To CB draft

CB things that need to be in some way changed if game viability is to be maintained.
First off Cosmic Break is one of the funnest games online that I have played in a while. It has great customization and personalization in how one can build the robot just about anyway one wants within reasonable boundaries. Its great the battles unlike other games are fast paced and don’t take too long. IN LOL a single game can easily last for an hour and a bunch of that time is just moving around the closed third person map. While in CB its non-stop action. One can even make custom maps. This game is very unique, but there are problems that have left many people disgruntled. After reviewing their thoughts and my own experiences I created a list of the main sticking points and various ways that it can be easily and quickly remedied.

Garapon
Overused
New robots always introduced in gara
Low rates, multiple of same robot that can’t be traded, and parts only sell for a little UC.

The main problem with the gara is that it is over used to bring in root for the game. People try and get things at first but due to how hard it is to get gold or at least the item they want many people feel they are wasting their root, also they might wind up with multiples of the same robot regardless of rarity, the big problem there is that these bots cannot be traded or sold currently in bazaar, and the extra parts that are not used can only sell for a small amount of UC. Also the chance for getting low items such as easily obtained tune parts are a large majority of the prizes.

There are few things that can be done,
One: introduce new robots in shop so people can spend root where it serves them best, that way they feel there are being well served and you still get the root that they would spend on garapon, except that it wouldn’t feel like it was wasted.
Another idea is that just like the real lottery wheels in the Japanese market when an item is received the prize marble is taken, this causes mulitiple robots to not happen, now things like the bronze weapons could be gotten maybe three times to fit with the three bot commando troop, since there are so many weapons to choose from you really don’t need more than 3 of each anyways.
This would also allow a person to eventually receive the item that they are looking for as well. A

But the blue ball prizes or at least the usual prizes they carry need to go because a person paying rt getting a stabilizer they could get in an anarcturus by the truck loads is going to feel very put out and when it happens frequently will feel scammed and stop.

The garapon would still be well used especially for bots or enhancements that have left the shop, but let players first be able to get it normally so the root feels to them well spent.

Also like real lotto wheels the marbles as it where can be returned to the wheels at certain calander intervals.

Another Idea would be able to trade a certain amount of silver items for a gold of choice.

Shop: Bots need to be introduced in shop, doesn’t have to be permenant, but players will feel root is being better spent. Others might buy a robot and then think later that it was a mistake, to bypass this, let people temp buy bot in shop, sort of like a ticket item that will expire thus allowing them to test drive the bot in arena, sort of like LOLs free to play weekly rotation, although one could make quests with story line like you have done but that would take more work for every new story bot, and it can be applied to other bots they can’t take bot apart nor level up, its just to get a feel to see if it works for them.

Bazaar: Can’t sell Rt obtained items,
Currently one can’t sell Rt obtained items at the bazaar, and even the stuff that can be sold can’t be sold until level 12 nor can you buy things until level 12.

The level 12 requirement for selling things is understandable to prevent people from creating lots of accounts and selling various stuff to one main account. That is fine but the requirement to be level 12 to buy things makes less sense. To be able to buy things from others will help new players to be able to get the parts and items earlier that they cannot get or have trouble getting at the current level they possess. This will make it more new player friendly and they can get into the mainstream gameplay with less trouble.

The other problem with the bazaar is that one cannot sell Rt items. The main issue is that people that play with rt garapons get mulitples of some items and none of others. By allowing Rt items to be sold or traded would allow a person to get the items he wanted and remove the items he doesn’t want to someone who does. This way multiple bots weapons or other items are not seen as such a hassle it just means they can sell it to get what they need later at the bazaar. Also not being able to sell Rt items doesn’t make the most since in the light of the fact that virtual items obtained from real money items purchased at comic/anime cons can.

Multi form robots.

There are various forms of the same robot such as misty hollow and misty hollow void. Many of these robots show up in garapons and that is fine, the thought I had was from the seraph promo items in the shop, is that besides the garapon one could buy an item and after leveling the main form use it to change the bot into the alternate form. This allows people who don’t want to rely on chance to spend root and get the alt form they want, and one could even rotate the stock or character of change items that appear in the shop, considering all the alternate forms there are.

Cosmo pot.

In the cosmo pot one can buff stats of a robot, part or weapon to make it more to ones playing style. The problem is that one loses a slot if it fails, normally one might not think to hard about it except for when dealing with bots that do not sell parts that are in shop or worse a bot that cannot be customized. This limits the usefulness of the pot considerably.

One problem that needs to be addressed is the generally low chance of success, on some parts its only 10 to 20 percent on the first tune. Which makes things very hard for those without root access to buy good harmonics plus even with the best harmonics in use it can still fail. Which makes people who put out root for it to feel cheated.

One way that it can work for everyone is to leave the slots intact even if they fail. It would mean that the items used would be wasted, which is fine those who use harmonics have less chance of failure but those with little or no root are not punished.
This also means special bots get more customization, because one doesn’t have to worry about a slot breaking.

The support parts can be reworked so that only the omega or now called slot protector would be used to prevent loss of tune items, and people are able to take risks and also try different customizations, with the help of the untuner. Sort of like in LOL the players have rune pages that allow them to tweak the champion that is using that set of enhancements.

I have nothing to say about supposed OP bots, due to all the customization availiable I don’t think there is such a thing as op, and with a better chance at tuning even players who aren’t very good, which is the usual reason people cry Op in any game, can have a better chance at standing ground and less likely to cry op.

What I talked about previously are core changes that would make people more likely to play and keep playing. What I want to cover next are more tweak and enhance items.

Contests and Creativity.

One would be to have player creativity contests, like they do in LOL, with a usually monthly or bi-monthly compition to let players express themselves and compete.

Also one could have a art submission page and video every other week or so that shows peoples submissions showing there creative use of the themes of CB.

The effect these two items would have is to make the player more connected and a part of CB, and when a person feels part of something they are more willing to continue being apart of it.

Lotto Cubes- remove the tune parts, they just get in the way and make it less exciting in thinking what one will get.

Referal program.

If one can refer a friend and receive some sort of prize they are more likely to tell their friends, who can tell their friends, Now a problem would be in people making multiple accounts to try an boost their numbers, that is more tricky to police, outside of using valid email, filling out information, and having the person who signed up at the request or invitation of a friend have to reach a certain rank to have the person get a prize. Also anyone caught spamming accounts would run the risk of temporary banning.

That is different from players having different accounts to be apart of multiple clans or other reasons like that. That could be remedied by what one could call a parent account, in that there is a main account and then sub accounts that are connected the main account in a menu since a person can only be logged on one account at a time as a general rule this would work well.

Character swapping

Normally the first robot in the commando is shown on the world map, which is no real problem except for when you want to show off a different robot or if a robot is not suitable for the varied terrain in the overworld. A player then has to go to the garage and swap a bot into his commando.

The main idea would be like when using an item in an event by pressing a number you can switch to that robot without having to go to the garage.

This can be applied to the three commando or have a separate slot of 3 to five that is just for overworld use, leaving the fighting unit alone.

Another application in one form or another is when in a quest. In the areas before one warps into the field for antarctus or bastillia and before the ark in bastillia you can switch the bot you want before proceding, that way one can move through the field with the one you want and start the boss fight with the one you want so that you do your best from the beginning.