Posts by afkWanderer

A group of common complaints from the new player community which consists of new players who have never touched the game or returning players with little playtime hours.

Missing Leveling Improvement?:

Around the Dipluce Part 2 announcement, there was an announcement that leveling was improved such that you could run to level 57 just from completing story quests only. However, I wasn't able to reach Lv57 with my Lv20 Jin and Lv42 Chii from what the patch notes suggests and I had leveling gaps at Lv50, 53 and 56 and 57. Was it overlooked that this update did not retroactively update existing characters or that only certain characters had leveling improvements? Nevertheless it's an issue I which I don't believe has been solved yet.

Leveling Complaints process. (Too boring or Too Long)

Some of the more common leveling complaints I have seen comes down to that it takes too long to level or it's too boring to level just by themselves. While Liongames considers leveling to be a form of "balance" according to one of the older JP interviews, there does need to be a realization that playing an MMO is about playing with other people.

The longer you delay new players from interacting with the community the more displeased they'll be with the game. Leveling processes in most games is usually the worst part of game and there shouldn't be a "balance" for leveling just because a content gap exists or lack of existing content.

There are two approaches that can be taken to improve this problem.

Update the returning player boxes

Replace the Visitor's Box with a returning player level-up box

You should replace the temporary Visitor's equipment with the items from the newer upgrade boxes. There really shouldn't be temporary equipment for returners and that you should just give them the same equipment boxes that new players currently have or provide a near-exact copy of the current level-up boxes for [Lv5-Lv60] instead of the Visitor's package.

Not all returning players are hard-core veterans. Some are new players who switch games on a whim or they were busy with other things. Treat the returning players with some level of respect over temporary items.

Give EXP Serums for returning players.

I am not sure if this is given out currently but with how story quest is improved and players leaving at points from before the leveling was improved puts some older characters in a bad spot where they need to spend time on grinding to continue with the story quests. It would help if there wasn't a bind for them like this. I would recommend that you add this to the returning player sprint in order to relieve this awkward point for returning players.

First impression of Costume selection/Lack of Costumes

There's a noticeable lack of permanent costumes in this version compared to the foreign servers. If you want money from new players', it's best to increase the number of outfits available in the cash shop. This especially the case for Chii as because she is the newest character in the game she has the fewest number of costumes in the cash shop. I recommend adding the popular dyeable costumes such as Purple Magnolias and Yin Yang set as permanent additions to boost revenue.

There's a very common complaint with the AoV-based progression in the game with how a carry is always needed. While having a carry isn't necessarily bad, new players would have a better experience if they did not need to fully rely on a carry all the time.

Here are the things that should be addressed to help alleviate the need for a carry since it can very hard to get veteran players to help out. One of the major problems here is the issue to gain a large amount of critical rate and accuracy before starting AoV hard and progressing onto AoV Manic.

Issue: Difficulty of Obtaining Buff Items

Suggestion: Purchaseable Scents from Deleska

Allow Scents to be purchasable from Deleska with 50 BP like the KR server. Having access to the Lightning Strike Scent would be a great benefit for new players since it's very hard to obtain critical rate buff items consistently and that you cannot get enough Herbs from farming alone to increase your Critical Rate. I'd imagine this would go inline with Liongame's "balance" needs for Energy Converters and BP.

Lack of Early-Game Brooches

There's a lack of easily available mega brooches for new players. Namely the accuracy based (Rancor,Tigris,Wild Boar) ones and FoT Conquest. These particular brooches are helpful for new players as it enables them to use the Guardian of the Ocean set which is a significant power boost over the AoV accessory set.

Having more optional progress does make the game flow better over having to stick to a predefined route.

One option here is to provide more Inferior Brooch transmitters or brooches from events. The current state of the game right now is that obtaining these brooches is very unreliable for new players. Also, the Guardian of the Ocean set is a very popular set so accuracy-related brooches are expensive and more difficult for new players to obtain.

Frankly speaking, we need more events that add more accuracy related brooches at a consistent rate for new players. This has always been an awkward progression point as there's never been enough excess brooches for new players to pivot on.

Legendary Armor Souldrives Lv60

This is one source of power that new players can relatively obtain from AoV. One of the early problems that may occur with Hidden Hideout like with the JP server is that the Lv65 Souldrives will phase out the Lv60 Souldrives making it harder for new players to improve their damage.

I recommend adding the Lv60 Legendary Souldrives as a drop for Gronco like with how the Lv65 Souldrives are a drop for the Doom world boss in the Korean server. Unlikely to see a change in this area since it's not very important but is a source of concern.

Problem:Lack of Earlygame Anti-Destructions for new players

Suggestion: Add Grutin Gold Jars/Improve Attendance Rewards:

With the endgame updated to HH, there's a need for new players to have better on demand access to Anti-Destruction over having to overly spend on the cash shop or be forced to alt-farm. The Korean server has the purchase option of 3 Grutin Gold Jars daily and an improved consecutive daily reward. This doesn't solve the problem completely but it does help alleviate part of the problem and would encourage players to login daily.

Energy Converter Revamp

One of Soulworker's main strengths against other KRMMOs is that there's very few overly punishing RNG mechanics. Many other KRMMOs I have played tend to have mechanics that destroy your equipment on failure or reset your progress for that item. Energy Converters are important for endgame progression and issue with the current system is that it's very possible to lose progress in the event of a bad roll.

Adding the revamp would give a buffer that would reduce player frustration with overall progression. Doing this would add to Soulworker's strengths. Liongames has mentioned that not adding loyalty before breaks the game's balance. That's not true and the game before the loyalty update basically played like any other frustrating KRMMO with nothing that set Soulworker apart. The balanced RNG system from the KR version is one of Soulworker's strengths and isn't a weakness. (Although frustrations still exist and it's not perfect)

SET/Dragon's Blood: Upgrade limit expansion

This is the most unnatural form of progression for Soulworker. I realize that Liongames has not created a permanent fix for this problem and it's still likely it won't be fixed for a while, there are a couple of workarounds that will help ease the problem.

Make SET/Dragon's Blood as a rare drop from Primal/ add more of these items to events.

This would help make Primal a in-demand raid.

Lower the Soulcash price of Strength Expansion Tickets from 450 SC to 50 SC.

This is the main reason why people continue to alt-farm as the current price is too expensive. It's very unreasonable to force the playerbase to pay a 900% mark-up compared to the foreign servers. It's well known in the KR/JP that SETs only cost 50sc. Like how the other cash shops items were reduced to match the foreign servers, it's this item that still has a 900% markup. By lowering the sc price, players have a very affordable option of farming Dzenai and buying SETs which would help alleviate pressure from the need to alt-farm. While this is not a hard fix, it is an adequate soft fix which would ease the overly reliance alt-farm problem and would be a means of indirectly boosting revenue via Soulcash trading.

