Skins, In-Game Currency, and Related Ideas

[frigid canyon]

please allow me to buy supporter codes while the sale is going 😭

[pearl sand]

That reminds me of Deep Rock Galactic where you can choose to activate past seasons so you can complete their performance pass (DRG’s 100% free battle pass like system) and unlock tree without missing out.
-# (which makes sense as DRG season 6 will be after DRG rogue core enters early access)

Ok hear me out: you can unlock different K.O. effects

[fleet radish]

that'd be lovely

and i believe a couple people mentioned having your own skin on sent garbage

which would probably be my favorite thing ever

[runic furnace]

it would be so cool yea

[olive wigeon]

People when they set their opponents garbage to black: pay to win

[deep raptor]

Invisible garbage would be cool

[pearl sand]

I’d imagine you’d have the ability to have it force defaults for accessibility reasons

[languid tangle]

maybe a shop kinda like how brawl stars does it, where it rotates daily, and the skins there are discounted, but there’s also a catalog where you can buy skins for full price?

[lusty lake]

My idea: use unused xps to buy something from the shop, like avatar decorations, non-custom banners. using xp doesn't influence your xp level but influences your "unused xp"

[lusty lake]

and you can buy emote packs using unused xp

[tall timber]

sounds overly complicated to me

either give rewards for levelling up directly, or give currency for doing so

[olive wigeon]

Nice idea
But how do you get the “bling”

[languid tangle]

idk would just be some sort of currency, don't have an idea on how it would be obtained

[onyx narwhal]

ig like the more you climb in QP2 the more of this currency you can get, but I mean it's only cosmetic so idk. there are already like Tetrio+ and stuff but that's kinda 3rd party, and such so that's kinda iffy

[deep raptor]

I’m thinking you get currency exponential to how high you climb. You get 1000(e^(x/1000)-1) for example

Or maybe just quadratic. So a single 2000m climb is worth four 1000m climbs

[onyx narwhal]

that's too much math for my strawberry sized brain to handle

[runic furnace]

that's way too exponential I think

98% of players are here

[onyx narwhal]

desmos lol

i mean i like the idea on paper, and it would be cool, but i don't know how much time it will take to add

i mean it's not like im the one making it lol

[night gust]

my math teacher was right, i would use desmos in the real world.

[iron relic]

im think you can get currency just by playing earn like 1-20 amount (get 20 when wr or something)

also allow players to sell thing at thier price too

player market

like sell this for 300 idk (maybe trade too)

one time duo or something

can be bought

[iron relic]

you gain 1-5 on avg

[iron relic]

(inspired by starscape)

[cobalt ivy]

Minimal graphics

Also, having currency would be kinda nice

💲

meaning , you have a skin shop in your account settings tab where you see how many months you have left of supporter, how much money you have and, obviously, an option to GET MONRY

via playing

[scenic star]

Minimal graphics isn't recommended to be used as a solution since it gets rid of a lot of quality

[idle zephyr]

Minimal will probably be removed eventually

[cobalt ivy]

low?

[cobalt ivy]

I don't know why it even exists since if a pc can't run low it will struggle with minimal too

people don't usually have a GeForce4 or what nowadays

[cloud plover]

My old asf laptop can run anything on low but not qp for unknown reason

It can even run tec on lowest setting

Not qp

[cobalt ivy]

pay to win 😦

[cloud plover]

:((((

[cobalt ivy]

:((((

[cloud plover]

Also playing in minimal still have some issues with qp

My tetrio completely freezes after around 30-45 mins, memory usage jumps from like 1.2 GB to 5-6 GB

I have to restart tetrio

(I play on web btw)

[cobalt ivy]

get desktop

what's the priblem

[cloud plover]

I cant use anything else when i use tetrio desktop

Even yt is laggy while using tetrio

[cobalt ivy]

Why u need yt

you have your phone for this exact reason

[cloud plover]

I listen to musique

[cobalt ivy]

Spotify?

get more ram for your laptop?

[cloud plover]

Nope, spotify also lags

[cobalt ivy]

well ahit

pay to win

[cloud plover]

Apple laptop

[cobalt ivy]

or wireless headphones + phone

[cobalt ivy]

how old apple laptop

the cpu

[cloud plover]

I genuine gonna switch laptop

[cloud plover]

Mac pro 2016

[cobalt ivy]

bruh

roll back macos

[cloud plover]

I have an ancient laptop

[cobalt ivy]

or try to use something like cleanmymacx

so it runs faster

[cloud plover]

Hmmm alr

[cobalt ivy]

or factory reset

if everything is still badass

[cloud plover]

Hmmm

[iron relic]

imagine you can buy animations

and minimal graphics animation is free

you get for free after 3 months of acc creation

[cobalt ivy]

we minimal animation

[cobalt ivy]

like what

like in te:c the line clear anims?

