don´t lose attempts to get cards/nymphs in oracle when you don´t login some days

[teffy]

My idea is a kind of "holiday mode" for the oracle:

If you don´t login for maximum X days and go to oracle, you get a message like this:

"You haven´t visited the oracle for Y days. The cards for these days are:
...
These cards are added to your card storage now.

You´ll still miss the pets, and FG prediction and the money, but you get the chances for cards (like nymphs) for the days you missed.

These would make the oracle more user friendly. I don´t think, that everybody is able to login every day, and I have a small bad feeling, when I make holiday and miss chances to get nymphs.

I know that people will say "Who logs in most times, should get the highest chances".
Perhaps the idea is not Oracle-like.
But I think this idea is worthy enough to be suggested.

[MrBlonde]

Not a bad suggestion but i'm of the belief of, "you snooze you lose".

[7_Deadly_Sins]

I would love this, would be fun to not play for like a month then instantly have like 10 cards or something.

[smuglapse]

And for every day you miss you also have to watch another ad.   

[teffy]

I thought about X=14 days.
Of course, you lose the FG prediction, the extra money + pets and the sayings.
Card chances are not really high. 14 days means 2 cards or something like that. The big point, why I suggest this is, that you don´t lose the chances for nymphs, when you make holidays.

[KidFresh]

Leave The Ad Number Alone, For EveryDay You Miss, You get Another 30 Seconds of The new Skittle ad

[teffy]

Sorry, I don´t understand you.

[ulluqiora]

great idea if it actually goes through

[RavingRabbid]

I'd like this. I spinned the oracle for a friend of mine, and won him an auburn nymph. While I don't win one since May.

[Scaredgirl]

This idea will never happen because the whole point of Oracle (as I see it) is to reward active players. If you look things from an individual gamers perspective, then yes, more cards would be nice. But if you look at it from a game development perspective, it makes absolutely zero sense.

[manaboy100]

@SG: Think all the little kiddos that don't have a whole week connection, poor at them T^T (It could be me!)

But it's not a bad idea, maybe just nerf it a bit, like if you activate the "Holiday Mode", you could only visit Oracle once a week?

[teffy]

For me, it seems as if the oracle idea was a spontaneous idea which the community could like ( and imho it was one of his better ideas). The thing, that the oracle binds the player with the game may be a side effect and it needn´t be a reason, why zanzarino invented the oracle.

I want to remove the real life - internet life connection a bit, which other online games have.
I know it from other online games ( I don´t want to name them), that players like it, when the
game doesn´t want you to be online at a special time, when object X arrives Y, otherwise, it will be destroyed by whomever.



I don´t know, if it really makes no sense from developer´s perspective. This is a completely free game. Most browser games aren´t. Developers of many not completly free browser games live from the thing, that players want become better and better.



@SGs post: The purpose of the oracle is art, and game fun (as I see it). Maybe I´m naive. And I think the oracle shall not reward active players. This quotation supports, what I said, and if I think this quotation further, I come to my idea.

I had an idea tonight while overdosing on caffeine; Elements needs a way to distribute nymphs maintaining their rarity, and a way to reward players that is not based on grinding.

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