Suggestions for RP cosmetic consumables

Discussion in 'Closed' started by LichWiz, May 3, 2019.

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Do you like any of my suggestions?

  1. I like suggestion no. 1

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  3. I like suggestion no. 3

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  1. LichWiz
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    In another feedback post, @Matt said that there's a lack of RP items that have repurchasing value.

    Because I have never donated on this server before, I always feel a bit in debt for getting to play this game for so long for free.
    So, it might not be much, but I'll try to throw out suggestions that I have for RP items that could be purchased many times

    This thread is for me putting out my ideas, and wanting to know what you guys think, but it's also for you guys to suggest RP items that might help this server. Just remember that the entire goal is to suggest a [and i qoute] "cheap, consumable, incredibly non pay2win, popular, quality of life RP item"

    Suggestion 1: Donator super megaphones

    Smegas that are sold for RP. To make them distinguishable from your normal smegas, I think there should be a room for costumisation in these smegas.
    The following suggestions could either be on seperate smega items, or just one/two of them could be the feature of all donator smegas that would be designed by the royals team:

    1. Customisable emote on a shout smega. When you open a shout smega, you'll have under the text box an image list of all useable emotes.
      You would be able to pick one of your choosing to show on your avatar in the shout smega that pops on the top right of the screen.
    2. Customisable colors for the color of the text and background color of the smega that will show up on the game chat. Having it completely customisable might pose a problem of people mimicing stuff like GM text or whatnot, so make a list of possible text colors to choose from as an option under the smega text box.
    There are two options of making that feature a thing:
    1. The Royals artist would design a few animated shout smega backgrounds that were not in the original GMS, or use some smegas that were not implimented yet (if there are any idk), then together with that add one or two of the feature above. Heck, even without any of the features above it might still be bought if the smega looks cool f3.
      Pricing, well, that's completely up to you, but i'd imagine it as something like 1 RP for 5 smegas, and 3 RP for 20 smegas.
    2. Have an item that gives these effects on all normal smegas, make them expire after a month. I don't know what would be a good RP price for that.

    Suggestion 2: Donator shout item megaphones

    Similar to item megaphones, you can put an item for display, but unlike normal item megaphones, the item that you put in it will be desplayed on the top right instead of the avatar that shows up in shout megaphones. Having the mouse over that item avatar will display its stats like the normal item smega.

    Suggestion 3: Map effect that activates on all channels

    Basically an upgraded weather effect. you could even say it's 20 weather effects in 1. You can write a message that will show up on the whole map, and display an effect, but instead of that effect showing up in only the channel you are on, it can show up in all channels for a short amount of time.
    You could potentially make royals original effects for that as well to make it more enticing to buy.

    Suggestion 4: Special transformation potions

    Sell special transformation potions for the donators that really like buying RP stuff to show off.
    Or maybe sell a transformation potion that makes someone of your choice change into a mob of your choosing.
     
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    I am not saying any of your suggestions is this, I am simply saying we as a community must be very careful when walking this line of pay for any type of consumable.
     
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    I don't think what I'm suggesting here is in any shape or form dangerous. I understand the caution, but no matter how i looked at the things above, they are nothing more than harmless cheap 1 time use cosmetics. Right now, if you want, you can blow huge amounts on RP and still not buy the entire shop, so i doubt that these RP consumables would actually pose any sort of problems like abusing high sum donators to fall for a money pit, or making a bigger gap between donators and non donators.
    Gameplay wise, this affects absolutly nothing. At best, the new smegas will be able to catch people's eyes more, which might lead to better sales? Idk, that's the best "advantage" I can think of as of right now.
    If you think that this is a start to a slippery slope, then I trust that the community will know where to draw their line. After all we all want a none Pay2Win server (except RWTers but lets forget about them for a sec). I doubt the admins are going to go blizzard on us and suck all our money up with lootboxes if we let them start at selling a harmless consumable. They want to keep this server going as much as we want to keep on playing, and that's about it.
     
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    Hmm,
    Yeah zzzz like I said in my first sentence fren
     
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    For me, personally I would prefer to spend my RP points that will provide more functionality or cosmetic purposes than consumable weather effects unless using said weather effect meant something great has happened like reaching Level 200 or whatnot. Maybe to increase donating we could do...

    Allowing characters to save their previous donator hairstyle and face.
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    - The drawback is losing revenue from players already often change their RP look every few months.

    This finally might be a good enough reason to introduce unique items like Anvil and Item's Tag back to the game. If not cash shop item of nice looking equips like Bone Helm etc.

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    As much as I like the ideas, they are considerably more pay2win than anything we currently have in the game (at least suggestions 1-3 are). Currently the biggest 'pay2win' aspect are Pets, in that you are able to purchase a pet with RP instead of NX - thus saving a minimal amount of NX that could be used on Gach or AP resets. However, pets are a pretty much a one-time thing and therefore the pay2win aspect of it has basically no effect. Megaphones/weather effects on the other hand can and do help players in the game, and as these aren't a one-time thing like pets, and I suspect that players would be able to save a significant amount of mesos and NX by purchasing RP megaphones - as obviously those RP items would need to also be affordable, otherwise nobody would use them!
     
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    Hmm, so that only leaves second part of suggestion 1, and suggestion 4.
     
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    Alright then, care to explain more than that sentence? Because I'm still unsure what's your point.
     
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    Besides the style saver you're working on, are there anymore new RP purchases in the works?
    Just wanna know what type of suggestions we should go for
     

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