Laluzi wrote on 2018-06-08 08:37:53:
I have my doubts that they will. Nearly everyone is united in freaking out about what's going to happen once these retire. I could be wrong, but I think the team is going to see sense on this one.
This is the way I feel.
Or, as I have said elsewhere, if they don't want to go back on their word (that these will retire forever) AND they want to fix another problem, they could do this.
Retire the Scattervials.
Introduce, after the scattervials retire, another scattervial that can be brewed or found in the coliseum, that allows users to scatter for ANY of the breedable eye variants. Common variant would be the most common at 70% likelyhood, with the other variants being compromising the 30%. (or, since three of the other variants are simply tints, have those three plus common compromise the 70% with the actual changes to the eyes themselves being the other 30%)
To combat one last problem brought up: introduce a variant removal scroll that reverts eyes back to common. You can't get any other variant from this scroll, but you CAN get rid of eyes you simply don't like.
I personally would prefer that the scattervial be a higher level baldwin item. I have been saying for a while that the site needs more recipes that are not only higher level, but also that have a rebrew factor.
Many of the current recipes, outside of limited time ones, are one brew only types. Unless I want to give all 200 of my dragons (if I had that many) a particular apparel, I don't need to keep brewing any of the apparel, I only need to brew enough for my needs. Same thing for gene and breed scrolls. Unless I need those scrolls, I don't bother brewing them. There is some small rebrew factor in that people can brew them to sell, but that is still limited to how popular the item is and how many people decide to do it. If enough people started brewing these items to sell, the market would go down to where it wasn't worth it to brew.
However, I think that these vials WOULD be something in high demand. There are a LOT of dragons currently on site, that have to have their eye slot scattered in order to get the new variants on them. There is no guaranteed way of getting the variant you want on the dragon, so you are going to need a LOT of vials if you have more than one dragon. Plus, even newly hatched babies have random variants, so if you want a specific one on those, you need quite a few vials. (unless you are unhumanly lucky)
This would mean that there is now a higher level brew, to encourage people to level their cauldrons, AND it means that there is a semi-regular treasure and item sink. Make the brew use less commonly used materials for it, to counter the fact that green is used in just about every limited time recipe, and I think this would be very good for the site.