A couple suggestions

[F00L]

1. I think that howler should get points for his screams/howls. Like every 3 howls he gets 1 point. Another idea I had for this is the bigger the amount of zombies he buffs, the more points he would get. It doesnt have to be alot but like if 7+ zombies get buffed once or twice 2 or so points should be given. Howlers need to be rewarded for doing their job, not punished and forced to use the claws if they want to make points.

2. I dont think this is even possible but to have the ability to revert your cards and decrease their level should give you your points back. So if I dont use this gun or that and its lvl 9 and I wasted alot of points on it, I should be able to revert the levels and upgrade some other card with those points.

3. Now for the supply crates. I feel that winning every map is the same due to the fact that most of the time the amount of points you get is the same. Most of the time one supply crate would live if humans do manage to win and the reward would just be 175 points and with both somewhere around 300. If humans are able to defend BOTH of those crates they should be rewarded eith alot, not 300 points. Its not one cade they have to deal with but two.

Edited January 30, 2019 by F00L

[Talbot]

Howlers usually lose their boss spots because of this, good idea.

In regards to 'card selling' or reverting them, it should give you like 50%-75% of their original price, but that's just my 2 cents.

Also, each supply gives you 300, winning with both supplies gives 600+ any profit you might've made that round.

[F00L]

Ye I was thinking about the percentage to the selling your cards, just thought that it might be too much tho and about the crates my apologies I play zombie most of the time.

[Lady Luck]

Selling cards sounds great. Id sell all those useless t6 guns i have. Actually. Id sell all the gun cards i have.

[pho-]

@Talbot Each supply gives 150 at the moment; this was dropped from 300 a couple months ago

But I agree with the Hower's point gain, make it scale with the amount of nearby zombies 

[Snowyamur]

Interesting list of ideas. Couple of thoughts:

Suggestion 1

As someone who loves to be the Howler because I like playing a support-class for the zombie team, I like this idea. By allowing the Howler to gain an income through buffing zombies, that will give more players an incentive to play the Howler and prevent it from becoming an obsolete zombie boss.

Giving players a reward for playing as a support-class is something that needs to be reinforced for Zombie Survival, and starting it off with the Howler is a great way to go.

Based on the values you provided for how many points it would receive per certain number of zombies buffed, I would keep it in multiples. For instance, for every 5 zombies buffed, the Howler gets 1 point, for every 10, 2 points, etc. Keeping it where the additive points is set to 5 buffed zombies = 1 point rewarded would be small compared to how many points zombies could make by just slashing at a barricade, but it's better than nothing.

The reason why the value is small is to ensure the Howler doesn't become an easy point-farming boss; playing as a normal zombie that slashes at barricades and humans will still be more profitable than what the Howler could make, but at least the Howler is making something.

 

Suggestion 2

I like this idea. Giving players the opportunity to decrease one of their card's levels to earn back the points initially required to level it in the first place is a flexible suggestion. Something like this would mimic a common game mechanic of re-spec in videogames with skill trees involved, and something like this is not too different.

If there's one thing I'm worried about is that there's no mention of whether you earn your cards back or not.

If it was up to me, I would make it where should the player choose to downgrade one of their weapon cards, they would earn back all the points initially required to level-up, but they wouldn't earn back the cards. Basically, the cards on-hand would neither increase nor decrease; that would remain constant, but by downgrading a card by one level, the player would essentially "lose" cards that they used up to raise it by a level.

Ex.:

I have 784 "Crossfire" Glock cards on-hand, and my current "Crossfire" Glock card level is 7. It costed 1000 points and 400 "Crossfire" Glock cards to level this card up to level 7, and if I choose to downgrade this card back to level 6, I would receive the full points refund, but not the full "Crossfire" Glock cards refund. I would still have 784 "Crossfire" Glock cards on-hand to level it up again if I choose to, but by downgrading, I essentially "lost" 400 "Crossfire" Glock cards.

Doing this would make level-downgrading an option someone wouldn't do on a fly.There's a benefit and a drawback to doing this, and this seems fair because the player would be sacrificing one thing for the other.

 

Suggestion 3

To be honest, I would reduce how many points are rewarded for keeping a Supply Crate active for 6 waves and compensate this with earning something related to the currently-active cards mechanic alongside the points.

For instance, if there are two Supply Crates on the map, and one is destroyed, but one remains active as the humans win the round, they would receive 100 points and a Draft Chest. If both supply crates survived, players would receive 250 points and a Mystical Chest. This makes rewards for keeping the Supply Crate alive more worthwhile than just rewarding points that would otherwise be burned through spending.

 

These are my thoughts. Simple list of suggestions, but worth a look.