Too Much Diamond

i imagine its no so simple as "cut down diamond's rarity" because if its too low, no newer players will ever survive long enough to find diamond, but if its too common, the enormous teams will inevitably constantly have full diamond. the best gear will always flow into the hands of the top players, as long as echests are a thing (which, to be clear, i dont think should ever stop being a thing). and because teams are unregulated theres a strict advantage to just piling on as many people into your team as you possibly can, and so the best player turns into the players with the biggest and most active teams. i think the rarity of diamond armor probably should be cut down, but thatll never solve the issue entirely

 

I suppose the rarity could be cut down a bit more. It is a little high, I've been finding many pieces despite the previous cut down. Also, enchanted pieces should be reduced by half imo.

 

and what im saying is that increasing the rarity alone isnt ever going to be enough to solve the problem. if anything, honestly id much prefer everyone has full d than a rarity increase that allows only the top teams to have full d. warz historically has always had problems keeping new players playing, and nothing is more disheartening than feeling finally ready to actually play the game and then being chased down by players that are already better than you, and by virtue of being better are also given better gear.
a rarity increase would address the issue of everyone having full d, but would create new problems which couldnt be addressed by rarity problems, as long as there exist teams which can log tons of hours into the game with tons of people

 

Would diversifying zone locations help? For example, having a zone 6 or two spread among the south side of the map (given that they are small zones).

 

Yeah, what needs changing is the accessibility of diamond, and that includes more than just its rarity. Needing to know the paths to high zones makes them inaccessible to newer players, I think that making some areas closer to spawns higher zones would help this problem, in addition to an increase in the rarity of diamond, because it would lower the time commitment to get better gear, and newer players wouldn't feel they wasted as much time getting set up when they die.

 

good input

 

I believe it's quite balanced the way it is. Though it does seem like there is a lot of diamond, the player count is on the slimmer side sometimes and it isn't as spread out at night so I just think once the server grows a bit more it'll all even out.

 

I was going to discuss the benefits and dangers of Zone 7 in a thread I started writing myself but decided to not since a lot of players enjoy the place too. But I personally believe we should make it exactly like zone 6 and the only difference being that some diamond you find are going to be enchanted. Because I currently think there are too many fights at Zone 7. Before there were a lot of fights at other places since Zone 6 was the same all over the map. I believe there’s a reason to why they never made higher zones than 6 in the beginning, simply to spread people out.
@Communications important thread,
+1

 

There are many different things that could be attempted to try to fix the heavy inflow of diamond. One thing that I have put some thought into that some may not like due to the cluttering of an inventory would be to add fragments. Fragments would be items that can be combined into a whole item whether that item be a piece of diamond armor or a tier 4 gun. Though if this were to happen there would probably also have to be the adding of one row of e chest access to white names so they could build up fragments to get that good gear.