Secret neighbor

[lapis karma]

Hello! I have an idea on how to make Secret Neighbor even better. Here is a detailed concept for a new bundle and economy changes for players and testers:
Subject: "Olympus" Bundle and "Test Drive" System

1. NEW SURVIVOR: THE WHITE MAGE
   Visuals: Suit with a hood and Halo. Grey wings painted on the back.
   Ability "Light Trap": Magical trap that roots the Neighbor. (4 charges per game).
   Ability "Blessing": AOE heal, speed boost, and debuff removal. (Long cooldown).
   ULTIMATE "Last Hope": One-time use at low HP. Blinding flash + protection shield.
2. NEW NEIGHBOR: THE DARK MAGE
   Visuals: Shadowy figure with a red demonic star on its back.
   Mechanic: Can turn into a black puddle to move under doors and launch surprise attacks.
3. ECONOMY AND TEST DRIVE:
   Starter Pack: All basic heroes (Scout, Inventor, and others) and basic Neighbors (Standard and Clown) must be free from the start.
   Test Drive System: Introduce a 5–7 day trial for special heroes. It gives players a goal and a reason to save up coins and purple tickets.
   Hero Rental: Rent special characters for a match using coins, tickets, or donation.
   Tech: 3-day Free-to-Play weekend on Steam and a "Toggle Skin Effects" button to reduce lag.
   Thank you for your attention and for listening!

[blissful needle]

1. The ideas of mages won't fit the game.
2. What do you mean "Free from the start"? Unless you're on mobile that is.
3. Special heroes? From what I'm reading it's just some other characters.
4. Rent a hero?
5. A 3-day free-to-play weekend on Steam? First off, that's not a weekend. Secondly, this is extremely unlikely.
6. This text feels generated by an LLM.

[raven tree]

No matter what

scientist will always

correct everyone

legend

[blissful needle]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Anything I mentioned is subjective except for the last 2 points

[raven tree]

The text doesn't look much generated

maybe 5 precent ai

[blissful needle]

One way I believe something is AI, is first when all the letters that have to be capitalised are, when there's a good punctuation, in this case, sort of titles in capital.
And also when the writer sounds like he doesn't know 100% what he's talking about, since AI is often like that.

[raven tree]

no matter what

scientist is always watching

so don't post anything too bad or he'll call you out for that-

[blissful needle]

You making me sound like some 1984 villain

[raven tree]

No wonder you're a scientist

[blissful needle]

T_T

[raven tree]

if I post a thread asking to delete the game then you will be like
"1. The game can't be deleted, your text looks too generated
2. why even delete the game
3. blahahhahhshdhdhdhr

anyway cya science guy

[blissful needle]

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[blissful needle]

Cya

[lapis karma]

I'm just wondering, have you played the game recently? Because as a player, I see that we really need new mechanics like these to keep the game alive.

[wind moon]

The game is dead, But by adding some sorts of magic and witchery to the game won't do it. It's just the same if you try to turn God of war into a FPS horror game. And the most of the changes only for mobile version, because in PC or console ones there are no need to Buy characters, my speculation is just that you need to buy a PC. I don't want to insult you or something, but I think that's not a good idea.

1. The white mage blessing ability is just leaders ability, and the last hope is too weak to be an ultimate,
2. The dark mage is gust a ghost on horizontal axis, and also clown just can do the same thing except going trough doors, you need to open them.
3. That are some good changes, like the starter pack, but as I said The white and dark mage one is just a copy of a leader, other is a copy of the clown, so trial is not a thing then, if you have leader and clown from the start, also there is no skin effects, if you talked about the halo, you need to say that its not like on a stick, like it a real halo, and I don't see any reason to do it like an effect, because effects, are typically Sprites or 2D textures, which can't turn so it will be just poorly rendered ring above the head, if you meant it will be from a lot of small effects doing a circle, it will be just to hard to render on a phone, imagine everyone takes the white mage, and someone's phone just blows in their hand ))).
   It will be more easy if it will be made as a glowing yellow ring above the head. Things you described are good as skins, angel for a leader, and The thing from HN for clown.
   As I said I don't want to insult you, but just wanted to say that wont work.

[plush spoke]

True

[thorn yarrow]

hola algien juega

[lapis karma]

I think you misunderstood some mechanics:
The White Mage is not a copy of the Leader. His blessing ability heals and, most importantly, removes all negative effects (debuffs) from teammates. This makes him a unique support character that the game currently lacks.
The Dark Mage turns into a black puddle. This isn't just a "clown copy". Being flat on the ground gives completely different tactical advantages for stealth and movement compared to the Clown’s transformation.
My goal was to introduce new roles and gameplay depth, not just reskin existing characters.

[wind moon]

You Say that The white mage is not a copy of a leader. but it is! inspiration ability heals, Removes all negative effects even from glue, And also Even speeds you up.
And we have Clown as The Dark Mage. He literally has everything that you listed! He can even turn into different props to camouflage better! To go trough the walls you have a ghost!
The things you've listed are good only for skins. not entire characters!

[last shuttle]

1.if you are not a expert you didn't know that inspiration ability heals and remove all debuffs it give speed boost

2.I think ghost is better

because you are adding advanced version of character that indirectly affect the old character

and dark The Dark Mage is like you can't escape form it you will get caught if you haven't an intelligent teamate