jaycampbell Posted:

Adding a new scoop flavor might help with balancing the competition aspect.

I propose “blood” flavored scoops, which are earned by taking or absorbing large amounts of damage while pwning a forum. This would aim to a troll’s strengths, just as lemon aims at camwhores. It would also give those poor, deluded re-re’s something to gun for, and match well with some of the emokids attacks.

A flavor that rewarded damage taking would pull some people out of endless speed runs in dentistry and fitness. It would replace the antifreeze mechanic that I think (in my limited experience) is almost entirely ignored. I think it would pull people into the harder forums, and provide a reward for that.

Thoughts, theories?

I’m not sure that it would really help with the balancing aspect of the Vanilla complaints, especially with the Switcheroo usage that I described in the stickied Vanilla thread. However, I think that a scoop based on incoming damage would actually be quite fun, and support this idea!

I don’t think it would be as beneficial to Trolls as to Emokids, simply because a Troll’s strength is to mitigate the damage taken and it appears that you want to track the damage applied. It might work better for Trolls if it is based on damage to equipment than outright Ego hits, but that might give more benefit to CamWhores depending on how equipment damage is tracked.

I’m not sure about your comment regarding antifreeze, I earn antifreeze on a regular basis, and I know players who completely pwn the antifreeze mechanic.

I’m bumuming that vanilla nerfing is a given at this point. It’s fine if one flavor is the most popular, but when it outnumbers all the others, put together, by an order of magnitude or two….

I also think antifreeze will be next on the chopping block. Successful gambling is its own reward, and I doubt many people are suiciding except as required by plot points. But making this a mechanism for antifreeze would work too, I think.

I think the goal of the competition is to get people to spread out to different parts of the game. As more people “win” episode one, competition will be the only thing holding them here once the narrative is done.

Or, possibly, a “rainbow” scoop for using a certain number of consumables.

Escher Posted:

Or, possibly, a “rainbow” scoop for using a certain number of consumables.

Neopolitan scoop, perchance?

I can see it working for when PVP is introduced, but until then…not really. Besides, ANYONE can easily earn Lemon scoops in weak forums like Denture Chat. Beyond that, all the other scoops are pretty neutral.