Map drop rate in regards to ingame rates and IIQ on maps

Okay, here's the issue I have and why I STILL don't understand the reasoning with maps.

You say it provides a means of gameplay progression, except it's dictated by the RNG. IMO a really poor example, it is conceding that actual difficulty and progression in gameplay should be subverted to the will of the RNG. As we all know, this is exactly what's happening, people roll maps they are generally comfortable with playing and provide the most return, these maps are almost always below their level and rarely if ever prove to be challenging, repeat ad nauseum.

You say it provides large amounts of XP, yeah, and? We got large amount of XP from the pyramid while we're in range. That "large amount" is completely relative to your level and I'm sure it also starts falling off, nevermind that there are numerous other ways to deal with this if it is deemed to be an issue. Also, don't you think that when you're stating "everybody will just run 69's" to pretty much confirm the map system's difficulty progression being broken?

Maybe it is a meaningful carrot on a stick to you, the process of outleveling all of the maps because you have to keep running them to try a different or more challenging one is simply not fun to me.

Currency sink, another really poor reason. Prioritizing the effects on the economy over the actual gameplay experience, for something that doesn't even have to be tied to the economy (although I don't necessarily mind spending currency on maps).

Basically, all of these reasons are entirely secondary/tangential to the gameplay experience, you know, the part of actually running the maps. If the map system is supposed to be part of the lure to get me playing the game for years, it's failing HARD.

We're spending time discussing and arguing map drop rates, and in that time, the actual experience of running maps has regressed imo (that is, it is plainly less fun to do maps in general now than it used to be because things were/are balanced around these drop rates and their effects).

We should be talking about improving the actual map system, mods, variety, difficulty.

(Edit: I should probably accept that I'm not part of the target audience for this game, I completely missed the part where maps are supposed to only go for about 10 levels.)

Oh I absolutely agree with the difficulty thing. I didn't mean to say that we should be playing level 90 maps because we're level 90. But even if there were level 90 maps, who's to say you can't alter XP gains and actual difficulty to account for that and to slow progression?

What I tried to say is that the difficulty in the map system as it is, is in simply getting higher level maps. The only real challenge in the map system atm is basically in rolling maps stacked with mods that are bad for your build. There are a couple of exceptions, but I believe that is generally the case.

I've posted a few times about suggestions for difficulty and variety. Things like hidden mods, (except for ones that can outright kill builds instantly, like blood magic), scaled ranges for mods based on the map level would go a long way in making things more difficult imo.

Variety is a different thing, but there are definitely a lot of things that can be done to add to the system.

(Edit: Also, I'll stop posting in this thread, OT)