Revert Pink Bean to Two Clears Per Week

We need truly challenging endgame content, 1 hour PB timer

 

Make another character?

 

I think the bigger reason for 1 pink bean run per week is to slow down the aging of the server, not prevent the market from reaching saturation. Having access to attack shoes is going to significantly change the meta of maplelegends as it will increase the power level of attackers by a large margin.

Also, the pink bean market was fully saturated from the very beginning. The untradeable nature of the weapons / armors means that perfect / near perfect items are the only ones with any real value, at least to the people who care about playing long term and eventually upgrading their character to the limit.

 

very interesting take, I did not know you can clear PB twice a week, once upon a time

would you still like to see this suggestion implemented?

 

Hi Gurk! What is your racial background? I'm interested in calling you a slur.

 

I don't think this is necessarily a good change, but these types of changes will be the ones that support vertical investment in our characters vs. printing a bunch of noobs with tradeables.

 

Indulging on Clams point this ironically would be the single biggest vertical progression buff we could likely have, provided there was a way to balance it accordingly.

It's hard to say what the actual impact on the PB market would be, but I think overall it would likely be a positive change. It's too hard to speculate how the player base would react, but I think the NL+Bishop printer meta that the server has molded into would likely stumble (imo a good thing).

Given that the only hard limit for horizontal progression is the actual amount of PB runs someone can physically do in a week, in a way it would make far more sense for people like me who can only play 2-3 PB chars/week to instead push vertically and actually be rewarded for it instead of just printing more NL's. It would also make Timeless weapons finally an actual meta weapon knocking NT off its pedestal, instead of being reserved for the ultra-rich farmers who can afford multiple TL weapons

There would also be a very large buff to the bird-first 30 man runs as more vital roles (buccs, drks, Se's) would come available, as currently we all fight to grab up the free agents we're able to find just to future proof runner availability. I think this would be a very healthy change for the new player base putting my own host-bias aside

TLDR: I think this actually has merit

 

When PB released as a 2/week structure, it was easier for players who did not use both entries to help other squads get set up. But really, we'd just see twice as many runs. While the casual single player would get their 2 runs, the user with 4 "loadouts" would still have 4 times as many runs unless we overwhelm their ability to perform as many runs as they have characters. There is but one solution to make players invest in gear over investing in alternate identities: impose the weekly restrictions to the equip, not the player.

 

EV of pink bean funeral with one simple change

 

Vertical buff to the threshold required to clear X man. The limitations will always be on the player schedule while giving much broader access to pb all around.

Will there be more 10 mans? Probably? But not really considering those who are running 10 mans are already nearly done with their secondary infrastructure. So… more of what? 18 mans? Maybe more cross-run recruitment. Or more attempts at duplicating existing runs… but realistically, there probably wouldn’t be all that much change. New incentives for vertical progression? Doubtful. We’ve already achieved these heights without that incentive in place.

 

Half the fight is already a punching bag. We want this to become more stale?

 

I really wish to ask

Do you really love to run PB and feel fun from running itself so want to make it twice per week? or... EV?
I do agree that attending PB is kind of 'dream' for most of players, but for myself, Every PB days became a bit stressful 'homework' day, I think I'm doing this in aspect of social and trying something new strats on personal playing, still I think once I'm run out of ideas for personal develops (and It's already ongoing now), even one time per char would feel like tedious homework, and eventually I'll stop attending. Dream is beautiful dream as it's remained as dream, once you achieve, it becomes your job.

Let me ask once again. What's the reason of asking PB twice per day? because you love to run? or, because double EV (which is doubtful in logic of supplies and demands)?

 

Yeah, PB is more fun than other content.
More players, more mechanics, more uncertainty, more fun!

 

but another problem : who host?

 

Afk

 

Yeah, we should revert it back to 2, maybe even go further and bring it down to 1 per week, 7 is way too high.

Do not enter more than once a week, even though you can, you will be banned for bug abuse and it's probably being monitored.

 

once a week per char. lower the timer to 1hr 10mins.