The whole prep system, and how it effected cf dynamics how it was set up was always a really sore point for me. Heck, I only ever knew of one barrier source (traded for ic, but it was too high level for my char to use before the character died).

The basic that you have implied is behind this change I support to the hilt.

I've always thought, "preps are fine but make them less powerful so that newbies can at least have fun, instead of making super powerful preps limited so the l33t easily and without danger pimp everyone not able to put in hundreds of hours to get to the l33t stage"


I can't say if that kind of thinking was behind this change, but it looks promising (without having played a char or had time to see these changes)

Thank you for this change. Even if it doesn't turn out how I would like it to eventually*, thanks for this change. it seems on the surface a huge step in the right direction!


*not that my opinion means much, I understand that.