Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25532617-20141013053613/@comment-3157150-20141210140446

Freenight wrote: The moment someone offered an opinion = hate The moment someone said something you don't want to hear = hate The moment someone offered criticism(constructive) = hate

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Ideas and all are fine, but if your ideas are not balanced to the vanilla game, they are obviously not very well thought of.

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4. They must have a unique loot table. They must not drop something that can already be obtained in another way, or they would be just redundant. I'll cover numbered point 4 first; I agree with the first half of the statement, though I think that in some cases an item with some other way to obtain it, could be welcome on some drop lists, with an adjusted drop count and rate. (Such as a weaker/stronger Skeletron Prime variant dropping less/more Souls of Fright.) The first four (quoted) points I concur with wholeheartedly. However I will point out that the original thread's subject was "What new bosses would YOU add?" This does not ask "Which ideas do you like and which do you hate?", though leaving room for possible balance suggestions is a viable addition to ideas submitted. My main point in most of that? We're not looking to hate on other people's ideas. There should be no problem with opinions with good faith on the ideas of others, but putting them and the ideas down (unhelpful hate) rather than suggesting possible changes (or suggesting that the idea isn't balanced enough to be feasible) instead is what should be happening.

Here is an example of an unbalanced idea (for multiple reasons). EpicArmies wrote: CTHULU Hard mode boss 1000000 Health 50 ranged attack 100 melee attack Drops Brain Suspicious looking eye Lens Bloody spine 1000 platinum coins Legendary Laser rifle Legendary Terrablade I'm sure I don't need to point out the possible flaws with this balance, though I do think that some variation of Cthulhu would be a nice addition as an end-game boss or even super-boss.