Title. I think all of the different shop types should have the option to pay an increasing amount of money to "refresh" the shop with new items. It's a pretty basic deckbuilder mechanic, improves consistency, and diversifies the use of Bling.
#Pay to Refresh Shops
fallow flame
fallow flame
Alternatively you can expand this to Frozen Companions and Chests but I think people would probably prefer keeping this restricted to shops.
coarse glen
Alternatively you can expand this to Frozen Companions and Chests but I think pe...
I think it would be awesome if you could just buy companions s- heck- have a specific pool for purchasable companions so that you are encouraged to get them
also gives me an excuse to make more content for my fanmade tribes
toxic yarrow
This would give the player a very meaningful choice, do I take a reshuffle on the cards I see or a charm? Because you could brick and see nothing even after a reroll while you’re guaranteed a charm, it adds risk and reward
I’d definitely want to restrict this though to only the woolly snail/charm merchant, having rerolls on companions would make it too easy to always be able to force one build
viscid forge
🤔 But like, if shops are all random wanderers with a small amount of room to carry wares, how are you magically poofing more items into the world? They're all wizards now? 😆
a specific pool for purchasable companions
I actually kind of like this idea, although agree with Kingpoop64 that it might be too easy to get a specific synergy. (And those are where the big power comes from.) Maybe all of these mercenaries could be weaker than average, to balance out the fact that you're pretty much guaranteeing a synergy?
fallow flame
🤔 But like, if shops are all random wanderers with a small amount of room to ca...
🤔 But like, if shops are all random wanderers with a small amount of room to carry wares, how are you magically poofing more items into the world? They're all wizards now? 😆
How does it work with literally every single deckbuilder in existence, given this is a pretty good, standardized mechanic?
If you want to justify shop wares changing, then tell me why you fight with cards in this fantasy world.
Surely it'd make more sense to just rush in and fight without taking turns.
It gets really silly when you try to come up with diagetic explanations for gameplay mechanics.
It works because it's a video game and what's fun is more important than how it works in this vague, poorly-designed setting.
coarse glen
Yeah
fallow flame
Also, sure, they're all wizards now. Fuck it.
coarse glen
Maybe you can pay the cashier to check the back of the store 😂
Little retail humor for everyone
viscid forge
The 😆 was actually meant to indicate I don't really care about having a "realistic" world; Just poking fun at the thread, to see if anyone could come up with a good hand-wave. Which, it turns out is possible anyways:
Maybe you can pay the cashier to check the back of the store 😂
coarse glen
🤔 But like, if shops are all random wanderers with a small amount of room to ca...
Well I don’t think you should be able to reroll them I think just like idk, maybe you could hire strong enemies! I think this would be a cool way of adding cross class synergies like a little universal shell from a shell witch type ally or maybe a tad bit of haze from a burster type enemy
Maybe you can recruit enemies if you let them escape or something
Not the direction I was originally thinking but hey that’s also a cool thing
Or just you know maybe just some new companions
opaque void
i like the idea but i really like how the economy in the game works right now
viscid forge
Maybe bribes (hiring enemies) could be a power for a new tribe? The leprechaun team? A team of crows that's all based around charms and bling? (Shiny stuff.)
fallow flame
Not responding to Plz, but I'm honestly not sure why people are so opposed to Wildfrost having a better foundation as a deckbuilder. Wildfrost is missing a lot of really basic, ubiquitous deckbuilder mechanics.
And all of the features it's missing only make the game a little more consistent, but can't realistically destroy the integrity or balance of the game.
viscid forge
🤔 I actually think rerolling shops might be OP for this game, just because you have so many things in there to reroll. Each reroll on a new item is another chance for your synergy, and I think each team onl yas like 2-4 of those? If the cost was high enough, it'd probably be fine, though. 🤷♂️
little marlin
Maybe if it was limited. Like you can ask the shopkeeper for the "secret stock" once for X gold (maybe somewhere between 50-75) and they will take you there abandoning any unpurchased item in the shop front.
woven holly
I think it would be awesome if you could just buy companions s- heck- have a spe...
Wait that was outlawed after the civil frost war of -26!