Skins discussion + Trade inn suggestions for a more balanced and better collection

[DwerBomb]

I love them. Everyone loves them. And I feel like the Shadow skins could be something more special than just another elegant random skin drops...we already have GoH and Survivor, so Shadow could be something different: something you unlock in game, possibly. While on one side having them available for everyone will make their value drop really low, I don't want DST to be reduced to a Team fortress kind of game (this issue has been talked about for a long time, since skins came out): Shadow skins are an important part of the lore, and having them reduced to just a price on the market would be terrible :c

 

Tldr: pls I want a shadow skin but I'm so unlucky with drops 

 

EDIT: The thread is now dedicated to suggestions on how to make skins more fun to get (through balanced drops)

[Maslak]

2 hours ago, DwerBomb said:

Pls I want a shadow skin but I'm so unlucky with drops 

U r not alone m80. I want this cool Wilson skin!

[JohaneBrote]

How about them being rewards for beating Adventure mode? So for example if you manage to put Wilson on the Nightmare Throne you get his shadow set, if you do the same with WX you get his etc... It would make sense lore-wise, you know it would!

[DwerBomb]

33 minutes ago, JohaneBrote said:

How about them being rewards for beating Adventure mode? So for example if you manage to put Wilson on the Nightmare Throne you get his shadow set, if you do the same with WX you get his etc... It would make sense lore-wise, you know it would!

Yes

Its what I was thinking too. And possibly porting them to Singleplayer (once you save your character from adventure mode, they'll permanently be Shadow mode) :0

[unitato]

I would love an ingame achievement thing like you made this, this, this and this? Good Job, heres a distuinguished. However, i feel like people could just cheese that with private servers :/

[verm1ll1on]

In the server creation screen, when you set the number of players to 1, it changes the game mode to "alone". Maybe they should add Maxwell's portal in these types of servers and lock the option once the world is generated. That way, you have to do Adventure Mode all by yourself and would gain the skin set for the character you used. Maybe just one skin set should be obtainable by this method per account.

[MoloMan]

But the survivor skins are also a big part of the lore, even more so than the shadows. That's why I like them just a bit more than the shadow ones, I mean it's so frickin cool to see how the characters have adapted to the world they're in!

[Ricey]

10 hours ago, JohaneBrote said:

How about them being rewards for beating Adventure mode? So for example if you manage to put Wilson on the Nightmare Throne you get his shadow set, if you do the same with WX you get his etc... It would make sense lore-wise, you know it would!

I get your idea, but if that was, in fact, a reward you would get from doing so, couldn't the lazy work through adventure mode with either mods or godmode? (But lore-wise this would really make sense, don't get me wrong!)

And if these were to be obtainable through adventure mode, making these tradeable would be kinda pointless, considering it's not a drop, but rather something that can be obtained if you owned don't starve; i'm thinking loyalty items like ROG?

 

[mathem99]

I wanna get Maxwell Untriumphant skin

 

[Mikeadatrix]

On 4/26/2016 at 10:40 AM, DwerBomb said:

I love them. Everyone loves them. And I feel like the Shadow skins could be something more special than just another elegant random skin drops...we already have GoH and Survivor, so Shadow could be something different: something you unlock in game, possibly. While on one side having them available for everyone will make their value drop really low, I don't want DST to be reduced to a Team fortress kind of game (this issue has been talked about for a long time, since skins came out): Shadow skins are an important part of the lore, and having them reduced to just a price on the market would be terrible :c

 

Tldr: pls I want a shadow skin but I'm so unlucky with drops 

I SUPPORT THIS 100%. KLEI AT LEAST MAKE THEM EARNABLE.

1 minute ago, Mikeadatrix said:

I SUPPORT THIS 100%. KLEI AT LEAST MAKE THEM EARNABLE.

It makes sense for them to be earnable. You go through hell, you get tricked, and it says "Maybe BLANK will use their powers to tempt the unsuspecting." Klei this is your chance! PLEASE

[ConfusedCourier]

As much as i would love to have them more available, i feel it would kinda devalue these awesome looking skins if they did not have actual value tied to them. 

Sure everyone could have them, but they'd mean nothing. Look at things like the Gibus in TF2.

[Mikeadatrix]

8 minutes ago, ConfusedCourier said:

As much as i would love to have them more available, i feel it would kinda devalue these awesome looking skins if they did not have actual value tied to them. 

Sure everyone could have them, but they'd mean nothing. Look at things like the Gibus in TF2.

Remember that feeling when you beat Adventure Mode and unlock Maxwell and Wes? Glorious. It'd work the same here, you get a trophy. You prove that "Yes, I beat adventure mode as Wilson, I am a pro DS player." No mods should be allowed on the server though. To prevent cheating.

[Zephyr4IK]

21 hours ago, JohaneBrote said:

How about them being rewards for beating Adventure mode? So for example if you manage to put Wilson on the Nightmare Throne you get his shadow set, if you do the same with WX you get his etc... It would make sense lore-wise, you know it would!

Everyone will be able to download save game file and get a free set.
Not the best idea.

[Mikeadatrix]

2 minutes ago, Zephyr41k said:

Everyone will be able to download save game file and get a free set.
Not the best idea.

Well Klei should implement some feature where you beat Adventure mode with a certain character and get a RANDOMLY GENERATED Key to plug into the Redeem button on the home page. You get the skin of character you played as.

