The Illuvium Rebirth Event

[cursive solstice]

I've seen a few complain posts about the increasing scarcity of Illuviums and how important the first Illuviums are.

I don't really have an opinion here, but had the following thought.

Let's compare Illuvium to the card game Yu-Gi-Oh for a second, where every now and then suddenly an incredible old card becomes meta.

As this card hasn't seen any play until then, it hasn't gotten any reprints yet.
So of course, prices explode due to a demand shock until it sees a reprint.

Back to Illuvium, at the stage where let's say 90% of the one area's Illuviums become uncatchable we could have reprint(rebirth) events.

Where over one week, each day a rather small batch of all "extinct" Illuviums (per area) will be added to the pool again.

So everybody can go back to area X and hunt for those, while the last non-extinct but obviously very rare ones also may spawn.

BUT HERE'S THE CATCH.
With each rebirth the maximum additional stats achievable by each Illuvium is reduced by 20% (see screenshot reference). With a max reborn amount of 3 times.

With the stats reduction and a to the active playerbase adjusted "reprint" count, a good balance between long-term availability and positive long-term price appreciation may should be in.

If we make the rebirth event an every 6 month thing for the specific area, then that alone is an 1.5 years extension to availability.

fliesaway

[umbral sinew]

Not sure the DAO would want to ever devalue holder assets.
If a fire rogue gets into the meta, a new fire rogue can be introduced in the next set, that fills a similar role, but is not the same. EZ

[tribal crypt]

This whole notion of devaluing holder assets is short sighted. If new gamers done come into the game in 12 months time because there are no more set 1 illuvials to catch then holders assets are devalued by the very nature of there not being as much demand given a much smaller ecosystem.

Set 1 is really important and people will be less keen to catch variations of set one and set two

I don’t like this particular idea but think all set 1 illuvials being uncatchable in say 12 months time is terrible for bringing people into the ecosystem at that point

[umbral sinew]

Sure. That's why things like the MTG restricted list exists. Preventing the company of reprinting some cards. It's all because of commitment of not devaluing holders.