Renown Dev Update! - Balancing, Week 1 Patch Notes, and Treasure! — Renown Steam update #854839

Thank you so much to everyone who has been playing Renown! We really love seeing all the comments, including the good and bad. The only way we can improve the game is by learning what works and especially what doesn't. Right now, our main goal is to improve the current experience as quickly as possible. We want to make sure that the gameplay loop feels correct with what we have on offer right now. One of those major points was that 1x rates felt too grindy for what was intended. We will observe how things feel with increased gold coin drops and gold node spawns. Gear was also feeling a little too hard to craft so we have increased how much iron you can acquire. We have also decreased the research costs for some items. There is a chance things might be a little too easy now, but we will keep tweaking values until it feels correct. We recommend our 3x server hosts reduce from 3x to 2x as I...