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Floppy ragdoll rpg sandbox with physics-based combat · By
Enemies scaling off of the stats you have is not a good idea, as it makes stat progression meaningless.
I'd instead propose a "world level" in which enemies' base level increases based on what your current world level is, and maybe you could spend Juice to increase it, which would then increase your progress rate. This should also effect bosses as well.
I also like the idea of using "Core Stats" to improve them (Such as Muscle or Brains), while you could still invest Juice into advancing any of your "Minor Attributes" such as (Health, Health Regen, or Melee Damage).
I think that "world level" should increase based off of how many bosses and enemies you kill (like in Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom (some may not have heard of this- it's a hidden number)) because spending juice to increase world level instead of stats would make people avoid doing it (so that they can just get super overpowered and pwn everything in sight instead of actually gaining difficulty). I love how this whole thread is basically everyone just suggesting mechanics from different games.
Well, perhaps taking one too many pages from Botw and Totk's books, newer, stronger enemies (and variants like those already existent but stronger and with a differentiating feature of some sort- like "Blue Klown", for example) could spawn on top of the old ones. Then, you can have fun seeing new monsters (adding more gameplay value and perhaps replay value as well) and still feel like a god, pwning all of those little creatures with a +500% scale Draginslayer.
why not both? how about juice being a currency to buy goofy shit like rocket boots or a chainsaw or even a literal weaponized blender but to lvl up your stats you get puree for things you do and you can even convert juice to puree. maybee even boss seeds as like a sort of power gem to make them more tempting to fight.
So the final concept maybe is doing certain things like killing an enemy enough times will give an affinity for that enemy or maybe just a multiplier for stats instead, running around will EVENTUALLY give a movement speed upgrade and wasting energy will give a small multiplier for max energy or energy regen, perhaps even making energy get used slower.
this is my final post, bye!