation, not level, as some people clearly wants to stay low level. On the other hand - this would be a possibility to lower your level :)

Also speaking of stats loss and bonus gains - this would clearly benefit the smaller stat players as the gains of 50m stat and 500m stat are the same due to gains cap. But prestiging would reduce stat by 5m and 50m respectively. To get that 50m back you will need 10times more energy... Lets take the last prestige and 100b stats(it will surely take a lot of time to reach lvl 100 :D) - you lose 30b. Even with combined 80% increase for gains - it will take around 2 years just to come back to 100b

IMO together with this, stat gains system should be reworked as well :) or benefits should be so good that you would be willing to sacrifice a long hard earned stats

MAZULIS - 02/04/2025, 06:25:30

Why would you gain 100b stats knowing you are going to lose stats?

Also perhaps with each prestige you are able to level faster not necessarily tied to achieving more rep from fights. Just lower the amount needed. 

It's a really interesting approach as an alternative to going the SE route.

 

Why would you gain 100b stats knowing you are going to lose stats?

 

Also perhaps with each prestige you are able to level faster not necessarily tied to achieving more rep from fights. Just lower the amount needed. 

SOMBRA_NEGRA - 02/04/2025, 08:43:50

Where else can I put all my energy while trying to level up? Attacking? 

Sounds like another REP/INT grind - don't train until you have max prestige 

Prefer higher level productions to chase rep gains / attacks or a war system for rewards that are not territory related.
For example a tournament