like i said up the stamina and people will have a harder time to secure epics due to a lack of stamina to do so thus the amount of epics will not rise significantly as i stated before
i for instance gain 124 stamina per hour the current system allows me to secure one high level titan every 26 hours assuming they have 6600 THP and that i use no stamina walking and conserve doesn't kick in.
make the titan hits cost double the sam and you can secure one titan every 52 hours with the same variables : walking didn't cost stamina and conserve doesn't kick in
this way even a duo costs both partners atleast a day worth of stamina hunting them
however the hunt will be faster.
so basically people will have a harder time gathering the stamina to secure on thus enforcing team efforts to be able to continue to do so to speed it up.
cleaning up will be easier managable because there's less Titan HP to clear away thus making it also a bit more profitable for those who are slower than others.
and since TKP will get lowered according towards the Titan Hp reduction it will take the same amount of clean-up to get it
this is a fix for multiple things in my opinion :
-epic prices lowering non stop it will most likely balance out for a while now.
-for the securing guilds it will allow them to get the item faster due to a possible faster clean-up
-makes titan hunting more popular at even the higher levels because it is very popular at the lower levels already
and just saying it get's cleaned up by a guild that got off cooldown in most cases because they want to go and secure the next one while another guild is on cooldown...
most times a high level titan get's secured by guild A guild B then get's off cooldown and cleans it up and get's second place later when that same titan spawns you'll see that guild B secured it and guild C get's second place and the next spawn guild C has secured it and guild A comes and clean up and then secure it that's how the loop is currently going fyi.
everything in the game has lost value because there is a lack of players and a flood of items.
low level epics go for about 150 fsp each
high level epics go for about 400 each
this indicates us that lower level epics have more people to hunt and it's probably also easier to profit from.
this is where we get to the guardian of elements comment that i made it took me 8.5k stam 2 light foot 1250 pots 2 flasks of death and various other potions to secure it solo. in group the only thing that get's reduced significantly is the time to hunt it stam stays pretty much the same and the costs in pots etc also remain about equal because you only get 50% of the profits for the sale.
i'm not saying do half of the Titan Hp of all titans but 75% or 80% is already a huge reduction for those high end titans and turns 5 hours into 4...
and adding that extra 1 stamina will make sure that the epic flow will remain about the same
it's not a loophole... just let it seep into your brains for a bit