There are currently two serious issues with the game that need resolution:
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The midnight rain stresses both the servers and the community.
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Alchemica tokens are inflationary & we have no strong sinks for them in place, but pausing distribution would negatively impact scholars and the guilds that have built strong relationships with them.
As an aside, we have problems with bots and PC continues to battle them, so technically, it’s three serious issues.
With all this in mind, I cannot think of any reason why fast-tracking the cooldown window Sig Prop is a bad thing. Allow players the freedom to reset their windows or don’t. Charge for it or don’t. There are ideas for this, a Miro board for it, and we should be able to get the Sig Prop up quickly. It doesn’t need to be complicated or entangled with the other issues.
Originally, I voted in favor of the change to the midnight UTC reset. In hindsight, changing that mechanic was a mistake imo. There are others who also expressed regret about their votes. Revoting now that we see how the change impacted the game seems fairly straight-forward.
The spillover situation is far more complex. There’s good discussion about it in Keeping the status quo of disabled spillover for a while and In-Game Alchemica Sink Suggestions, plus an interesting idea about the upcoming raffle was recently posted: Using Alchemica to Buy Tickets for the Upcoming Raffle
The reality is we are dealing with inflationary tokens and if we don’t get on top of this quickly, the problem will only get worse. Glad to see much good discussion about the spillover situation. It’s a game mechanic problem combined with an economic problem and compounded by wanting to keep it positive for everyone involved…a challenging puzzle to piece together.
With regard to the midnight rain situation, it seems like the spillovers may still be somewhat metered right now? Whatever is currently happening with alchemica distribution, it seems better than it was. However, there were only about half the usual amount of gotchis online for last night’s midnight rain. (Still strongly in favor of getting that Sig Prop out there for a revote!)