I know this server is about nostalgia and preserving that OG maple feel, which I love. But, sometimes I feel that makes things very stale and predictable. I thought a way to add some randomness or uncertainty could be modifying the gachapons every month (biweekly?). As in, every now and then switch up the items that are available from each city. Now, to what extent each would be modified, I'm not so sure. Obviously completely randomizing every gachapon once a month is a bit extreme and probably isn't a good idea, but some variation would be a lot of fun. Gachapons could be "hot" for a little while as people experiment and try different cities to see where they're getting lucky. Could be a fun aspect and I can;t imagine it would be terribly difficult to implement.
I can see this destroying the market for certain items because of the randomness. Keep it the way it is.
Like I said, I'm not suggesting shuffle every gachapon entirely. By making them change, different items would come into circulation and we wouldn't be entirely centered around the three superior gachs. I just think it would be interesting. How would it destroy the "market" for them? People still want CS, WS, BVM, etc., and that's not going to change, they still do the same thing. That could be kept the same though, WS could still be at NLC, and CS at shrine, but maybe a little more common one month than another. But I dunno Plenty you seem pretty against any sort of change around here, so maybe I shouldn't waste my breath.
It's bad for the market because in that time where everyone tries out cities, less of these items will be obtained, and once someone gets e.g. a WS at Kerning, everyone will go there for some certainty, meaning it will take longer to find the location of CS/BVM/etc. = less items/supply = higher price Oh and when you change the rarity and therefore the supply of an item without a change in demand as you said, the price would change a lot more.
Clearly you don't understand how economics works, all the factors you've mentioned are demand-side, prices of rare valuable items are determined by supply as well, which you will completely displace with Gacha randomization. And no need to have personal attacks in your replies. And no need for changes for the sake of change.
Are you suggesting that a rare item be swapped around different Gachapons? That seems like what your asking. The Admins are very secretive when it comes to Gachapon so swapping rare and high demand items around without any rhyme or reason would inflate almost everything because you add in another factor of randomness to an already very random and luck based method of obtaining a certain item. If it's not me that's going to hoard Gachapon rare items, please believe that others will because the prices will absolutely skyrocket. That still leads to huge inflation and even higher demand. People are going to hoard their tickets and wait an entire month for that lucky Gachapon. What are people suppose to do for the entire month or more without any sort of rare item? Nobody is going to want to use up their tickets because they could just save it and hopefully get lucky when a Gachapon gets hot. I can be extremely liberal when it comes to updates, but if people are going to suggest fixes to economy with no idea of the repercussions, that's where I'm going to be conservative. Don't get me wrong, I love threads like this. It shows that people really care about the longevity of the server and the enjoyment of the community.
