crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
I can't decide if this is a Holiday Gift Item or an Idea/Suggestion, but if I put it here, then it can go for a vote and possibly reach the CM of Tonga.
The July 2022 Fellowship Adventure has brought many a fellowships to tears. Even the most stalwart adventurers among them are feeling the pinch and are on their knees. I personally do not even have enough neighbors to visit to form one Sack of Coin badge and I have 28 pages of neighbors. Many have resorted to raiding their savings accounts and emptying their inventories of Coin Rains to make ends meet, resulting in hyperflation in the wholesaler and requiring players to empty their coin bars multiple times to make room for more coins. I, together with industry-leading experts of monetary policy, the Shenanigan Elves, present a very well thought out new solution to the Coin Rain/Wholesaler issue...
Instead of making us buy T1-T3 goods at tens of millions of coins per pop, we should be allowed to spend our hard-captured coin water on a new Snack Arcade. The new Snack Arcade consists of dangling support staff on support harnesses over a large pool of snacks and seeing how much snacks they can pick up using only their arms and legs (or fins). Each play action costs players a 10% Coin Rain to play. Support staff must alternate round robin. The Support member with the most snacks at the end of the Fellowship Adventure gets to keep all the snacks. The Support member with the least snacks must eat Bud Sorceress's Nuclear Revenge with no napkins allowed. Additionally, players may optionally sponsor a Support personnel to enter the pool for winning additional Pet Food if their staff member of choice wins the Snack Arcade. It's not gambling because it's called "hedging" when talking in sophisticated terms of finance and economics, like we are.
Pros:
The July 2022 Fellowship Adventure has brought many a fellowships to tears. Even the most stalwart adventurers among them are feeling the pinch and are on their knees. I personally do not even have enough neighbors to visit to form one Sack of Coin badge and I have 28 pages of neighbors. Many have resorted to raiding their savings accounts and emptying their inventories of Coin Rains to make ends meet, resulting in hyperflation in the wholesaler and requiring players to empty their coin bars multiple times to make room for more coins. I, together with industry-leading experts of monetary policy, the Shenanigan Elves, present a very well thought out new solution to the Coin Rain/Wholesaler issue...
Instead of making us buy T1-T3 goods at tens of millions of coins per pop, we should be allowed to spend our hard-captured coin water on a new Snack Arcade. The new Snack Arcade consists of dangling support staff on support harnesses over a large pool of snacks and seeing how much snacks they can pick up using only their arms and legs (or fins). Each play action costs players a 10% Coin Rain to play. Support staff must alternate round robin. The Support member with the most snacks at the end of the Fellowship Adventure gets to keep all the snacks. The Support member with the least snacks must eat Bud Sorceress's Nuclear Revenge with no napkins allowed. Additionally, players may optionally sponsor a Support personnel to enter the pool for winning additional Pet Food if their staff member of choice wins the Snack Arcade. It's not gambling because it's called "hedging" when talking in sophisticated terms of finance and economics, like we are.
Pros:
- One word: Snacks.
- Players will get more value and entertainment out of their Coin Rains and not feel cheated spending it on inflationary wholesaler
- Increase FA participation as more people will be willing to pay for the spectacle.
- Ties game changes to interact with the human Support element more interactively so all changes will impact Support more directly than just with virtual tickets.
- Players need to spend many Coin Rains to make it through FA so Support staff will be literally too tied up in harnesseseseses to answer any support tickets so devs will need to think decisions carefully through to limit support ticket storms they've themselves created that are going unanswered
- Licensing opportunities to create merchandise such as T-shirts, mugs, foam fingers, etc. to allow players to cheer on their favorite support staff and generate more revenue for Inno. (C'mon, I'm rooting for you, unnamed Senior In-Game Support who first handled the Black Abyss ticket before the good cop/bad cops took over!)
- The U.S. market players can "pay back" the CM of Tonga.
- Many humans and elves have been displaced from their homes by ruthless landlords that destroyed their residences for the event and are probably going hungry who could benefit from eating the snacks. (At least we've paved more streets for them to live on amongst psychotic shaking groves of trees and marble mines.)
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