Meso sink idea: Gachapon tickets buyable for mesos

Some people have hundreds of millions and so unless the gach is absurdly expensive it wouldn't really be a meso sink. Plus a purchase limit would be ineffective since this is Mule Legends ontop of that they would need to lower the rates on WS/CS even more, which would impact the coin system.

This is basically a rich get richer thing. Plus people who love gambling already roll spam in FM.

 

Thinking about math makes me sick so im gonna pass on that first paragraph, The only real big ticket gach items that would be in "circulation" outside of scrolls are only really Sky Ski & Ele Wands.

Raffles are limited sure but they're also time limited. Gacha's are not.

A quest wouldn't really be a solution because:
1. Its a one time quest
2. You underestimate how many mules people have
3. If one person has 5 mules and they do the quest on each character thats 25 gach per day. For ONE PERSON.

Another thing is coins. One coin is average 3.5m People can circumvent tax entirely by trading with coins.
(People already do this by the way)

Solution: Allow people to use coins to gach. Hard core gambling. Less mesos in economy. People get to gamble. Less Coins in economy. WS/CS price goes up. F3.

Also use more paragraphs so you're stuff is easier to read @_@

 

just farm meso and convert it into gach

 

The biggest problem with this idea, as much as I don't really have a strong opinion on its implementation, but the biggest problem I can see is that this directly benefits gacha drops from two of the most prolific and profitable(though boring with the latter option) forms of meso generation: leeching and multi-mage farming.

Any character with a spammable map-wide ability has the ability to leech others, which automatically gains them mesos. On top of that, they typically also gain all the drops from monsters, which include gacha drops. So they get a ton of mesos, and easily get hundreds of gacha drops in a relatively short amount of time.

Multimage farmers have the exact same benefits, aside from gaining income from leeching.

I wouldn't say this would be a bad idea, but something would have to change about gacha drops even more than they already have, in order for this not to become a very profitable gamble for players who already get a ton of money from farming massive mobs. It ends up being a lottery, but more tickets = more opportunities to make it big. I think it makes bossing even less desirable(aside from the fact that it's not boring lol)

 

1. Ok?
2. I said that for ONE person with mules
3. That was a meme suggestion not a literal suggestion and you can buy coins from players with mesos which would tax the mesos. But again this wasnt a literal suggestion.

Anyway i dont really care to argue about this I was just throwing my opinion out there. I'll let people who are more knowledgable and better at explaining things contest you.

Have a meme

 

It's true. I'm just curious if there was another way to gain gacha without the use of direct mesos. Direct meso consumption only really sinks when it's NPCable, otherwise it just gets taxed to death, and typically that is bypassed with the coin system, which has its own mini-tax in that if you buy a bag(which is the only way you can trade them), you will likely lose a few coins in the process.

I'm wondering if maybe gacha being able to be bought via coins would give both coins a different use, though I think, depending on how many coins it takes to produce 1 gacha, it could be seen as a trap option, since you can buy white scrolls directly with coins, and a significant amount of gacha spam is meant to obtain white scrolls.

 

what i mean is mesos will be farmed to buy the npc gach

 

lol

 

I bought 90 gach from a friend lost 80m in profit- was fun

Like this idea! more gambling options!

 

Not really imo, this will just ruin the prices of scrolls and peoples motivation for getting mesos to obtain "god-like" equips, WS and CS will become dirt cheap and people will end up complaining how WS and CS and how profits from bossing were nonexistent, I'm not sure how coins made an impact because I've never been in that scenario just been reading a bit in forums. But this wouldn't be a good thing to implement, it's going to further dig a bigger hole later on than what potions and recharging projectiles to new players already do.

 

Going on a tangent real quick: I will say, I don't really see too much of an impact in the potions and rechargeables department. I've made several new characters, and while yes, most of them have a small fortune just in case I want to splurge, I've rarely, if ever, run out of potions before 40.

I do follow a guide, though, which optimizes the exp gained and minimizes consumption of pretty much everything. I don't even bother getting new equips until after 2nd job most of the time. I highly recommend any new player to follow it: https://forum.maplelegends.com/index.php?threads/exact-guide-for-1-35-in-under-6-hours.29751/

 

The gachapon machine is like the Casino here - the meso price of coupons can simply be set higher than the player's expected return which would make it a very effective meso sink. If an NPC were to offer gach coupons at ~3m ea (50% more than the typical 2m price buying from another player), gamblers likely will still buy them out of convenience and it would remove massive amounts of mesos from the FM.

Frankly the people who were going to powerfarm mesos to buy the gach coupons would've power farmed those mesos either way, except normally those mesos enter the economy directly instead of getting taxed by Kimmy so I think OP could be onto a good idea.