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Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

Before I begin, please don't jump on me. If you disagree, fine, but please reply in a gentle manner. Thanks.

I'd love to see two new quests come out. They'd both be situated in Shengui Guo. One would be for everyone and one would be solely for GAs.

Here's how I picture it:

The quests that would be open to everyone would be based on restockable shops found in Shengui Guo (once restockable shops are introduced into this land. Using items that are from permanent shops make no sense). Those items would be brought to the quest giver and you'd receive an sP and item reward along with random QuestPoints. The QuestPoint shop for this quest giver would be filled with Asian-themed items. I can only imagine the amazing items that would come from this shop.

Now, the GA quests and prizes would be a mash-up of a couple of different quests on site: similar tasks to what Drills would ask you to do, but there would be no sP or immediate item reward given. Instead, similar to the Blue Building, you'd earn Golden Tokens that you would use to buy exclusive items from the prize shop. There'd be everything in that shop - minions, collectibles (plushies, beanbags, stickers), TC items (aka items that don't do anything except have a pretty thumbnail), toys, food, books, weapons, stat boosters, a couple of battle challengers, wearables, pet slots, and, yes, possibly even an exclusive pet colour. While based in Shengui Guo, the prizes wouldn't be just Shengui Guo themed. The themes or items could be based on anything (golden items to represent GAs, land-specific {as in any land from across Subeta} themes, pets, seasonal-based items, etc) or no theme at all. A regal elite from Shengui, I'm thinking possibly a regal Legeica that would be the main mode of transportation to the Emperor and Empress, would be the quest giver. She, the Legeica, whose name could possibly be Katsumi (Japanese which means "victorious beauty"), would send you on errands all over Subeta (similar to what Drills would make you do, just no Leviathan Harpooning or Minion feeding), and upon successful completion of each errand, you would receive a random number of Golden Tokens that would be instantly deposited into your GA Prize Shop bank. They'd not be an item that could be sold. The prizes in this particular shop would cost somewhat more than your regular prize shop, so it'd make the prizes a lot more valuable. As this is the GA quest, the prizes should hold value and would have to be worked toward to get prizes. The prizes would be able to be sold, the Golden Tokens wouldn't be.

Only GAs could access both the quests and even the prize shop. This will be GA exclusive. If you try to access either you'll get a warning that says, "Uh oh! Only Gold Account users can access this area!" People are wanting a way of getting bonuses for being a GA holder. This idea just came to me and I think it'd be a great incentive for people who are GA holders.

Please know that anything you earn would stick around once your GA runs out. You just wouldn't be able to earn anything more through quests. You'd just be able to buy certain items from player shops. Items like pet slots and quest challengers would be instantly unlocked and unavailable for purchase from player shops, for example. So if you chose a pet slot or challenger, you'd be able to keep it permanently after your GA runs out.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Lantern
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Ito

Not overly fond of the Shengui one since those shops restock much differently than other shops, but I do like the idea of GA only quests :D

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

I'm thinking moreso of implementing restockable shops into Shengui, same as the ones we have now in other lands and the ones from the general shops (bake stop, etc), but more geared towards items from those lands

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
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Kettunen

A GA only quest would be nice, especially if it entailed more than just the basic "buy items, hand them over, receive prize" routine. I'm not too fond of the idea of yet another currency, but it might work, as long as it wasn't sellable/tradeable by itself.

However, as regards your first suggestion (which, you have to admit, is really jumping the gun at this point), I'm not too sure there will ever be any normal RSing shops in Shengui Guo. I think the Floating Market is staff's sandbox for testing new ways of getting items out. Of course, I might be wrong, but adding new restocking shops anywhere doesn't seem to be in line with the direction Subeta has been heading recently.

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Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

I remember reading somewhere that staff said there were a lot of Asian-inspired items on site that could be implemented into a land-specific shop. I think I read that in the news post or forum thread when Shengui first came out. So it could be that there will be something like this still being brought there.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
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Kettunen

Oh, so something like a Shengui version of Cavern of Curios might be in the works? Even so, the whether a separate quest will be feasible or not depends on the size of the item pool. However, it should also be considered whether having yet another source of sP and items is good for the economy (probably not, as a person can already make well over a million a day from the current quests). So still no support for that one.

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Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

it was only mentioned in passing. I'm not staff so I honestly am only going by what I read and I could totally be wrong LOL The main reason for my suggestion is that there are some Shengui Guo items in other NPC prize shops and it just feels off XD

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
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Wuf

I don't expect to see restockable shops in shengui guo any time soon unfortunately. if they ever do appear, the shengui guo quest might work.

I wouldn't mind seeing a GA quest. I know some people wouldn't like it because "pay2win" but really GAs are almost useless, please make them somewhat beneficial. I wouldn't like seeing another currency though.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

it's not really "pay to win" as these features are already on Subeta. It'd just be an added bonus for GA users and non-GA users would be able to buy most of everything from player shops anyway.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
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Wuf

people are calling the additional shop space + number of shops for GAs "pay 2 win" I'm not really one of the people who sees it that way. of course someone who pays money to benefit the site should get extra privileges, if they didn't, a gold account would be completely worthless and no one would buy it.

I'd personally be fine with GA quests, but they shouldn't be something completely game changing that would cause GAs to make a lot more than non-GAs. it would need to be balanced correctly.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
Wolf_Spirit
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Precious Angel

I totally agree with the balancing. I'd just like to see something that would make it a bit more of an incentive to have a GA and that thought came up. It wouldn't be everything at once in the shop, anyway, the items would be rotated every so often and whatever else could be thought of, too.

Apr 9, 2016 10 years ago
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Sucre

tl;dr honestly

I do support a GA-only quest of some sort though. I'm indifferent about a Shengui Guo-specific quest mainly because, why? There are already shops whose items aren't used in quests; why would we make a new quest that would ask for items from a new shop instead of just using up some of those items somehow?

Apr 10, 2016 10 years ago
Solsticesprite
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This is way too long and in too big a chunk to really read and understand. It doesn't sound very good or interesting though.

More quest grantors is even more sP in the system, so doing that is a bad idea.

GAs already get five extra quests, so we GAers do get quests nobody else gets.

The Delish line and other CS items are the prizes for supporting the site, whether you are a GA or not.

As for more Shengui Guo stuff, there's probably stuff already planned or they could do another month of that theme.

Apr 11, 2016 10 years ago
Annet
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Chelsea

I'm not sure I'm for or against.

It's at least a better alternative to earn some money from users than users could only with a GA get a decent space in their shops. Compare with that, your plan is better tough.

Apr 11, 2016 10 years ago
Sopheroo
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Hyacinthe

I'd rather have only one quest in Shengui Guo, and if I had to pick one, it would be the GA quest. We don't need more regular quests, but I'd be okay with another Drills style quest

Apr 11, 2016 10 years ago
FLUX
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Gerudo

It would be nice to have some more quests, and a new GA-only quests (cause god knows autopricer will be worth shit-all with new shops), but the last thing we need is a new restocking shop :/ There are thousands of items without use currently and adding more to that pool won't help.

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