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Most Favored Giant Should Give Additional Benefits

Other than targeted donations to giants to get an emblem to spend, or to speed up learning, there is currently no other worthwhile incentive to donate.  Why not have the "Most Favored Giant" (MFG) reward a little extra something to those who choose to dabble in the skills that the MFG is affiliated with?

For exampe, if Pot is the MFG, Cooking and Cheffery related actions would yield slightly more *insert reward here* than a non-MFG action.

Obviously, the reward shouldn't be something that results in an unfair or lopsided advantage, but interesting enough to make donating to a particular giant interesting again.  If donating had more incentive than it currently does, I'd be more inclined to donate than sell resources to vendors/auctions, which would decrease the amount of currants I would stockpile (which isn't hard at all at the moment).

Maybe the MFG status could be reset periodically (monthly?) to even the playing field, and a specific reward/perk could be announced ahead of time with a donation period.  Whichever giant gets the most favor points after that period is over gets MFG status.  Kinda like voting for an additional specific perk via donations.

Just throwing it out there to see if it sticks.  

Posted 18 months ago by Joe Blow Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I like this. 

    Lem: -1% or 2% to teleportation costs... OR free subway.
    Posted 18 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Joe: Are you saying that the MFG status and subsequent bonus would be based on the top scores of the entire community, or on an individual basis?
    Posted 18 months ago by Folderol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The entire community. An individual basis would mean that I always get what I want, and that's no fun...err...hay wait a second, you fooled me!

    It just seems like a relatively simple way to make things interesting and build the sense that we are collectively having an impact on at least a tiny part of the world.
    Posted 18 months ago by Joe Blow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha I'm completely divided on this, because I definitely want to get what I want!

    But at the same time the kind of social experiment that would happen from "impacting" the world is almost too good to pass up (and that way, too, there's always at least a little bit of a benefit for everyone!). Curse you for your interesting ideas about the microcosm influencing the microcosm which would then in turn affect the microcosm! So much meta!
    Posted 18 months ago by Folderol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • IMO, I think it would be fun to have your individual giant affiliation affect your gameplay.

    And we do things to gain favor... might there also be things we do that cause us to lose favor? Surely the giants will turn out to disagree on certain issues. If action 'foo' gains favor with Tii, but costs favor with Pot, that can make for some interesting gameplay challenges.
    Posted 18 months ago by Lelu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Folderol : good one! maybe it can be both....
    Posted 18 months ago by Lelu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am number one in the list for POT. I would like a poster above my bed lol :-)
    no just kidding

    although...

    no, just kidding..POT isn't that pretty to look at all day :-) (but the emblem is pretty cute: so one huge emblem on my white wall in Alakol...ok, I keep on dreaming)
    Posted 18 months ago by Atlantis Subscriber! | Permalink