Credo progression points instead of quests

[shubla]

I think that each credo progression should be changed to points instead of quests.
For example, instead of 10 quests you would have to gain 10 points.
You could gain points by completing quests, first quest each day would give you 5 points, second 3, third 2, and the rest just 1.

This way you could still grind all credos really fast if you want to. But you'd have chances to get credos even if you only played few hours a day, albeit slower.

There are many ways to implement the same idea, like some boost that charges over time (like hunger?) or such.
Core idea being:
The gain from time used in game shouldn't be linear.

Because if its too easy, then people who play a lot will get bored fast as they've completed everything. But if everything is made time consuming to get, then casual players will never get anything nice.

[sMartins]

The gain from time used in game shouldn't be linear

You're right!

What happened in here, lot of good suggestions recently, I Hope J&L are Reading.

Btw not talking about you Shubla, your ideas are ALWAYS great!

[vatas]

How I would rework gaining of Credos:

*Progress meter from 0 to 1000
*You gain current level bonuses at 200, 400, 600 and 800 and at 1000 the credo finishes
*Amount of progress points gained from completing quests modified by the amount of completed Credos
*When starting a Credo or completing a quest on it, you are presented with multiple quests to choose from
*Quests will grant varying amounts of progress points and one of them (generally easier than rest) will give 0 (it is there to essentially re-roll without losing progress)
*Option to burn progress points to re-roll still there, maybe even free re-roll on week cooldown and increased penalty for if you repeatedly abandon

To integrate this manifesto with OP idea and Blizzard's "normal/rest instead of exhaustion/normal" -psychological trick, you could, once every 24 RL hours, gain a charge to use on quest to give double the points when completed. You could store 3 charges.

[NickSaggy]

This is very straight foward. Brilliant work here!

[MadNomad]

yes, credos are too time consuming

[vatas]

[jock]

I actually think credos should consume items and experience rather than quest directly. These should then become modular in design with targeted and specialized buffs you can choose for each credo.

This then gives us:

- a recurring sink for player experience(scaling inside each credo)
- A Sink for goods that as the game world ages will get more accessible for catching up.
-an easily expandable system with at any point you can update single modules or add new ones.
- Individualised identities for players to specialise their credos of choice.

Modular design can still have the requirement of x number of buffs in x credo to unlock other credos but it opens up the volume of buffs and directions players can go and enables them to scale those buffs to the stage of the game. E.g. 5%, 10%....50% fish quality from caught fish.

[vatas]

These should then become modular in design with targeted and specialized buffs you can choose for each credo.