[UI] Special Bonus boxes (Rare Bonusbox)

A small idea translated from German into Englisch. Since this idea received very positive feedback so far on the German forums I would love to give the English community a chance to read this one as well and perhaps give it a wider range.

My idea is about a rare kind of bonus boxes. That means bonus boxes that appear more rarely but contain much more rewards compared to the normal bonus boxes, perhaps even valuable towards the top-tier players. To make this work I've come up with a few mechanics that should work well with this idea.

First of all it would be important to mention that these boxes only spawn in the X-3 maps and above - including pirate maps and PvP maps. On the lesser maps it could come to farming complications. I think we are aware of these complications. Anyways, the boxes are as mentioned rare and won't appear like the normal ones. They have a lower probability to be spawned and therefor a lower chance to be actually found. How the chance works is easily explained.

Every 10 minutes every map has a 25% chance to spawn one of these special boxes. That means that these boxes will only appear once per map, but multiple times spread across the other maps. So the chance is rather low. The boxes are marked with a red aura and they are slightly bigger, indicating their rarity. Should a box spawn and not be collected during a 10 minute period, the box will disappear.

Different as the normal bonus box, this kind of bonus box requires a key. Don't worry, this key won't cost anything and is merely there to prevent a PET-Collection and to prevent a few other tiny problems. Anyways, this key is acquired through collecting 100 regular bonus boxes. After the collection of 100 bonus boxes, 1 key will be booked automatically. This will also prevent players from only searching and collecting this box and encourages them to collect the normal ones as well.

I think more interesting for you is what's inside this box. And believe me it will contain a lot of things.

Item​	Chance​	Quantity​
MCB-50​	20,00%​	1500​
UCB-100​	15,00%​	1500​
RSB-75​	7,50%​	1000​
UBR-100​	10,00%​	100​
HSTRM-01​	5,00%​	100​
Logfiles​	10,00%​	10​
HP-Booster​	7,50%​	4 Hours​
SHD-Booster​	7,50%​	4 Hours​
DMG-Booster​	7,50%​	4 Hours​
Booty Key​	3,00%​	1​
Aura 'Spade' *​	1,00%​	1​
Uridium​	6,00%​	2000​

• *If the Aura 'Spade' is already acquired, you will get refunded with 5.000 Uridium

What exactly is the 'Spade'-Aura? An aura is a new type of cosmetic that can be equipped alongside with Designs and on any ship. The Aura will make an aura appear around your ship, in this case a deep-red aura, similar to the Aura of a leonov. Yes, I have received the feedback that this looks very familiar to the Lava-Design but it's still a little different seeing as you don't leave a fiery trail behind you. Anyways, the Aura has no positive nor negative effects, it's purely cosmetic. Also, here are two examples how an aura could look like:

Leonov-'Spade'

Goliath-'Spade'


A small FAQ to this idea

Do you profit from using a bonus-box booster?
No, you do not.

Can these boxes appear everywhere?
Yes, everywhere above x-3.

Why should these boxes exist in the first place?
There is nothing really rare on the maps. Everything is very common, including booty boxes. Those will flow into the game just perfectly and offer a free alternative to booty boxes.

This was it with this idea. I hope you like it. And just like I mentioned in the German forums: Please do not rely on arguments like "It can cause bugs" or "It will supports bots" - Bots will always profit, don't let the fair players suffer because of that!

Regards ~ Zecora

 

I wonder where the idea of the captcha boxes were buried. I remember there was something like this implemented 7-8 years ago, so this could serve the purpose very well. But the problem is, the Inferno designs looks very neat, so basically this is a "cheap" version of it, so I'd suggest to change the Aura something which is neat (like golden or green, maybe even dark blue since Leonov has aqua) as well.

But I still suggest some rarity to it or then it bypasses the spawn limit of bonus boxes per map.

 

Hiya,

Due to the inactivity of this idea it will be close, archived and listed on the Update&Idea Pool index.

Closing as inactive, archived and set to Index.