Questing is dead...and items are piling up!

ida92 • 29 July 2024 at 9:43 AM

Pinging some friends in hopes to bring a bit more interest to this topic:

@dragrawr
@thedarkarcher
@sunfire103
@eschla
@aardbeix3

aardbeix3 • 30 July 2024 at 3:30 PM

@ ida92 I agree. It's exhausting most of the times... Three days in a row I had to buy items from the main shops... First days 5, then 10 and third day 15... Seriously... ☹️
And I'm a returning player, so I'm still questing (not in a hurry though) to get VEND creatures, but I also agree there should be a new creature added from time to time...

Whilst I do feel there is an OVERLOAD of new items every week lol.

ida92 • 31 July 2024 at 1:57 AM

@aardbeix3 Yeah, that's also a point. Items rarely retire, but new ones get added constantly. I have nothing against new items, but there seems to be an overwhelming amount of them at the moment. And no rotation in VEND creatures...

aardbeix3 • 31 July 2024 at 2:40 AM

@ida92 exactly... I personally don't really care to collect all the items but I'm pretty sure for people who DO want to collect them all.. It's a never ending story lol... I would've liked more new creatures available in the VEND machine. I would go on a LOT more quests. Maybe even once a year or twice a year, make a CSP creature available via VEND? Like, temporarily? That would BOOST questing a LOT imo...

ida92 • 31 July 2024 at 2:54 AM

@aardbeix3 I believe it has been mentioned before that putting a CSP into the VEND migh brake the site's economy, but I'm sure that by just having a general non-CSP creature rotation in the VEND would encourage people to do more quests.

Maybe the max number of creatures available at the VEND could be fixed. For example 20. And every week, there would be an exchange of one creature, the one who has been in the VEND for the longest (20 weeks). This would ensure that everone has plenty of time to collect tokens to get the creature they desire and at the same time, we would have a constant rotation of creatures.

aardbeix3 • 31 July 2024 at 3:08 AM

@ida92 indeed, rotation would help questing make a lot more interesting!

That's a great idea Ida! I seriously hope they will see this and put this into practice...

Deleted • 31 July 2024 at 10:14 AM

I do agree that some changes need to be made. I stopped questing a long time ago since I had no interest in getting the current VEND creatures. Ever since I stopped questing and doing my dailies, I had no real purpose to buy items. As such, I now have over 200 million EC, and it will keep increasing if things remain the same. Simply put, there should be more incentives for me to spend my EC on.

For the VEND machine, I propose the following:
- Less creatures to choose from
(Currently, there are 72 creatures to choose from the VEND machine. That is way too many choices. 4-10 creatures should be enough)
- More frequent rotations
(It has been several months since anything changed. I think it would be nice if the VEND machine rotates creatures monthly)

For items, I propose this:
- Have items give guaranteed stats (Feeds, Clicks, and Views) when used. Higher rarity items should offer more stats.
Currently, items provide a 'chance' of giving stats. Why not make it guaranteed instead? If items were to guarantee stats, I am positive that items would be bought much more frequently, especially by those who are struggling to hatch/evolve their creatures. The Click Exchange has long time been dead and what I proposed will be a suitable alternative and easy to implement compared to making changes to the Click Exchange.

My last recommendation would be this:
- Include re-released CSP creatures into the VEND prize pool (with a cap limit of 1)
For example, the Corsal and Danaus will be re-released next month. Why not add them to the prize pool and make it purchasable with like 2,500 'Going Global' quest tokens? It would be a great incentive for many to spend their time and EC to go questing.

I strongly believe that introducing re-released CSP creatures into the VEND machine will not affect the economy at all. It would be a great EC sinkhole and would not harm Cave cash sales in any way. Most of those who spent money on cave cash would rather save time buying the re-release creatures in the Cash Shop Park. And if anyone were to miss out due to the creature being sold out, they can trade their CC for EC instead of being frustrated and resentful. It would make EC a much more valuable currency and be a win-win situation for everyone. To prevent abuse and fraud, have it so that the VEND machine requires identify verification via SMS.

I hope @ian see this and considers implementing these changes.

ida92 • 7 August 2024 at 3:04 AM

Thank you all for your input, there have been a lot of suggestions made as to how to improve the VEND:

-including retired items in the VEND
-less creatures available
-frequent rotation of creatures
-VEND-only creatures
-CSPs available in the VEND

These are the suggestions I found in this topic, I hope I did not miss anything. 😊

provo7demons • 13 August 2024 at 7:03 PM

@ida92 As someone who's a pretty active quester, I'd love to see more creatures added! I think fewer creatures available + a more frequent rotation could be nice, although a little stressful to try and rapidly get tokens, unless said creatures in rotation would have the chance to come back into rotation until they retire?

An item VEND would be amazing! I think having CSP creatures is a little unrealistic, but I think having a VEND with CSP items seems a little more achievable! And it would be nice for people to have the chance to get those retired items; CSP creatures have a chance to be re-released, but we don't have anything for retired items yet! Even if it wasn't cash shop items and was simply items from past events, that would still be really cool 😃

ida92 • 14 August 2024 at 2:39 AM

@provo7demons I like the idea of retired event/CSP items being available at the VEND! There are so many retired CSP travels that I'd love to have, but they sell for like 500CC, which is ridiculous imo...

heatherm19 • 14 August 2024 at 5:55 AM

I definitely think more often/consistent creature rotation would be extremely helpful to liven up the whole Questing/VEND feature. I also think that more consistent rotation combined with fewer creatures available at a time would be a good idea. I just wouldn't want things to veer to the extreme that way either, where people aren't Questing because creatures come and go too fast to easily earn enough tokens.