Originally Posted by
Zephire
I'm very split about timegating but leaning towards bad. It:
A: Keeps me playing.
B: Makes me don't want to play.
It keeps me playing because I have to log on next week to finish Y but during the "wait time" I don't really want to play. That's the hard timegating, the soft one, like farming for vision keys is nice.
Farming Coalescing Visions is a soft timegate:
1 massive income in invasion by the Black Empire.
2 major income in other invasions.
7 mini visions.
minor income in form of quests.
mini income in form of chests, loot etc.
So you almost have a timegate in the form of limited resources but you can still, technically farm the living hell out of you by just killing mobbs. It's more like a ladder, the higher you go, the more exhausted you become and the slower you climb.
Then there is the type of timegating where you hit a brick wall and Everything just goes from 100 to 0 in a heart beat.