[Zephyr4IK]

18 minutes ago, Mikeadatrix said:

Well Klei should implement some feature where you beat Adventure mode with a certain character and get a RANDOMLY GENERATED Key to plug into the Redeem button on the home page. You get the skin of character you played as.

Maybe they'll do something similar for future collections. It would be great.

[Mikeadatrix]

1 minute ago, Zephyr41k said:

Maybe they'll do something similar for future collections. It would be great.

Maybe. But nothing says lore like Shadow skins.

[Zephyr4IK]

9 minutes ago, Mikeadatrix said:

Maybe. But nothing says lore like Shadow skins.

Buy and complete the original game to get exclusive skins.
"Klei" will become "Overkill"

[Zephyr4IK]

Just now, KleiForumer said:

Actually, I love this idea. @nome MAKE IT HAPPEN, O GREAT ONE!

It's really good idea, but...

[The Letter W]

37 minutes ago, Mikeadatrix said:

Remember that feeling when you beat Adventure Mode and unlock Maxwell and Wes? Glorious. It'd work the same here, you get a trophy. You prove that "Yes, I beat adventure mode as Wilson, I am a pro DS player." No mods should be allowed on the server though. To prevent cheating.

 

33 minutes ago, Zephyr41k said:

Everyone will be able to download save game file and get a free set.
Not the best idea.

 

29 minutes ago, Mikeadatrix said:

Well Klei should implement some feature where you beat Adventure mode with a certain character and get a RANDOMLY GENERATED Key to plug into the Redeem button on the home page. You get the skin of character you played as.

 

the issue is, it doesn't matter how 'fair' of a way klei finds to implement it, people will find a way to exploit it. a quote in bioshock sums it up perfectly, really;

• "Sure, the boys in Ryan's lab can make it hack-proof. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it." - Pablo Navarro

[DwerBomb]

2 minutes ago, The Letter W said:

 

 

 

the issue is, it doesn't matter how 'fair' of a way klei finds to implement it, people will find a way to exploit it. a quote in bioshock sums it up perfectly, really;

• "Sure, the boys in Ryan's lab can make it hack-proof. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it." - Pablo Navarro

Yes. And that's the major issue with all the skins system. The problem is that I really can't think of a way to prevent that, but on the other hand I really want them available for everyone and not 30$ in the steam market...

Maybe a buff to the Trade inn should do this: the more time you've played the game, the higher the chance to get a better tier. But again, someone would just let the game run and get play time without playing...

Although, a thing I definitely think should be added is that after X number of drops you are guaranteed a rare item. It's just so unfair how unlucky one can be! It's terrible to have had the game since day 1 and never got anything above spiffy!

[Zephyr4IK]

4 minutes ago, DwerBomb said:

But again, someone would just let the game run and get play time without playing...

Klei, return kick for AFK.
(pls)

[JohaneBrote]

11 hours ago, Ricey said:

I get your idea, but if that was, in fact, a reward you would get from doing so, couldn't the lazy work through adventure mode with either mods or godmode? (But lore-wise this would really make sense, don't get me wrong!)

And if these were to be obtainable through adventure mode, making these tradeable would be kinda pointless, considering it's not a drop, but rather something that can be obtained if you owned don't starve; i'm thinking loyalty items like ROG?

 

You can already idle in godmode for 4 skins per week, and this would require you to buy the base game and actively play out the whole adventure mode once per skin set, with godmode or without. Now sure you could probably mess with the saves like somebody else pointed out, but you would still need to own a copy of DS and have at least basic programming knowledge. However, if someone's this hellbent on not playing the game they're trying to get skins for, who am I to stop them. 

I definitely agree they shouldn't be tradable nor marketable, since that might create an actual opportunity for grinding/cheating for profit (the current system is too random and there's only so many people craving red T-shirts out there). 

[smallishbird]

2 hours ago, DwerBomb said:

Although, a thing I definitely think should be added is that after X number of drops you are guaranteed a rare item. It's just so unfair how unlucky one can be! It's terrible to have had the game since day 1 and never got anything above spiffy!

I agree with this 100%. I also think for every non-rare item you get, the chance for a rare item should increase slightly. For example, for every common, classy, and spiffy you get, the chance for a elegant or distinguished should be increased by 1% until you get an elegant or distinguished.

[Mikeadatrix]

I agree. Klei said they'd change the Trade Inn and skin features. Now is that time. 

[gonz008]

 

All aboard the IDEA TIME train? Thought about how klei could implement a tutorial in the game, however having all the characters released, its a little too late for this. BUT what if having cool skins (such as the shadow skins) be associated with a tutorial? (replace characters with skins)

On 4/15/2016 at 9:48 PM, gonz008 said:

I think that the tutorial should be implemented by unlocking characters (I know that klei has decided not to have unlockable characters in the way that they did in DS) but I think that the tutorial should unlock characters by accomplishing basic tasks. 

Noobs should definately start with just Wilson unlocked, then after crafting a torch, they unlock Willow.

Then after Crafting a Tophat they would Unlock webber (gotta learn to dodge spiders and learn about silk)

To get Abigail unlocked you gotta go insane and gain enough sanity that the shadow creatures disappear. 

...etc 

Basic functions that anyone who plays DST for more than 30 mins unlocks all the characters while at the same time it teaches noobs how the basics. Afterwards The unlocked characters stay unlocked. 

Eh? All aboard?