I wonder if it would be worth giving the raw materials like resin and petrolim a debuff which, the more you handle them, prevents you picking up more for a limited time… so essentially you can only pick up 100 (example number) in an hour. You’d then need to wait for the debuff to clear (with it persisting through death) before you can get any more. This could then give others an actual chance Instead of a couple dozen players reaping all the rewards.
Edit: just realised what thread I was in, so moved this to its own suggestion post.
Love this idea. I had been thinking maybe if they could make a small amount of the rare stuff instanced, but this would be a lot easier… though the alts would be an issue of course still, but it would cut it way down.
I had a really evil idea some time back: introduce a mob sort of like a No Man’s Sky sentinel, that if you took too many resources, they would spawn more and more and get more deadly on you in proportion to what you took to punish the ravaging of the landscape. I know nobody would want that but I just thought it was funny.
But then it doesnt reward you for “grinding”.
Put more time in, get more reward. If you want to be a casual player, then deal with having to buy said resources.
I support a change in how the new liquids are handled although I am not sure adding a new mechanic like this is the way to go. I think an increase in spawn volume or making them regenerable would be better. Or even, dare I say it, a nerf to the liquid breaker.
I would appreciate it if people who have full time jobs and families as well as find time to play Boundless are not called "casual " players, it implies we just dip in and out of the game when we feel like it because we can’t be bothered.
Any resource that is gone in under an hour is not grinding, it is the player that can get it being lucky with the planet spawns or having very few commitments outside of playing. I am far from a casual player and have only been at home once when one of these worlds spawned.
This would be interesting however the 2 main issues with something on par with this is what keeps the buffed (savage?) Enemies from targeting players that weren’t involved?
The second would just be a rise on the speed tank build. Add as much health and protection as possible and carry the appropriate foods.
Would be cool though of it could be pulled off right
The resources aren’t that scarce though. If anyone is really struggling for any of the resin or petrolim, or perhaps fertalizer from both. stop by Blingz’n’Thingz I don’t mind handing some out
Yeah, that would be one trick, having them only aggro on the guilty parties… and then of course, you’d have to have it so only the guilty parties could do damage to prevent raid groups with people not taking the resources ready to fight.
I was thinking that they’d be so powerful that if you went nuts, no way you could survive regardless of build, you’d be dead very quickly. Maybe even make these mobs damage carried tools on death to make it more of a punishment. If you took a few here and there, then let it cool off, you’d be ok though.
I had been thinking maybe if they could make a small amount of the rare stuff instanced, but this would be a lot easier… though the alts would be an issue of course still, but it would cut it way down.
I know nobody would want that but I just thought it was funny.