Most of the time when delving into Clockworks with a weapon thats completely heated, you pickup a lot of unnecessary heat your party members could be using. So what if you weren't able to pick up heat unless you had a weapon to be heated? That way your party could get lots of heat that you would've had wasted.
Comments or suggestions, anyone?
Heat is our version of experience. It is not money.
Equipment is our version of a level scale on two systems, star rank and heat.
Once your levels in both effects have been maxed you are no longer able to gain that experience because there is nothing for it to go into.
Games with a level cap, once reached, may not be exceeded.
Unlike most games, we have the option to switch to another item which can be leveled with heat obtained once the first item is finished and multiple items can be leveled at the same time.
Unlike most games, we have infinite storage for those other items.
Unlike most games, we have no 'best' equipment.
Unlike most games, we have choices.
Now get out there, make that touchdown, and win for the boys and girls back home.
I didn't know that, but (now I have another suggestion) what if heat was split up by how many weapons/ armor you need heated.
Ex: I need 1 item heated: I get 25%
Friend need 3 items heated: Friend gets 75%
Some people drag alternate accounts with them to leech heat from them due to the multiplicative effect.
Are we going to reward those exploiting this?
@Luguiri I dont get it. Rigt now, both alt and main get 100% heat. This would actually hurt them since it reduces heat gain based on amount of already heated equipment. At most, it'll have no effect if both accounts are totally non-heated.
But also punishes clean parties. Unless I missunderstood how it works.
So you're saying that the heat collected is multiplied by the number of party members, so that each member gets 100% of it, right? I thought that the heat collected would be split equally between each other (as in a party of 2, each would get 50%). If that's what you meant then forget this thread ever happened.
Think of an average arena once all three rooms have been cleared.
We have Alpha and Beta, Beta being the alternate.
Alpha needs heat while Beta is just an alternate making a face.
Both Alpha and Beta have a decent amount of heat.
Beta derps on the spike pad so Alpha can eat their heat from reviving.
With the proposed system in this thread, the entire process of eating health by Beta dying constantly is removed and using alternates in a live action game is promoted. The heat eating system prevents abuse of alternates by forcing the user to burn their own health to drain heat, meaning only certain floors will allow them to stay alive for the following floor(s). This works because it discourages abuse of this system. Want to abuse multi-clienting to gain heat faster? You have to lose most of your health and can only get it back through pills or heart pads which have limited availability.
In response to the recent response by Yttriu: heat is not divided based on the member count. Having two members does not split up heat so everyone gets a fair share, it is equally distributed as if you were soloing. The same goes for crowns and minerals, but not materials. This is to promote teamplay for the community rather than forcing everyone to freelance and go rogue. Do you want to join a party where everyone wants to kill you so they can steal all your heat? Do you want independent crown looting where only the player who picks it up gets it? Of course not. Now go sit in some lizards.
That's not what I wanted at all. I didn't think heat distribution worked the same as crowns. All I wanted was to help make the game more enjoyable. Thanks for the intel anyway. Also, lizards?
wield a faust, curse yourself to death next to health regeneration tile etc.etc., let party revive you.
rinse and repeat
ERROR.
Heat, like crowns, is shared among the party. No matter who picks it, everyone gets it.