Peppered Bum Burn

[SnuggleSnail]

unpopular opinion: bum burn is a good mechanic, and if anything it should stack faster but more linearly to make ancient roots less valuable

[MagicManICT]

Problem with the game? Just add a wound, that'll fix it.

I sometimes feel like this is the truth we have right now.

[pppp]

Problem with the game? Just add a wound, that'll fix it.

I sometimes feel like this is the truth we have right now.

I'd argue that "Something is used too often (is overpowered) -> attach a cost to it" is a good approach. Wounds, BumBurn in particular, is a kind of cost that is applied to the benefiting char and can not be delegated to other chars or even players and can not be also dealt away by using bots. Before, the cost of using pepper was (and still is) placed at the point of making pepper and could be simply bypassed by using bots.
I would agree that routing all the costs through wounds is silly and sad. But then, feel free to suggest another mechanics, actually a different lipstick color for the pig, to attach costs of using buffs to the char using the buff, in a way it can't be nullified with bots or alts (like wax harvesting).

[azrid]

Bum burn is probably a wound with the best design in haven.
It stops pepper abuse.
Makes ancient roots more valuable.
Just because some players are too dumb to manage wounds doesn't mean they can't learn in time.

[AntiBlitz]