the league mechanic is terrible and the game difficulty is fine

path of market simulation. Now we have path of shopping simulation. None of which is actual looting

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jsuslak313 wrote:

Like OP's example of the bestiary net fiasco: GGG ALREADY responded to a similar problem and removed all the currencies quite quickly. The bloat was SO BAD that GGG essentially removed half of their own new league content. this is why beast capture is automated now.

and its better right? the league mechanic is way better now, it does its thing, you hunt the beasts, kill them, they get netted, you go do the alter thing and get the craft.



do i need to link a screenshot of our currency tabs? i spent 10 hours clearing up my standard stash a few days ago, literally, 10 hours, ive got over 80 tabs. we got the currency tab, the div cars tab, i got 2 map tabs, essences, i got a tab with fossils, one with oils, 2 full tabs of prophecies, our frags tab now has 3 tabs within that one tab, catalysts and bits of brains in jars, blessings, invitations, lures, delirium orbs... this goes on and on. inventory management? theres a game in here too, theres skills and supports and items and passives and mechanics and monsters and flasks, how much room is there in peoples heads? what is actually important information that adds meaningful depth to the game experience?

i see all these objects and my brain just switches off, i dont have space in my mind to remember the names of all these things and what ones drop from what npcs and what each one can buy and what one i need for the thing i wanted... stop, just stop, the fact all this shit exists in my games suggests to me that the game is asking me to take this information in and my brain just turns around and walks out the door.

rogue markers, its a currency, 1 currency, everything sells for markers, everything you spend is markers and markers are even the tp scroll that takes you to the place, thats how universal the rogue marker was as a consumable in the heist system.



these systems dont exist in a vacuum, if nets were the whole game then sure have a full aisle of net variants and blah blah. but its not bestiary the computer game, its poe and bestiary is this small fraction of the experience. it needs to have the smallest footprint it can possibly have while doing what it needs to do. it didnt need the 50 shades of net, and expedition doesnt need all these different currencies. it needs 1 currency. what is the idea? you loot a thing and then spend the thing at the npc to get the payoff. that process doesnt need to be more complex than that sentence. theres way more important information in poe for players to be storing in their heads.

its legit metamorph all over again with the clusterfuck in your inventory... all that new "currency" needs to automatically store cus its a pain in the ass and ive already started skipping the league mechanic cause of if. l