Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26428291-20190208094524

I might be shooting myself in the foot here with this statement, but I'll say that I'm not expecting this suggestion to be very popular. I'll just be posting this to try and provoke some thought.

tl;dr add a configuation option for higher-tier (e.g legendary) scroll rarity to increase people's willingness to use their good gear.

Alrighty.

So Update 34 added Smith Scrolls. Great. Smith Scrolls are a good addition to the game - they allow you to collect good modifiers to be applied to your gear at a later date. But overall they didn't increase how easy it is to get a fully modified piece of equipment, because full-tier scrolls are still reasonably rare.

Some of you might think that's a good thing - and I get it. Having a set of "god-gear" is supposed to make you powerful (for lack of a better word?)

"Imagine you're playing a server in which you only have one good set of gear. This set of gear took you almost a month to mine and enchant. Are you going to go out and fight someone with it? No, it's far too valuable to lose. Now imagine a server in which you have one good set of gear and a few extra stacks of diamonds. Are you gonna go out and fight someone with it? Maybe, if you lose the set that would suck but you could always make another later. Finally, imagine a server in which you have five good sets of armor and almost 10 stacks of diamonds. Will you go fight? Sure, why the hell not.

Additional resources give the player the freedom to try things without going bankrupt. If you were a player from that first server and you lost a set of gear that took you a month of grinding to get, are you going laugh it off and start over or are you going to quit in frustration? Probably the latter. We think scarcity drives conflict, and on paper that seems to make sense, but it just doesn't."

- A Case Against Scarcity

That quote basically sums up my whole argument. (Despite the fact its about a vanilla server.)

Now, back onto the suggestion:

Add a server-config option to increase the rarity of the higher tier scrolls (Meaning ones like Legendary and Eölean.) It could be done on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being 100% spawn rate and 1 being 10% spawn rate.

Note that this does not increase how common smith's scroll are, just the chances of getting a higher tier one.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading my (incoherent?) ramble. Do the read the post I linked in the quote if you agreed/were intrigued by my point of view.

 