alright so hereâs a slightly better-written version of my idea for a new trading post npc who gives out coliseum bounties:
the basic concept is this: a new npc is added to the trading post, who hands out coliseum bounties. you can take a bounty there, at which point you are assigned to kill a certain number of a certain coliseum enemy.
first of all, the idea is to encourage an alternative way of coli grinding for people who struggle to do so without clearly defined goals. specifically, itâs also meant to be accessible to anyone - coli challenges on the forum exist, sure, but not everyone uses the forums, knows how to find them or wants to bother with keeping track of their progress. sometimes simple is good!
furthermore, the goal is to have things be as accessible to new players as well as more experienced ones. iâm leaving exact balancing to the staff, but ideally thereâd be a system to check the levels of dragons you have in your lair so that you wouldnât be assigned venues that are too high if all your dragons are low-leveled, or if you only have one high-leveled dragon.
lore-wise, it would work well if the npc is a gaoler, recruiting dragons to assist the seekers in their cause. theyâd be sending you to places where the shade fragments are stronger at that moment, so that you can help deal with the problem.
as a reward, upon bounty completion, the npc will reward you with a chest item; the seekerâs spoils. lore-wise, this ties into the gaolerâs practical habit of not making hoards: instead, this npc is giving out the loot from their hunts as rewards to encourage other dragons to fight!
the seekerâs spoils would be a chest item, containing a small assortment of coliseum loot: food, materials and trinkets, as well as a smaller chance of familiars, battlestones, apparel; even vistas, scenes and eggs! droprates are akin to the coliseum itself. i again will leave exact balancing to staff but the idea is that it wouldnât be the new meta for coli profit or anything; rather a nice way to encourage you to keep going as well as to somewhat offset the fact that you donât get to choose where or what to grind. the spoils would also come in several tiers, with higher tiers awarding better/more loot; which tier you get is based on the number of enemies you were assigned and the venue your bounty was in (so that harder bounties are rewarded appropriately; also so newbies are motivated to train!)
spoils could also award unique rewards, rarely, to further encourage people to take on bounties. examples would be a campsite-themed scene, a special vista, or apparel themed after specific coliseum enemies or venues. perhaps even familiars; something similar to the dripcave deputy, maybe? or even special clanbound items that help newer players level up their team!
yet again a disclaimer that none of this is set in stone (or real yet, for that matter) but iâm thinking that bounties would be unlimited so people can enjoy the coliseum in any way they want whenever they want - but that thereâd also be a possibility of changing your current bounty that is limited by a timer in some way so itâs not abused. giving you a few rerolls every number of hours, or something like it?
âŚanyways i think thatâs all of it. kind of longer than i intended but at least this summarizes the idea neatly in one post! i struggle with coli grinding a lot if i donât have a goal & i know others do too so i hope this would help that problem at least a bit
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