Concerning duplicates

I recognize that the current system is completely random and usually hands you just the item you need with some time, but there are certain unlucky cases where you cannot find that one item for a long time (I've been waiting for an epic bandage for 3 months). So I have an idea that could fix this just for those unlucky instances.

First I would create a new type of item in the game. They would be legendary prices of different rarity. This means that I can get a legendary rare item piece, a legendary epic item piece, or maybe even a legendary uncommon piece. These pieces would work differently from normal item pieces in that when you combine 10 of them you choose the item it creates. To keep balance these legendary versions of different rarity items could be found in every place a normal piece could but with only a 4% chance of finding a legendary version instead of normal. Also when these pieces are scrapped then they turn into double the amount of normal item pieces. These pieces are universal and can create any item ranging from yellow to blue to red to green.

(If the legendary versions of different rarities is confusing then I can change that)

Also I have seen on threads about new items, people say that the inclusion of new items in the game lessons the chance for getting duplicates, and this is true. To allow adding more items in the game without decreasing chances of getting a certain item, there could be a system where a fixed number of items a day are in the crafting pool (this number could be the current ones such as 19 for weapons), which means that when ever you combine item pieces they will only be from the pool of items. Every item is guaranteed to be In the pool every other day. This allows for the creation of brand new items with smaller expense to the chance of duplicates in the case of item crates.

 

Good idea you have there. But then item pieces would take up even more of your inventory, which is problematic.

 

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Edit: now only one inventory slot.