Thread: Implement a luck stat in 2.4/2.5!

I'm against this. Don't like the whole luck based system to begin with, AT ALL. And this idea further encourages things like the atma quest's RNG.

Second, I don't want to have to spend dozens of hours to get the gear/materia/consumables that will ultimately increase my drop chance from 0.01% to 0.015%

Originally Posted by Welsper59

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How can you even say that luck in an rpg is the equivalent of action in a shooter game? Random events are NOT the very core of the rpg genre. The RPG (which literally stands for role playing game) genre is about the development and progression of gameplay elements. I don't even limit it to saying the progression and development of your character because you can develop other things like weapons and armors, pets, "castles" etc.

Furthermore, when people say things like "Mass Effect or Fallout are shooter games with rpg elements", do you serious think that they mean to say that they are referring to luck when they say RPG elements?

Originally Posted by Duuude007

The RPG's origins would like to share a dodecahedron/icosahedron with you. Oh, wait, that happens to be RNG, the horror!

Yeah because ALL rpg games, specially the newer ones, have a die to roll.

Originally Posted by Duuude007

The RPG's origins would like to share a dodecahedron/icosahedron with you. Oh, wait, that happens to be RNG, the horror!

True, dice rolling was involved, but it wasn't truly central to the game, I can remember many sessions going by without a dice roll, simply because we had that much fun just roleplaying our characters.

Originally Posted by Duuude007

Ive mentioned this before, but I support increasing atma droprate by 50% once a player has completed their first animus.

I, suppose, the only problem some people would have with something like this is that they are stuck on the collecting of the atmas portion of the upgrade quest and something like this could, potentially, not be any benefit to them for some time, or never.

Originally Posted by Duuude007

"never" is not the nature of RNG, if the droprate is anything greater than zero, which it is. Let's just keep that point clear.

Even the most unlucky crafter can eventually get their pentameld crown.

A) I never mentioned the pentameld. The comment I made was directed solely at your suggestion of an atma buff post animus.
B) The "never" that I was referring to was not a never in the whole of time, but yet, the time that a player is playing the game. If a player only plays this game for a year. and quits in frustration, then they never got it.