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sam767
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Polls Opened: July 20th
This is a restart of the prior unrecoverable thread. As I came to fully appreciate the elegance of Ashrem's suggestion to manipulate probabilities, I made it an integral part of both parts of the suggestion.
The recommendation has 2 parts:
1. Re-balance the spell fragments between the Gateway and High halls by increasing probabilities in the Gateway and reducing them by an offsetting amount in the High Halls. Then re-balance the remaining rewards in each to sum to 100% for each chest.
2. In the Lab, remove the SFs with no replacement. Re-balance the other probabilities. (This may not be possible and dropping the SF probability to 1% or 5% may not be aesthetically pleasing). Another option is to just replace the SFs with some other reward.
Pros:
1. Gives beginning players more SFs in the Gateway.
2. There are no changes to the rewards - just different probabilities.
3. For experienced players who routinely run the spire, it removes the agony of the 500 SF award in the Laboratory. THE SPIRE IS NOT EASY FOR ANYONE.
4. By managing probabilities of the current rewards set, it pushes all discussion of new rewards in the spire to a new suggestion
5, Should be trivial to implement.
6. This is a highly specific suggestion that addresses(in part) one problem many have with possessing hundreds of thousands of SFs, and further, it eliminates those insulting 500SF rewards in the Lab.
Cons:
1. By eliminating SFs and re balancing the remaining rewards in the lab, we are slightly increasing the average value of the rewards in the lab. This was not part of the original concept. Most would consider this a pro.
The prior thread is linked in the next comment.
Thanks for Xelenia's guiding hand and all of your constructive suggestions (in the prior thread) for this forum newbie.
Thanks to Ashrem for encouragement and fantastic suggestions.
This is a restart of the prior unrecoverable thread. As I came to fully appreciate the elegance of Ashrem's suggestion to manipulate probabilities, I made it an integral part of both parts of the suggestion.
The recommendation has 2 parts:
1. Re-balance the spell fragments between the Gateway and High halls by increasing probabilities in the Gateway and reducing them by an offsetting amount in the High Halls. Then re-balance the remaining rewards in each to sum to 100% for each chest.
2. In the Lab, remove the SFs with no replacement. Re-balance the other probabilities. (This may not be possible and dropping the SF probability to 1% or 5% may not be aesthetically pleasing). Another option is to just replace the SFs with some other reward.
Pros:
1. Gives beginning players more SFs in the Gateway.
2. There are no changes to the rewards - just different probabilities.
3. For experienced players who routinely run the spire, it removes the agony of the 500 SF award in the Laboratory. THE SPIRE IS NOT EASY FOR ANYONE.
4. By managing probabilities of the current rewards set, it pushes all discussion of new rewards in the spire to a new suggestion
5, Should be trivial to implement.
6. This is a highly specific suggestion that addresses(in part) one problem many have with possessing hundreds of thousands of SFs, and further, it eliminates those insulting 500SF rewards in the Lab.
Cons:
1. By eliminating SFs and re balancing the remaining rewards in the lab, we are slightly increasing the average value of the rewards in the lab. This was not part of the original concept. Most would consider this a pro.
The prior thread is linked in the next comment.
Thanks for Xelenia's guiding hand and all of your constructive suggestions (in the prior thread) for this forum newbie.
Thanks to Ashrem for encouragement and fantastic suggestions.
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