Hi,
years ago, Rocket Factories were useful. A rocket of 1kk Damage + FF was an instant win of a BH in D4.
Now, due to damage inflation caused by more health, more free energy bars, more free BH-Bombs, free damage boosters, more strength per day....
Rockets are useless and too expensive to be useful - even at this low Q1-Q6-Weapon-prices these days.
Also no one needs the 5min Damage booster, because there are enough free 2h, 8h, 24h damage boosters for free.
Because of this, Q1-Q6 Weapon Factories are de facto useless - you have to sell your weapons below the raw material prices!?
This is awful for those who have invested in these but also for Plato.
Because these pretty cheap and available companies are so useles, no one spends gold on them and less gold has to be bought with real money.
How to solve that?
Rockets:
Increase the damage.
I don't know about the usual damage in D1-3, so I can only suggest new Q4&Q5 Rockets:
Q4: 18.000.000 Damage
Q5: 25.000.000 Damage
at least.
Sounds very much?
Well, nowadays you need ~50kk damage for a BH.
When Rocket Factories were implemented, only like 4kk Damage were enough for a BH.
Also, a BH is 5 gold worth (normally). ATM a Q5 Rocket costs 509,6 CC (eUS market), which is 2,55 Gold.
So, even at those low prices and high suggested damage per Rocket, it's hard to earn money by using rockets (in D4).
Apart from this, rockets were meant to be mass destruction weapons, being able to have an influence on the battle,
but with this low relative damage nowadays they're more like firecrackers....
Damage Boosters:
Also damage boosters can be built by the rocket factory.
Since there are more long-live damage boosters for free every week, you don't need the 5min boosters out of the factory.
So I suggest:
75% Damage Boosters for 20min
It's more bonus % of damage than the free boosters, so they are becoming useful.
However it's less then the rare 100% damage boosters, so they don't violate their integrity.
Also they have to be lasting longer as the current ones, because you have more health nowadays,
so you need more time to use all your health and also some EBs on a battle.
Edited by Marcel the Great, 22 July 2014 - 07:19 AM.