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.

[sirDarts]

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.

If it's a save-up it would IMO work.
People who play every day won't just suddenly stop playing every day. And why not do the roulettes when you are already online anyways?

Also they could do something like:
- You lose all saved up tries on the reset day. So you can save up from Tue till Mon, but anything that you would carry over on Monday, would be gone. That would prevent people from doing 7 of them on Tuesday and then none.
- Or they could make it give lesser rewards if you do more than one in a day, like 70 tomes instead of 100 for low level, which would still "force" people to do them every day, but would also give something to people who can not play on some days.

[Arkista]

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.

If they changed it so it would reset weekly, x7 for each would be amazing. Not everyone is going to burn through everything in a day or few days. DPS queue times are still crap when doing high/low, I'm waiting sometimes 20mins+.

Also "Defeating the purpose of Roulette" I can't even count the amount of times, I've entered a roulette and not one person be new. So that really doesn't matter, last week I got the damn dragon bridge 5 days in a row, not one person was new.

Also they could do something like:
- You lose all saved up tries on the reset day. So you can save up from Tue till Mon, but anything that you would carry over on Monday, would be gone. That would prevent people from doing 7 of them on Tuesday and then none.
- Or they could make it give lesser rewards if you do more than one in a day, like 70 tomes instead of 100 for low level, which would still "force" people to do them every day, but would also give something to people who can not play on some days.

They should have it on weekly reset, nothing fancy tue-mon that's 7, you don't use them you lose them. If people want to do them all on Tues then let them.

They also shouldn't reduce the reward because you do more than x a day. This needs to happen and there needs to be no penalty for doing all 7 in a day if we choose. I for one would do all 7 Trials in a day and then spread high/low out over the rest of the week.


I don't know why people are worried about how others play. I've always felt like when people say, penalize that person cause they can play more than me, their just jealous. This isn't directly toward you, cause there was another saying to reduce the reward as well. It shouldn't matter if someone plays more than you and will burn through them all in a single day, there will still be plenty of players all week long who will be doing them. Kind of reminds me of when saying Tomes shouldn't have a weekly cap, and then people say "Well if there wasn't a weekly cap, people would gear out in a week and quit", lol everyone is so worried about others.

[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.