Golden Gach Tickets: A new way to obtain AP Resets

I mentioned it in the other thread, but I figured I'd just give this it's own thread now that the price reduction has officially been set aside while more options are considered. So here!

One of the main arguments I saw from the older players against the price reduction (and favoring a quest/drop system) was that the reduction was basically just giving ''free'' stuff to the player; basically just making it too easy on the newbies.
Some new players also voiced that they would like the reduction simply because they didn't want to have to ''Not play for 6 months, waiting to have enough cash to wash out their character for it to be viable''.

I feel like the best middle-ground to this that would make the most people happy would be to keep the current price of AP resets, but to add an alternative way of getting them that requires work and effort. We had the anniversary event quest from Cody, which seemed to be appreciated by players (although it was pretty tedious due to the players having to farm specific monsters from them), so here's the idea;

Add a new type of droppable Gachapon ticket to the game; Golden Gachapon Ticket

So shiny!

The idea would be that you could trade in these tickets to a NPC (Or as Nubjulez mentioned, directly at Gachapons) that would let you trade it in for either 1x AP Reset or 1x Hunting Gachapon Ticket.
Finding a Hunting ticket from a mob always feels great; now imagine finding a golden one sometimes!
Basically, with this implementation, the current drop rate for Hunting tickets should be reduced, and whatever rate it's reduced for, be replaced with Golden ticket drops. The goal of this is not to give people more Gach rolls; the current economy does not need an increasing amount of dark scrolls and the such. What this would do is let people who want to wash a character accumulate some more AP resets through work and effort, trading chances at more money via tickets for a faster wash, while letting other players who do not need them/care about them simply trade them in for Hunting Gachapon tickets.

Just something I thought about while the whole debate happened earlier; I'd like to get the opinions of the more vocal people in the earlier threads! Cheers ♥

EDIT: Just to make it clear, this does NOT augment the number of Gachapon tickets/gached items. It would basically replace a percentage of the current drops to Golden tickets, which can be turned into either a reset or a Hunting. Since some people would keep them for resets, it would DECREASE the number of gached items slightly, maybe even helping putting a small break on the current crash of prices.

 

I think this is why my suggestion as it is would keep ticket drop rate the same as they are; I might not have worded it the best way, but basically instead of getting 100% Hunting Gachapon Tickets, you could get something like 60% Hunting/40% Golden. Obviously, discussion/fine tuning would be required!
A slight reduction to the number of Gached scrolls might have been a bit scary in the older days when everything was scarce, but the market is exploding with scrolls right now, so the small reduction (from people not trading Golden tickets to Huntings) would really not hurt much.

I feel like 4-1 is a pretty rough rate for Huntings, I sometimes go one full evening with zero or only one ticket, so having to trade multiple tickets for one AP reset would kinda ''feel bad'' for players, while this one just makes for an exciting find/drop for players.

 

My suggestion, as it is, would decrease the number of items being Gached, so I'm not sure I understand how this could hurt the economy

... I didn't even think about the NPC just being a 3rd option at Gachapons, after the Cash or Hunting options. +1!

 

You've kind of lost me; when I refer to Hunting Gachapon, I refer to the currently in-game silver coupons that you can find from any enemy in the game. But yes, these coupons give better items than NX coupons.
My suggestion would take a percentage of these coupons, and change them to Golden ones, which can be exchanged for either a Hunting Ticket, or a AP reset.

 

Yeah, as I mentioned above, It's something that's a bit touchy; this is why as it is my suggestion would simply replace a percentage of the current Hunting drops to Golden ones, basically keeping the exact same drop rate for coupons overall, which is probably a pretty safe bet right now. ♥

 

If you're leeching, you hop off your rope and go grab it! Looking at HP/damage, pretty sure everything is survivable. This does mean that you should keep the character you're washing close by if you want to loot them up. If you don't want your pet to auto-loot it, the Ignore item, whatever the name is, would really shine here.
It does encourage/reward people actually playing on the character they are washing (Instead of not playing and voting for 6 months like people said in the other thread)

This is what I mentioned above; the drop rate I suggested would basically just make a percentage of the current Hunting Gach ticket drop Golden ticket drops instead, basically keeping the droprate of tickets as a whole the same as it is on live. Rewards people who want to wash at the cost of trading that ticket for a AP reset. It's a small but interesting buff to the speed of washing that would not be frustrating for the older players who did not have this, I think!