But it's been consistent for me... Bit odd. Can only assume it's a form of balancing control they have added.

Which is odd.

Two scenarios

• If you reach endgame and run out of fate there's no problem. You can do 6-8 normal missions, gather fate. Do a tarrot. All in under an hour. Fairly balanced ratio or normal to premium content. 
• If you reach level 38 and have 2000 fate in the bank however - you can't suddenly spam it all on rewards and will see this feature kick in. Which I think does at least have a base level of logic behind it. Just that it feels that there needs to be a way to encourage fate to be spent as it's accumulated while leveling rather than stockpiling. Currently there's the punishment for stockpiling, but not enough reward for spending imho. 

They said that they want to give us the freedom to play the way we want to, all I see so far are even worse restrictions then we had the last EA build. This suxx big time. I dont even bother to use my fate to level twinks because i dont want my fate costs to climb. Now I sitt on 3k Fate and i get more and more.

An explanation would be nice because if there is a mechanic it's only fair to tell us how it works and it's bad to throw random crap at us without explaining it.

There's a difference between playing the way you want though - and being able to gear up at end game insanely fast because you stockpiled something which others did not. Now you might argue that's fair if the time was taken, but most games don't allow for this sorta preperation. You might be able to instantly kit yourself out with well crafted stuff within most games if you were prepared. But not with BIS stuff. That at least is what I think this is intended to prevent.

But. I think there's perhaps other ways it could be done.. Although oddly the only ways I can think of would be either forcing players to spend fate earlier or b reducing their reward from fate missions in a DR sort of system, which would be very backward. Perhaps it's the least crap option they could come upwith ? Perhaps its a bug :D who bloomin knows.

Is this system of diminishing returns fun for anyone? Do it do anything other than punish one type of players? It punishes the players who give over the most of their free time to play the game.

In a game with no head to head PVP worth talking about, who is benefitting from this DR? If it is not fun, it should be taken out.

Not entirely convinced that mechanisms in place for balancing are ever intended to be fun. If it's there for a purpose, the purpose is to prevent something from happening. Presumably something which would / could lead to an "un-fun" situation. I'm not saying it does that, but I don't think the solution to issues needs to be fun - just not punishing.

I think there's two questions to be asked.

a) Does spending all of your fate in one go cause any potential issues through the leveling process?
Here I don't think it's healthy that players feel they should be passing on as much good gear as possible during the leveling so that they can get more at the end, we should be chasing rewards not avoiding them during the leveling process. Note that part of the issue is the lack of any incentive to get purple items during leveling, they just aren't worth it. Tarrots are for Rank exp. So the result is avoid doing tarrots till you have to - whereas most games will throw bosses at you intermittently which will give you rewards as / when.

b) If there is any response to (a) is there any other way in which this could be solved.

Personally I think you shouldn't be punished for spending it in chunks. Instead there should be a mixture between rewarding more for using it frequently alongside a way to minimize the need to stockpile it for endgame or at the very least not made to feel like you need to horde it for the endgame.   

Why don't we just give people a little nudge / buff when they haven't done a tarrot in say 48 hours, a small discount of 20 or so :D Perhaps it goes against the aims of the new system, but then again so does increasing the cost. 

Well, where the problem with : a) Does spending all of your fate in one go cause any potential issues through the leveling process?

Just how many tarots will you decide _NOT_ to run during your levelling process because you are saving them up until you hit 40? You are always going to prioritise story missions for rank, and when there's no story missions then you'll do tarots, or you might do a tarot if the next story mission is too high a powerlevel for you. 

I'd hardly call this "stockpiling" fate during the levelling process, especially since the number of tarots you'll do before 40 completely and utterly pales in comparison to the tarots you will do after level 40. The term "orders of magnitude" comes into play here. How much fate do you think you can stockpile for when you hit 40? I'll tell you, because I did this on my Psyker, and it's about 2700 fate. That's 27 tarot missions (assuming no DR, possibly 15-20 missions with DR, so it's only taking away 5-10 missions). Is that game-breaking, to such an extent that Neocore has to implement a DR on tarot costs? 

There's no other consideration for stockpiling fate, after level 40 there's no benefit whatsoever to stockpiling fate.

Okay an example out of life. Think about it, you do the same  job day by day.  If you get your payment weekly everything is fine but if you are payed per month you'll get only a quarter of your money or less. The outcry would be huge. 

Why should I get less like someone else? I invested time to get things done, why should I be punished in a way that my fate is worth less then someone elses fate? That's simply stupid and inconsequent. The next step should be to increase crafting costs and to get less credits the more you play. Nothing happens in that department so it's only fate chicane.

I don't disagree with you but it's more like being paid at different points in your life rather than different days of the week. Fate at low level serves a different function than it does in high level. 

In response to Falzure it's more about the priority of spending. While it's unlikely anyone will hit max level with 5000 fate spare, how you "should" spend it as you level is what I currently dislike.

Pre level 40 the value of tarrot missions is almost entirely as an exp "filler" when you run out of story. The item drops aren't of much importance or impact. The reason I use the word stockpile is that i've had 2000 sitting around because i've had only story to do. But, the very moment you reach 40 it becomes the complete opposite.

Why do I dislike this?

Because I don't see it as a system inherently friendly to new players. It's counter intuitive to what most arpg players would naturally do within a game. Normally we seek out good gear as a means to make levelling faster, it would make sense to a player (I presume) to chase some nice new weapons whenever possible so that they are now stronger and progress with more ease. Only in Martyr that's actually going to make their levelling process harder and they will likely be undergeared in terms of power rating when they meet a challenge.

Again I dislike the current system / bug of increased cost. It's not benefiting anyone. But, I also dislike how we prioritise story over getting purple loot. Which unfortunately is just a natural byproduct of the gear system dropping according to ones level. There's ways around this but for the moment i've got chicken I need to nom.