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Undel - Huh. I really believed that at one point early on Sunday I actually spotted six skins for sale at the same time in the marketplace, but I guess I must have been mistaken.
At any rate, for the water festival (and as a water-flight member myself) I would like to put in my vote/request to please have all skins available in the marketplace for that festival (and the ones after it of course, but I have less say there). I love having the chests in the coli and I definitely still want to keep them there, but I also love the ability for everyone to get the skins that they like, even if they either can't farm the coli or the coli drop rates are frustratingly low (as they appeared to be for this festival).
I think it's more important that people who actually like and want to USE the skins have a way to get all the skins they want, than it is to keep the prices high for those who are just getting them for resale later. After all - the skins are still limited to just the festival. The prices will still eventually go high. So what if it takes a bit longer for them to do so? I sell skins for profit sometimes, and I still wouldn't mind.
And if keeping prices high somehow is a priority... (why favor the rich...?) then, like for the shadow festival, go ahead and price the skins that are available in both the coli and the marketplace differently from the skins that are only available in the marketplace, but this time, price the coli skins higher instead of lower. Like... 35k as appears to be standard for the marketplace-only skins, and 40 or 45k for the skins that are also available in coli. I should think that would do the trick of keeping skin prices up a bit more, while still allowing everyone to get their favorites even if coli is failing them.
Also... and this is a totally separate request from above so please consider them separately, but... would it be at all possible to slightly tweak the coli chest drop rates upward for the next festival?
I get that chests are supposed to be rare, and rightfully so... but I put in probably around 60 hours of coli this past week, in the correct areas where they were available, and STILL only managed 1 Zephyr chest and no Painted chests. I did get more of the other chests... but nearly all of those were on Sunday, and I ground several hours
every single day, so something definitely seemed very very skewed somewhere.
Honestly, I got more
capes and
skin crates and
rare familiars (like banded owlcat and trick of the light) from coli this week than festival chests, and it made for a very stressful and frustrating festival for me instead of fun like it should have been. I feel like I put in the time...
overtime... and then wasn't 'paid' for most of it. Randomness is one thing, but is roughly 1 chest every 2-3 hours of coli (instead of roughly 1 every 5 hours) too much to ask? Maybe it is, I dunno. But I figured I'd at least ask. Most people don't have that much time to waste in the coli (truthfully, I didn't either, and gave up a lot of other things to put in that much time, but I was determined... and still didn't get my goal) so it would be kind to make their time pay off a little better.
I'm sorry if it sounds like complaining. Overall the skins were beautiful, the items (especially the sprite) were great, and the coli and site generally ran wonderfully. Things are improving all the time and it's thanks to the efforts of all the coders and staff. I just think that these small tweaks I've mentioned would make future festivals even better and more fun for everyone. ^_^ (and I admit, I would love for them to be in effect for my own element's festival, because if I can't get all the skins for my own element it would be very disheartening indeed.)
