Thoughts about Duty Roulette vs Leve system.

[Colt47]

This was just a thought, but I've been wondering what it would be like if they had the use of the roulette system for daily bonus rewards linked to a pool of "tries" like they have with the leves. Most of us would probably still do them every day regardless, but it might give those who have a busy day or don't have the time to avoid missing out on a daily reward. At least to an extent as they'd still have to cap the number somewhere.

Well, that and it might help free up some people from the perpetual mouse wheel the current daily roulette system can impress upon them. You basically either remember to do the roulettes and then get to do whatever else you want to do, or miss out on an entire days worth of bonuses.

[Sylve]

Pretty sure One of the answers in the Live Letter was that they were looking into making the Roulette doable 7 times in a day, but instead of resetting daily, it'd reset weekly. Same reward as in a 7 day cycle, but those that cant play every day arent missing out.

[Colt47]

Pretty sure One of the answers in the Live Letter was that they were looking into making the Roulette doable 7 times in a day, but instead of resetting daily, it'd reset weekly. Same reward as in a 7 day cycle, but those that cant play every day arent missing out.

I must have missed that in the previous live letter. Know which one it might be?

[Wobble]

Think she's talking about this.

Q38. Can you make it so we the Allagan tomestone and Roulette bonuses will carry over from the day before, or the week before, for the days we couldn't play?

A38. Since this affects the entire server, it’ll be hard to implement this right away, but we’ll consider this.

[Kaedan94]

It would defeat the purpose of Roulette to allow you to "save them up".

The entire purpose of Roulette is to provide an incentive to help other players. Especially High level, low level, and MSQ content. If they allowed you do essentially do all your Roulettes in a day, then queues would be great on Tuesday and Wednesday, but abysmal Thursday to Monday.

[Colt47]

It would defeat the purpose of Roulette to allow you to "save them up".

The entire purpose of Roulette is to provide an incentive to help other players. Especially High level, low level, and MSQ content. If they allowed you do essentially do all your Roulettes in a day, then queues would be great on Tuesday and Wednesday, but abysmal Thursday to Monday.

The downside to the way they have it set up right now though is they have it as a big mouse wheel. Having it store up attempts would let people play to their schedule a bit more effectively and in addition to this, they are already providing incentive via the bonus rewards.

[Kaedan94]

The downside to the way they have it set up right now though is they have it as a big mouse wheel. Having it store up attempts would let people play to their schedule a bit more effectively and in addition to this, they are already providing incentive via the bonus rewards.

At the cost of defeating the purpose of Roulette, as I said. The entire point of Roulette is to help lower queue times. If players could use all or a portion of their Roulettes in a single day, then queue times for Tuesday and Wednesday would be great, but then the rest of the week would suffer horribly long queue times.

And I'm not sure what you're talking about "bonus rewards"... you mean the Adventurer in Need reward? That only applies to a single role, and the bonus is pretty pathetic.

[Lisotte]

Don't you think that it would be Sunday and Monday that would be busy then, rather than Tuesday and Wednesday? If it resets on Tuesday (like all reality does in this game), then you'd have 1 roulette saved up only, while on Monday you'd have 7.

In any case I think it'll turn out fine. Sure some folks will knock it all out on Monday, or at least near the end before Tuesday. However I think that for the people who actually care enough about tomes/more exp enough to do anything but the ex roulette, they'd be doing all the roulettes every day as soon as they came off cooldown, to get the most immediate benefit. It would really help those of us who are unable to get all the roulettes on some days due to lack of time, but on other days get through all of them and have lots of time left with nothing to do. Additionally, for people in serious endgame statics, it'd allow them to focus more on raiding more quickly after the reset (such as Alex Savage), then on less serious raiding (like Alex NM/new 24 man raid), then finally could finish it up by the end of the week.

[Kaedan94]

Don't you think that it would be Sunday and Monday that would be busy then, rather than Tuesday and Wednesday? If it resets on Tuesday (like all reality does in this game), then you'd have 1 roulette saved up only, while on Monday you'd have 7.

The precise days don't matter. What days would have fast queues and which days would have abysmal queues would depend on how it was implemented.

If it was a "save up" thing, then for the first week it would be towards the end of the week. If it was a "you get 7 allowances a week that reset every Tuesday", then it would be at the beginning of the week.

Either way, it doesn't matter how it was implemented. What you would end up with is 2 days of good queue times, and then 5 days of horrid queue times, completely defeating the entire purpose of Roulette.

[QiLymePye]

Then maybe they can do it like you can only have 1 saved in the bank at a time during the week, with the weekly reset putting everything back a 0- even taking away the one you have saved up. For example: resets on tuesday, you have 1, forgot to use. Wed. you get another 1 with 1 in bank totaling 2. Come tuesday, resets back to 0, whether you had 1 or 2. Message will say you cannot accrue anymore until you use one. Think of companies that give vacation time. You accrue so many per pay period and can accrue up to a certain amount totalm but once you hit that amount, you stop accruing until you start using some. So you can't stockpile an insane amount. makes people pay attention. "why did i have 2 to day and 2 yesterday...OH S**T, gotta use one". Would also make people use roulette more, increasing help for newbies doing dungeons, double the experience and money. that would be better