Gold Sinks

Gold sinks are very important to ensure that there isn't a massive gap between new players and veterans as the game progresses through content updates. Although, most of the current deflation is a result of the richer players leaving the game. The only way for a gold sink to be effective is that there needs to be a tie-in with player progression. You can only do that with the high demand items. At this stage of the game, there should be more ways to earn spare parts so that crafting energy converters will remove Dzenai from the game.

- There's also the limited purchase for 3 Grutin Gold Jars and Battle Point Jars that can help as well. This is present in the original Korean server.

-Allowing Inferior Brooch Fusers to be purchasable via Dzenai can help since the Grutin Gold cost is already too high with buying Inferiors brooch transmitters.

AoV

I recommend slashing Blueprint costs and crafting costs to help new players out. The main problem that remains with AoV is the line transition from AoV to HH due to the cost of Energy Converters. I don't expect anything on this front since Hidden Hideout was just released but having more temporary Energy Converters as an event reward would be a benefit for new players.

HH

The current issue with HH is the entry limit. This limit only exists because the KR community complained about the game's quick progress and wanted some means of slowing down the game's progression.

However, because Hidden Hideout is considerably harder than AoV and Lunar Fall, the entry limit is prohibitive for new players to learn and adjust to the raid. The current system only encourages veterans to stick with their own groups and discourages party play. Ideally, provide more Heart for All respawners and Team Respawners for event rewards just so new players have more room to adjust for their mistakes. The Korean and Japanese server give this item away quite often but this version tends to be extremely frugal when giving this item away. If Liongames could make a practice mode for all raids with run limits, that would a welcome game addition for new players.

Personally, I say move lightspeed with Lunar Falls since the corresponding quality of life updates for that raid fixes most of problems with the game, provided that everything is included on the day of release.

I strongly recommend ignoring Innocent Daydream Second and just going straight forward with Desireworker/Sinworker and the second part of Corrupted Record. The desireworker update has more of a gameplay changing effect and introduces the Miriam rush strategy for SCP which is more welcoming towards new players over the current Big Plastica strategy.

Afterwards it's just best move straight to Dipluce Horizon Part 3 and Lunar Falls. Abyss Lounge and Innocent Daydream Second are non-contributing endplay content which can go later. The run amount for Innocent Daydream Second is tied to the first Innocent Daydream so that's more of content replacement over content addition. Abyss Lounge is ranking content with a 3k BP daily which all do you is just stay dead for 3 minutes to claim the reward which won't be interesting for most players.

-Consumables stackable to 999

- Stackable mats

- Cash items stack limits increased to 99 or 999

- Magical to Unique Souldrive drops from Grutins

- Lv60 Weapon Souldrives

- Ability to delete inferior brooches

Helpful Quality of Life

- Dungeon Replay feature

- Akasha cooldowns reset upon Dungeon re-entry

Random Questionable Changes

- Star Cards still drop from Rookie Raids. Yes, a useless relic from the pre-Akasha renewal remains.

- Inferior Brooch Transmitters, Inferior Chip Transmitter drops from Grutins in Dipluce Horizon. This is useless benefit for players. Why where the Lv60 souldrives removed from the drop table in this version of the game? It doesn't fit well even if non-legendary get replaced later on.

This is more for generic issues with the game for Liongames over issues with this version specifically.

SETS/Upgrade Limit Removal items

This is the most unnatural and awkward aspect about Soulworker. There's no permanent sustained way to continually obtain these item. You either alt-farm or have a indirect reliance on the cash shop to progress. Liongames needs to consider a limited method to obtain these items in game and not from the cash shop or events exclusively in order to make progression flow more normally. It's okay if it's daily or weekly limited provided that there's somewhat to obtain this item ingame.

Griefing Mechanics

The main issue why people are selective with people joining raids are due to the griefing mechanics that exist for AoV and HH. While Liongames probably intended for these mechanics to make the raid challenging, they're very bland mechanics since they boil down to doing nothing until the phase is complete. There's no risk or challenge involved with it which just makes the mechanic boring.

AoV has the fallen soul mechanic that punishes that entire party if one person uses a forbidden skill and HH does the same thing but freezes the entire party. I recommend keeping the mechanics localized such it only punishes that player that does x vs something that can punish the entire party such as healing or freezing the entire party. In the event, that someone does trigger the mechanic, the lesson learned is more to blacklist a player over learning/explaining raid mechanics.

Doing this just makes players stick to premades which harms the game's health over time and I strongly recommend that Liongames should stop making raids with these type of mechanics.

Not expecting much on this but something to take a note of since I see that Liongames throws a revamp to AoV every quarter. Raid difficulty is not a problem with this SoulWorker but it's a problem how raid mechanics are designed that bad gameplay can harm a party more over good gameplay benefiting a party.

Brooches

Brooches are probably the most boring aspect of the game since all they do is provide a large damage increase and nothing else. The more popular brooches such as Hellcat/Fury and Provoke change your playstyle to encourage tanking over smart play. There's no risk involved and all it does is cut playstyles to one type which isn't very interesting. It would be better if Liongames would do a bigger revamp with brooches such that it encourages things such as not taking a hit, maintaining a combo count, etc. just so there's some reason to use other brooches rather than to stick to a predefined set of 3 brooches.

Energy Converters:

Energy Converters from my opinion are a rather bad mechanic since you often need a large quantity of them to get adequate lines for raid requirements. Personally, I would prefer a system where we could use raid materials for enhancement costs and/or with normal Converters. Well, I'm honestly not expecting much from this here since the Korean server has complained about ECs for the longest time and it's not adequately solved yet.

Main issues with events in this version are:

1. Events rewards are not great for endgame players

2. Event rewards are not consistent for new players.

The main items that endgame players prefer to have are the High quality Chip Transmitters, Energy Converters, Strength Expansion Tickets, and Brooches. Brooches remain a highly in-demand item as this version of Soulworker runs fewer brooch-based events compared to the KR/JP version.

I can understand that event rewards need to be cycled around so that each event is unique but there does need to be some fixed consistency for new players since people do not start playing Soulworker at the same time. Stop running unbalanced events where an excessive amount of respawners or other items is dropped at once for seasonal events. The important thing about event is that they need to be consistent towards basic quality of life to ensure that new player progression is stable. Items that should consistently appear in events are : Anti-Destructions,Energy Converters, Strength Expansion tickets. Items that could appear in rotation are : Akasha Transmitters, Brooch Transmitters, Chip Transmitters, Scents, Heart for All respawners, Team Respawners, and Inventory Expansion tickets.

