Patreon Poll #8.5

Hey Patrons!

Here we go with an amended content poll #8! This poll features revisions to the voting process and some of the challenge designs.

For voting, I’ve made it clear that this poll isn’t a competition through the voting process itself. Each choice now has a yes/no option, which should make the results a lot more indicative of the actual support behind each change on its own.

For the choices themselves, I’ve made changes to pull in the complexity a fair bit. Now that I’m certain that I’ll be adding challenges in v0.9.0, I think it’s best to keep the existing challenges at roughly the same level of complexity. Because of that I’ve cut some of the new mechanics and instead tried to keep the challenge revisions as simple as possible while still keeping the original goal of fewer blocked items.

This poll has a yes/no option for every option! Please vote yes/no for as many options as you like! You can also abstain from voting for an option if you have no opinion, or vote for both yes and no if you support both. Each option with a majority of support will be implemented into v0.9.0! 

Faith is my Armor

For faith I’ve ditched the armor breaking mechanic, and have instead focused on allowing armor in a weakened form:

• All armor now spawns normally
• Armor base max block reduced to 1+tier from 2*tier.
  This leaves cloth unchanged at 0-2, scaling up to 0-6 for plate
• All armors now scale with upgrades at the same rate as cloth

This puts normal armor drops back into the game, and makes the challenge slightly easier, but otherwise preserves the challenge exact as it is. Infact, I’m willing to bet that cloth freerunner will still be the best way to play faith thanks to the evasion boost, and that this will largely just help other classes catch up a little bit.

Pharmacophobia

With the intention of keeping the simpler challenges simple, I’m ditching the more complex addiction mechanic and just adjusting the behaviour of healing potions:

• Potions of Healing now spawn normally
• Potions of Healing, and items made using them, now poison the player instead of healing/shielding them! Poison will be harmful but not lethal.
• Alchemical catalysts cannot randomly roll potion of healing.
• All healing items still work as normal when used on other characters.

This should make the challenge very slightly harder, but also opens up alternative healing potion usages, such as making catalysts or healing allies. Be careful when identifying potions though!

I do want to apologize for backtracking on the popular ‘Pharmacophillia’ idea that was proposed in the last poll. I’m not replacing Pharmacophobia with it due those complexity concerns, but I will keep a health potion dependant challenge in mind for the future. Obviously it couldn’t be enabled at the same time as Pharmacophobia, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t both be in the game.

On Diet

I was fairly happy with the suggested design of this one from Poll #8, but a few folks made a good point that just straight boosting hunger growth would also nerf some of the unique ways of hunger restoration that currently work uninhibited in the challenge. So I’m keeping the same direction and just tweaking things a bit:

• Food items and the horn of plenty now spawn normally
• All food-based hunger restoration is 1/3 as effective (including horn of plenty)
• Drink-based hunger restoration (well of health, potion of cleansing) is unaffected

Overall hunger restoration should be a bit more scarce with these changes, but this is partially offset by the presence of more food items. This keeps the core gameplay of the challenge basically identical, without removing some of the game’s extra food mechanics like blandfruit, meat pies, and the horn of plenty.

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All patrons are encouraged to share their opinion by commenting and voting, but currently only the votes from Golden+ Supporters are counted when determining a poll winner. Votes from Shattered Supporters are worth double!