What if you added Snail juice to the hourly prize list? This could be the only way to obtain it. Since for now, there is no way at all. I wonder as well, what if there was a buff as an hourly prize as well? Maybe, half hour of double exp, or half hour of double credit earning (from mobs and players)?
It would be really interesting to have item rewards and skill buffs added to the hourly prize spool. 
I'd have to set each reward type to have a different chance though, as certain rewards are somewhat more desirable than others. Not too difficult to add skill buffs and items, especially since it's just added to temp storage.
I don't know if you remember discussing this in chat, but I think the idea of having a more substantial UI for notifications of this kind might be nice. We were talking about it for hints & tips, and reminders, I think, but it could be nice for prizes too.
I seem to recall a few old games having a bit of spiel like "As you were wandering through the forest, you came across a small sack of gold..." added to a bubble under the header. I'll do some mockups. It costs nothing to investigate these things.
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It would be really interesting to have item rewards and skill buffs added to the hourly prize spool.
I'd have to set each reward type to have a different chance though, as certain rewards are somewhat more desirable than others. Not too difficult to add skill buffs and items, especially since it's just added to temp storage.
I don't know if you remember discussing this in chat, but I think the idea of having a more substantial UI for notifications of this kind might be nice. We were talking about it for hints & tips, and reminders, I think, but it could be nice for prizes too.
I seem to recall a few old games having a bit of spiel like "As you were wandering through the forest, you came across a small sack of gold..." added to a bubble under the header. I'll do some mockups. It costs nothing to investigate these things.
Does sound good. I was thinking as well that there would be lower chance for the better prizes of course.
Indeed it couldn't hurt for prizes to have their own notification of sorts.
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