Bad Events.

Avoid running these types of events. These types of events have always been terrible.

Sprints

Events in this version generally have a timespan of one month while the sprint event only last for one week. It's a very bad event style since after players are done with the event, there's very little to do. This applies for everybody in the community and not just the veteran players. It would be helpful to have events that can provide something to do for the majority of the event period. If you're going to run sprint events, you need to refresh the sprint weekly for the entire month duration like how the Japanese server ran this event for their 4th anniversary.

Daily Challenges

This event is particularly bad since it has gimmicky requirements such as Skyclock Palace Normal and Primal. It's a hassle to complete with the Energy system and difficult to get parties started consistency for Skyclock and Primal requirements as there's a minimum party size in order to start

Good Events

Sweet Flowers - Well, this event isn't entirely terrible for once since the daily reset option does give something for veterans to do if they're bored and there's a good stockpile of rewards such as Lucky Day potion, Anti-Destruction,Upgrade Box, and Dragon's Blood. The only problem I see with this event is that it caters to players with a lot of time and that there's nothing good for the casual players.

Grutin Summer - I personally liked this event as it helped crashed the soulstone market so that it was easier for new players to progress with soulstones and it was a good way to gain aethar. The rewards from the Grutice were disappointing if anything but this is a useful event for the new players.

Grutin Matryoshka - This was good event as it gave a decent amount of Energy converters, Anti-Destructions, and Akashas. However, the main point of this event was that it was very casual friendly unlike how alot of events required a lot of grinding to cap out on rewards.

Brooches from 2nd Anniversary- This was good since it was the only brooch event we ever had in this version.

Cash-preview-

This is one of the larger complaints with the game. I know that Gameforge has mentioned this is due to your business use cases but the loot boxes and Wheel of Fortune are not good additions to the game. While this system allows Gameforge to add costumes without having to rely on Liongames, I'm very certain that the Korean cash shop has an sale expiration function that will take care of this use case. I have spent time in other games where I just look at the cash shop and if certain things catch my eyes, I will go and purchase it. That's not the case here and having this system just hurts sales. You also lose the ability for people to easily share their tastes from the cash shop which is a loss for indirect advertising.

Expect the community to continue pushing for this as the current web store is a massive quality of life loss. The web store is very laggy and has a tendency to throw an ambiguous error messages. First impressions matter a lot for sales and the overall quality of the Gameforge cash shop is very lacking.

Wheel of Fortune -

Gameforge has a very bad attention span with how the community feels over the wheel. This is a reminder that the Wheel takes away from the fashion endgame. In addition, Steampunk and the Holy Seat set have never been placed for direct purchase and this is the main thing that holds people away from the game.

New Hairstyles-

There's multiple hairstyles missing with for a couple of costume set here. I'm not sure what on earth Gameforge is planning with it's monetization with the game but we're missing hairstyles with the Gentiana set and the Summer Sailor outfits. It's rather unacceptable to the community since Gameforge tends to miss low-hanging fruit rather frequently.

Merge the servers.

You have new players that quit the NA server due to how desolate it is. You're intentionally crippling an entire region's worth of income that can used to help support the game. It's very easy to see the population gap for NA when you look at Jin/Iris rankings and with how there's a minute gap between 1st and 30th place for the time attack rankings.

Patch Notes

A reminder that we need better detailed patch notes for the game. There's always a number of things that are secretly patched into the game without a mention in the patch notes and it's unreasonable to expect your playerbase to have read patch notes from the KR/JP versions to compare update differences. It's also harmful to the new player community and returning community as they have no idea on what has changed. If you want respect from the community , this is one of the things that needs to be improved. It's incredibly asinine to expect your entire community to have read all of every single patch note and incident change.

Community Relations:

Community relations is extremely tense which is due to the poor quality of how things are handle. The cash shop prices, web-based cash shop, and lack of overall communication. Very hard to have basic communication if the entire scripted conversation comes to down to spamming the forum with previous to ensure certain things do not get removed. It's a pain the ass to have the community be this forward to ensure quality.

Main Problems:

1. Pre-AoV Progression

2. Content Speed

New Player Specific Changes

-More Leveling improvements

-Level up box improvement

-Returning Player reward updates

-Lack of default costumes in cash shop

AoV Specific Changes

-Devourer Weapon Ticket for Level up box

-2 Star Akasha Selection Ticket

-Hysteria Stone used in place of Energy Converters for Aurith/Primal equipment

-Residuum of Void used in place of Energy Converters for AoV Hard

-Void Fragments (higher quantity) used in place of Energy Converters for AoV Manic

-Purchasable Scents from Deleska

-Enhancement Improvements for AoV Hard and AoV Manic

Lingering Problems

-Lv60 Legendary Souldrives

-Brooches for new players

-Soulstones

Endgame

-Energy Converter System Revamp

-Primal Buff

-SETs Pricing and Attainability

-HH Entry issues

-Gold Sink Issues

Content Direction

- Move to Lunar Fall update ASAP

-Missing content

-Missing quality of life changes

Developer Issues

- Issue of Griefing Mechanics in raid design

- SET/Upgrade Limit Removal

- Brooches and Gameplay

- Energy Converters

Publisher Issues

- Item Preview

- Unstable Cash Shop

- Lack of Patch Notes

- Missing hairstyles

- Server Merge

- Stop reminder to stop utilizing Wheel of Fortune

Event Feedback

- General Event Issues

- Favorable Events

- Bad Events

why do weird censors exist on this forum.

Arua in Normal Transmitters when?

Short Summary:

This event is definitely better than most of the events in the past but it still needs some refinement. I put some remarks on the benefits of the how this event is better than the previous ones. I would say my main complaint about this event is that it does lack brooches as an event reward.

Entry Cost

The entry cost for this event is rather simple, just three runs anywhere without all of the nonsense of having to kill a boss with basic attack and/or farming specific dungeons first before being able to take part in the event. For our version of Soulworker, Dzenai is the most replenish resource so if you want people to take part in events easily, the entry fee should not cost Grutin Gold or BP.

Weekly Item Resets

This was something that the last two events were missing since without a weekly reset it's very easy to cap out on rewards and then get bored of the game shortly. I believe that the last two events were failures since they failed to capture the community interest for the entire duration of the event. In addition, the community expects delays with each content update so there needs to be something out there so that community can enjoy while they bear with the waiting time.

Reward-wise, the weekly reset items can be better with more vitamin packs, salads, Grutin World Orbs and potentially Grutin Gold/Aethar/BP Jars. I think Scents should be moved to the daily reset rewards since there is more use for them over the current daily item resets, at least when the ranking update comes.

