(11-11-2019, 07:08 PM)Malong Wrote: Whenever legendary loot chance increases through events, or items seem to be dropping more, alongside no other difference to any mechanics which affect difficulty (nor "fun"), the player activity increases. This mod is a solved game, people aren't playing for the difficulty.
Also note that "the fun is in the loot," "time is loot," and so on are repeated sayings amongst many players of the mod. Meanwhile, "the fun is in the challenge" is not.
Whenever an update is put out that affects stats alongside no other difference to any mechanics such as drop rate, the player activity increases.
Whenever an update is put out that affects maps alongside no other difference to any mechanics such as drop rate, the player activity increases.
Whenever an update to what upgrades are available alongside no other difference to any mechanics such as drop rate, the player activity increases.
Whenever devs hold special events alongside no other difference to any mechanics such as drop rate, the player activity increases.
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Nice. Like I said here.
(11-11-2019, 04:00 PM)Woody Wrote: The question you should be asking here is what comes 1st for you in Ni and what comes after it? Looting I can see being at number 1 for a lot of people but Ni cant be just a slot machine otherwise we would have a Retention Rate problem.
Why do you think only 1 house is doing events atm? Did people magically disappear?
To hit my point in harder let's say for example hard was the hardest mod we had available. I would argue the retention rate would be even worse given its no fun winning constantly. It can also be said studies show this in real life and ill find them if need be.
Yes, looting is a nice high for being so rare but you need something to do in the meantime. Doing something repeatable that's easy is a way to get exhausted fast and this is proven by how we spike in player numbers so often this year doing house events.
Sure its "fun" winning the lottery but it needs to be entertaining or challenging in the meantime otherwise why invest that much time trying to win? For you to experience the high of looting you need to understand how hard looting is. This has been lost to me for some time given how "easy" rag truly is when you have a good team.
People almost unanimously agree Ni was more fun at the start when you had nothing. I would put this up to mutable factors but one of them being the game is just harder when you have lesser stats being you need to depend more on your team. For how big that factor is I can't say but I hope you can agree it's probably a bigger factor than people would be willing to admit.