Developers: How to Fix BAD LUCK in Quests

[RonEmpire]

You guys need to program in a 'fail safe' for the worst case scenario of Bad Luck. These Quests that require "X" granite for adventures is an example of really bad design.

Some people might get it in their first shot. But some people might never get it at all if they keep getting strings of bad luck. Especially the ones where granite is 33% chance instead of 50% chance.


Failing the first time is okay. Failing the second time starts becoming frustrating. Failing the third time is demoralizing. After that it becomes rage quit territory. Since its theortically possibly to never get granite at all with strings of bad luck.

I would fix this the require of the quest says get X granite in 1 adventure or Y exotic wood in 3 adventures.
Or generically "X" granite OR "Y" exotic wood. Where the X value is the minimum value you can get from adventures. and the Y value is the minimum cummulative total of 3 adventures of exotic wood combined.

At least this will ensure players to get the quest done in a timely fashion.

[robk]

here here - absolutely agreed.
I have only ever rec'd one "old friends" adv. I bought one more. Now they are nowhere to be found in TO or anywhere else.
I am now on my 8th WOTS attempt to try and get the OF reward and still in the dark as to whether or not this will actually aid me in finishing the quest because of the chance factor.
Those who say that they enjoy the challenge are those who had the right kind of luck.

[RonEmpire]

here here - absolutely agreed.
I have only ever rec'd one "old friends" adv. I bought one more. Now they are nowhere to be found in TO or anywhere else.
I am now on my 8th WOTS attempt to try and get the OF reward and still in the dark as to whether or not this will actually aid me in finishing the quest because of the chance factor.
Those who say that they enjoy the challenge are those who had the right kind of luck.

Those who enjoyed the quest are probably not in the level 36-45 questline. This is the worst questline since it has bandits nest which is not easily obtained from adventures. The map fragment requirements for it is too high. 200 map fragments instead of 100.

Questline 16-25 are the easiest. And very easily doable.
Questline 27-35 is not terribly bad either, since Dark Priest can be done with 2 people, so 2 people could share the same map thus reducing the map fragements needed to buy the quest.
Questline 46-50 - I can't speak for this but I've heard its almost as bad. At least the adventures involved have a good payoff for rewards and can be shared with 2-3 people. So this makes it easier for you to piggy back with others and not burn as many resources on troops.

[Mouldy]

Yeah, I got granite the 1st time in both the bandits nest and old friends (very lucky). My friend however did 8 bandits nests and never got any granite! Old friends does drop 2 expert resources though and I had a spell were it took 10 WOTS to get an OF. I did 17 Island of the Pirates before I knew there was a 2nd adv Motherly Love. Having to do OF or ML in a quest chain is crap.