Best Of

Ghibli said:

omnipresence - shows you on WHO and various XWHO's regardless of plane or bubble, much like current divine. (with easy ability to toggle on and off)

The anti-gem-of-cloaking you've all been waiting for. 

I feel like this should just be a free toggle for all demigods, at the least, because it's more a positive for the game than the individual? I'd even be bribing players with like... increased passive essence gain if you've got it active.

Lone Wolf - lets you have effects of being in a squad even if you are the only one in the squad.

Also, some ideas!

Leadership - +5-10% increased gold, power, and experience while leading a squad, stacking with respect, aethersuit and commandant artifacts.  Also allows you to bear a standard like a warrior, or if you're already a warrior, offers some damage reduction while standard bearing.

Anomalous - automatically regenerate 2.5-5% archpower each month.

Something Something Domotheos - Faster domoth claims, stacking with being a sealbearer/ascendant/TA

Pysynne said:

...it feels that way with costs so high that people are looking at RL years to attain. I.E You are looking at least at a RL year of nonstop bashing just to get Omniscience.

I think one thing that should be gauged hard and content for the game should be balanced around is this, not just player burn out - because it will happen in this system, but longevity of the game itself. 

Running that estimate through an excel looks like it would take around as long as the game has been released to get 10 points and it just gets worse from there. (I keep rechecking the numbers because it ends up at hundreds of rl years)

I also hit a block with this sort of system because it's one big metric that feels huge and overwhelming, which leads to feelings of "why even bother?" and then negative feelings when doing stuff that's not directly generating essence because that's not progress towards the next thing. Small loops are really nice.

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Also, separately, I feel like crafting/trading/etc perks should probably come as part of the economy overhaul, seems like it's simper cause then you can just make perks/powers based on the economy of the game after that.