Suggestion: Nerf gold income in Gauntlet

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Gauntlet alone cannot disrupt the economy on its own. There are maybe 20, 25max active good gaunt runners and probably I'm the one who runs it the most (most of these good gaunt runners usually run gaunt no more than 3 times per day, at least when I don't sleep). Now compare it with the amount of people who run raha/hedo - there are probably hundreds of them and they definitely make more gold in total than these 20ppl in gaunt.

That's a bold claim that the gauntlet portal cannot disrupt the economy alone.

Based on what you said, you have 20-25 players (who meet your standards in running the Gauntlet portal) that you can contact and play within the portal consistently (this is neglecting the other groups that you have not encountered because they have not met your standards or they just do not run with you). If we take those 25 players and say they farm at least 8-10m an hour in 5 hours, we are looking at a collective income of 1B - 1.25B within 5 hours only. If we calculate that too, let's say 10 hours, then you are looking at 2B - 2.5B gold collective income. This is just based on YOUR experience. If we count OTHER players' experiences (not just your experiences), those numbers can potentially be higher than what was said.

There are more than 1,000+ players in this game who are playing actively. At least also take that into account when you apply those numbers in Gauntlet rather than counting a select few.

Although, I cannot definitively say because I do not have the data to support this claim. Only a developer would know this, so I asked that the developers to share their information and opinions about this matter.

These map can coexist - I run both maps if they're not opened at the same day.

If they are not opened on the same day, of course, you will run the ONLY open portal. BUT if ALL five portals (rahab, hedo, ekenta, and mech and gauntlet), are opened, then you would choose to play the Gauntlet portal, correct? Why is that? I do not want you to say, 'Because the rest of the portals (except Gauntlet) are a braindead map,' and that Gauntlet requires you more. No, that's not the reason. The reason (multiple people already said this above) why Gauntlet is preferred is that it earns more / can earn more than the other portals. Many players have said this in private chats, guild chats, and forums, and they even made videos on YouTube saying that this map is suitable for farming gold. (For example, this is one of many videos out there stating this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ymMs4...annel=CurvieAL)

Also, as I said before, Hedo map is a NORMAL BOSS map, where Gaunt is an ELITE WAVE map.

Alright, understood. So, if I suggest that the Gauntlet bosses be buffed in terms of HP and difficulty, you would not be against it, right? Because the bosses there are squishier than the Hedo boss despite that the Gauntlet portal is considered an 'elite' status and Hedo being [normal].

Only reasonable thing you can do is to wait for elite elder woods content.

No, it is not really the only thing I can do. I can suggest or provide feedback as well before that content is released. That's what I can do. And that's what this thread section is for.

Balancing - there are currently 5 types of map farm (zodias maps-raha-e raha-hedo-gauntlet). Each of them require more and more gear/skill/strategy/connections from you. You can start as a sanctuary runner, but with your progress you can run gaunt. Unfair and unbalanced thing would be when a map which requires more from you was granting same/less amount of gold than a map which requires less from you.

Yes, Gauntlet does require more teamwork and gears for you to run it efficiently to earn gold, but that obstacle is not impossible or difficult to achieve than what you make it sound like. Once you do bypass those barriers, then running the Gauntlet map is easy. Correct? Albeit, not all players have the skills, consistency, or patience to run the Gauntlet LB to reach 41m points like you do, but players can still easily and comfortably make a lot of gold in the Gauntlet portal if they meet all the requirements.

You've even tried to resolve the party issue by making a post recruiting OP players to farm Gauntlet with you efficiently, here:

https://www.spacetimestudios.com/sho...ns-(0-17-0-21)

13m from gaunt? Not even Spec passed 13m with recently found strategy (which I'm still not using, cause I'm not able to), it's either you lying or you're basing on some calculations which have little or nothing to do with actual runs (you would need to reach 7m score many times at first).

In a private conversation with Spectral in-game, he himself said that he could potentially earn 13m an hour or more in the Gauntlet portal. Well, what can I say, it's up to you and others to believe my information or decide not to.

1335gl? You include pet passive, hb and pet aa? Current pet strategy for gaunt (especially for mage) is actually different. We focus on fastest clean and survivalibity, not highest drop per wave. Maximizing gold drop per wave doesn't make sense from another reason - if rogs and wars have a choice between a mage who focus on dmg and mage who focus on gl, they would rather run with dmg one - also, with focusing on gold drop, you have a higher chance of dying and starting from 0.

Yes, 1335 gold loot. Yes, this is with a full gl pet. Hotbars exist. It's not impossible, it's just you've probably never tried it yet. You can compensate for lost damage by using damage elixirs and boost your survivability by using elixirs and buffs that do. And I don't mind using elixirs since I can easily earn a lot of gold to get them.

1485gl in total getting rarely with some pt just proves that you're not actively running gauntlet and you got these 13m numbers from nowhere, cause no one does that.
Wars/rogs with current strategy can actually get more than sorcerers from gaunt and I basically said it in different post why it looks like that.

I am not just pulling out numbers from my butt. You just refuse to believe it's possible and that someone has tried it other than yourself.

Yes, you are correct, I do not run Gauntlet constantly. Mostly because I run with my friends on the other portals, which I found more fun and suitable for my gameplay and time, BUT that doesn't mean I've never attempted Gauntlet.

I have been invited by players capable of running Gauntlet with no problem. And from my experience, I was able to earn approximately 11.5-12.5m in an hour, but I could have probably gotten more [12.5-13m] if I sold the loots that I've gotten from those runs and converted the tokens I'd earned in the vendor shop.

If you're the mage I'm thinking about, then I actually know the real reason of making that thread and it's not just because it grants more gold than hedo.

I am not sure what you are talking about, and it sounds like it will be off-topic again.

My reason for making this thread was CLEARLY stated in the original post on page 1 to the top of the page. No hidden agenda on my part. I've been transparent about what I've wanted from the very start.

It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is we focus on the issue, which is that Gauntlet earns more gold than the other portals available in the game. And that this is taxing the economy of the game in the long term.

We are NOT here to compete and argue.

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Also, if you don't mind me asking, please format your responses more cleanly. It hurts reading your responses because it's just all over the place and without any proper formatting.

Finally, please stop repeating the same thing again and again. I've already addressed some of the same issues on your posts multiple times, and it just keeps looping around.

Thank you.