Report 1517

Report #1517
Skillset: Skill: UrTrapCookies
 Org: Minstrels Status: Approved Aug 2016
Furies' Decision:
Solution 3.
Problem: UrTrap cookies were recently improved to provide greater use. They are
stackable up to 100% increase (of esteem, experience or gold) and the time will
extend. The difference between small, large and huge cookies is only the time
increase, not the percentage increase. This leads to a situation where
smallcookies are the most desirable, because eating 10 of them gives you a 100%
boost for 10 hours, where eating the larger cookies will give you the same boost
for a much longer period. It's hard to commit to influence/hunting for such a
long period of time that it makes the smaller cookies the most desireable. This
report seeks to change this
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make large cookies give a +30% boost and huge cookies
 give a +50% boost instead of 10%.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Change cookies so the defense timer does not tick
 down while offline or in a manse
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: Instead of increasing the percentage buff, change
 cookies so large cookies can be used 2 times and huge
 cookies can be used 3 times before they disappear
Player Comments:
---[Demartel on 8/1 @ 15:54 writes]:
Supported
---[Falmiis on 8/1 @ 19:46 writes]:
Supported
---[Enyalida on 8/2 @ 01:06 writes]:
It seems like the other obvious solution - if adding more powerful XP, esteem,
or especially gold boosts isn't ddesired - would be to make the cookie defenses
not tick down when you're offline or are in an aethermanse. Or possibly allow
breaking the bigger cookies into smaller morsels for rationed use. That would
make the longer buff times more desirable, I think.
---[Dylara on 8/2 @ 01:46 writes]:
Supported
---[Cyndarin on 8/2 @ 01:46 writes]:
Supported, makes sense
---[Synkarin on 8/2 @ 01:49 writes]:
Added sol 2 and 3 per Enyalida's comments. Solution 3 would make the cookies
more desireable, but I don't know that allowing cookies to be saved for active
time would. It puts you in a position where you need to be ready to influence or
you're wasting the time.
---[Raeri on 8/2 @ 09:51 writes]:
Supported.
---[Enyalida on 8/2 @ 23:49 writes]:
Solution 3 should be adjusted to more directly match the existing proportions.
So, if the huge cookie right now is 10 times as long as the small, it would be
better to have it be at least 4 uses. Most of a 10hr (or whatever) buff goes
unused, so directly mapping it (aka: 10 uses) is too much of a buff, but some
bigger increase would work.
---[Dylara on 8/3 @ 18:50 writes]:
Supported, definitely would prefer that the cookies not tick down while offline
---[Tremula on 8/5 @ 17:30 writes]:
Supported
---[Lerad on 8/9 @ 00:51 writes]:
I support any of the solutions
---[Wobou on 8/18 @ 01:32 writes]:
These all look good to me.
---[Synkarin on 8/28 @ 17:14 writes]:
Another consideration is to make the goldencookies remove the gold throttle
during their duration by the same % boost. So if you're using a 50%, you only
see 50% of the gold throttle, and a 100% boost would be 0% gold throttle. This
will increase their value and can ideally force more gold out of the game.
---[Synkarin on 8/28 @ 17:15 writes]:
The reason for the gold throttle effect is that the cookies become next to
useless when you hit that throttle, so this helps them keep their value, and
increase their worth.