After a little discussion of it on JV2 Discord, we thought of a way to perhaps change the way the artifact location hunt works to make it more fun again, so we'll share this idea here.
Searching for arti levels is still fun, it just becomes pointless after the bubbles get won since you no longer get anything special for it, and since the hint gets fully revealed eventually as well and you've got no time limit, you can just "get it whenever" and the intense search stops.
We thought that the solution might be separating the bubble award to something else and changing the point of the artifact to something that the community in general would like. Perhaps restricting artis to only give exp, but the sooner you find it, the more exp you gain, so you still want to find it as fast as possible, but the finding process becomes a community effort instead of a 1st finder competition where "some people might have an unfair advantage".
I'd like to think the "usual first finders" don't actually want to ruin the fun for others (the bubbles are just so rare and appealing that it ends up this way), so if you could keep the first finder(s?) anonymous (perhaps until the full hint is revealed?), that way others can still keep searching while you secretly enjoy your early extra exp bonus.
This way we wouldn't need any unnecessarily complex level/user names or overly difficult levels, and keep it as a fun level hunting event that it was initially supposed to be.
As for what to do with the bubbles, I'm unsure right now, but I'm sure something can be figured out. And if anyone else has got any cool additional ideas for the new artifact hunt idea to make it even better, you can suggest it in this thread ^^
Searching for arti levels is still fun, it just becomes pointless after the bubbles get won since you no longer get anything special for it, and since the hint gets fully revealed eventually as well and you've got no time limit, you can just "get it whenever" and the intense search stops.
We thought that the solution might be separating the bubble award to something else and changing the point of the artifact to something that the community in general would like. Perhaps restricting artis to only give exp, but the sooner you find it, the more exp you gain, so you still want to find it as fast as possible, but the finding process becomes a community effort instead of a 1st finder competition where "some people might have an unfair advantage".
I'd like to think the "usual first finders" don't actually want to ruin the fun for others (the bubbles are just so rare and appealing that it ends up this way), so if you could keep the first finder(s?) anonymous (perhaps until the full hint is revealed?), that way others can still keep searching while you secretly enjoy your early extra exp bonus.
This way we wouldn't need any unnecessarily complex level/user names or overly difficult levels, and keep it as a fun level hunting event that it was initially supposed to be.
As for what to do with the bubbles, I'm unsure right now, but I'm sure something can be figured out. And if anyone else has got any cool additional ideas for the new artifact hunt idea to make it even better, you can suggest it in this thread ^^
![[Image: xmKCETn.png]](https://i.imgur.com/xmKCETn.png)
