Talk:Lato Prime/@comment-186.94.39.74-20170820162319/@comment-30990945-20181014140725

@Shatto

At least Reb and Scott, when discussing unreleased MR Tests, mentioned that the 12,000 Founder Affinity would be kept in-mind to still allow non-fou ders the ability to hit MR tests at the same time.

Basically letting us know that Founders will not be 12,000 affinity higher to be over a MR threshold: if a player has all other in-game items mastered.

Basically a Founder just has a 12k buffer; allowing them to miss out on a log-in weapon or recent Event weapon/Baro weapon.

It was more of an issue when lower MR was the current high and DE also had other affinity weapons removed like: Machete, Snipetron, plus event weapons were also 1 time exclusives at that time. This led to a larger "comparative" affinity amount between veteran founders and casual players that missed early Founder/Closed Beta/Early Event weapons.

DE has allowed the affinity Gap to be closed by re-releasing removed weapons and allowing Event weapons to be re-acquired and traded; aside for m the 12k Founder exclusives.