Gate Construction
Wed, 04/20/2011 - 12:07
We now have an objective that explains, in-game, how to use minerals and approach gate construction. The Wiki gives a lot of explanation on how gate construction might be influenced. The forums are full of complaints about auto-selling leading to "bad gates".
I've looked everywhere I could think of and have never found any discussion of why we would want or need to influence gate construction.
What makes a "good" gate versus a "bad" gate? Are there gate combinations that do or do not lead to certain bosses or to the core? Are there difficult-to-complete strata that drop rarer materials? Or is this simply a really convoluted system for players to promote the level types they find more fun?
I'm happy to contribute to making "favourable" gates by skipping the auto-sell function but I'd like to see some discussion of what the benefit of doing so would be, either to myself or to the community.
Thanks!
Wed, 04/20/2011 - 20:51
#2
To answer your question about
To answer your question about bosses, the Developers choose a stratum in a new gate that is predetermined to be boss levels. They do this so at any one point in time there is always a gate with each boss in it. At this point there are only two bosses so our mineral deposits don't make a difference. Perhaps when there are multiple bosses for each tier, our mineral deposits will determine which boss we face.
Also, personally I might want to see more undead strata as I have equipment that allows me to demolish all undead mobs.
And I have seen people saying that certain minerals are more likely to produce certain types of levels (eg. arenas) but I don't believe there is any hard evidence for this.
Thu, 04/21/2011 - 20:22
#3
srdclark,
If you make a lot
srdclark,
If you make a lot of a specific strata, you may see a lot of specific drops from that strata. Materials are specific to certain monsters / strata. So are things like tokens.
Want to know why Primal Tokens are everywhere? Because there's a ton of beast levels everywhere.
Fri, 04/22/2011 - 20:42
#4
hi im just new here
hi im just new here so,
should we just randomly dump our minerals on any doors or aim for something?
I think people want variety in their gates, mostly. Or perhaps, say, someone really needs to collect a kind of material. If I want fine fabric, I'm going to really root for a Fiend level below the Moorcroft Manor point.
While the slime-all-the-time gates of days past annoyed me as well, I have a soft spot in my heart for slimes and would spring for a slime level before every clockworks terminal if I could.