Last week was all about the Arcadia Rework for me, something which will continue to be the main focus for a long while to come. As you can tell, it's coming along at a steady pace, one building at a time!
This week I will begin creating the underlying decorations, grass and paths between the various spaces. Since we're also fairly sure about the Utility skills, I'll also start creating their icons, while Teddy and Fred continue to deal with testing, testing, testing and skill graphics!
We've had two major discussions these last few days, both in regards to the new Utility skills. First, about the buffs: we are currently disagreeing whether it's better to keep them as we originally planned (one buff for the offensive stats and one for the defensive stats), or to separate them further. Specifically, there's an idea it'd be more interesting the have speed be it's own buff, allowing the current Haste skill to remain (only balanced so it's more useful). However, there are those of us who feel the "package" buff is a more interesting buff to use, even if it means the speed stat won't be buffed as much as it could have been if it were its own buff.
Currently, we haven't actually made up our minds about this! What do you think you guys would prefer? Two buffs: one for offense (damage, speed, crit) and one for defense (defense, shield reg, EP reg), or three: one for damage and crit, one for speed, and the defense buff left as is?
We've also talked about the amount of silver points spent on each Utility skill. We're considering whether to have each skill have 5 levels (as was planned), or if it's better to cap them at 3 each.
With 5 stages, the skills become more of an efficient silver point sink, but the skill improvement between each level will be rather small. With 3, each point spent on the skill will give a bigger upgrade, but you'll also finish leveling the skills much sooner. Currently we're leaning towards 3, as it seems more rewarding to the player that way, but we haven't fully made up our minds yet.
If you have any ideas in regards to these discussion, feel free to share in the comments! We love to hear your input and what you think about decisions like these - after all, we want to do what's best for the players :)
I think better is to make 5 levels, so it will be more stable at the higher levels, i think that shield skill sould be 3 levels so it will be more useable, because hp level is too small on lower levels
ReplyDeleteYou still can do both of this and 5 and 3 but there should be difference i think that 5 level should give some fire damage or something like that)
Capping at 3 levels makes a lot more sense given how little skill points are available to the players. It will also encourage players to at least spec one point into an utility skill.
ReplyDeleteI think the 3 system of buff (Atk, Def, Spd) is better if you guys wanna cap at 3 levels.