The only real reason for increasing the max level would be if the game was desperatly in need of a big gold sink, other than that I see no reason for it other than creating even more separation between the (for the lack of a better term) 'rich' and 'poor'...If you reached max level, great, enjoy it, let others have it as well...Just add new buffs at the existing level bracket and that's it.
Remember the old days when some spent millions to have access to max level potions? We had traveller composers, it created such a big difference between guilds who had a max level composer at their guild or not...I really see no reason to come back to it once again.
To start with I think the only reason Composing XP/levels exists is to create that gold sink, otherwise it would be open to anyone to brew which ever potion they want if they had enough frags/gold...So if the idea of raising the max level is to go forward, need to start by analising the economy of Gold and FSPs, not how many people are at max level or not.
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Some ideas, nothing big:
- Adding 'auto-collect', 'auto-discard' and 'brew next' once you reach lvl 20 (?).
'Brew next' only available one time, maybe 2 times at lvl 40, and 3 times at lvl 60...I don't know.
(Everyone knows that there is loads out there using 3rd party scripts for Composing, or at least they were using it till they reach max level, that would make it more fair for those who don't use it....And no, I have no proof of that)
- Gold, Time and Frags discounts. (at lvl60)
- Option to Tag a potion even after it's finished, if it was brewed by you of course.
- Having more than 5 buffs in the same potion, maybe 7. (at lvl60)
- Option to combine potions if the total of buffs don't go over 5 (7). (at lvl60)
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About new buffs, new levels for existing buffs, etc...I think we first should have some ideas about what those buffs might be, I'm all in to include it in the existing bracket, but I don't know what exactly, and depending on how weak/strong they're it might change their placement...Maybe checking the official thread for 'New Skills/Buffs' is a good place to start.