[iron relic]

Literally anything

[cobalt ivy]

a

[iron relic]

3D even maybe

[cobalt ivy]

the level up animation

[iron relic]

(if they managed to do that)

[cobalt ivy]

I don't like it by itself

[iron relic]

Imagine you can make shit and post it on the player market for a price

[cobalt ivy]

after effects gaming

[iron relic]

Tetr.io plus ultimate

And official

[cobalt ivy]

this is actually a great ides

waiting for osk to implement tplus into the game

day 1

since this is a really good modification that allows for making the game completely yours

[iron relic]

Imagine tetrio have a soundtrack list you can play at anytime

Which you can buy

[cobalt ivy]

EricICX

he has a playlist of the TETR.IO OST

on youtube

you can stream it

[iron relic]

Im think of bombsquad OST customation

You can set what ost plays which

[cobalt ivy]

so changing the ig music?

a

yep

[iron relic]

What ost plays on menu

[cobalt ivy]

aerial city

[iron relic]

Instead of that one single soundtrack

[cobalt ivy]

yep

this is basically extended sound settings

where you can choose preferences for the ost

[iron relic]

Exactly

You can fiddle around

[cobalt ivy]

but menu, room waiting etc are all chained to their defaulys

and no matter what you do you can't change that

[iron relic]

But if you want to fiddle around, buy the soundtracks first with currency

[cobalt ivy]

So we wahlbt to get rid of this limitation

[cobalt ivy]

aahhh

I get it

that's a neat idea

[iron relic]

However for QP ost

[cobalt ivy]

reverse card ost in expert

[iron relic]

It's either bought behind the paywall or obtained through achievements

Either works

[cobalt ivy]

so the official ost with all the bells and shits?

[iron relic]

Yes

[cobalt ivy]

like the sheet music and the flacs

a

nice

this will encourage players to play more

so higher online

[iron relic]

For the event OST they will be free

[cobalt ivy]

So more players

[cobalt ivy]

like always

[iron relic]

If you want you can make the Christmas aerial city as menu music

"wtf why is it Christmas"

[cobalt ivy]

that's for shits and gigglea

no one's really going to do that

[iron relic]

"its summer"

[cobalt ivy]

since it gets rid of the point of the Christmas event

[iron relic]

Unless you like the music

It's more on preference

[cobalt ivy]

Yep

I like the carol of the blocks thing

for blz

[iron relic]

The unused OSTs can be free but on the very back

[cobalt ivy]

wdym back

[iron relic]

QP unused can be unlocked through achievements

[iron relic]

Like the very bottom when you scroll from the top

[cobalt ivy]

a

I don't get it but aight

moving on

from ost to sound effects

to board effects

[iron relic]

Oh wait

[cobalt ivy]

wha

[iron relic]

How about sound packs you can buy

Ideas ideas ideas

[cobalt ivy]

man you can buy everything with this logic

[iron relic]

Ong

[cobalt ivy]

you can buy free tr like that

[iron relic]

Not TR

TR to dollars

[cobalt ivy]

in game currency shall be obtained by ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME

[iron relic]

That's what i think

Like you earn 1-20

[cobalt ivy]

or there will be a lot of buffed accounts with the most expensive cosmetics

[iron relic]

Avg earns like 2-5

[cobalt ivy]

nah

make them more expensive and earn more

so it feels better

[iron relic]

That's inflation

[cobalt ivy]

yep

same as with tr on high levels!

[iron relic]

Earn 20 when you get like WR or something

[cobalt ivy]

you earn less but it's the same equivalent

[cobalt ivy]

we is too hardh

harsh

[iron relic]

It's the max

[cobalt ivy]

No one ever is getting 20

we shall award a special of 100

for world record

[iron relic]

I wanted to see player markets

[cobalt ivy]

same

[iron relic]

Make it so that getting cosmetics takes long to get

Tbh the currency name i thought off is mino blocks

It fits with the vibes of the game

[cobalt ivy]

Well well well

[iron relic]

Gray color (like garbage)

Imagine the premium currency is dark mino blocks

[cobalt ivy]

yes same

[iron relic]

Dark garbage superior

[cobalt ivy]

you've got different tiers which are exchangeable with no tax

[cobalt ivy]

red insane

yellow

[iron relic]

"No tax"

[cobalt ivy]

green

blue

violet

[iron relic]

Too much

[cobalt ivy]

yep

but we need red green yellow blue and violet

We cann ditch the garbage

[iron relic]

Base currency and premium currency is already enough

[cobalt ivy]

full color soectrum

[iron relic]

Check pins on osk vision

[cobalt ivy]

no you've got like legendary cosmetics that are worth one t mino

and one t mino is 100 s minos

And etc

[iron relic]

The only thing i dont like is the level maps to earn currency

Like it's mobile Tetris

[cobalt ivy]

wdym

a

so higher level=more money?

