“Imagine this: You have a decent amount of hero coins. You haven’t really been lucky in the drops gained from wishes, but you think it’s time for another shot. You spend most of your hero coins for a wish, and you finally did it! You finally got your favorite character you wanted and… oh wait it’s only silver…”
A character’s rank (or whatever it is called) is a rather important thing in the game. You have bronze, silver and gold. At bronze, the character has only 1 ability. At silver 2 and at gold access to all 3.
But that’s not the problem. You see, the rank also determines the maximum level a character can reach. At bronze, you can reach 30. Silver up to 60 and gold all the way to 100.
How do you initially obtain these ranks? You should only look at wishes.
Magic dust wishes, or the free ones, nearly always give bronze rank characters, with a rare chance on obtaining silver.
Hero coin wishes, or the premium (and expensive) ones, grants silver rank, with a rare chance on gold.
There’s currently no way of increasing the rank of a character, which can leave people with gold characters in quite an advantage over other people, as they have access to all (and usually the powerful) abilities, and can reach lvl 100, which certainly out-beats bronze at lvl 30 and silver at lvl 60. The wishes aren’t really cheap too (together with roster purchases and food crafting), leaving the costs on obtaining and training gold (and even for the characters you want) very high.
I’m not a fan of these “pay2win” situations, and I’m slightly disappointed there’s no way of upgrading a character’s rank. The rate you obtain hero coins freely is not exactly high as well, and I don’t think people prefer to spend dozens of dollars in a “gamble system”.
Therefor, I’m suggesting for ways to actually do this.
This could be done by means of a food item. 2 new food items could be introduced which:
- Upgrades a character’s rank to Silver. This only works on Bronze character at level 30. This also reset the character’s level back to 1
- Upgrades a character’s rank to Gold. This only works on Silver character at level 60. This also reset the characters’s level back to 1
Why reset to 1? From a business perspective, the player would need to level again and could pump money to buy / craft food for quick leveling.
Another attempt is that a player could need to have 2 characters of max level of the same rank to create a ranked up character at level 1. Let’s say you have 2 bronze Stinky at level 30. You can “combine” the 2 to generate a silver Stinky at level 1. This would mean for gold you need 2 silver at level 60. Again, the player can use food for quick leveling and can pump money into the game for this.
These are, of course, only suggestions. Hopefully you could take these ideas into considerations.