How To Standout

Hello everyone! Welcome to the first official post regarding the Anuerism IV server. So excited to have everyone here and I will appreciate any and all feedback from any and everybody.

So in this thread I want to tackle the idea of how we can stand apart from the competition to become competitive in the current Anuerism IV climate. Taking into consideration the current state of the game and the small player count, the current state of the former giant "Chroma" and lastly the upcoming overhaul/update coming.

The following is a list of ideas that I plan on implementing incredibly soon likely within the next few days as a way to test some different things to see what we can do to retain and increase current player count

1. Spawn with ~100 credits

2. Spawn with ~3 amanacytes

3. A-Block apartments come with capitrons

4. Set lootpool to 2x or maybe more

5. Give F-Block apartments their own perks like free gun or other tools

6. Stage chests around the map refilled with useful items

As of now these are my ideas. Below is how I plan to implement them and ofcourse balancing will come with feedback and time

1. This amount may change, might even bump down to 50 credits. The idea is to Spawn with some chumps change to help ease the grinding on a dead game *Only receive on first join*

2. Same as above, we want to help ease the grinding due to the current state of the game *Only receive on first join*

3. Currently this is implemented and all of the top floor and bottom floor Apartments come with four capitrons, I am considering changing that amount to one or two because yes I want to ease the grinding but I also don't want to make the game ridiculously easy. I believe bumping that number down to one capitron will be a nice boost and a perk for purchasing an apartment but will not make it overpowered

4. Currently the loot pool is at two times the standard and from what I have seen it's working out pretty well, I've ran around the map and play tested myself and don't currently see any issue with the amount of loot spawning

5. So as of now only A-Block Apartments come with anything but I am very much considering putting surprises in every apartment. Maybe an F block I fill every chest with an assortment of goodies or just one nice item and have it randomized by house. Anything from a few Jenkem bottles to even a nail gun and box of nails

6. So this is a feature that I think is really cool and I've tried out but I also think it can be abused and made to be not fun but I'm trying to implement it in a way where it's not overpowered either. So currently I have two chests set up at the Metal Works one is entirely full of pickaxes and one is entirely full of coal I may set up some more. The whole point of this is to try and get rid of the aspect of having to find wood and whatnot and smell your first metal to make a pickaxe and the chest full of coal is what I consider one way to have everyone work together to fill the chest and then everyone could go downstairs and mine a bunch of iron and not worry about needing to get cold because it's sitting in the chest and everyone can just go smelt. Also both chests are refilled anytime I log on, so the coal is also nice if youre on alone you can just grab a pick and get to mining ore and not worry about coal. I definitely do want to add more chests around the map that I prefill with items to make stuff easier but I'm not sure where I would add them and what items to put in them so I would love suggestions

So those are my ideas and how I plan on implementing them in my thought process behind them. Any questions comments or concerns please comment below or contact me on Discord I would love to hear what anyone and everyone has to say thank you so much everybody!