This is already a thing with BOOST GUILD BOUNTY, where we can exchange a guild boost for a bounty boost.

Can we find some method to exchange the things we don't use for things that we actually will use?

BOOST GUILD BOUNTY is currently a 1:1 ratio for switching that to a BOOST BOUNTY.

Maybe, at some point, ya'll could figure out a decent ratio for exchanging other boosts that we're not using (I have 383 of a certain boost that I won't use, for example) for another option?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Cheers.

>>I like this idea

I don't actually care what the ratios end up being, so long as we have the opportunity to make things what we want. Problem is... there's a bunch of BOOST options, so it might take a while to figure out how to properly EXCHANGE them.

I can wait, though. :)

Cheers. :)

Linear to trade down might work, but not to trade up, they are supposed to get more valuable at longer streak lengths. Day 30 gets you 15*Day 2, but it might take 225*Day 2 to get a Day 30.

Not going to happen however, they are explicitly designed in excess because most of them are expected to just pile up. Different people pile up different ones though. Some people would like to lay their hands on more Eonak Gifts, mine just pile up because the only one I have any use for is gated at 2 uses maximum per year. Not a lot of point in trading for Eonaks if making them tradeable just means they get gated at 1 per month because thats the intended maximum use for them.

Maybe drop any of them back a day. BOOST REDUCE xx, turns a day xx reward into a day xx-1 reward. The later days are supposed to be more valuable so its trading something which is more valuable in general for something less valuable that you happen to have a use for.

Opposed.

Does nothing but further the concept that everything has to be useful to everyone all the time.

Doug

Exactly. I have zip use--on thirty different characters--for any of the Task rewards, and there are a ton of them strewn liberally through the month's progress.
I've used one Lumnis, that one time. Actually, I think two (one on each account), because I had someone who was actively hunting on both.
I find enough boxes--including other peoples', because apparently treasure is worthless?--that I don't even remember the Loot boosts until I see them in the list.

I would even be in favor of something like:
- None of the 21-30 days' rewards can possibly be gained (top tier).
- You can go from the top tier to middle (11-20) at 2:1.
- Or top to lowest (1-10) at 1:1.
- And also middle (11-20) to bottom (1-10) at 2:1.

Or something similar on breaks of 5, with 26-30 being impossible to gain (but certainly can give up, to buy down).

>>you can't/won't/don't use

My position would change if there were truly a Login Reward that 'cannot be used' by a character, for that Login Reward specifically. I can see none that would qualify. But I am interested to learn more. What Login Reward simply cannot be used by a character?

Doug

I have given serious thought to stopping after 20 days (just to get the [total of] 4 instant-absorbs [1 @10, 3 @20]), but it takes 23 days to do that with Bridges set to min/max 1:
20 in for the reward,
21 not,
22 not [would trigger a Bridge],
23 can finally log back in again (and get the free LTE).

But at 23 days, screw it: it's just another week, and I can get the Item Superchargers and such, as well.

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Now, if it were possible to use a Bridge voluntarily, to FORCE a re-start...
20 in for the reward,
burn a Bridge ON THAT DAY to reset to "0",
login on 21 at "day 1/500 fame".

Wait ... which boost can you only use once a month? Or did I misunderstand something?

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> My position would change if there were truly a Login Reward that 'cannot be used' by a character, for that Login Reward specifically. I can see none that would qualify. But I am interested to learn more. What Login Reward simply cannot be used by a character?

Any reward can be activated in-game by any character obviously. But why would anyone "use" a runners boost that doesn't need any of the commands that boost activates? So "can't" was probably a bad word choice. It doesn't change the idea that some rewards are functionally useless to some characters and/or the players behind them.

I'm not advocating for or against this. I just don't think it's unreasonable to make the request. And if done right, also reasonable and not gamebreaking. That is to say, I'll give you 10 BOOST GUIDES for 1 BOOST EXPERIENCE probably shouldn't happen. But maybe 10 BOOST GUIDES for 1 BOOST LOOT MAJOR is OK. Again, with exact "exchange rates" TBD.

> Got it. I don't think it's unreasonable to make the request, either. Nor do I think it's unreasonable to state opposition.

Agreed. I totally appreciate why you and others might be opposed. Although my memory ain't what it used to be, I think it was explicitly stated when these came out in 2015 that it really wasn't designed for every boost to be useful to every character in every situation.

Fast forward to now, where people have hundreds or even thousands of unused boosts that have zero chance of ever being used. I'm OK with an exchange program if it happens as long as it is implemented properly. And if it's not, I can continue to ignore the boosts building up that I never touch!

>Now, if it were possible to use a Bridge voluntarily, to FORCE a re-start...
20 in for the reward,
burn a Bridge ON THAT DAY to reset to "0",
login on 21 at "day 1/500 fame".

I would do this too. I consider it worth doing 1 or 2 complete streaks a year, but I've probably banked enough to last me out already.

Also I think its daft that you have to specify bridge use in advance. Its another way penalties are added into what it supposed to be a reward system.

" - with optional parameter [day to start sequence] - burn 1 bridge and reset to desired day in sequence*
* You cannot accelerate (move from day 15 to day 30) with this method. You can only affect a reset to a specific earlier reward day in the sequence." -- Doug

I do not think this should be done, and if it was implied from what I said previously I apologize.

Someone who does not care about the day30/6x doublers could run up to day 29, burn a single bridge and drop back to 19, then collect days 20-through-29, where the really juicy benefits are, again.
(And day24 would replace that Bridge...)

Just leave it as 'reset to day 1', for someone who wants to end their cycle sooner.