(10-10-2019, 08:00 AM)Green_Dragon Wrote:(10-10-2019, 07:50 AM)Cut-Me-Own-Throat-Dibbler Wrote:(10-10-2019, 06:34 AM)Woody Wrote: 5+ year old game like Ni is a filled bucket with holes in it with new but mostly old players dripping out every day. The aim here is to repair the holes in the game for why the new and old people are leaving.
I think NI lacks more "endgame" content. The current endgame content is getting increasingly expensive/powerful legendaries, but that process is so painfully slow (unless you have connections or dumb luck), that many players either give up or take very long breaks. Ideally there would be more to do than just grind for those legendaries, but that would require a lot of work and effort, and I have no idea if there's anyone capable and willing to do that.
Anyway, those events sound like fun.
That! and...
The best thing, yet not the easiest to implement would be a point system for legendaries. It even doesn't really matter in which
shape or form it comes but it would offer a clear perspective on progress. The other thing would be a review of quests. The point
system has been proposed in forums various times and would have an equally significant impact on motivation to play NI as the
mat-loot update already had.
No one really complains about the drop rate of mats as its hard to tell who is the lucky one with mats being so plentiful. I don't want legendaries to be plentiful. The drop rate for this game in terms of legendaries is fair but because of the rarity of it the outliers that loot a lot or not much stick out like a sore thumb.
Making legendaries into craftables would do to solve that problem. The way people make legendaries is looting parts of an [X] legendary so you need a certain amount of parts before you can craft that legendary. Doing this means you can up the drop rate of parts for however many parts you need to make that legendary. This way the drop rate of legendaries feels more consistent for the community. Say if I needed 10 x Worm Bane parts to make a Worm Bane. The drop rate for parts can go up to match this.
Quests speak for themselves as they are a clear goal. Some people have susggest login bouns... Eh... If it was something people could do on phones sure but I dont think the game should incentivize that type of gameplay. What I think could work is if you had weekly or monthly hell even yearly quests given players can do it when they want. Quests like this can be different each time as maybe one week it focuses on rag but the next week its normal. Yearly quests could be like the long haul but it in terms of you need to complete this many runs etc.
Quests have a lot of potential thats for sure.