Carnival Jokers

[livid sky]

Put a bit of thought into these, so lemme know what you guys think!

Ignore the numbers for now I know it's all broken, just the concepts I thought could be cool

[twin cedar]

There is already a joker named juggler

[livid sky]

Yeah forgot about that 😛

[livid sky]

That's fine, can rename it to something else. Do you have any thoughts tho? Interested to see what you have to say in particular

[twin cedar]

A lot of the jokersWay too similar to eachother or other jokers in the game. Also a joker that relies on other jokers to do anything (ride malfunction) feels awful

Even worse is how all the ride jokers are uncommon, so the chance of ride malfunction being usable is 0

[livid sky]

Sure I mean once again ignore the numbers/tags for now

[twin cedar]

Fundamentally a joker that buffs only perishable jokers will never work as the chance it will be useful is far too little

[livid sky]

Hmm. I think that's valid. Out of curiosity, what improvements do you think the game could really use right now?

[twin cedar]

Encouragement of builds other than pairs

Counterplay to early game bullshit (jokers can’t fix this)

More control in terms of planets and tarot in mid runs (jokers can’t fix this)

[livid sky]

Hmm. Okay, yeah I think that makes sense.

[livid sky]

When you say in terms of planets and tarot wdym

[twin cedar]

Like in some runs

You get no xmult jokers, and what would save you is tarot and planet control but you just don’t get that either

[livid sky]

Erm, why doesn't telescope solve this already?

[twin cedar]

You don’t get it every run :/

[livid sky]

I see. Okay, makes sense.

[livid sky]

Do you think the solution is incentivizing other hands or nerfing pairs?

Unsure how you would "nerf pairs" but

Feel like it's a question maybe worth asking?

[twin cedar]

I’d say incentivizing other hands

[livid sky]

Sorry if these are dumb questions, I'm still kind of new to the game and want to try to add something fun 😛

[twin cedar]

The way to nerf pairs is to make the extra points high scoring hands give more necessary

[livid sky]

I see. Okay, yeah that makes sense

[twin cedar]

But you can’t fix fundamental isssues like this with jokers

[pure sky]

i think that really cool👍

[livid sky]

Ty! 😄

[pure sky]

it's a cool concetp hi hope it will come to life so if you need any help for balancing/art my dm are open

[chrome relic]

Melted ice cream seems cool. A reward for holding onto it for long enough

Also the juggler. Might be of more use as a sell if it also resets your discards, if you haven't played any hands

[lavish stump]

Overall I really enjoy the theming of these jokers!

I would enjoy if the 'ride' jokers gained more rounds whenever you bought a voucher from the shop (kind of like a ticket). This also might let you balance them a bit differently since they could start with less 'rides' but gain more when buying 'tickets'.

[wary grail]

Ride malfunction would never be in the game due to the guidelines (it’s a joker that only functions with other specific jokers)

Ferris wheel is a nice one. Easy temp mult

Immune to perishable too

Dunk tank is cool but very much outclasses Yorick (legendary joker that gains X1 mult every 23 discards)