Daily Item Resets
The daily item resets are terrible. We don't need more fireworks or candy consumables. If you want more novelty with those items than you should release them as event items sparingly instead of having them in every event cycle.
Ideally, the daily reset should be something that's remotely useful such as scents so there's a way to get rid of event tokens in full. Right now, I have a ton of leftover tokens that I don't plan on using for daily items since they're useless to me.

Rewards

I noticed that with this event, some of the upper limits of items such as Upgrade Covers and Energy Converters were increased although Upgrade covers turned temporary.

I would prefer for the limit for Akasha Transmitters to be higher however and to add event(limited) transmitters to the rewards since most players are stockpiling Akashas which doesn't make the event rewarding; It's only rewarding a long time post-event. I would recommend that Akashas are released faster just so events can be enjoyed immediately rather than later on.

Brooches and Brooch Punchers need to be added to the event reward pool. Brooches can only be controlled with events and the market economy around Brooches is completely broken without Brooches as a reward.

Brooch Punchers need to be added since the only way for free players to obtain them right now is to quit the game for a month and then come back. This is very gimmicky and should be corrected. If you want new players to have a good impression of the game, you shouldn't add annoying paygates very early on.

Event Sinkholes
While the weekly resets serve as a token sinkhole for the event, there should be another sinkhole item for players to throw their event items in. The last two events had their event prize pool stripped of the sinkhole item which gave little incentive to continue running the event after all prizes have been claimed.

Sinkholes are important to events since they serve as a gold sink for the game and required in order to help correct the economy. These sinkholes only work if the reward is enticing. Daily reset items such as fireworks and candy consumables leave very much to be desired from events. Like the previous event, I currently have an excessive amount of Grutryoshka Gold with no desire to spend on the daily reset items.

Leveling Changes (Main Story Increases).

I feel that the amount is lower than what the Korean version gives since I do suddenly lack exp at Lv50 and Lv53. It's not that much of a problem since I can just run progression in order to achieve some meaning and levels. The current leveling rates does make it easier for new players to get adjusted to the game since they can easily level multiple characters to get a feel of what character they may like.

Enhancement Improvements:

This was unexpected and is overall very helpful towards the new player experience. It wasn't fully needed and the extension to all items below Lv55 does make the game more "idiot-proof" and new players can partially choose to upgrade their equipment further if they continue to struggle.

Brooches:

Reiterating this hear since the only way for new players to easily obtain brooch slots is to quit the game and then come back. Add Brooch Punchers to the Soulworker Sprint rewards and as a event reward. Not having full brooch slots does stop progression for new players.

Inferior Brooches (Bit and Kilo) also need to be discardable since mailing or using deleting a character are a very gimmicky workarounds.

Blind Playthroughs:

A very large portion of the western audience does like to play the game blind so the game needs to be intuitive enough such that new players don't need to rely on using guides. Although, there's a decent portion of them who do not read things what-so-ever so the system functionality should be intuitive as well. This might require a rehaul of the game so I'm not expecting anything on this front. Things to consider are to lock Akasha merging until a later level and to disable entry to D6 for Chii until the story requires you to move to Rucco town.

Soulstones:

One of the major problems I see with new players is that some of them are not using the free ones they received from leveling and sprint rewards and are potentially selling them on the marketplace. You should consider making Soulstones from rewards soulbound so that new players get a better idea that it's an item that they should use for endgame progression. In addition, using two soulstones of the same element is not intuitive and some new players are using soulstones of different elements which isn't allowing them to take in all of the benefits.

Nerf Normal Difficulties for Rookie Raids
The KR/JP versions already have this change which makes it easy for new players to obtain their advancements. Most new players tend to not gear up at this point of the game and would rather just wait for someone to come and help them. I don't think this makes for a good new player experience to have to wait 10mins before someone might come.

Guilds + Loyalty
The loyalty system feels awkward to blind playthrough players since being forced to wait behind 7 or 18 days doesn't make for a good impression. Ideally, there should be someway to at least level loyalty in tune with one's actual progression time to level 60 so that starting endgame raids isn't punishing. Add the loyalty bonuses to guilds and maybe adjust the rate of loyalty so that it's faster.

Offline- General Game Information
The discord server is finally up so there is a somewhat responsive place where new players could ask questions but Discord can be very chaotic and is bad at archiving information. You should ideally put up guide contests to encourage players to create guides for the game. This will help new players stick to the game longer if they have a better grasp of what to do.

Difficulty with finding Raid Parties

Obligatory merge NA and EU servers since you still have NA players begging for parties for AoV Manic. Not a very good new player experience if players need to continue beg for help.

Minimum Requirements
Probably one of the biggest obstacles with this version is that new players aren't trying to hit minimum requirements. To a lot of new players, they would prefer to play the game without a guide and see where it gets them. However, it does cause a lot of new players to exit the game if they can't join anything.

Ideally, the game should be designed more intuitively or inform the players that +9s are required for raiding, accuracy is needed and soulstones are a must. The current design of the game is rather not intuitive and most new players just rush through content and then have a rough time at AoV.

I'm not expecting fixes towards this since it's mainly an informative aspect that new players seem to be not aware over rather than an issue with the game itself. Maybe throw the recommended equipment information onto the raid's entry screen? I don't think putting the information onto the game's webpage is best spot to have everyone view it. (This was KR's solution)

Respawners

This is a bit of niche problem but should be sort of addressed as I do occasionally see new players stay dead on phase 3 of AoV until the boss is killed so are able to get drops. Respawners here refer to the total number of respawners they have on hand rather than hitting the respawner cap. New players should have some way to replenish respawner rather than relying on alt-farming which isn't a starting experience. Reducing the Grutin Gold cost for Respawners from 300 -> 50 would be a good start or increasing the number of Respawners from Attendance reward or by allowing respawners to be purchasable with BP.

Energy Converters:

I am glad that Spare Parts are now craftable with Void Fragments and that there is a set price on crafting Energy Converters now. This sets up an interesting Dzenai burn loop of farming AoV for BP to purchase Energy Converters to sell on the marketplace and then use that Dzenai to craft untradeable variant for 22m. However, this won't last long since the price can be prohibitive and things such as events can affect the prices nullifying the effectiveness of the goldsink loop.

There are still problems to this system since it adds another color type of Energy Converter that cannot be used together. For the best player experience, we need to be allowed to use Energy Converters together regardless of type.

Void Fragments and Spare Parts can be cost-prohibitive so we need the Box of Void Fragments (100 Void Fragments) added to the AoV Manic drop table and Corrupted Record/Primal Hero to be released so there's an additional resource for Spare Parts. Spare Parts can be used as an event reward in order to help ease production costs and encourage the use of the gold sink.

