Keycodes maxed?

[Strontium Dog]

Anyone else had the red warning ,bottom left of screen saying "Keycodes Maxed" ?

No idea what its about and since chat is configurable I cant even see system messages ( which is a no no in pc MMOs imho)

[ebonrain]

you can only hold on to 75 key codes .. so spend some or you are wasteign them .. once you reach the max .. you wont get any more .. stupid mechanic

[cwyllog]

I watch to see if I'm within 5 or so of max then buy a trier 3 lockbox.
Sadly It's usually crap guns but keep me below max and the keys come pretty fast

[TigrisMorte]

64 key codes for tier 4. teir 4 has best chance for legendary. just sayin'

[mimneotic]

64 key codes for tier 4. teir 4 has best chance for legendary. just sayin'

Opened about 5 of them somewhat recently. Got like 12 greens and 8 blues. No purples or oranges.

Opened 2 T3 chests. One orange and one purple.

Never touching T4 again. Waste of keycodes.

[dirtyklingon]

i feel like the boxes are a waste of time and effort and resources anyway.

99% of the time i immediately salvage everything i get from them. they also seem to be fond of giving me BMGs and infectors, which i'm not interested in using whatsoever.

[Avenger]

you can only hold on to 75 key codes .. so spend some or you are wasteign them .. once you reach the max .. you wont get any more .. stupid mechanic

I think they limit it to prevent people just saving them for ages until they hit EGO 5000 then flooding the game with lots of highest level items. It's a bit like golden keys from a certain other game - people hoard them until reaching the level cap.

[dirtyklingon]

I think they limit it to prevent people just saving them for ages until they hit EGO 5000 then flooding the game with lots of highest level items. It's a bit like golden keys from a certain other game - people hoard them until reaching the level cap.

what would be the point of doing that? no one below ego level 5k would be able to use them. and they wouldn't be any better than equal grade colour items of ego 100.

[Avenger]

what would be the point of doing that? no one below ego level 5k would be able to use them. and they wouldn't be any better than equal grade colour items of ego 100.

I don't disagree - It's more typical MMO mentality - people want to get to the "end game" / max level and then get the best items they can.

Trion have done their best to counter this by how they have controlled the stats of weapons but not everyone is going to know that from the start or read the threads on the forums about it. If they can hold an unlimited amount they won't be encouraged to use them, whereas hitting a low cap early on encourages you to use them and find out what they do.

[Gleamwar]

I'd have to agree with dirty on that one.
No point in not letting you save up the keycodes.
You can't really twink with them and only another high level EGO player would even want high level gear.
Mods would be the only thing you could even think about doing with them and with the limited inventory space, and no auction system it would be fairly difficult to get rid of them. Low level players might use them but you'd burn alot of salvage to continually move them to new weapons considering the lock out on the weapon xp.