Riddle me this one, Krinadon! :)


Lately I've only had a chance to run the festival zone once per day.

In that time I kill all 6 bosses, and get a Frozen Key form the task list. I also tend to pick up at least one Frozen Key along the way from a boss or a present.

After using one Frozen Key, it tells me I can't use it again for some undetermined amount of time.

Let me repeat that I tend to only have one chance to run the festival zone each day. Which means I can only use ONE key per day, while I'm piling up key after key after key that I don't get a chance to use... Already I'm sitting at 4, soon to be 5 when I finish the last 3 bosses, and tomorrow will likely add another, the next day another, and so on.


Why the cooldown? What purpose does it serve? Keys aren't tradeable so it's not like people can be passing them around to each other or profiting off of them; what I'm stuck with I'll just be stuck with. Wasted. Useless. Missed opportunities sitting in my inventory once the fest is closed because the cooldown stopped me from using them.

(Edit: In case it wasn't obvious enough, my suggestion is to get rid of the evil cooldown. Unless it actually DOES serve a purpose I'm not aware of... but I really doubt that purpose would outweigh the extent of unfairness it will have for players with limited time.)

Same problem. 9 spare keys right now, at least one new key per day, and I can only check the door.. once or twice a day.
:/

The purpose most likely is the fact that, as you said, you accumulate quite a few. It's supposed to have "special rewards" inside, and if you could go in 50 times a day the prizes would have to decrease significantly. (Idk though, I don't think I got anything special the one time I went in, maybe I'm understanding it wrong)

It's the age old issue of trying to release features that are fun and rewarding for players who maybe throughout the whole Fetlstival only find a handful of keys... but not having a feature where the players who play enough to find hundreds of keys end up with waaaaaay too much nice stuff causing economical imbalances.

I could have limited earning keys, but I wanted that to be more open and flexible.

So the easiest and fairest solution I felt was to put in a CD so as to essentially cap how many keys one could actually open throughout a fest - a ceiling.