[X] My Assistant

If possible, at the end of an arena challenge, have it so when you hit space bar it sends you back to the arena page.

Keep tryin', bud. Keep tryin'.

numbering the monsters would be helpful been a few times that I've weaken/silenced the wrong monster out of the 9 cause of not actually counting them each

Maybe an additional Montage option that gives experience, instead of proficiency. That's actually what I thought it would do at first, and while proficiency does help, I'd much rather be a little closer to another Ability Point.

I also wouldn't be opposed to an Arena-style feature that gave you a set reward, like a specific weapon or armor, or even a random piece of equipment. (unless that's already the case, I've only gotten so far) In other words, a challenge where the only possible rewards are equipment, experience, and credits.

well, the regular arenas are kinda of your set chance at equip. supposedly it is 50% towards to higher arenas.

someone suggested quests, which might be a way to do it. say "kill 100 tentacle monsters" and receive a random piece of equipment or c bonus er the like.

well, the regular arenas are kinda of your set chance at equip. supposedly it is 50% towards to higher arenas.

someone suggested quests, which might be a way to do it. say "kill 100 tentacle monsters" and receive a random piece of equipment or c bonus er the like.

I like this idea. A lot. Assuming it's implemented well.

This post has been edited by DemonEyesBob: Sep 9 2009, 01:30

well, the regular arenas are kinda of your set chance at equip. supposedly it is 50% towards to higher arenas.

someone suggested quests, which might be a way to do it. say "kill 100 tentacle monsters" and receive a random piece of equipment or c bonus er the like.

I like this idea. A lot. Assuming it's implemented well.

Knowing Tenboro you would have to fight all 100 tentacle monsters at once and they would all start with full MP...

This post has been edited by Boggyb: Sep 9 2009, 01:33

well i was more thinking that you would complete the quest over the course of grindan and arenas. certain quests might only count kills on a minimum difficulty as well (hey this might convince people to play something other than cake)

That reminds me of Achievements and Gamer Points.

Survived at least 100 rounds of Grindfest: 10 C

huh, yeah you could have one time achievements (with some sort of bonus of course) as well as repeatable quests.
or just achievements that rank up, and where killing 50 tentacle monsters might earn you 100c and a "tentacle slayer" title, killing 5000 tentacle monsters might get ya a piece of equip and a few thousand c, and upgrade your medal to "tentacle genocide"


hell you could even have medals or a page to view what achievements a player has earned

hell you could even have medals or a page to view what achievements a player has earned

Or use the award space on the forum for shit like that.

I like this idea. A lot. Assuming it's implemented well.

I said something similar too. It's kind of lame that the ring is basically only for players that have ascended, and it'd be nice to have something the lower critters like myself could do. My example was a Fibonacci sequence of Firefoxen for a Fire-resistant piece of equipment or some Infusions of Fire (likely after you've beaten it the first time).

Or use the award space on the forum for shit like that.

thats kinda what i was going for, although a page in the hv would be nice also to view your own and the requirements for others.

This post has been edited by marcho: Sep 9 2009, 02:02

While that's not a bad idea, and it could be on the way, I wouldn't expect it for a while.

But it would be nice.

"(hey this might convince people to play something other than cake)"

I'd like to play something other than cake, but struggling through 6 rounds then dying for a mediocre reward isn't reason enough.


I'd love to figure out how some people can still grind normal and others are having such a tough time in just cake.
Cake is OK for me, but everything above it is just ridiculous.


""or just achievements that rank up, and where killing 50 tentacle monsters might earn you 100c and a "tentacle slayer" title, killing 5000 tentacle monsters might get ya a piece of equip and a few thousand c, and upgrade your medal to "tentacle genocide""

You'd be achieving the same rank in each monster type at almost the same time.

This post has been edited by tenkicks: Sep 9 2009, 02:57

well, the regular arenas are kinda of your set chance at equip. supposedly it is 50% towards to higher arenas.

someone suggested quests, which might be a way to do it. say "kill 100 tentacle monsters" and receive a random piece of equipment or c bonus er the like.

Yay, someone actually read it!

Then, last night, it hit me with a completely new (not) and original (not) idea: Quests! (stroke of genius, I know.)

The pros of this should be obvious:
- another way to get credits + exp and loot/gear
- so far, users want some certanity they get something useful/worthy. This would give them just that via predetermined rewards.
- not imbalanced if it's reduced in usage (3 a day etc)
- since HV already has multiple ways to keep one entertained, this doesn't have to be very complex. Anything like "kill three tentacle monsters" or "bring me 2 [Quest Item]" should be fine.
- just as the increasing credit bounty monster drop and the decreasing of credit bonuses, this would reward the more active users and drag more people into grindfest.
- through the different difficulty levels, everyone can use this. (higher difficulty = better reward)

Of course, this could be done alongside fests and arenas (and rings).

If a quest system gets implemented an interesting one would be something along the lines of "feat of strength" quests whose rewards would be applied to a feat tree, with stuff like improved spell or melee damage, or wielding a 2h wep as if it was 1h (won't get the 2h prov, but would be worth it for damage)....yes if you haven't figured it out I'm talkin about goin somewhat D&D with this. Stuff like empower spell or even great cleave would be kinda interesting with the rng.

That said the quests would have certain prerequisites to meet in terms of abilities unlocked, proficiencies earned, character level, other feats gained, etc, and you can reset them, for a very high fee (talking along the lines of 1k+ first reset rising like the ability tree, but capping at 100k or more). The kind of quests you would do to get these would be stuff that would be hard to do at the appropriate level that it would be available, with the low level stuff (and thus first available feats) being something as simple as doing graduation on Nintendo, and the high end stuff things such as "Kill Real Life on Heroic" or so.


That said, I would like to see a way to possibly empower your weapon with a spell such as weaken, poison, or even one of the elemental spells for a period of time. It would be a relatively high level ability that you could get from the tree that would allow you to imbue your weapon with the effects, but their efficiency would be based on both the spell's original school and supportive, and any proficiency gains would be from the original spell.

On that note, the train known as my thought process has derailed about...oh...300 words or so ago so I'll stop here.

the one time tiered medals/achievements/quests suggestion sounds good.

get to round 50 of cake/normal/hard etc

kill 50/500/5000/5000000000 of x monster

dodge 10 times in a row

kill 9 monsters in under 5 turns

etc?

Training to increase the chances of getting Second Wind between Grindfest battles.

Adding dropped items to your empty inventory slots while battling.

More access to purchasing and or acquiring better item and equipment.

Don't know if it was already suggested, but it would be nice to give the users the feature to define equipment sets through the equipment panel, so that we can equip a whole set in a single click: I'm going to use two different kinds of equipment, cloth and staff for hourly battles and heavy/shield/dagger for grindfest, so it is boring to change every single piece many times a day.

I wonder if Tenboro already thought about making this game more co-op.

There could be dungeons that can be entered with other players, strenghtened monsters that call for a group or duels. This of course would had to allow organization through chat or messages somewhere.

That's a far (far, far, far) cry but maybe this could take that route. Just maybe.