Treasure Maps are overdue a rework

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If you want people to be more engaged with maps then the best thing that can be done is to change how RNG functions. For their entire lifespan, map RNG dictates exactly how much gameplay you get at a time which is a terrible feeling; absolutely no one enjoys being kicked out after one trash pack or boss battle, doubly so if you have to complete multiple maps to even spawn a portal.

Truly, this hits it on the head much better, and would do so much more for making maps feel better than increasing allowances. I don't want more allowances--I like the materials being rare!--I just want the maps to feel fun to do, and they very often don't due to how the rng works.

Hell, I would settle for making the rng even a little less punishing--I've been doing the Gymnasion constantly since the minions were added to it, and I don't think I've seen one (or even gotten to invocation 5) since around when 6.5 dropped, despite at minimum getting triple digits of maps done in that time. It just feels miserable that I can't even make achievement progress wholly due to rng, despite constant trying for over a year; and I have to keep trying if I want a minion without spending 30 million gil on it. I genuinely think the meanest thing this game has ever done was putting those minions there.

(And a bit of an aside, but am I insane in thinking that the Gymnasion has significantly worse rng than any other treasure dungeon? I can't even see the 5th invocation after 100-200 maps, but I'll complete an instance of any other treasure dungeon roughly once every 15-20 tries. I know it's technically possible to just have rng this bad, but it is stretching the limits of what is believable at this point. Even if it isn't any worse, the fact that it can be this bad through no fault of my own is downright disheartening, and certainly relevant to the general feeling of doing maps right now.)