#Pity System for Mutations

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rancid island
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I would love to see a "pity system" for DoD and rolling for mutations. There have been people rolling hundreds of nests (not eggs, but nests - me included) without getting a mutation out of it. I understand it should be rare and it was intended to not force it, but I think by a chance of 1/200 eggs there should be a pity system. Make it that it does count up to 200 eggs per dragon species you nest, or even per single female dragon and then you have a guaranteed chance of a mutation dropping.

The current state of the game is, that people brute force the mutations because there is nothing else to do. With Shadow Pc being disabled now too the numbers of players has dropped by a decent amount and it is even harder to nest by yourself. Everything combined I think there should be a pity system so the level of frustration does not rise and you can actually work towards something.

winter ember
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This is going to be a nice QoL

Basically you still try your luck with it, but there's a light at the (far) end of the tunnel, instead of endless grinding

latent wedge
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I talked about this with clan mates not long ago
As much as jao would love for things to be rare, for this game, at least for now, the rare things ≠ fun
Thounsands of eggs tried with no pie is the most heart breaking thing
If there is a way to implement mutation pity system so that at least once you reach 200 eggs you are guaranteed a mutation, that would at least give players hope. Ive seen a lot of people say they've been trying for several hours every day since pie released with no pie, and i feel so bad for those people

winter ember
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Oh, one thing I don't want, tho, is mutations happening when I'm rolling for a specific skin

As a fighter I don't like bright skins, and prefer camo ones

So the only thing I ask is (even just a command) to disable the pity system for me, because it would mean that after X rolls I will hatch a "cursed" egg

OR

The guaranteed egg has a different color? So I can tell in advance if it's a fighter or a mutated skin

rancid island
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I think having mutated eggs a different colour would be nice - but overall I think a pity system would make the majority of people happy

twin laurel
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No.

Mutations are meant to be rare, I think that’s been mentioned by staff before, and you said so yourself. While it’s sad that people are going through hundreds of nests trying to get a mutation, that’s just the way of RNG. If it were easy to get, it wouldn’t be something special, and pied dragons are already everywhere, less than a month from being released.

I also think the time to configure something like this in the coding would be better spent on advancing the progress of the game as a whole.

low junco
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A pity system would be hard to implement anyways.... A nest can qualify for multiple mutations depending on parent genetics. How does the game know which one you're rolling for? Or what if you're rolling for something entirely unrelated, like stats?

Id prefer maybe increasing the mutation chance slightly if one or both parents have the mutation. For example, the base pie rate is 0.5%, but maybe if one parent has pie, it increases the chance of pie to 1.0%