New special gem - amethyst | Idle Slayer | Page 1

compact jungle May 29, 2024, 8:47 PM

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After diamonds, there is no new gemstones to unlock, and I think that could be changed. How about adding an amethyst? My idea is, make an expensive dark divinity (maybe like 375 DP) that would be unlocked from an astral ascencion upgrade adding new dark divinities (the one that adds wind dash DD). What it would do is make this gemstone able to spawn, with a value of 275 normal coins (3% chance to appear instead of a coin), but when picking it up, it has a 20% chance of draining all gems on the screen, replacing them with normal coins. There could be some astral ascension upgrade lowering that risk.
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compact jungle May 29, 2024, 9:05 PM

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There could be a different effect though. I am up to discuss.

woeful glacier May 29, 2024, 9:37 PM

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If it was a normal upgrade, I would disagree since it would make achievements very hard to get, but since it's a DD this might be a decent idea

rich bane May 29, 2024, 10:53 PM

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good idea. but I would reduce the cost of the deity and also change the negative effect.
for example, so that amethyst with a certain chance reduces the “rank” of all gems on the screen. I mean, chance worked, and diamonds became emeralds, and sapphires became rubies.
but this is just my vision of your idea.

limpid cape May 29, 2024, 11:23 PM

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You read my mind, I was wondering the other day if there would ever be a new gem. An interesting idea having it be a DD but I agree the negative effect needs some brainstorming. I also dont think DDs are necessarily that negative, could just have it disable or reduce magnet.

compact jungle May 30, 2024, 9:27 AM

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I do like your ideas for the penalty more than my original. I think it would be too harsh in special stages

woeful glacier May 30, 2024, 1:01 PM

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Besides, how would gemstone rushes work? The couple amethysts would just cancel out every other gemstone?

compact jungle May 30, 2024, 3:51 PM

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Oh yeah, that's right. I think the coin magnet disabling would be better

noble fiber May 30, 2024, 5:14 PM

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that would make it useless when using the coimbo shield, which gives a bigger buff than the amethyst's coin value

rich bane May 30, 2024, 5:23 PM

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such a negative effect is needed for this DD to be used on an ongoing basis.

compact jungle May 30, 2024, 5:25 PM

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How about this: maybe the penalty would be disabling wind dash/boost/both for some time? This wouldn't apply for bonus stages, which would solve another problem.

rich bane May 30, 2024, 5:32 PM

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Maybe it would increase the reload time? I just don’t understand what “disabling for some time” means.

compact jungle May 30, 2024, 8:30 PM

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It would make the reload of the ability stop in place for some time

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But increasing the reload could work too

noble fiber May 30, 2024, 9:02 PM

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Maybe the best solution would for it to just be a new gemstone not attached to a dd. Though I do like the idea of it being tied to a dd.

#New special gem - amethyst