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View Poll Results: Should GS Be Hidden?

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  • Yes, this will be a good change for the community

    39 68.42%
  • No, I enjoy kicking people if I feel their GS is too low

    18 31.58%
  1. #1
    Tizodd's Avatar Senior Member
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    Please Hide Gear Scores

    I haven't had an issue with gear scores yet, but I can understand the frustration from people who are being kicked because of their gear score. Every game I've played that introduced gear score has suffered from it (from a community standpoint).

    Now what I mean by hide gear scores is...make the gears score only visible to you and the system. Missions will have gear score thresholds that will determine whether or not a person can queue for a mission, but individual gear scores wouldn't be visible to the whole world.

    I personally believe this will help the community as a whole, and would stop elitist group leaders from kicking people before they even load into a mission.
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    I voted yes, but I don't actually agree that it should be hidden. I think it should be completely removed and the ability to inspect another player's gear and character stat sheet should be granted.
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    DmdttPS's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally Posted by TtargetPractice Go to original post
    I voted yes, but I don't actually agree that it should be hidden. I think it should be completely removed and the ability to inspect another player's gear and character stat sheet should be granted.
    this^ GS currently is 100% useless. sure 200+ generally means a players is using sets so it has some meaning but 160-190GS doesn't mean a damn thing they could have incredible gear rolled with perfect stats or nothing at all.
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    TickTak77's Avatar Senior Member
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    I voted no.

    More information about other players, the better.

    Not just gear score but being able to inspect another player's gear is something that should already been in this game.

    There are plenty of ways to go about not getting kicked out of missions because your GS is too low.
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    Tizodd's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally Posted by DmdttPS Go to original post
    this^ GS currently is 100% useless. sure 200+ generally means a players is using sets so it has some meaning but 160-190GS doesn't mean a damn thing they could have incredible gear rolled with perfect stats or nothing at all.
    Good point. I hadn't considered that option. I was only thinking of a quick fix for the GS issue, but inspecting others works as well. However, as a matter of pride, I doubt they'll remove GS entirely now that they made the decision to implement it (I'm not saying it's right...but when pride and ego are involved, bad decisions often follow).
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  6. #6
    You can hide GS, but then people will just kick you looking at the gear you have on. Is that a low level backpack? Kicked. Is that an lmg? Kicked. Same thing
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    I haven`t had a issue whit it, as im 204 GS, and i don`t kick becouse they are low, becouse i can "boost".

    But i rather whould have the option to hide it, or make it so you can only make friends see it and so on, becouse if you queue for a CM, you atleast got the required GS for it, so it should not be a issue.

    I like too see it, so i can play accordingly, if i end up in a group whit low geared people (anything under 160) i pick more CC, if most are over 180 i pick more damage stuff and try for speed run rather.

    But i know how much of a pain in the *** it is too be booted becouse some elite scrub decide you are based on that, i played wow for many years.
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  8. #8
    its easy to not get kicked for low gear score, ignore matchmaking invites and you will get others join your group with you as leader
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  9. #9
    I thought gear score was a good idea. But the more I look at it I see that not only should it not be posted, it really has no place in a game like this at all.
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  10. #10
    Personally at this point I gear score doesn't matter to me because the missions are easy but if they hide gear score then they'd have to lock out lower lvl players from higher level content down the line

    Carried a random 80 gear score through the challenging but now looking back before gear score, players like that were most likely the reason for constant wipes and quiting mid challenge mode. Some people want to run things quick and get it through, not waste time carrying a low level
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