[2021] Mod Stu I really appreciate the changes but this is a step in the wrong direction for dailyscape.

Thanks so much for getting involved in the discussion so far. It's really helpful to us!

Mod Daze and I are already discussing additions we'd like to make from your feedback, and the update isn't even live yet!

For example, a great idea we've seen is to add vis wax to the weekly reward chests - that way if you're self-sufficient, there's a limited source of additional vis wax to feed back into your optimisation of daily challenges.

There's a lot of levers we can pull:

• further reducing vis wax cost to suit supply (though focusing 3 extended challenges daily on a single skill awards obscenely more XP than before, even reducing down to large lamps, so wanted it to have some throttling/sacrifice out of the gate)

• adjusting the reroll & disabling mechanics to be more player-friendly

• moving toward more of an internal currency (eg extending with challenge tokens rather than vis wax)

etc

It's a daily system and we ultimately want to tune it so it feels good to play, while achieving its goals for engagement and retention.

One of the handy things about a live service we update weekly is we can tune and refine on a weekly basis (if we can get a design agreed, implemented and tested in time for patch notes weekly cut-off, of course) to make the game better for you and healthy in the long term.

Thanks for keeping the constructive criticism coming, and we'll keep listening and reacting!

That's very kind of you to say, thank you - I'm blushing!

Serious question, though; given you know where my talents lie, what projects would you rather I was doing?

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Thanks for your feedback! So I can understand your point of view, why would you prefer there to be two currency options? (ie free challenge coupons from the weekly reward chests, and vis wax)

You have an Ironman tag, so I assume it's not so you have the option to buy vis wax from the GE for extra extends?

What if you could pay coins directly for an extend without needing vis wax, so it's more of a direct money sink?

(Just throwing out hypothetical ideas to see how they land.)

Also, as an Ironman, how do you split the vis wax you can get across its current uses? In essence, how much vis wax do you tend to have left over to spend on challenges, if any?

Thank you so much! Though credit where credit is due, all of those quests were multi-dev projects, and I was usually in a supporting role:

• Plague's End: 90% completed by Mod John A before I came in at the end to help with supplementaries like quest journal and guidance systems, and the boss fight. Mod Osborne as design reviewer, which always makes something good twice as good

• Sliske's Endgame: Mod Raven at the helm, pretty much everybody chipping in to get that gigantic finale with ludicrous amounts of choice variance out on time. IIRC I mostly did Maze puzzles and encounter dialogues

• Lord of Vampyrium: fantastically led and designed by Mod Rowley. So much of the success of that project came from how well he and Mod Osborne designed the mood, reveals, boss fight stages, etc, upfront, before any of us started assembling it. Rowley gets all the writing credit there

• The Brink of Extinction: This was back when we had one dev per project, but even so Mod Goya's design review throughout development did so much to improve the narrative structure and emotional weight of this quest. Things like having a simpler story on the surface that a more combat-oriented player could assume through witnessed events, while the deeper narrative of the TokHaar's motivation is buried for lore players to discover without bloating the critical path. Still one of my favourite projects, especially getting to pay off Mod Edam's Ga'al story and make the TzHaar quests feel cohesive when he had no clear ending in mind.