I am now convinced. - Games

I still think hats should be earnt by skill/pre-order bonuses rather than random drops, everyone, hell, even on here, seems to be convinced that playing the game doesn't actually matter, only your number of hats. :smith:

So the drop is now by playtime?. So each hour you'll get a drop or what?

you should read the blogpost carefully

bah, my 23/7 idler friend has all the hats, and i only got the halo, gibus and engineer cap :sigh: But i don't idle, so i am cool.

Lets get 100 boxes on him. Don't ask why. Do it.

[QUOTE=aydin690;21475832]They have increased the drop rate BUT they have also implemented a playtime limit. You play the game and you get drops. However, if you go over the playtime limit (nobody knows what the limit is), let's say its 15 hours per week, you won't get any drops for those overtime hours. On the other hand, unused hours rollover to next week. So, let's say you were busy and you didn't have time to play tf2 this week. Now your next week's playtime limit will be 30 hours (made up numbers) instead of 15hrs. I don't know how you can think this is a bad idea.[/QUOTE] [del]I'm pretty sure you got that backwards.[/del] <--(Ignore this) If you were to not play TF2 for a month, you'd get about 217 hours of "item time". Meaning you could idle for several days straight and get TONS of items. Ok, I [I]was[/I] going to say that I thought it was more like the hours carry over to the next week, but that doesn't make much sense. This is all so confusing. :confused:

Wow this was somewhat informative.

[QUOTE=Shugo;21475657]Should just add more hats. Not like they really change any gameplay mechanics.[/QUOTE] They change the community though.

[QUOTE=E-102 Gamma;21497914]Ok, I [I]was[/I] going to say that I thought it was more like the hours carry over to the next week, but that doesn't make much sense. This is all so confusing. :confused:[/QUOTE] I believe it works somewhat like this. Let's say you have a cellphone. You get 150 minutes per month to use. One month, you only use 125 minutes. Your provider allows you to carry over unused minutes to the next month, so the next month, you have 175 minutes to use, 25 more since you had 25 minutes unused from the previous month. Same idea with the new item drop system. If the weekly cap is around 15 hours, but you only play 10 hours, next week's cap for you is 20 hours. Is that what you were asking?

Idling works better than ever. Got 15 items in about 14 hours. One of which is a hat.

Theres no way to get the feeling again in tf2 when you have no items when you start playing and no achievements, everything is so new and fresh and then you slowly start getting items.

Make a new account. In all seriousness, I know how you feel. It just feels like you're piling more and more dirt on a mount and not really accomplishing anything. As compared to before, where you were filling a hole up with the dirt, now you're just making a mess. :colbert:

[QUOTE=TheForeigner;21508596]Theres no way to get the feeling again in tf2 when you have no items when you start playing and no achievements, everything is so new and fresh and then you slowly start getting items.[/QUOTE] Play the XBox version then.

[QUOTE=ashxu;21481306]But i don't idle, so i am cool.[/QUOTE] I'm really wondering if you mean "I am cool (awesome, badass) because I don't idle" or "I am cool (doesn't care, indifferent) with the new update. I don't idle"

[QUOTE=DHB;21507453]I believe it works somewhat like this. Let's say you have a cellphone. You get 150 minutes per month to use. One month, you only use 125 minutes. Your provider allows you to carry over unused minutes to the next month, so the next month, you have 175 minutes to use, 25 more since you had 25 minutes unused from the previous month. Same idea with the new item drop system. If the weekly cap is around 15 hours, but you only play 10 hours, next week's cap for you is 20 hours. Is that what you were asking?[/QUOTE] Not really. I was pointing out that there must be some sort of cap on how many of these hours you can accumulate. And that's pretty much what aydin690 said.

[QUOTE=TheForeigner;21508596]Theres no way to get the feeling again in tf2 when you have no items when you start playing and no achievements, everything is so new and fresh and then you slowly start getting items.[/QUOTE] Delete your items and reset your achievements.

[QUOTE=E-102 Gamma;21515944]Not really. I was pointing out that there must be some sort of cap on how many of these hours you can accumulate.[/QUOTE] In that case, I don't think VALVe ever specified that. All they said in the blog post was, "some."