The Energy Converter Point system/Revamp should be added as well so that there's increased incentive for players to use Energy Converters and as a result, burn more Dzenai via gold sinks. Face-slamming RNG does not make for a good experience.

Marketplace Movement

Merge the servers, the NA server suffers the most from the recent Dzenai exploit since the NA playerbase is stuck on speculating how much of the Dzenai exists in the system as there is smaller playerbase to buy/sell items who does not bother to farm for items which results in overall higher prices. There's still a bundle of other economic problems that still need to resolved which is also contributing to the problem.

Skyclock Palace

Improve the drop rate and merge the server since finding consistent parties on the NA server is quite the hassle. There's a drop off here once players are finished with AoV due to the overall difficulty with finding a party.

Brooches:

Players need relatively achievable goals in order to continue playing. We don't need super unobtainable goals such as brooches since it discourages the playerbase if it's in the realm of impossibility due to hard merge and transmitter rates.

Currently, most high-end brooches are sold via RMT. While RMT is against the Terms of Service, you can't stop people from taking part in it. Part of the reason of why RMT is occuring for brooches is that they're too difficult to obtain and there needs to be events that give out TERA brooches of any type.

The Korean server has shown that if brooches aren't given out via events then their prices can easily double or triple. These are the only items in the game that will consistently be priced out of the market and the marketplace cap needs to be adjusted for brooches.

Having more brooches available will allow for more players to set their own goals and have something to work for. Right now, most players just drop off at Tera SD or Giga BSK, or some just don't bother with it too much. Brooches remain the one of the biggest faults with the game. Also, servers need to be merged to help control the prices.

Fashion Inventory Slots:
The default number of fashion inventory slots is too low and that we shouldn't be required to purchase inventory expansion slots to have more room for outfits. In most games, the number of slots for fashion items is unlimited allowing players to fill up their wardrobes with any concern. With the dye system, there is an incentive to own multiple outfits and the number of item slots is limiting. The limited number of fashion slots can be a disincentive towards purchasing items from the cash shop or is a disincentive towards players who buy outfits from Soulcash sellers. You could give out more inventory expansion tickets as an event reward to ease this issue.

Chii Classcubes
Make the existing Classcubes include Chii instead of separating them. This will aid with sales since it makes selling fashion items and portrait items much easier. Certain items that have Chii outfits are not labeled correctly such as Animal SoulJamas and Silver Round and all of the current Chii portraits are not included in the Classcubes.

Wheel Items
I'd imagine this would fall on deaf ears but whenever you start running new arrivals as lootbox or wheel only it discourages the playerbase to consider spending money on the game as there most of the community will no longer expect that there would be any new cash item for them to consider buying.

Missing/Unclear Marketplace Categories
The marketplace needs the eye color section in appearance section and underwear section as well since some of the tradeable ones are placed in the Miscellaneous Fashion section.

Error has occurred.
Cash Shop is extremely buggy with "An Error has Occurred" happens far too frequently whenever I browse the cash shop. I'm very certain that there are many others with this problem and not fixing this problem makes people hesitant to spend since there might be some unknown purchasing problem that could happen.

Lag
The cash Shop is very laggy and hard to browse through without experiencing frame drops. Gameforge specifically wanted the web shop and it's the publisher's responsibility to give a seamless browsing experience. This is a turn-off to any potential customers since the cash shop appears to be unstable.

Lack of Interesting Items
There's a lack of interesting items on the cash shop although this is due to the lack of outfits with dye options and items being placed on to the RNG wheel. Is it possible to get pets that pick up loot for starters along with more dye options? Gold and Silver VIP isn't enticing since there's a lack of players on the NA server overall.

Keeping the marketplace prices low are vital towards encouraging the Soulcash buying and selling loop since if more people buy fashion items readily then sc sellers would be willing to sell them more often. So it's in everybody's interest to keep the economy from inflating. The recent Dzenai exploit is a hindrance towards keeping things stable since the community is still speculating who has how much money as our eyes aren't as wide compared to Gameforge's.

Contrary to the popular opinion that there needs to be a method to farm 1m Dzenai, I believe this is the wrong way to correct economic woes as the first implementation of Innocent Daydream on the Korean servers did cause their economy to dramatically inflate to the point that BSK Tera Smelters were close to be being priced out of the marketplace.
A method to farm 1m Dzenai could work but that would mean that the game would require more goldsinks along with something such as the Christmas event socks being a permanent addition to the game. (Seriously don't make Sockworker a permanent feature)

Lack of Gold Sinks
There needs to be an actual need for Dzenai within the game otherwise the game continually produces Dzenai leading to a loop of endless inflation. This version of Soulworker went to odd lengths to remove existing gold sinks in game such as Coin jars from Yumi and allowing people with Gold VIP to waive the Sales Fee which adds to the continual inflation problem.

Dismantling AoV Hard equipment and crafting Energy Converters from Void Fragments won't be enough as those price points are expensive for most players. Ideally, if the community has a shared mindset of everyone is poor due to the game actually eating dzenai then prices will go down. This was the effect of the sock event and we just need something that will require players to spend Dzenai on the game daily and divert their focuses.

At the present moment, there are zero items in the game where people spend daily outside the exception of potions. Eventually this could correct itself as future content from Corrupted Record and the ABC Souldrives from Hidden Hideout presents itself as a gold sink but not every player will have continual access.

There are some approaches where you can enforce the use of Gold Sinks.

Gold Sinks on Endgame Activities
Endgame players are the ones with the most Dzenai in game currently and there needs to be a way to extinguish the Dzenai that occurs from highly valuable transactions mainly with things such as Tera brooches which commonly go beyond 1b.

Normally, this is supposed to be the marketplace sales tax but this version added Sales Waivers and Gold VIP packages that waive this cost eliminating a gold sink that's designed to kill Dzenai from high-end transactions. The waiver needs to be eliminated or change how the waiver works when dealing with items beyond a certain price range.

Introduce a trading fee for player-to-player Dzenai transactions since encouraging people to use the marketplace more would make people believe that the marketplace is still alive and items would be more accessible to everyone. The marketplace cap does need to be increased for this to work. Although, the immediate effect of implementing such a policy would force players to use Energy Converters as a currency. This would slightly increase its value which will be an odd effect but that could encourage more of the spare parts-burns loop.

Introduce Low Entry Goldsinks
There must be something that exists in-game that players should spent into in-game in order to continually delete a significant amount of Dzenai from the economy. The marketplace will only deflate if dzenai is consumed and not being shuffled around. At the current moment, potions are the only item that exist in game for this purpose. However, potions are not a good sink for since Lily and Chii players are self-sustainable to the point where they rarely need to use potions.

