Reducing the grind

honestly figured this would get deleted. well bps is just a grind within a grind of shards. theyre not really an issue from where i stand maybe something small could be done but waste of manpower to focus on it right now. the problem is shards. honestly a missed opportunity by not making cosmetics purely auric cells. would get alot of backfire if you did that now. but if you said something along the lines of making characters cost less shards at the same time it would help but might just split the community up from new players/veteran players. but might help bring in alot of new players. (idk just spit ballin stuff).

i bought this game recently and am a new pc player with 150 hours (about 14000 shards obtained). in this time ive been able to buy one killer. bought the newest deathslinger (also bought leatherface)

i enjoy the game but what i dont enjoy is playing the same stuff over and over and over (when my pool to diversify what i play is so small, feel i need to say this cause if i had everything i would probably enjoy the game a long time to come since theres countless of combinations of ways to play). i want to play other surv perks and other killers

if we take lvl 50-100 rewards and xp requirement, it takes 210 ten minute games to lvl up enough and get 9k shards to buy a new character. thats without que times, games lasting under 10mins, games lasting over 10mins. people dcing in loading and going back to que etc etc. time adds up quick.

plenty of other games have catchup mechanics, r6, league, WoW. pretty much anywhere you find a long lasting mmo youll find catchup mechanics.

you can increase bps, you can make it so prestige characters dont require as many bps, or just decrease it all together

shards, you can decrease required or increase the amount you get as well but i dont really like that as a player or from a business sense. i would make it so either less popular surv/killer (so people would see more diversity in the game) or the oldest surv/killers (a more logical standpoint the community would understand) require less shards, so everytime a new killer/surv comes out the oldest ones get required by 100 shards or something (its something at least, leave the tuning and ideas to you guys) while the newest killer/surv still would require a full purchase until the next release and then theyll drop to 8900

what do you think about these ideas, do you think they would or would not work and why. i dont mean to come off as toxic and rude oh though im sure it probably feels that way and it kind is honestly, sorry. im just pretty frustrated with the game and the decisions. the game itself is lovely, i really do enjoy it and the time you guys put into it to make it better. of course the tuning could be better here and there but the overall game is very enjoyable. it just feels very unwelcoming as a new player.

prove thyself gives you extra coop bps which youll see alot more in the upcoming patch when the gen speed nerfs. WGLF also procs from protection hits and you can run deliverance too for an extra stack as well as rescue bps, not a bad perk. and if you really want to go hard you can run saboteur, another not so bad perk anymore that gives extra bps. and yeah wglf gives you extra points, but getting to the cap isnt easy in itself so prove thyself is pretty nice.

but again the main issue i have when making this thread was with shards

making sure new players stay interested in the game by getting more character easily

what kind of perk would you suggest making/giving extra bps to though or what effect would you add to wglf