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Hello,
Ever since the release of the Crystal Hollows, a larger and larger portion of the total coins income of the game has been from Gemstones being sold to NPCs.
While the total amount of daily coin income didn’t really rise much compared to before, the main issue is that less and less players would participate in the large coin sinks of the game, in favor of gemstone mining.
More coins income and less coins expenditures = inflation.
The changes below are currently aimed for the end of the week, but it is still time for you to give feedback.
EDIT: Thread updated with all the >round 2< changes!
Here is the list of proposed changes:
1/ Nerf the NPC price from 8 to 4
2/ Fix the Pristine chat message, currently displaying a lower amount than players actually get.
3/ Add a price upon removing gems on items, with confirmation
4/ Add a feature inside the Gemstone Grinder that unlocks gemstone slots on regular items. Not all items have locked slots, some items have only a few locked slots.
Examples:
This change would only apply on new pieces of gear, all current armors/gear in the game would have all slots unlocked by default.
Note: Once players obtain a full set of Perfect Gemstones, they technically don’t need to obtain new gemstones, as swapping gemstones from an item to a new one doesn’t cost gemstones.
We believe that is completely OK. The Crystal Hollow isn’t meant to be a place where players will perpetually need to invest a lot of time and effort.
However we also value the bazaar price of gemstones to remain high, and if there aren’t any gemstone sinks it might get lower and lower with time.
That is the main reason why those unlock costs are being introduced. Please give us your opinion on those.
The full list of gemstone slots and unlock prices changes can be found >here<
5/ Introduce Combat Slots, Mining Slots and Defensive Slots, to break away from Universal Slots. Which allows us to add more slots on items without worrying about their power level skyrocketing.
If you currently have a gemstone in a slot that won’t support it in the future, do not worry, you’ll be able to remove that gemstone for free.
6/ Higher drop chance of Jaderald
7/ Change gemstone mixture recipe
8/ Crystal Nucleus Changes:
9/ Add a way to see the gemstones on an item without using addons. (Visible in the stats)
10/ Make the Artifact of power upgrade rarity when you put 7 perfect gemstones on it.
11/ The default rarity of the Divan's Drill will remain Mythic.
However, we will officialize a rarity above Mythic, called Divine, with its own reforge stats. This rarity will be kept exclusive to items of the caliber of the Divan’s Drill.
Divine will be added as an AH filter.
Enchanted Books cannot be Divine.
12/ Add chat toggles in settings to Pristine and Compact messages.
13/ The Jungle Pickaxe shall be fixed.
14/ Increase the odds of Divan’s Alloy dropping a bit.
15/ Change Scatha’s 2nd perk to increase odds of finding regular chests instead.
Change the 3rd perk to only work on adjacent hardstone instead of every block.
Some extra details on the worm spawning buffs: Currently it checks if the players are in a small tunnel, but the requirements are often too small, worms will now be able to spawn in larger tunnels.
16/ Make sure Pristine and Compact are compatible on the same item.
17/ Slight buffs to how many stats the Sapphire, Ruby and Amethyst gemstone slots provide.
18/ Ruby and Jasper Crystals will now have a chance to drop from Crystal Nucleus.
19/ Players that have too many Heart of the Mountain tokens will have those tokens reset!
20/ The description of the Jungle Amulet will be improved to better explain what it does.
Thanks for reading, and let us know what you think!
Ever since the release of the Crystal Hollows, a larger and larger portion of the total coins income of the game has been from Gemstones being sold to NPCs.
While the total amount of daily coin income didn’t really rise much compared to before, the main issue is that less and less players would participate in the large coin sinks of the game, in favor of gemstone mining.
More coins income and less coins expenditures = inflation.
The changes below are currently aimed for the end of the week, but it is still time for you to give feedback.
EDIT: Thread updated with all the >round 2< changes!
Here is the list of proposed changes:
1/ Nerf the NPC price from 8 to 4
- Rough: 4
- Flawed: 320
- Fine: 25,600
- Flawless: 2,048,000
- Perfect: 10,240,000
2/ Fix the Pristine chat message, currently displaying a lower amount than players actually get.
