pacing, flexibility, clarity (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Monday, September 25, 2017, 10:45 (2699 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The biggest issue is just giving the whole experience a chance to slowdown and breathe. D2 has way fewer trips to orbit and way fewer trips to the tower, so having some bits that get you to step back and breath are pretty valuable.

It' also got a lot of clarity in the existing system. In the system you are suggesting you've now got a bunch of additional UI elements, those elements need to be tested, the player needs to be trained what they mean and how to look for them. The existing system uses the same interface as the rest of the game's inventory, so it's easy to understand.

A disgusting amount of design work is put into making systems self explaining, and I'd be *loathe* to add complexity to an already complex game like destiny

Flexibility because Bungie already has tools to tweak things like loot pools and drop rates without changing the core application (though they seem to like to pair api pushes with client pushes for any kind of tweaking of in game values ) either way, if bungie wants to change where and how tokens drop, having them be in a loot table is dramatically safer to modify than loots be wired as it's own unique system.

The cost of all that is occasionally having to trek over to a vendor, which isn't really that high of a cost.