What should the level cap be?

January 23, 2009 by blur

What should the level cap be?

Levels are strange things in MMOs. Essentially, they mean very little.

You could design a game, for example, where it is mind-bendingly hard to get to Level 20, but each level you gets TONS of cool stuff. Or you could design a game with the same content and 100 levels and you simply get less cool stuff per level; sometimes even nothing.

So what sort of level do you want to reach as the cap in TOR?

Do you want it to be a really low number, but extremely long and hard to reach each new level, rewarded with lots of cool stuff each time you crack a level?

Or do you want leveling to “feel” faster by going through more levels in the same length of time, even though you’re still doing the same work as the previous example?

Tags: Bioware, levels, Star Wars, The Old Republic, TOR

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