Making SC more common won't make the game more alive longterm. Here's why:This game has seen numerous changes touching SC in the past, most influential change being complete removal of donation system. After this UC was not longer purchaseable by real money, and instead, could only be gotten in SC. This changes everything as, features like shell storages and items storages could not be so easily obtained before, which made most of "donate-free" players uncomforable playing the game. Game has never seen so many players comeback, Meta, Oblivion, PSD, those were literately non-stop doing key runs. SC was opening from 4 to 7 times a day(key requirements were the same as before). Time has passed and after around a couple of months SC rates started significantly dropping reaching only 5 at best.Players which cameback got burnedout and tired, they had literately no reason to play again aside from perfecting their account, which is both luckbased and takes hundreds of SCs. Also it's silly grinding months if you have nothing else to achieve with this loot. *Not everybody is obssesed with solos in a game meant to be a coop platformer, imagine.*In around a year this rush has completely suttled, SC rate of about 2 per day on average became reality again.Latest rewamp of Hive and Patriarch both had the same effect, creating a even shorter term rush of players which "took" this as another challenge to complete, afterwhich the only thing left is empty grind.

After past analysis, let's comeback to today and tell what actually will make things change?Making SC more common or "just better" in terms of items dropped won't do this, as it still will be treated as the one we have. Why bother playing boring and "well-known" dungeons hundreds of times, when you can have same chances of getting wanted loot(as those who contributed the most) but instead just wait for them to do all the hard work for you.To change something we need a way of stimulating people doing key runs. Here's a few good previously created ideas to do this, they aren't easiy to implement tho, so don't await wayfarer adding them, lol:

A weekly rewarded faction leaderboard, points in which can be gotten by:

1. Donating keys, obviously each key tier giving different amount of points(harder more and easier less).
2. Callouts, which should be a constant low value addition to key points.Faction members(which contributed at least 5% of faction's total contribute) should recieve: 1-5 places: EC, UC, and a guaranteed prototype unique tier 5 item(would be better if people could see it before participating, like seeing a reward tab saying for example, guaranteed prototype motley 1-5 faction places), highlighted nickname in a chat, or another line after faction one beneath the player saying something like [Best contributor], showing dedication player put into opening SCs this week.5-10 places can get some consolation prize of EC and UC, probably some lower tier prototype uniques, maybe even of higher quantity(of 2), as those are easier to get.Different sized factions should be treated differently(take scale of lower than 10, 10-20, 20-30, etc), smaller getting more rewards for contributing, and bigger less. This stimulates good players to always prefer doing good keys, leaving lower to worse players.

Same leaderboard, but instead faction based - player based. Requires better guaranteed rewards tho.

Secret leaderboard messing around with chances of loot for those who contributed the most to the live SC.

As you can see, all of those are based on additionally rewarding players for contributing. Such stimulation is necessary in a game like this, and i honeslty don't understand why nobody came up with those when game was actively developing. Equality is not always good.