I have 8 characters on my account and across all of them i have full world completion, but my most complete character is only on 50%. Why? Because when i play an alt i want something left to explore, i want new stuff to discover. The current system encourages you to explore everything on your main and then go “same old, same old” on all your alts.
My idea is this:
1. Make world exploration account-wide.
Each character can still discover all exploration points (skill points, vistas, interest, waypoints) individually and get xp for it, but the zone completion system works with the sum of all your characters.
What this means is that if each exploration point in a zone has been discovered on at least 1 character you will get a zone completion reward. If each exploration point has been discovered by at least 2 characters you will get the completion award again and so forth.
Same goes for total world completion. If you’ve discovered the whole world twice across all characters you will get the reward for it twice (for those that want several legendaries for example).
2. Change the appearance of exploration points if they are already counted towards zone completion.
For example by adding a colored border to the icon (see attachment). The border will appear if the exploration point has been discovered more times then the zone has been completely discovered. Meaning that if you discover all the points without a border, you will get zone completion.
World completion will work the same way, if you’ve completed a zone more times then you’ve achieved full world completion, the zone completion icon will appear with a blue border. So completing all zones without a border will give you the world completion reward.
In the attachment below, from left to right we have a Point of Interest that is:
- Undiscovered by this character
- Discovered by another character but not yet awarded for zone completion
- Discovered by this character and already awarded for zone completion
- Discovered by this character but not yet awarded for zone completion
