Summary: The hub world we go to between echoes when doing monoliths is essentially our version of a Path of Exile hideout. Make ways to customize it and add skins, furniture, trophies, etc. We go back to it after each echo and it’s a huge area of untapped potential that people like me would absolutely love and prefer to buy over equipment skins.
Specific ideas:
- Add a node for this zone to the map so we can travel there directly.
- Let us put seasonal vendors there (Masque, Skarven, future ones).
- Customizable polyhedron thing we interact with to select echoes like the map device in PoE. Some could have timers like the PoE map timers, kill counters, etc to display your stats from the echo you run.
- Trophies, statues, furniture, other decor (Diablo 2 hellforge skin for the forge, throne, bed, Capybara statue, beekeeping stuff, loot lizard pen).
- Jukebox or musician NPCs that let us change the theme music in the zone.
- Minigames or fun things to interact with that do cute stuff (Capybara racing, basketball hoop, test dummies).
- Rollercoasters that go off the edge of the zone over the abyss.
- Ways to expand the zone to fit more stuff. I’m thinking mtx to add a new island to your hubworld connected by a bridge like the monoliths are connected to each other.
- Anything else that they offer in PoE that you think fits Last Epoch.
I know it’s easier said than done, but I think working on getting the ground work for a customizable hideout/hubworld will pay huge dividends going forward. Once you have the systems in place, you can continually add new mtx for that zone and I know I will continue to buy it as I’m sure others will too.