# Petition/Vote to permanently change the gnome rate to the prior vault event rate

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/petition-vote-to-permanently-change-the-gnome-rate-to-the-prior-vault-event-rate/65314
**Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback
**Created:** [August 8, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/petition-vote-to-permanently-change-the-gnome-rate-to-the-prior-vault-event-rate/65314 "2020-08-08T04:28:09Z")
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### Author: ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jonathan/32/66724_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jonathan)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/petition-vote-to-permanently-change-the-gnome-rate-to-the-prior-vault-event-rate/65314/2 "2020-08-08T05:22:37Z")

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My thoughts remain largely the same as from this thread:

> [@Please make every gnome weekend the same rate as this past one](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/please-make-every-gnome-weekend-the-same-rate-as-this-past-one/64899/3):
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> For me, it’s really just the Pet Gnome rate that needs to stay high.
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> I’d actually prefer if the Vault Weekend rate wasn’t inflated so much, since it disproportionately favours players who can spend a lot of time playing in that period, which then needs to be accounted for by the Devs in the game economy.
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> I don’t always have the time to grind, e.g. this last weekend, but still want to be able to stay _somewhat_ relevant through regular play throughout the week.
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> I guess my preferred solution then, since people seem to like the buffed spawn rates, would be to _ **remove Vault Weekends** _ (😱) and just:
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> - Increase the chance of Gnomes generally
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> - Remove the 100 Souls, 2 Traitstones, 1000-2500 Gold rewards from Treasure Gnomes
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> - Buff Jewel Gnome rewards (20 Jewels is pitiful, I compare this to the initial Jewel rewards for Epic Tasks which were acknowledged to be a bit too low:
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> > [@Sirrian's Design Thoughts (Last 4.7 Epic Task Update)](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/sirrians-design-thoughts-last-4-7-epic-task-update/59858/1):
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> > 1. The Jewel amounts in Tier 4 were underwhelming. That was an oversight on our part, and has been corrected.
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> - Make Pet Gnomes available everywhere, especially since PvP is yet to be reworked.

Alternatively, instead of Vault Weekends, I’d be okay with:

1. More regular mini-events that provide either a single, guaranteed Vault Key (… Vault Gnome? 😛 like a Pet Gnome, but a Vault Key after 6 battles) or increased chance for one.

2. Pet Gnome Heralds/Scions/‘Lures’, with a Lure being different to a ‘Bait’, which gives a guaranteed Pet Gnome.

Having crazy Vault Weekends like that means I have to compete with (incredibly active) people who come out the other side with 100+ Vault Keys in addition to what they’d normally receive, while I decided to do my laundry and some gardening 😝, catch up on some work or cooking, or similar 🤷‍♂️.

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> [@Matt91080](#):
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> 100 souls, minor traitstones, 2500 gold.

I think this is one thing that I can agree on, and that I think a lot of other players can, too.

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Bonus side-thought: I think it could be reasoned that outside of testing teams for GW, players like having _ **meaningful** _ (i.e. non-100 Souls/20 Jewels/small reward Battlecrashers/) Gnomes crash their battles regularly, and it might be worth shifting the game more permanently in that direction, with whatever the consequences might be, in the same way that the core gameplay has shifted towards more explosions and faster play, with the kind of power creep that the design team feels is more fun.

There was a stream a year or two ago when Sirrian commented on power creep in general, saying that he felt the game was just about reaching the level of fun that he wanted, but that there was probably still a bit of room to explore – since gaining more ‘powers’ is a fun thing, but also something to be careful around.

So in that sense, ‘fun’ power creep could be an argument to shift the general Gnome appearance rate upwards, and potentially the Vault Weekend rate too, in line with that, as a minor redistribution of how rewards are obtained in-game 🤷‍♂️.

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