Post by AlSoKnown in Ideas and suggestions

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I actually am very interested in this idea and already considered implementing it (this is commonly called Banish in most roguelikes, so I will refer to it as such).

My primary problem with this mechanics is that game has so many cards (more than 360 currently), that banishing just a few of them will be too small of impact. Game currently has “banishing” items (Porcelain Dove and Anchor) which remove whole classes of cards from rewards, but of course you need to find those items first.

If you have specific suggestions on how to make generic banish more impactful and / or about new banishing items, I am very interested to hear them.

dogfish51778 days ago

you could have it so instead of banishing individual cards, you can banishing cards based on how to they were unlocked, IE, banishing all of the MP cards you unlock when beating the game as the warrior the first time.

AlSoKnown78 days ago

I considered that also, but that seems way too powerful, especially of more than one resource is banished.

During debugging, when I restrict card pool to a matching single-resource cards, my win rate with “basic” heroes (Warrior, Mage, Rogue, Priest) goes to nearly 100% even with ascensions.

So it seems like some compromise is needed. I will definitely add more banishing options to the game.

What do you think about adding resource-banishing rare items with corresponding hard quests, similar to how the current game handles “immunity” items (Jade Ring, Helm of Courage etc.), which are also very powerful?

Also, the game have many items and cards such as Shimmering Robe and Kaleidoscope, intended specifically to help with using “off-color” cards in the deck. Do you feel those options are too rare or not sufficiently strong to justify picking such cards?

dogfish51777 days ago(+1)

the doing quests to banish stuff actually sounds like an infinitely better system.

AlSoKnown69 days ago (1 edit)

New release (v0.26) contains some tools to banish cards. Most powerful is probably the Altar of Missing God, but the downside is that you must, counterintuitively, pick an Altar for resource you want to banish, so inexperienced players will frequently miss that.

The Anchor is now rewarded by 2 new quests, both rather easy. Minor downside is that some otherwise useful items, such as Pauper’s Bowl, anti-synergize with Anchor.

AlSoKnown78 days ago

Sorry, I seem to have some problems with either Internet connection or itch itself. I may have accidentally deleted your post, please re-post if so.

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