So I'm gonna be honest because I just completely dumped all my feelings on plurk about this and I realized how long this has been bugging me.
I feel like shinki need something more to do. We've been low on shinki as long as I've been in the game. I play two of them, and at first I had no issues, but after playing one for nearly three months, I realize there are a lot of really major downfalls to paying shinki, and next to no benefits.
Shinki have like zero agency. They can't transform on their own, they can't use their powers. They have no memories, no ability to exist on their own. When there's a battle, if there's no god, they can't fight. And that's really limiting, at least in my experience.
Plus, memories are so hard to regain it's bordering on ridiculous. To gain back one memory, it will take Nageki from mid-June to the end of August. And while I understand that's not a lot of time in-game, that's a lot of time in real life. I consider myself moderately active. I have a life to live (and some serious intense learnin' to do), but doing the math, if I remain the same comfortable level of active, Kido will gain about 500 points a month, and it would take her nearly two years ooc to become a haifuri vessel. Considering it took this many months for anyone to reach 1000 exp/10000 followers, that seems unattainable, especially if I ever want her to regain any memories ever. It would have to be literally the only thing anyone ever planned to do with their character. Most games close before two years pass.
And the benefits of playing a shinki are barely there at all. The benefits for me are that I prefer to play servant-type characters. That's why I did it. But after nearly three months and Nageki has never been transformed even once, I'm starting to feel like there's no point to playing a shinki.
I feel like there has to be some sort of benefit. Gods get new powers that they can use at any time, the ability to create a temple that they live in, and the ability to fight. They get to keep their memories, so they have little to regain and they don't have to worry about points. But with the game being unbalanced, it's hard to think "I'll drop my characters and play gods instead" because the chance of them getting paired is low, and that's what I wanted from this game. But unless I made plans before apping, pairing has not worked out for me so far. And so it rounds back to "Nageki can't really do much without a god there with him" and "with a god she cares about, Kido will never be able to make personal progress because I want to make her a haifuri vessel."
TL;DR: Shinki can't do much, memory regains can take forever at a decent tagging pace, and absent gods mean having to sit things out. My experience has been difficult, and I've felt very stuck for some time now. And I'm not sure it's gotten any better in terms of the unbalance between god and shinki numbers. I think it should be addressed.
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I feel like shinki need something more to do. We've been low on shinki as long as I've been in the game. I play two of them, and at first I had no issues, but after playing one for nearly three months, I realize there are a lot of really major downfalls to paying shinki, and next to no benefits.
Shinki have like zero agency. They can't transform on their own, they can't use their powers. They have no memories, no ability to exist on their own. When there's a battle, if there's no god, they can't fight. And that's really limiting, at least in my experience.
Plus, memories are so hard to regain it's bordering on ridiculous. To gain back one memory, it will take Nageki from mid-June to the end of August. And while I understand that's not a lot of time in-game, that's a lot of time in real life. I consider myself moderately active. I have a life to live (and some serious intense learnin' to do), but doing the math, if I remain the same comfortable level of active, Kido will gain about 500 points a month, and it would take her nearly two years ooc to become a haifuri vessel. Considering it took this many months for anyone to reach 1000 exp/10000 followers, that seems unattainable, especially if I ever want her to regain any memories ever. It would have to be literally the only thing anyone ever planned to do with their character. Most games close before two years pass.
And the benefits of playing a shinki are barely there at all. The benefits for me are that I prefer to play servant-type characters. That's why I did it. But after nearly three months and Nageki has never been transformed even once, I'm starting to feel like there's no point to playing a shinki.
I feel like there has to be some sort of benefit. Gods get new powers that they can use at any time, the ability to create a temple that they live in, and the ability to fight. They get to keep their memories, so they have little to regain and they don't have to worry about points. But with the game being unbalanced, it's hard to think "I'll drop my characters and play gods instead" because the chance of them getting paired is low, and that's what I wanted from this game. But unless I made plans before apping, pairing has not worked out for me so far. And so it rounds back to "Nageki can't really do much without a god there with him" and "with a god she cares about, Kido will never be able to make personal progress because I want to make her a haifuri vessel."
TL;DR: Shinki can't do much, memory regains can take forever at a decent tagging pace, and absent gods mean having to sit things out. My experience has been difficult, and I've felt very stuck for some time now. And I'm not sure it's gotten any better in terms of the unbalance between god and shinki numbers. I think it should be addressed.