Coin Economy Tweaks

[thatmarkguy]

The situation also actively discourages powerup experimentation. It's pretty hard for people low on coins to justify risking 550 of them just to take a stab in the dark at an unconventional loadout.

They're risking 50 coins (maybe 150 if they have a disastrously bad run) as long as they stick with the song to the end.

This is honestly such a no-brainer that I suspect the reason this hasn't been adjusted is possibly due to something about the way the core game handles the restart mechanism, meaning that perhaps the restart function is "hard-coded" inside the software to simply ping back out to the server and charge the full amount for the powerups.

No; it's design intent. The game punishes restarters expressly because they intentionally designed it to punish restarters. They absolutely could have made the game only deduct powerup coins at song end rather than song start, and they chose not to.

one, perhaps the game could add an additional coin bonus situation other than just playing new songs.

It's called Rock Band World. It's called Score War. It's called weekly artist double-coin-rate promos.

Maybe you could get double (or even triple) coins for placing in a certain percentile of the board. That way the elite players who are earning top scores get rewarded for it instead of effectively punished for putting in such an effort to fulfill the game's stated core aim.

Either the elite players are restarting an effectively-infinite number of times until they nail their perfect run, in which case they'll continue to complain no matter what if restarts cost them no matter the reward for completion; or they play songs to completion and are not in need for coins anyway.

Alternatively, at the very least, it would be great if there were a coin gifting feature through Rock Band World. I would be more than happy to throw a few thousand coins to those who are running into this unfortunate limitation.

And if they did this people would be farming goals their main account already completed with alternate facebook accounts, and playing songs again with alt accounts for double-coin reward, just to transfer the funds to their main account.