Grutin Gold and BP Jars
The Korean server has Grutin Gold Jars and BP Jars to act as a minor gold sink in this scenario in order to ensure that the game eats 1m-2m of daily player income. We especially need the BP Jars since the current ticket system is based from a BP exchange over a Grutin Gold exchange.

3 Tera to 1 Peta Crafting
The last update to the Korean server add 3:1 upgrade ratios for potion crafting which should be added to this version. This allows us to craft/buy Petacubes for ~10k directly allowing for more Dzenai to be burned whenever new difficult content is released.

Encourage use of existing Goldsinks.
There are two very rewarding goldsinks in the game right now and they can work better if the reward and effort required was lower.

Energy Converter Spare Parts.
Ideally, we should have some events that increase the number of Void Fragments that can we obtain via drops and keycards along with adding the Box of 100 Void Fragments to the drop table so players can easily craft Energy Converters which results in more Dzenai being burned.

However, not everyone will be able to afford the 22m crafting cost so events should occasionally have Energy Converter Spare Parts as an event reward to help ease the cost burden. Primal Hero and Corrupted can partially help resolve this conflict as well.

Akasha Merging
The recent KR patch updated the merge success rates for Akasha to be 100% regardless of the star rarity so long as you use 5 cards of the same star rarity. We need this update so that merging cards below 3 star becomes attractive and so players are able to continually gamble for Akashas more easily allowing for more Dzenai to be burned.

Additionally, we could have 50% Glowing Grutin Prices as event and/or have an event were we have twice the rate of obtaining a non-Grutin card from merging. These are examples of events that the Korean had in the past.

However, part of incentive to gamble will be delayed due to the fact that not all of 4 star and 5 star Akasha are released leading to some players holding back resources until then. For the best results with depleting Dzenai from the game, Akashas must be released faster.

Lack of Gold Transfer/Jackpot Items
In order for Dzenai to be depleted from the system, it must be possible to transfer large quantities of Dzenai from one player to the next. Ideally, it should be very possible for new players to be able to get lucky and then obtain a large sum of Dzenai where they can contribute to burning Dzenai via Energy Converter crafting or other means.

Players having large sums of Dzenai help perpetuate the myth that there might be similar players with that same amount of Dzenai leading to people price gouging each other as Dzenai is still relatively worthless. By introducing farmable-rare items that increase the ability of large Dzenai transactions would help as the Dzenai would no longer be sitting and could be potentially transferred to those who could burn the Dzenai from the game.

Currently, no such item exists in game, the only item of value that is of continual worth are Energy Converters which is nowhere close amount to the price tag of SC items. You can partially attempt this by making every fashion event item tradeable and there could be some degree of large transactions but that will only work over a long period of time. The Korean server did have Unique-Rare-Common Lv60 Souldrives drop from Grutins which does help the new player experience out since obtaining a high critical or high accuracy souldrives results in money potentially transferable to new players.

However, I can see the problem being able to self-corect itself with the Barricade Set/Golden Dark Lord from Corrupted Record, Legendary ABC and Weapon Souldrives from Hidden Hideout, and the new accessory set from Dipluce Horizon being able to correct this problem. In this instance, future content must be pushed out faster in order to help aid the economy.

At the present moment, the easiest solution for this is to give only a small amount of TERA Brooch Transmitters as a event reward in hopes that money is transferred from the more wealthy players.

Energy is not a problem exclusive to this version of Soulworker is also a problem with the Korean server as well. This is due to all of the power creep additions added to the game post Hidden Hideout that makes clearing raids too fast for the amount of Energy we have daily. It's already a problem here since we can already partially achieve those times since the community continually farms AoV hard.

The average time it takes to clear AoV Hard is 2~3mins and on a 200 EP limit means that the average playtime for an endgame character is only 30mins. Even if you use 7 characters that only adds up to 4 hrs of daily game and adding Gold/Silver only increases that value to 8 hrs. While I do not play for long periods of time, it is problematic that the game cannot keep the players online for a long period of time. High-end Skyclock groups can reach sub 1min to 2 mins runs meaning that if someone decided to fully devote themselves to Skyclock that would mean even with Gold and Silver, they would only have about 4~8 hrs of general gameplay.

There some other situational cases to this but the problem is illustrated that current content consumes far too much EP in respect to the amount of time it takes to clear it. In general, anything that requires the use of a ticket should not consume EP and the current endgame raids need to have the EP cost to be considerably reduced/have vitamins be more accessible.

My random guess as to why Energy hasn't been completely scrapped is that Liongames is usually concerned with overall progression speed,new players getting into a bad spot with daily loyalty limits, no Energy cost would heavily favor alt farming over utilization of multiple endgame characters, the possibility of being able to complete all Grutin Gold dailies between Grasscover and Dipluce and other future content(?),and continual inflation with a lack of persistent ingame goldsinks.

The Energy problem needs to be addressed, the average linger/playtime is far too short for the majority of players.

Add Cutscene Skip:

This is a heavily requested feature which should have been added by now.

Terminals placed at each Dungeon Entrance:

The Desireworker update added the terminals were we can dismantle/repair near the entrance of each dungeon and didn't have to run across to Xivius. This would help save time overall.

Movement Speed Scents
Random suggestion but I would like a movement speed scent just so I can around town faster.

Deleska and Tickets
Can the ticket system be moved to the Grutin Shop/Yumi? Deleska isn't located in every town which is going to be a nuance later if we need to run back and forth to buy tickets for something like Hidden Hideout/ and or other future content. Ideally moving the features of the ticket to Yumi would be the best option since that would give a low-cost goldsink. I just want to reiterate here that we do not need additional sinks for BP.

Gruntian Summer

I do like how the Gruntian summer event helps with lowering the prices on soulstones which is a tremendous help towards new player gearing up for endgame. Soulstones are a bit of non-issue here compared to KR but having lower soulstone prices will always help new players out.

The rewards for the Grutice Cream exchange are rather lacking if I have to describe a proper word for it. I would have preferred higher crafting limits on Anti-Destructions and the Akasha Transmitters,but it's definitely an improvement from the last event. I never understood why Akasha Transmitters were always excluded from event rewards in this version. The Korean server tends to have lower crafting limits but you can craft multiple rewards on each character there. Korean server usually ends up with 35 Akasha at the end since the limit is 5 there but this version's limits are placed at 10 account-wide.

Reward Notes

I do wish that Random Dye pipettes would been an event reward item along with the random reward box that contained all of the possible rewards added to this list in the event someone has extra Grutice but doesn't like any of the other rewards.

I don't understand the ratio with the Weapon Chip boxes. It could be more useful after the AUC to WUC conversion is added to Trisha but not a good impression if anything matters. Bad translation with the Weapon Chip boxes HAHAHA.

