Good afternoon. Sorry for Google english. I've been following this project for a long time, and I had an idea (I don't know if it was already proposed). What if Lona had a progression system similar to the one in Wizard's Climber? There, at each new start, the player could save part of the accumulated experience (15% initially) without any conditions. At the same time, for certain achievements, the amount of transferred experience increased. In addition, the percentage was taken from the maximum experience achieved on best run, not from the previous run. Also there, when certain actions were performed, it was possible to start another run under different conditions.

   As I see it, the initial transferred experience is 0%. If Lona can give birth to a child, then this will 1- permanently increase the percentage of transferred experience (for 10%, as example), 2- will give a constant opportunity to be reborn into this race, regardless of whether Lona gives birth in the future. With the increase in the number of children from different races, the possibility of constant rebirth into them is added, and an even greater increase in transferred experience (from each race only once). And also the transferable experience increases from achieving new endings (once for each ending). To keep everything fair, you can introduce such a system only on difficulties 2 and 3. Or make sure that each difficulty has its own indicator. Perhaps all this can be built into the game’s achievement system.

   Why am I writing this - most runs in LonaRPG begin with the fact that *Lona goes to the nearest bar, where she makes a backup copy of herself with the first guy she comes across, so as not to lose experience points after death*. And the progress system, in my opinion, would allow us to avoid this, which would add incentive for players to try different approaches to the game, without fear of resetting all progress (sitting in a bar and waiting for the birth of a child for several days in real time on 2 or 3 difficulties is not very funny).

  Thank you for your attention and hard work. I wish you good luck in the coming year.

I made a mistake - all my posts were written on behalf of a player who will try to play LonaRPG honestly and from scratch. Because of this, someone might think that I just want to make the game easier. But everything is somewhat different. I want to show my idea from a different angle: LonaRPG positions itself as a *game about suffering*. But there is simply no suffering in this game. And I'll explain why.

There is simply no motivation to play honestly in LonaRPG. On Hard/Hell difficulty, all suffering is eliminated by the Save/load system. So Lona will end up, for example, in slavery, only if the player is VERY bored. Doom difficulty- is generally the easiest of all for players. Doom is played only by hardcore players, who know almost everything about the game - bugs, glitches, gimmicks, exploits, etc. Are they suffering? -Do not make me laugh! Players simply have NO motivation to suffer. Why suffer in vain when you can just load a saved game? I’m generally silent about Doom - it’s not the players and Lona who suffer from the game, but the game that suffers from the players and Lona.

If a progression system like the one I described was added to the game, Hard/Hell players who get into trouble, WILL suffer until the very end rather than loading a save game, because there will be a reward for their suffering. And if there is a reward, then there is also motivation to suffer for it. Hardcore players will also suffer on Doom because they will become less careful and will start making mistakes that will land them in sticky situations. In addition, Doom will be played not only by hardcore players who know everything about the game, but also by less hardcore players - and there they will suffer from their mistakes and ignorance. They will suffer greatly. But not in vain. After all, there will also be a reward for their suffering. This means that they will not quit the game, but will continue to suffer.