Oracler wrote on Mar 15
th, 2022 at 9:00am:
1. To keep your inventory slots bloated, so you'll eventually buy more character slots, inventory banks etc. in effect spending more money and/or burning TP leftovers.
2. To encourage you to do a TR from time to time (or roll a new char) and eat the stones - to keep you in TR loop so you can carry some noobs eventually. Also you'll prolly run new content during such TR so you post some lowbie stuff on ASAH, which makes noobs empty their pockets on astrals.
The whole point of the post is players are hoarding the stones, fat jerry is saying SSG doesn't want players hoarding stones. All your suggested uses involve hoarding stones.
Oracler wrote on Mar 15
th, 2022 at 9:00am:
Fun Facts:
1. You will need ~1200 gold rolls xp to do a full heroic TR from it (10x more if silver, half if during double dice weekend).
2. Basing only on free silver rolls it would take 20+ years to collect xp for a full heroic TR (if you roll every 16 hours). 2 years basing on current free gold rolls as VIP (they will stay).
3. During Double Dice XP weekend for TR you'll need 560 rolls, which is 8400 astrals "only". Someone had to spend about $250+ to buy this amount in the first place (Otto box in comparison is $30).
4. It takes at average 3 minutes to gain same xp as from gold roll just by playing the game (for a semi veteran let's say) even on early levels.
Everyone thinks that XP stones is the main benefit of DD rolls, but in fact is only a TR bait / inv bloater.
Accurate.
My personal theory is SSG thought that 500-1000 XP would be beneficial. Like so many things they were wrong.
kum-gulp wrote on Mar 15
th, 2022 at 9:07am:
The way I read that is them being well aware of how many issues stacking things has caused for them in the past wrt dupes.
From Cordo:
Quote:We don't have plans to change the way these stones work, but if we did, offering further opportunity to hoard them would not likely be something we would pursue.
They are were obviously not going to make them stack for so many reasons. But what's odd is the specific statement that seems to be discouraging hoarding them at all.