Footfall should scale with beacon prestige

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@Stretchious

And if the road is made of Machined Silver / Gold / Titanium or Refined Oortstone… what then? You could argue that more effort went into building the road over some fairly easy to make shop stands It’s a difficult one to quantity I think.

I see no problem here. If you use high quality materials their prestige value is high. No problem with shiny roads since this is also effort.

@Stretchious

My first stab at a solution would be to say that you’d need to have a minimum amount of prestige on the players beacon to be able to earn the coin, but that doesn’t stop people paving their roads with gleam and gold. It’s still the same section of road and serves the same purpose… it’s just shinier.

How about % based of the prestige value of the plot?
<1000 = 20% of the footfall
1000-1500 = 50%
">"1500 = 100%
If the road is made out of gold or gleam there is atleast a decent efford. It’s different from placing down 50 stones made out of 18 rocks.

@Stretchious

How would you account for one plot or group of plots to have more value over any other?

How about a sum of connected plots, each plot reduces this penalty by 5%.
So for 1 plot the above value is used.
2 plots = 1425 prestige = 100%
10 plots = 825 prestige = 100%
and it should cap at 75% reduction for example.
16 plots = 375 prestige = 100% footfall so you could still not place empty plots but for the form of comittment you get an easier time building all those roads.

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@Xaldafax

So a portal in the middle of no where to help people access it or some other small thing like that loses the ability to generate cash?

Give a running portal a high prestige value which it should have anyway.

@Xaldafax

Just to play the other side of the discussion… Maybe we should just make it easy and remove all footfall cash. Why does it even exist?

Probably to make things like @SWProzee1 portalhub a affordable gameplay mechanic.

@Xaldafax

Or honestly someone makes a bit more cash because they have a two plots via an alt in an area that generates footfall… How is that affecting anything really? How is that hurting things?

It is not the “bit more chash” per se that’s the problem. The problem is a unreasanable difference in reward / time spent and this is something that makes or brakes a game, easy as that.

@Xaldafax

I know we kind of got off topic but honestly if you have footfall cash then it needs to not be linked to prestige because it isn’t fair to us smaller people that will never have access to any plot in a major city for footfall or are trying to provide small portal or other plots.

exactly my point above, it should’nt be anything you need to care about anyway. If you have to care it is to rewarding.

@Xaldafax

You already have an environment where there are a few that earn a lot of cash because of established plots/stores and others that are lucky to make 40 c every few days because of very limited traffic and actual player numbers. Even with a scaled player count you will still have the same issue because once a town is established those that started it and have plots in the core of the town will get all cash while others will have tiny amounts. Added to that there will only be a few towns and hubs while others will struggle to grow because people won’t go there much.

This is how it works in real life? Why should it be different in the game? People that are willing to risk all their invesment by building the core of that one city that might become the capital are rewarded for it. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be that way. If you offer something people are interested in they will visit you. If you’re not, how is it reasonable to punish other people that have achieved that?