[iron relic]

N3TWORK

Idk i just dont like it

Unless it's a challenge series

That i get

Levels that requires skill to complete

[cobalt ivy]

a

skill=time

time =level

[iron relic]

Weekly levels

GD

[cobalt ivy]

level=money

[cobalt ivy]

nah

wai

wait

gd currency is a great idea

[iron relic]

H

I mean like weekly levels for premium currency

[iron relic]

I mean your color spectrum can be turned into that

[cobalt ivy]

yep

[iron relic]

Why did i think of crafting

[cobalt ivy]

BRUH

HOW AND WHY

[iron relic]

Idk

I just thought of it

With the colorful minoes

[cobalt ivy]

crafting the pieces?

like diamonds into diamond blocks

[iron relic]

Imagine you can do that to get the reversed mods

[cobalt ivy]

emeralds and redstone with lapis into their respective blockd

[cobalt ivy]

man

[iron relic]

Or official made skin packs and sound packs

[cobalt ivy]

This is the best idea of all

[iron relic]

Like gold T pieces with 70 purple minoes

[cobalt ivy]

why not implement a good feature in the game if everyone uses a modified version to do just that

[cobalt ivy]

something divisible by 4

since tetraminoes

tetra

80 perhaps

[iron relic]

Animations to it that cant be replicated with T+

[cobalt ivy]

you get the drill

[cobalt ivy]

yep

nice interface

[iron relic]

Like glow

[cobalt ivy]

not seeing the red dialog each time the game is ipened

because this would be osk-made

[iron relic]

Imagine the Tspin text turns to gold when you have gold t piece

[cobalt ivy]

not needing to install anuthing

[cobalt ivy]

yeeeee

how are replays going to handle that tho

[iron relic]

Real talk

[iron relic]

It's official made

[cobalt ivy]

Well true

[iron relic]

It's pre-built to the game

[cobalt ivy]

AND CUSTOM MAPS

LETS NOT FORGET THEM

[iron relic]

Just needs a system that identifies skins

[cobalt ivy]

EVERYONE WANTS THEM

TETR.IO HAS THE CODE TO HANDLE IT

BUT NOT THE INTERFACE

[iron relic]

Imagine you can hear and see other peoples equiped sfx and skins

[cobalt ivy]

I am getting jstris vibes from this

[iron relic]

Imagine you hear a calm sfx

[cobalt ivy]

AND THEN VINE BOOM

[iron relic]

Then suddenly the meme sfx explosion sounds erupts

Yep

[cobalt ivy]

(okay I'm over exaggerating)

vine boom will never make it there officially especially with people in your room hearing it too

[iron relic]

Megalovania combo sfx

[cobalt ivy]

there is a lot of good stuff that can be done with igc

There just isn't any currency

And the code to handle it at all

[iron relic]

Imagine someone rich bought the entire shop stockpile

Economy crashes

Trolling skyrockets

[cobalt ivy]

Then they auction it

[iron relic]

For triple the price

[cobalt ivy]

sell for a single mino

[iron relic]

Maybe

Player markets for you

They either scalp them

or be mrbeast

[cobalt ivy]

imaging getting a wr legendary cosmetics and selling it for a single mino

[iron relic]

Realll

[cobalt ivy]

perhaps the pmarket ain't such a good idea if we consider such costs

[iron relic]

Pmarket is not bad

[cobalt ivy]

You literally got a wr and accidentally mousslipped it to a d rank

[iron relic]

Until it's the players themselves

No players = economy gonna suck

[cobalt ivy]

there shall be harder and harder confirmation quizzes based on the cost

[iron relic]

If a rich players are bored they gonna buy the entire market

[cobalt ivy]

if somebody is selling

and there's a cd too

so n items/hour or day

so they don't.. buy the entire market lmao

[iron relic]

Fun fact i watched a video (starscape video) about the guy buying the entire market of a material

[cobalt ivy]

for what material~

a

edited

lmao

[iron relic]

The entire market crashed

Everyone got angry

[cobalt ivy]

that's the bad part.