Also thanks for not making the PCbang Dayflowers wings into a RNGbox item.

Oddly the emotes stickies were not a part of the reward list this time so I'm curious as to what will be done with it.

This event is partially new player unfriendly since Steel Graves is buffed in this version giving a slightly rough time to earn 300 bp and the 500g Grutin stunlock can be offputting. I'm already used to this but adding this for feedback as some new players are frustrated about it.

Magical Summer
This is pretty much a copy and paste of last year's event and the reward contents aren't even updated to be relevant with the current endgame. It seems this event table is still tied to back to it's first release when the end game was Golden Citadel. The rewards table should be updated so that the Normal Aetherites are replaced with Primary Aetherites along with tossing in Void Fragments in order to make the event more meaningful.

The new player experience has now improved a lot to the point where it does feel like a completely different game back when it was first released. However, there still a couple of problems I would like to point out.

1. Starter Dash Rewards are slightly lacking.

The rewards are clearly skimped out on compared to what the Korean server has. In this version, Starter Dash rewards only get better each day because there are more challenges but in the Korean server, the reward amount for each day does get progressively better. New players get fewer Akasha transmitters and Anti-Destructions compared to the Korean server's Starter Dash. The starter dash in this version interestingly omits Tag transmitters and the High Quality Akasha transmitter for new players. I'd imagine there's a similar problem for the returning dash but I'd prefer to give a strong impression to the new players and to not have them utilize a lot of workarounds to improve their basic quality of life.

2. Leveling should be improved by Increasing Story Quest EXP

I recently leveled a new character in order to check out the new rates for Ruin Fortress specifically and believe that the rates are sort of okay. The average player can get to Lv60 faster here than the Korean server thanks to reduce EP weekends and a bit of luck with Reduced EP consumption runs over in Grasscover Camp.

It seems leveling experience was only improved since the proceeding requirements for each dungeon slid down by one but the level of each corresponding quests associated with each dungeon were unchanged. This was a good improvement but its very far from perfect. The new player leveling experience is a bit rough for a couple of reasons:

2a. There is a odd wall at Level 41-43

While this wall isn't not the largest and is easier to overcome now with the improved level-up boxes. It is awkward design since after clearing the first dungeon of Ruin Fortress, I need to gain two levels before moving onto Buster Core. I sort of personally hate back-tracking to towns in order to make the most of my exp and would just prefer to be able to run Ruin Fortress EP4 manic at level 41. Strangely enough, the number of runs past that gap are shorter for Level 44-50.

2b. Ruin Fortress Manic can be a struggle.

Ruin Fortress isn't exactly the most easiest place to level up in which results in new players posting parties on searches. As the level cap increases, it is going to unsustainable for veteran players to play out new players due to the level penalty system. Deep Core EP4 and Acheron EP4 Manic aren't exactly the easiest bosses and new players are likely going to waste a lot of respawners there which could lead to a bad new player experience depending on the person.

2c. Low meaning progress wall at Level 54 - 55

There's a really big wall at Lv54 -55 compared to any of the previous levels. At this point, you're likely able to finish all of the manic replay quests and won't be able to reach Lv55. The best possible new player experience avoids utilizing gimmicky means of leveling such as death runs.

You should add the limited repeatable quests for Fatal that the KR server added in response to the leveling complaints over there so that there is some additional meaning towards completing a full run rather than dying to get the most exp out of your daily energy. I will mention that for the Chii release, one of the top complaints for the game was the grinding levels at Ruin Fortress and Grasscover camp which is likely going to be complained about here.

Suggestion

Ideally, you should bring the post-Chii release Story Quest EXP improvements made to Candus,Grace, and Ruin Fortress. A lot of new Chii players quit in the Korean server due to the previous "Grind" in Ruin Fortress and Grasscover Camp which I'm sure is going to be another problem again.

Certain parts of the game are difficult for new players so trying to reduce the number of respawners that they use is very important.

The main issue why leveling should be improved is that a majority of the veterans who can help out new players are at Grasscover camp. If you can get new players to where the veterans are at, they can get help much better help than attempting to find information outside of the game.

3. Add the Limited Repeatable Quests for GCC

One of the main complaints on the Korean server was that grind for GCC was unchanged despite the number of complaints. Liongames only touched the exp gap for Candus - Ruin Fortress but didn't do a thing to GCC so I'm not going to expect radical changes for GCC. However, you should add the Limited Repeatable Quests for (Defeating Ladi x5) repeatable up to 8 times and the 8 time repeatable quest for running though all of EP4 manic dungeons in GCC that the Korean server has. It is possible to run through 58-59 by finishing all of the available quests and repeatable dailies without reaching level 60. Add these quests in order to minimize the possibility of death runs and so players don't feel that they're forced to wait until tomorrow in order to get the most exp/rewards out of their time.

4. Lack of out-of-game community + Outdated Community Resources

The forum is dead and most players stick with their own discord servers so information isn't being shared as freely as they're mostly seen as guild perks. Gameforge needs to encourage the playerbase to write guides or have a place where game discussion can be very visible.

The promised discord server post-merge is still not here yet so I'm not sure how the community is being built. Ideally, you should have a guide contest like what the Korean server does everytime they release new content in order to help out the new players.

Section Conclusion

If this is all implemented, then the new player experience will mostly be the same with what the Korean server has exception of events. I think point 4 is useless since its all on Gameforge.

I personally think that the midway experience is easier in this version mainly since springboards such as tradeable ECs and fashion crafting materials exist in this version where's its not present in the Korean server and you're fully expected to grind out Last Carnival and Iron Castle for Dz over there.

Korean server Requirements

*1500 Accuracy
*2 Lv9 Soulstones
*10k+ atk weapon

I'll be using these requirements as a baseline since the Korean server recently officialized these requirements into the game guide on the Korean website.

Weapon
10k+ atk weapon is rather easy to reach in this version since the Terminus weapon that is given away at Lv55 is rather easy to +9 along with the ability to apply a rare grade tag thanks to the improved lv55 rewards. Additionally, it is cheaper for new players since they don't need to use Primary Aetherites.

Lv9 Soulstones.
Soulstones are easier to get in this version thanks to the springboards that exist here. It's much more of a non-issue here compared to the Korean server.

1500 Accuracy
The accuracy requirement is more difficult to reach here since BSK accuracy brooches are still rather expensive but there seems to be people on this server who at least list the Kilo/Bit versions rarely. BSK being put onto the cash shop permanently should allow for prices to deflate over time but ideally, we need some kind of consistent event in order to keep the prices on these type of brooches depressed. The NA server does not have any supply of accuracy brooches.

