Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24145588-20140909000758

For discussion...and possibly for the attention of BBB:

What ONE thing would you most like to see changed in MSM, and why? By "change" I mean, one thing that you would fix, add, remove, or just make different? And by "one" I mean ONE, single, not multiple.

(Any bets on how many posts it takes before people start posting lists of changes they want?)

To answer my own question, and hopefully get some discussion rolling:

The ONE thing I would most like to see changed is: An addition to the game that would integrate Shards into the global (galactic? inter-island? pan-dimensional?) economy. As it stands now, once you have decorated your Ethereal Island to your liking, Shards serve absolutely no purpose. Because of this, there's really no point in leveling up your Ethereal monsters, because all they can do is generate useless currency. There's little or no reason to worry about Ethereal monsters' happiness levels, because making them happy just makes them generate Shards faster. And, with the Paradise Castle upgrade, you have have even more Ethereals, generating even more Shards, which are just as useless as ever.

Giving us something that we can do with Shards would give us a reason to populate the Ethereal Island, make the monsters happy, level them up, and collect the Shards generated by the monsters every now and then.

Your thoughts? 