CANCELED: Forging Changes

[nevir]

I’d like to surface some ideas from the balance thread a while ago:

@nevir

I think forging quirks might also be something worth taking a look at.

Today, all quirks are negative effects (just generally milder and weirder than defects). This means that players are actively optimizing to avoid both quirks and defects—encouraging us to skip over tiers & progression.

Suggestion: make some quirks desirable (but maybe situationally) Examples:

• Bomb cube: bombs now explode in a cube, reduces radius by N%
• Power hungry: increases damage by N%, but each attack/swing deals M% damage to the player
• Power of the sun: increases damage by N% during the day, reduces damage by N% at night
• Bonus damage while jumping
• Etc

@Arkhainn

Another possible quirk: A hammer randomly ‘eats’ some stone instead of dropping it, but fills the hunger bar (but still uses energy as normal) a little bit when that happens. At the highest level for the quirk, it would eat all the stone and always fill the hunger bar instead of draining it.

That way people that dislike having infinite XP via stone crafting would have something to be happy about, and it would provide an alternative for carrying a million prime steaks in exchange for the loss of the potential stone crafting xp.