Loot Drop Rates??

There is great enjoyment in improving a civilization and getting worthwhile items after a quest ... inversely feels terrible when repeatedly you get nothing for your time and commitment. Simple as that. And I know about concerns of people hoarding, becoming rich or whatever, but end of the day it is just unsatisfying and unmotivational... at least for me, I dont know, maybe I am in the minority, maybe most people prefer balancing out the wealth gap in a game, to just getting cool items from playing it

 

Loot rates are fine in my opinion. You also get tons of coins for completing legendary quests, which allows you to buy the gear you want from the global marketplace. This is my primary way of gearing up civs.

 

As I see it, the problem isn't exactly the drop rates. What ticks me off the most is doing a legendary quest only to get a Staff of the Oracle as your legendary reward. Loot rewards would be a lot better if a lot of the tables were cleaned up first.

 

Are you saying that the drop rates are bugged?
Cause a lot of us who were playing hundreds of hours per week have had the complaint that drop rates are off for a long time (since winter), and we were just being dismissed ...

 

So there's in fact something wrong with the drop rates?
I mean, anyone that has played like 2 years ago and plays now could tell something was off, and not just talking about the items everybody complains about (Mags)
There's couples items that seem or supposed to be as needed as mags such as Athenian Manuals, Walls of Architect that drop fairly decent, but then there's items like Belly Bow of The Master Hunter and couple others that for some reason became kinda super rare when they used to be dirt cheap, and not just items, Legendary advisors like Khepri that used to be like not even 10k, and now suddenly the price skyrocketed, and I guess for the simple fact that it barely drops.
Good to see that it's being acknowledged though and something being done about it, finally, thanks.

 

Agree with Aman... "lot of us who were playing hundreds of hours per week have had the complaint that drop rates are off for a long time (since winter), and we were just being dismissed ..."

Disagree with Jeinx "We are not going to remove all or any of the original items from the game that players no longer think we need."
unfortunately they have to be at least improved, no matter how many leg items u get if its useless leg item (and only purpose they have is vendor... ) player still feels disappointment

also if original advisors can be improved why not leg items

 

On a completely separate note, my man literally copied and pasted what I wrote over a year ago LOL.

MFW plagiarism.

https://forums.projectceleste.com/threads/loot-drop-rates.4010/#post-6746

 

Advisors are naturally constrained because you can only use four of them at once. Players use dozens of items at once. If we buffed legendary gear, we would run a much higher risk of making the game demonstrably easier and knocking it out of whack. We could obviously survive if we buffed a couple legs or removed a couple legs, but doing so seems kind of arbitrary and a weird precedent to set. I’d rather improve the game in other areas than take risks fiddling with gear that the original devs put into place.

 

lol geese this is hilarious. Is this really a copy paste or did you just suceed at the impossible, find someone who is in total agreement with you??

 

I think there are a number of issues with the drop rates & loot tables that should be looked at once current priorities: Roman civ / Summer event, are finished.

1) Leg quest completion rewards can be OK but the treasure camp rewards are frequently garbage that IMO should not be seen anywhere as Leg quest rewards:
eg Common consumable recipes., Common advisors, Uncommon gear items etc.

2) The large size treasure camps in several Leg. quest always give 1 chest reward.
I understood it that these large camps were supposed to give a random number of chests between 1-3.

3) Several gear items seem to have gone altogether from the loot tables ( I think since about Dec. 2019)
Examples: Chimera's Leather Hide, Sand-Skin Chiton, Obsidian Walls, Darius' Dire Bow to name a few.

4) Our dev team has done a wonderful job introducing many new Leg gear items.
The down side of this is that as more are added, the chances of finding the one item you want diminish.
Perhaps some thought could be given to targeting certain quests towards certain gear.
eg
Perhaps the Athens series of quests give 66% chance of slot 1 gear items. 33% all others
Lodi series give 66% chance of slot 2 gear items & 33% all others
and so on.

Finally, although I respect Andy's point that what the original devs did shouldn't be changed I think we should remember that they didn't always get it right.

eg Coin previously bound to a civ & not account wide
What a tremendous improvement you guys made putting this right.
& also all the useless advisors that are now fixed - Great work guys

So why the hesitation to fix some of the other legacy wrongs?
Useless Leg gear items, Holy staff stats being useless damage focused etc.

 

Currently 53 different Holy Staffs, 46 of these have damage in their stats and 3 are exclusively damage.
IMO that's a quite a focus towards something I may find myself not using.

 

Hahahahaha it's a total copy paste. I think it changed the title because I wouldn't be passive aggressive enough to put 2 question marks xd

 

Damn it was me all along. I'm the culprit. ;_;