Lightning in a Bottle curio

[SnuggleSnail]

I've read that topic before. There's definitely some appeal there, encouraging exploration into other industries/areas.
That said, after the novelty wares of, it wouldn't feel like a slight push to do something new - it'd simply be another required assembly line of doing near identical things with different materials. Minimizing the number of assembly lines required, I feel, is a good thing.

Additionally, if boredom or a variant thereof is added to the game, I would hope it be made a reward as opposed to punishment. Even if they're mechanically the same, getting 200% of 100 feels better than getting 50% of 400... But perhaps I'm getting off topic

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

This would lead to good curios still being better than worse ones, but would completely remove the top-(what optimally fits into the mentory slots) list situation we currently have - unless you digest a diverse 'diet' of mental food your return would suck, so the other curiosities would get attractive again since you would actually need them.

Curio Satiations For The Win! +1 +1

[maze]

Why does gengar want me to think why i play video games
Can i just mindless study the same shitty curio.

Or make an ai that see a pool of curios being study and adjust adcordenly the lp you can gain.
So over used curios get made slowly to shut and other curios become better over time. Then the ball starts rolling.
Rare curios will always be best in that case.

[Granger]

Why does gengar want me to think why i play video games

Sorry, but it's for you own good

[Reiiama]

Damn this thread blew up.

I think there's always room for more curios because their function is rather limited, and basically boils down to 'things that sound and look really cool' without requiring the game to be rebalanced.

I like the idea of Curio 'satiations'. I am not entirely familiar with the endgame as far as curios go, but I can imagine it would be down to a few big ones with the best LP/hour/weight/space conversion, yeah?

Maybe playing more with the tiles that a curio takes up would be more entertaining. The grand majority of curios have no use beyond being curios, so making them fit like weird tetris instead of generic 1x1, 2x1, and 2x2 shapes might make it a little more challenging to optimize, given the limited 4x4 space of the curio inventory.

[shubla]

Yes
They are most likely relatively easy to implement (except if devs have coded the game badly) and its nice to have some variation.

I find pointless variation as game becoming bloated. And it is not a nice thing. Also I find there are quite a lot of curios which serve little to no purpose in the game already.

Yeah we need like only 9 curiosities because thats how much can fit in study

[Granger]

Maybe playing more with the tiles that a curio takes up would be more entertaining. The grand majority of curios have no use beyond being curios, so making them fit like weird tetris instead of generic 1x1, 2x1, and 2x2 shapes might make it a little more challenging to optimize, given the limited 4x4 space of the curio inventory.

Inventory tetris Isn't fun IMHO. Also it wouldn't matter as long as there still is a one-shot optimisation path to best x/y that offers an absolute top z.

That's why I came up with the boredom concept.

[shubla]

I have suggested earlier that one should gain bonuses for studying variety of curiosities.
There are many ways for this, one would be just to randomize the % of LP from each curiosity group that character studies every now and then.

[Aceb]

Wouldn't it just lead to situation where You have 2 groups of "best" curios You just study over and over, basically increasing number of used curios, but still leaving a lot of curios behind? Not speaking about curios like dandelios ofc.

[Granger]

Wouldn't it just lead to situation where You have 2 groups of "best" curios You just study over and over, basically increasing number of used curios, but still leaving a lot of curios behind? Not speaking about curios like dandelios ofc.

In case you would be content with quite a low intelligence, sure.

But attributes and skills should be interwoven more tightly (so force-feeding 2-3 things won't do the trick anymore).