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No, I won't take free skill increases off the wheel. There are plenty of players who are happy to get a little bonus just for logging in for an hour. It's not even part of the paid wheel stuff, it's just a nice thing for everyone.
Hi.
Spin wheel.
*anxious waiting*
Crack! You have been turned into a maggot for 5 days. Enjoy the stomping!
*flail* *flee the crowd that stands gleefully watching, already raising their boots*
Back when there were risks with spinning the wheel, but also the potential for something seriously awesome, it was a thrill to go to Delos and try your luck. Sure, it's nice to get something for nothing, but I'd rather it be something awesome, with risks as a balance. Perhaps make it possible to SPIN WHEEL DARE or something, for those who want that kind of gamble, while leaving the normal spin to those who prefer the steady positive gains, @Tiur?
When I started playing in like 2010 (holy crap), a level of like 140 was mind-blowing. Being omni-trans was just sort of a requirement for pk (OMNI THEN ARTIES as the advice), and @Tralendar was scary because he had all level 3s. There was also a bigger population, but I think honestly the real 'excitement' was both infrequency of promos and how much 3 cr was worth back then. The power creep is kind of nuts when you look at it, with people having multiple classes (and arties for all of them) vs back then, but maybe I just had my rose-tinted glasses on back in those days. Double xp and +crit was also WAY rarer, so even getting those was a 'good' thing, where you'd go bash like crazy. Now we're all hitting level 100 in a weekend, +crit and +xp aren't...really huge deals. Blessings are nice, I suppose, and the xp which USED to be good is paltry because we're all level 100+...
The wheel got made plainer, and rewarded less, a long while back (I think all our RNG stuff was deemed OP by the other IREs and nerfed? Or maybe just a handful), and never really recovered since. And asking $10 for an initial buy-in means I'm staying away, and I love gambling promos. There's nothing exciting in the wheel except for artifacts- literally everything else I can get for cheaper (mints cheap, chalices cheap, grimstim pills still clutter my inv, I got a blessing the other day, etc.)
Issue isn't the wheel is boring, the issue is everything that made the wheel not boring is either gone (to account for the balancing down of too good) and everything that made it exciting or unique is available elsewhere.
Though the prizes back when they were 1.99 were different and to some perhaps better.
Now, I am not sure its as enjoyable as it once was. I know I have brought this up once before and been told that the skull token prices were never the lower prices, but I am absolutely positive they were based on paypal charges.
$24.99
-2014
Those were paid spins. This promotion is garbage. The only time I got my moneys worth at all was just /barely/ with the 30cr ($10 in credits WITH A MEMBERSHIP is 28cr) and technically, in terms of cash value, the 200 lessons. The lessons are very unappealing for anyone not a newbie, however, and newbies would be better of spending money on straight credits for the conversion bonus. The fact that I can get a piece of a chest is almost rage inducing, considering it's 1/3rd of a chest and a chest is/was 30cr in value on average. I understand it's gambling, but if I'm not going to at least break even then why in the hell would I ever spend money on this promo again? Disclaimer: I could be misremembering the piece of a chest, but I'm pretty positive. All of my spins have been lackluster and disappointing, and more paid spins than free spins.
My advice to everyone? Unless you're just so desperate to win some 2k credit artifact off of $10, spend your money on straight credits, not on tokens. There's no chance you're going to hit some jackpot and get more credits than what you paid for, but there's also no chance you're going to lose money on the deal either.
To add on to my perceived shittyness of this promo, someone informed me they couldn't even use the free spins because they didn't have enough time logged within the last 30 days or something. el oh el. I hope that's an oversight or they were bullshitting me.
No one put up with the old 'prizes', it was an event. A fun event with risk and reward. You could get screwed in a fun way or rewarded in a crazy good way. The prizes now all suck.
They're all monetary and BORING. No monetary prize will ever be enjoyable because the number could always be more and so there's a little bit of resentment each time there's a reward.
If I had to choose between horrible death and 0.01% exp, 1000 gold, 7 lessons to a skill I haven't trained (or 0 to one I've maxed out), and a blessing of some sort, I'd pick death.
I spin for the chance at a skull token, for the chest piece, and for a random useful prize like a pipe. I don't have fun and I don't enjoy it. I do it because it's there and free. If it wasn't, I wouldn't even care. How do you know there are plenty of players happy with the wheel? How are we sure the constant disappointment, when the monetary rewards aren't enough and the extremely boring other rewards aren't useful, isn't some final nail in the coffin to quit Aetolia and mudding for good for someone?
Aetolia has no feedback system for its customers aside from the forums, unless I've missed out on it.
I don't understand why the wheel is still a promotion. I assume a lot of money is spent when it's around for paid spins. I feel like I'm on some alien planet where everyone wipes their butt with sandpaper and uses lemon juice on cuts. The wheel is an awful promotion. It's boring, the rewards aren't enticing, they're just a different version of giftbags or cryptic chests. When given infinite creativity, the game gives me 765 gold. It could have sent me to the chaos plane. It could turn me into a non-player race. It could afflict me with the 'moving furniture' affliction for a day. It could give me a FIGURINE. (those gone for good?)
I regularly shift style scrolls, voxes, etc. I haven't had a return to flair/shields/shrouds. I can do that.
Figurines were abhorred. I don't know what it is, but Aetolia gathered together and said "WE HATE THEM" and they died.
And then somehow we can all coerce our friends who don't use the forum to come vote on their preferences as well so the admin can get an actual sense of if it's just a handful of us that think the new, toothless wheel prizes are crap and we actually want some chance of failure back in our game to make it more fun.
(Illuminai): Saltz says, "Moxie is just doing the Moxie thing to do, often misinterpreted."
(Tells): Sir Iames Gallant, the Executioner tells you, "The one Illuminai beyond prayer, I swear."
Valingar: "How could a daughter of me, the most noble man in the south, be so heartless?"
(Tells): Haven Locke, Illuminai Khimaira tells you, "Be that as it may, I've also seen the strength in you. You can take care of yourself."
I swear, it'd be easier to toggle a similar function with TELLS.. or maybe allow us to do TELL name. blahblahblah so that the period basically prevents autofill from coming in.
send("config nametell full"..sep.."briar "..matches[2]..sep.."config nametell off")
Unless I'm misunderstanding how the config works, you should be able to get away with an alias that does it for you?