But look at the upsides

[iron relic]

Search up starscape axnit

[cobalt ivy]

you can literally get CUSTOM SOUNDS, SKINS, MUSIC, EPIC PACKS, THE TETR.IO OST

ALL LEGITIMATELY

JUST BY OLAYING A LOT~

[iron relic]

Real

[cobalt ivy]

this is just op

But you got to play a LOT

[iron relic]

Imagine the animations

[cobalt ivy]

osk loves them..

[iron relic]

@cobalt ivy if you want to see the funni

[cobalt ivy]

a so I shall search

ah lmao

[iron relic]

At a random time with a random person doing this

I wonder how rich stqrm will get

[cobalt ivy]

damn

[cosmic needle]

How about private leagues/clans?

Owner pays to create a private league/clan. This will enable them to create a customized quickplay, TL, or other game mode with their own ruleset and leaderboard and maybe group chat.

Then they get a capacity of idk 25 players. Then pay to increase the capacity. Players are joined via invite only from the owner.

The owner then need to pay every month(s)? to renew the private league. But allow the players in the private group to donate free in-game currency to keep it alive. Perhaps make it so playing in the private league generates zero in-game currency, to encourage them to also make time for regular game modes to generate currency.

This on paper should allow private leagues to exist with only one time payments for creation and increase capacity, as well as encourage more time spent in-game. Perhaps a 6 month or yearly wipe also requiring renewal.

Main reasoning for this, is to have a way to enable and share custom game modes, have a small group of players test it out, to potentially sample new possible game modes/rulesets. Also because I believe most of supporter's benefits are kinda meaningless gameplay-wise, there's only supporter for duo quickplay. Perhaps adding more gameplay-benefits as another way.

Just throwing out another poorly thought out idea of spending tetrio currency.

[iron relic]

clan i get

custom tl/qp sounds very nice but idk on how its gonna work out

people can just make their leaderboard off game and make match on custom rooms (simulating TL)

without paying anything

cant even start with custom qp

[cosmic needle]

Yeah just a poorly thought out idea . . . no idea on how feasible or realistic

hence why i did say "other game mode"

was thinking maybe have a bot hosted to fight against

again also have no idea how costly that is but maybe the idea can be used to sustain one

[cosmic needle]

this I disagree with

people will pay for convenience if it's an appealing idea

Like I wouldn't be surprised if the fringe 4w custom players would all make a 4wide league

[iron relic]

its option if they cant

[cobalt ivy]

I need this

4-wide tl

[rocky osprey]

what if

we got a new mode to use whatever the currency is

something that combines stuff from zen score, XP level, and overall competence of playing the game

here's how

+1 coin for a meter climbed in the Zenith Tower

+1 coin for every 1000 pts in Blitz

+X coins for 40L (X = 6000/seconds in game)

+1 coin for every 3 seconds spent in Zen

+1000 coins for every game won in TL

+300 coins for every game lost in TL

now

there's a special hyperscoring mode added to solo

where you can spend 100 coins to increase your score gain by 5% (additive, don't worry) permanently

maybe 200 coins to create a freemap + queue

300 coins to give instant +15 surge

this should give the player more dopamine

because "number go up, feel good"

[rocky osprey]

also it would be a zen-type mode

where score persists

[faint flower]

yeah and then you get it to absolute infinity ultracharged%

[rocky osprey]

even if you had BLB-type zen addiction

good chance you could only get upwards of 100T score

which tetr.io can still munch on without NaNing

also

big number good

[warm basin]

yeah gotta say, not a fan of games where the scaling breaks down to the point that multipliers feel like additives

and that's basically guaranteed to happen the minute you start touching things like total score multipliers

big numbers are incomprehensible

[rocky osprey]

hm.

in that case

[rocky osprey]

maybe the score is hidden and what is shown to you is a level of some sort

where level 0 requires 10, level 1 requires 12, level 2 requires 14.4, level 3 requires 17.28

etc

[warm basin]

see now the scaling has broken down and is incomprehensible to the user

[nocturne wren]

linearity is better in TETR.IO

[rocky osprey]

maybe 1.2^x scaling is too strong

[rocky osprey]

fair

well

not linearity completely, but 5% per basically minute of playing the game is a bit too much

maybe 1%

so you can still get big number but the number is less big

[iron relic]

Inflation

[rocky osprey]

most numbers go up, feel good(tm)

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[hollow granite]

(they just mean there was some effort to datamine it but you really can't replicate it 1-1 with tetrio plus as-is)

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[vast sundial]

I didn't see this theard because I search if for "shop".

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