Basically, watching Keroppi's new video where he discusses a few topics made me think about one of them he raised which was "how can we reward players or incentivise hardmode dungeon"
So my thought process were as follows;
Why do I run hardmode dungeons with my static group?
- Better drops (?) Question marked this is, on average, I do see more onyx scales comparatively to normal mode, outfits are definitely a bonus.
- PSYCHES, pretty much the governing reason why my static runs hardmode over normal mode.
- Its fun(?) I mean, yeah we end up doing some mechanics, kinda keeps things interesting rather than the dps fiesta for normal mode.
Kero suggested that hardmode give more gold than normal, I don't entirely agree with this as it'll end up making f8 MORE like f8, which we don't want and I can see "the rich get richer and the poor stay poor". I mean its not entirely bad, but I think what I'm about to propose might be a decent solution.
So, what I propose is that similar to challenge mode, we create a 'team' in f8. The reason for this is because I don't see a way around it if we don't you'll see why later. This team is basically your static of however many players you want. You then select the hardmode dungeon you want to farm and complete it as normal, the catch is, upon each completion the runs we be tallied up for the team, each consecutive run will have bonus drop rates on all/certain items for the TEAM. See now, that's why I said team, if it was individuals you could see how this would be abused or bug exploited.
When the group disbands the counter is removed.
For example.
We running 6 man Brood Chamber Hardmode
First run - Normal Drop rate %s
Second run - Increase by 1%
Third run - Increase by 2%
Fourth - Increase by 3%
Fifth - Increase by 4%
So and and so forth. OBVIOUSLY you would cap it at lets say 20 or 25 runs and the max increase % would be around 15-20%. So every other run after X runs is just 25%. Look, these are rough numbers but thats kind of the idea I'm thinking that would greatly encourage players to do Hardmode.
What are your thoughts on this? Feel free to add on top of this idea, or just bash me about how stupid it is.
Cheers,
Hellfeather