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Kitalia
Feb Member 2021

Kitalia

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So, this new promotion and plan of action for treasure hunter gives it all the excitement of plain, unflavored oatmeal. Every single key will now give me the same three choices. No variation. No random. No cool surprises. The next 40 keys will give me the following cinder cores or whatever at 5 key intervals. Nothing eventful. No surprises. If I don't like the upcoming stuff, no incentive whatsoever to even spend keys.
This is the treasure hunter equivalent of unbuttered toast, and I'm not even 200m exp in anything.

26-Aug-2021 04:42:48

Roddy Piper
Jan Member 2011

Roddy Piper

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I think we might be on candid camera or something. They wanted to see the look on our faces when they removed EVERY reward we might possibly want. There are like 10 proteans in a tiny box, which I didn't even know existed.

If they sell ANY keys then I would question the entire system.

26-Aug-2021 13:49:19 - Last edited on 26-Aug-2021 13:55:38 by Roddy Piper

Faeryl NMuth
Aug Member 2008

Faeryl NMuth

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I routinely get better prizes than this promotion. I get the reds way more often, and with things I actually wanted in them.
Gifts of the Creators is pointless. These are guaranteed low, with every 5 keys visibly not something you wanted at all. Transparent garbage is still garbage.

27-Aug-2021 01:06:13

200m Defence

200m Defence

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Roddy Piper said :
If they sell ANY keys then I would question the entire system.

They'll actually sell quite a lot of keys to the people who aren't judging a book by its cover and know actually how the promo works. Don't trust any pc's listed, any advice or talks between posts on ID forums anymore , the Manips are let loose, especially the main one with 15+ accounts posting acting as different people.. do your own research

27-Aug-2021 12:44:23

Theos
Aug
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2008

Theos

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Kitalia said :
So, this new promotion and plan of action for treasure hunter gives it all the excitement of plain, unflavored oatmeal. Every single key will now give me the same three choices. No variation. No random. No cool surprises. The next 40 keys will give me the following cinder cores or whatever at 5 key intervals. Nothing eventful. No surprises. If I don't like the upcoming stuff, no incentive whatsoever to even spend keys.
This is the treasure hunter equivalent of unbuttered toast, and I'm not even 200m exp in anything.

An unbuttered toast is a very good analogy here. While the promotion definitely succeeds at being transparent, the rewards/incentives aren't very exciting. I haven't tried to calculate the XP/GP, or XP/$ benefit of using keys from this specific promotion. It seems relatively underwhelming in comparison to other promotions which offer the chance of multipliers of up to 10X for example.

Another fundamental issue with this Treasure Hunter promotion, and many others is that it recycles and oversaturates items adversely affecting markets. For example, this promotion is going to result in Silverhawk and Spring oversaturation. There are other promotions which have been overplayed, and should be retired (with cosmetics available through the Oddment store potentially) such as the Cerberus and Rainbow promotions for example.

Treasure Hunter isn't living up to its potential because there's an oversaturation of the same items, and tokens. This promotion attempts to take a new direction with transparency, and gives players the chance to choose their "payout" with direct XP, bonus XP, or a decent amount of consistent proteans...albeit, lacks the surprise element. Why not add another element, every 10 rolls, receive a random red slot reward...every 25 rolls, receive a random purple slot? Perhaps that contradicts the notion of full transparency, but as it currently exists...it isn't very enticing.
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27-Aug-2021 13:31:27

H Rassy
Sep Member 2023

H Rassy

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The solution to making TH more attractive is to add more unique and rare rewards that are NOT tradable. Make it a true treasure hunt like the name says and not a grind of opening lamps for xp.

We have the lucky items which are nice but there should be more items like that.
Pets , walks , emotions ,cosmetic overrides and singular cosmetic items for example.
They should be rare enough to be apealing. For example 1/1000 or even more rare. And then there should be a wide variety of them at the same time so that the actual odds to win an item still relatively high.
Like make 50 items that have odds of 1/5000 with duplicate protection.
This i think could be a huge boost to the popularity of TH.

The tradability of current th rewards works counter productive in some ways,it would be much better i think if those tokens where NOT tradable.

27-Aug-2021 18:34:27 - Last edited on 27-Aug-2021 18:37:17 by H Rassy

Ishtii
Oct Member 2018

Ishtii

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I'd take permanent Loot Duels on TH - the multipliers, the choice of chests, three prizes to choose from...it's a great promo. This transparency promotion is definitely transparent, with the result being you're depressed and waiting for said promo period to be over. Because it's easy to see how much it stinks! Using daily keys feels like a chore rather than a fun surprise.

When the choice between three prizes came in, using Hearts of Ice became a bit redundant - so that happened already. I'm all for getting rid of them, but not if the result is a yawn-worthy TH.

30-Aug-2021 13:28:42

Shi No Neko
Aug Member 2008

Shi No Neko

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I don't want/ thousands of springs, which are almost all of the rewards shown in the new TH. Can't exchange them either. I have over 20k springs in my cleaner already, but 9/10 of the rewards for every 5 keys is more and more springs with an occasional other not so great item scattered around. Although I like the transparency and "choices", I hate that I am only going to get more and more useless springs that I may never use.

31-Aug-2021 02:27:29

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