Author Topic: How fast do you get enchant containers?  (Read 2953 times)

Offline BobTheJanitor

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2012, 05:31:51 pm »
When I was farming them for acid gills, I found them anything but fun. Each room might as well be just one room. They are entirely the same. Generally cramped, so dodging gameplay is lost. And the challenge of being a maze is lost since you have a map, so it's never a question of finding your way from here to there and then feeling accomplished that you did so, but simply peering at the map and realizing that you missed a drop and have to backtrack now to get to that last container in the far corner. And then you have to find the door again...

Side note, I did finally start finding some other enchants in stash rooms with this version. Since the change that removed inner light, that is, but I never found anything but inner light before. I remain convinced that some sort of bug was preventing me from finding anything else. (Thus meaning the only way to get acid gills was to grind mazes... argh!)

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2012, 06:17:13 pm »
I don't know if the number of enchant containers in maze rooms should be reduced because if so, it will become a lot more time consuming to unlock enchants as time goes one. I believe I have unlocked 22 enchants right now and even after about 70 containers I haven't unlocked my next one.

Offline zebramatt

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2012, 06:19:21 pm »
I can't believe I'm writing this but... what about if maze rooms didn't have a map?

Offline Terraziel

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2012, 06:26:40 pm »
I wouldn't mind that to be honest, take away the lights (as noted in a different discussion about pyramids), and people would start using ball of light as a trail of breadcrumbs which I think gives quite a good effect.

Though would just make them more hated by those who already do.

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2012, 06:32:06 pm »
I had written this as a mission idea on Mantis.

Tigersfan responded with "...this idea is a.) a good one and b.) slightly sadistic."

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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2012, 06:33:18 pm »
All right, I'll leave it alone for now.

FYI, totally new enchant-acquisition system coming, I think tonight.  Keith has it pretty much done, and we just need the final touches on it.  I'm really pleased with it so far. :)
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Re: How fast do you get enchant containers?
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2012, 06:58:12 pm »
Yea, just gotta do some interface things.  One key difference from the old system is that the number of points you have to get for each enchant doesn't change, so the average number of containers required for each enchant does not increase over time.
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