AoV hard is much easier to farm compared to the Korean server so farming for an AoV set + accessories is much faster than what the KR community recommends by farming Primal. People following the AoV hard path over Primal means that they're more likely able to use Souldrives for accuracy. There does seem to be a decent supply of the accuracy related Souldrives on the marketplace for at least the EU server. This supply doesn't exist on the NA server.
Reaching the accuracy requirement is tougher on new players in the NA server vs the EU server.

The actual requirements.
The actual requirements on this version are actually all over the place. These requirements range from:
*No Requirements
*At least 1500 Accuracy
*+8/+9 AoV Weapon
*Some Specified amount of Critical Damage
*Paying others with Dz or SC in order to take part in runs

One main cultural difference between the KR and western server is that the Korean community does call people out if you do not meet requirements or if you try to set requirements higher than what the KR community recommends as the minimum standard. Personally, I would work with the KR community minimum standard as that's just based on principle of what if everyone is equally ungeared.

The problems here is that AoV hard is still prefered over Manic, accuracy is more difficult to obtain in this version and the overall community is more toxic compared to the Korean server.

You probably can't do anything about the third point but you can make brooches more common by events and increase the incentive for AoV manic by adding the Energy Converter Spare Parts crafting which was oddly left out along with the Box of 100 Void Fragment. (2 Void Fragments = 1 Spare Part)

This strictly applies to Tenebris as that server is pretty dead.

Skyclock Palace - Dead content on the NA server since it's pretty hard to built parties for it. This makes farming for tags on the NA server more hellish compared to the EU server.

Primal - I had a couple of new players approach me on how to start Primal which I told them to ignore but they were rather adamant on trying. For a playable experience, it should at least be easier or accessible to start. We need the updated Team finder for Soulsquards in order to making grouping for Primal much easier.

Lack of Okay Brooches - The marketplace is lacking in "hobo" brooches with what the KR community recommends as okay. These are namely things such as accuracy brooches, cheap mega/giga brooches and Giga Conquest + Sharpshooter.

The competitive endgame has always been hellish in this version which one of the main reasons why people dislike this version of Soulworker. I'm not a competitive player so I'm just writing down these points for completeness of player-styles.

Leftover Loyalty rebalances.

SIN brooches, Slumbering Soulstones, and Boss Damage Prefix/Suffix Titles do not exist in the Korean server and in order to have fair end-game, they must be viable for most of the community to obtain.

Tera Brooch Accessibility.
Tera brooches have mostly been far too difficult for any normal player to obtain. You need to add random Tera brooch transmitters as part of event rewards in order to keep the prices on Brooches slumped so players have better accessibility so that it's not an item that's sold exclusively for RMT. If there's a potential problem for abuse, then put the level requirement for opening these transmitters to be level 60.

Energy Converters
The experience with getting these is easier compared to the KR server but utilizing them to get the perfect rolls is the same hellish experience. Hopefully, we would get the improved system to Energy Converters that the KR version is about implement. Plus you need to add the Spare Parts crafting with Void Fragments to make Energy Converters easier to get.

Akasha.
The RNG is not so satisfactory and with how the new cards are getting delayed does annoy the community. Get the cards out faster than the current slow pace as this is one of the things that was stated it wasn't difficult to implement. The Korean server recently hard-coded it's ceiling system for Akasha so is it possible for us to get that system brought here? I know Liongames and Gameforge wants money so why not implement the system that encourages spending over alt-farming?

Low-effort rewards
One of the problems in this version is that there is a direct lack of free resources for little effort. Every aspect of the game requires grinding but there really isn't a good reward for logging in every day. The best way to improve this is to boost the consecutive login-rewards and to implement Grutin Coin Jars to Yumi. If abuse is an issue then, put the coin jars at lv60 in order to purchase.

Improve the Attendance Rewards.
The Korean server updated the attendance reward with the Akasha renewal. Where is the attendance reward with the Tag transmitters added?

Alt Utilization
People on this server seem to prioritize using slots more for alt-farming rather than creating more characters for farming additional endgame resources compared to the Korean version. I imagine this would balance out eventually once the economy deflates more if we receive more gold sinks, leveling is improved and if brooches become cheaper. People having more alts could potentially increase the number of parties available.

AoV Hard v AoV Manic
Incentive to run AoV Manic is lacking which is going to cause a problem once Hidden Hideout comes as people will turn to AoV hard to farm for Energy Converters. This is going to cause a progression cliff for new players as they won't be able to farm AoV Manic in order to run Hidden Hideout. You just need to add the incentive towards manic by allowing us to craft spare parts by using Void fragments.

Primary Aetherite Prices
The prices for Primary and Normal Aetherites are still 20x compared to Korean server while most of things on the market are generally 2x of KR prices exception of the super high-end items.

This seems to suggest that not enough players are running Innocent Daydream since that is where the main source of Normal and Primary Aetherites are at. However, the BP cost of purchasing five tickets is not that sustainable. You need to tie the BP cost to equal the amount of BP you earn from running AoV hard x5 or AoV manic x3. This would allow more of the playerbase to farm ID allowing for lower prices of Normal and Primary so that new player progression is not as expensive. Additionally, try to prioritize the first part of Dipluce Horizon as people in this version would farm that area to death allowing Aetherite prices to plummet. Mainly since dismantling drops from Dipluce are almost always going to Normal Aetherites.

Aether
I don't expect much of a solution towards fixing aether since.. the Korean server took the cash shop route of "trying" to alleviate it (It's quite the scam imo). However, there are still some improvements that this version lacks to slightly improve the situation.

1. Implement Cut-scene skip. Golden Citadel has a ton of cut-scenes which take an annoying huge amount of time. Allowing us to skip cut-scenes would improve the overall experience.

2.Reduce the EP cost for Golden Citadel from 30 to 20. A minor detail but that difference would allow us to farm for more aether daily.

3.This is just a personal nuisance but you can move the return to town point closer to the entrance of the Golden Citadel Portal? It's annoying how we spawn so far away from the portal after finishing a clear.

Cash Shop Item Preview.
There needs to be a preview system for cash shop items in game. If you cannot implement the cash shop system from the Korean server then can you extend the functionality to the marketplace? We would also need emote and weapon preview to be added to the marketplace preview as well. For this method to work, we would need some way for all items to posted on the marketplace to see it or add non-buyable placeholder items to the marketplace in order to preview. I personally think adding a buying system would help complement this system very well.

Maximum SETs
I don't understand the purpose of this item since there's no item in the Korean version with 99 upgrade attempts and the endgame items only goes up to 60. It's very odd that you can't even list this item to begin with. It would have been better to just lower the current price of SETs down to 100-50 sc so there would be a very accessible staple item that people would buy from SC sellers.