Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
Oh for fuck's sake. I invest in my Uruk. Try to raise him to a high level so he can stay in the high ranks and actually have a shot at being warchief. AND THEN OF COURSE SOME RANDOM FUCKERY HAS TO END WITH HIM GETTING KILLED.
If my next attempt won't net me an Uruk of substance, I think I might call it quits.
I need someone with fucking hate of pain or something.
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
Way out of whack with updates since I got side tracked hardcore, but we'll call this a free day where everyone gets bonus points or something. In the meanwhile, Toxic said he will take his one win and run, so if his Uruk dies that's another open spot for a future contender.
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
I'm considering adding something to the game called Uruk Insurance. I already have the ability to save scum, so I think that if you're willing to pay a large sum, I can rescue your Uruk from death.
When you make your posts from here on out, I'll add a toggle to my notes for your Uruk to staple INSURED on them if you want them covered. There is no initial cost, but when your uruk is about to die (their icon turns green), I will come in to rescue them ONLY if you can pay the insurance cost at the time of near demise.
The cost will quickly rise the longer they live, making high leveled uruks harder to pay for. This cost I've decided at first will be: Your Uruk's Level Squared (Lvl^2)
I've also decided to give people points retroactive to how high their uruk's level was prior to death. I'll take a moment to go back and reward people based on how far they got their uruks before they died, so dead Uruks who got far will give their insurance cost as a bonus to your points so you might protect future generations.
A note: Insurance does NOT protect against NAMED uruks. If you are in a duel, your uruk must fight it out. It only protects against NPC uruks and events like Trials and Follower attempts.
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
You REALLY might want to rethink that, RJ. It doesn't make much sense to make an insurance for a level 5 or 6 Uruk, but it does make sense to take one for one with a level in double digits... Except that such an Uruk would have an insurance cost in TRIPLE digits, which only someone like Aust (who barely makes any actions, if any at all) would afford.
In other words, with such a cost the option sounds cool on paper, but is useless in practice. I mean, I'd have to wait all the way until I got 100 points to insure my Uruk if he somehow made it to level 10, which isn't guaranteed unless I take actions, which cost points... And it only gets worse because the costs scale with level. Plus, there are also minions to consider, which are also point-sinks. And given that making a play for warchief isn't all that sound without a high-level Uruk, a player who actually manages to raise one worth keeping won't have the points to pay for an intervention. Which isn't even guaranteed to work, because shit happens.
tl;dr Don't put an option that has exponentially increasing costs if you want your players to use it, unless you adjust the point gain to make it viable.
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
The only insurance I'd want to buy is anti-execution insurance so he doesn't end up executed with no way to fight it
For the rest of the events, it's Mordor. If he fails to run or fight off the attacker, then that's a shame. But that's nature, and I trust him to run away if shit goes wrong enough in other situations, or to just slay his enemies
Would I get a discount for such a limited insurance?
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
What about minion insurance? Mine keep dying <2days after I get them
Grave's right tho, if you're uruk's high enough level to warrant insuring them you're going to have to grind points for quite some time before you can afford to do so, meaning your uruk has to not die for like 4-5 days on it's own with you having done nothing else. I'm certainly not against the concept but mechanically it's just not viable for the player at this point.
I DO NOT want my current uruk insured ATM
I guess it's time to grab another minion anyway...
Re: RJ's Stream/Youtubes - Adopt an Uruk: Nemesis Forge
I made that argument to myself before coming up with this, and decided that a player who is higher in rank should not be allowed to sit comfortably and in almost total safety while using his points to set the field for an easy win. The last thing I want to promote in this game is allowing a well-off player from violently abusing his power and ruining the experience for others. So if you're Level 20, you shouldn't be allowed to pay insurance ten times over and at the same time, murder any transgressors with your wild income. You'd become unstoppable, even if your Uruk was VERY stoppable. Players should feel great to have a good uruk that can overcome those barriers, not great to just have a level 20 that got lucky and now they can just doll out cash to keep them alive.
It's exponential to a fault to allow people to see an uruk they really like and want to see it grow. But if your uruk grows to a certain high point like Pug and Ishgha did, they can probably handle themselves anyway. Barring Ishgha's case when his rivel showed up and instantly killed him. The intent is simply to allow players to have a shield for early uruks who need time to sort through their talents. NOT to allow high level uruks to become immortal.
The idea on paper was never to make your lives easy. Just easier to start so every update isn't you losing another uruk you liked. Plus, losing a high level uruk almost entirely pays for the insurance of the next on it's own, as I'll reveal soon when all your lost uruks come back as Insurance credit for the current Uruks.
Edit: Credit allocated based on previous uruks. I might design a feature for them in the future, either for Adopt an Uruk or this, but for now it'll pay for insurance.
