Growth System Adjustment Suggestions

19 votes

I'm sure PoT has gotten a lot of complaints for the growth system already, so I'll keep this short.

The growth system is nice, I like that it's quest-based. However, it takes way too long, especially considering dying knocks you down 1 to 2 bars for a single death. It takes 10+ very time-consuming quests to fill up a bar, and anywhere in that time period you may die again and lose even more progress.

1.) Make the quests fill up the bars more. Not at super-sonic speeds, but anything faster than they are now is a blessing in and of itself.

2.) Get rid of or reduce the marking penalty. Death is too punishing now that we lose growth AND marks.

3.) If not option 1, then make the growth bar semi-time-based, where it very slowly fills by itself and quests boost it a bit. I don't like this idea very much, since it encourages players to sit around, but..

4.) PLEASEEE find a way to make your questing system enjoyable. It's the number one solution that would solve everything.

Under consideration Game Mechanic Suggested by: theflyinggrayson (28 Nov, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Jun, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

29 Nov, '21
Grimme
I agree with all of this - I love the growth system, I love that you gain growth from questing. However, I think having a passive growth gain would be nice, but most of all...

PLEASE get rid of losing growth to dying. It's fine to lose some marks, but being set back with growth, which is already tough enough to do when some folks will just kill you the second they see you? It makes folks wary to group up, lest they risk someone backstabbing them, which has happened loads on the server I was playing on today. People don't want to leave certain areas for fear they can't find food and will starve, don't want to group, don't want to get adventurous. It's just too much of a punishment to lose marks -and- growth, and it's a real drag, since growth was one of the features I know a lot of us were most looking forward to.

Thanks for listening!
07 Dec, '21
beebee73
If devs don't want to add a passive growth how about a boosted growth while questing...like on collecting quests add a growth spurt per item collected. Delivery quest add a spurt every time you deliver an item.

This way growth is STILL quest based but it is more rewarding to actually DO the quests.

This additional buff could if need be, be higher for juveniles, slightly lower for adolescents and then taper off for a subadult.
23 Dec, '21
Stagiaire
The growth is too much long but questing for it is good rather than time based growth.
We loose to much marks when we die. I think the growth loose is okay, but % of marks loose is insane, you loose pretty much 2h-3h of grind for one death.

Thanks you.