3/ Add a price upon removing gems on items, with confirmation
- 1 Coin for Rough
- 100 for Flawed
- 10,000 for Fine
- 100,000 for Flawless
- 500,000 for Perfect
4/ Add a feature inside the Gemstone Grinder that unlocks gemstone slots on regular items. Not all items have locked slots, some items have only a few locked slots.
Examples:
- Aspect of the End:
- Sapphire slot is free, no cost to unlock
- Flamebreaker Armor:
- Ruby slot is free
- Amber slot is 5k coins + 1 Fine Amber
- Jade slot is 20k coins + 4 Fine Jade
- Necron Armor:
- Jasper Slot: 250k coins + 4 Flawless Jasper
- Combat Slot: 250k coins + 1 Flawless Jasper + 1 Flawless Sapphire + 1 Flawless Ruby + 1 Flawless Amethyst
This change would only apply on new pieces of gear, all current armors/gear in the game would have all slots unlocked by default.
Note: Once players obtain a full set of Perfect Gemstones, they technically don’t need to obtain new gemstones, as swapping gemstones from an item to a new one doesn’t cost gemstones.
We believe that is completely OK. The Crystal Hollow isn’t meant to be a place where players will perpetually need to invest a lot of time and effort.
However we also value the bazaar price of gemstones to remain high, and if there aren’t any gemstone sinks it might get lower and lower with time.
That is the main reason why those unlock costs are being introduced. Please give us your opinion on those.
The full list of gemstone slots and unlock prices changes can be found >here<
5/ Introduce Combat Slots, Mining Slots and Defensive Slots, to break away from Universal Slots. Which allows us to add more slots on items without worrying about their power level skyrocketing.
If you currently have a gemstone in a slot that won’t support it in the future, do not worry, you’ll be able to remove that gemstone for free.
6/ Higher drop chance of Jaderald
7/ Change gemstone mixture recipe
- 320 Sludge Juice instead of 500
- 4 Fine Jade/Amethyst/Amber/Sapphire instead of 2
8/ Crystal Nucleus Changes:
- Upon completing, new bonus of 800 HotM EXP every time.
- Give 1 of each Fine Gemstones on top of current rewards
- Add rare rewards
- 1 gemstone mixture
- 1 Fortune 4 book
- Add very rare rewards
- Make flawless gemstones a bit more common.
- 1 new pet item that gives Mining Speed
9/ Add a way to see the gemstones on an item without using addons. (Visible in the stats)
10/ Make the Artifact of power upgrade rarity when you put 7 perfect gemstones on it.
11/ The default rarity of the Divan's Drill will remain Mythic.
However, we will officialize a rarity above Mythic, called Divine, with its own reforge stats. This rarity will be kept exclusive to items of the caliber of the Divan’s Drill.
Divine will be added as an AH filter.
Enchanted Books cannot be Divine.
12/ Add chat toggles in settings to Pristine and Compact messages.
13/ The Jungle Pickaxe shall be fixed.
14/ Increase the odds of Divan’s Alloy dropping a bit.
15/ Change Scatha’s 2nd perk to increase odds of finding regular chests instead.
Change the 3rd perk to only work on adjacent hardstone instead of every block.
Some extra details on the worm spawning buffs: Currently it checks if the players are in a small tunnel, but the requirements are often too small, worms will now be able to spawn in larger tunnels.
16/ Make sure Pristine and Compact are compatible on the same item.
17/ Slight buffs to how many stats the Sapphire, Ruby and Amethyst gemstone slots provide.
18/ Ruby and Jasper Crystals will now have a chance to drop from Crystal Nucleus.
19/ Players that have too many Heart of the Mountain tokens will have those tokens reset!
20/ The description of the Jungle Amulet will be improved to better explain what it does.
Thanks for reading, and let us know what you think!
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Nucleus finally worth doing.
