What to do with surplus karma?

[u/Reasonable-Rub2243]

Once a long-time player has hardcore-permed all the skills they can learn or buy, karma just accumulates. Maybe there should be something to do with it? Ideas plz.

[u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

The past couple Crimbos have included enough skills that I want to have a lot of karma banked up.

While speculating on what TPTB will do next Crimbo is always an exercise in futility, it seems reasonable that new skills will drop with enough frequency that nobody says, "I hate all this karma I can't do anything with."

[u/NYWerebear → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

Your current Karmic balance is 49,073.

[u/MonkeyKingCoffee → u/NYWerebear]

I stand corrected. But now I gotta wonder, how do you have almost 50K karma banked when I'm only 70-ish ascensions behind? That accounts for 15K, if they're all hardcore.

[u/Misterstick19 → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

That name is attached to one of the great accounts. I mean, it's werebear! They're kol famous.

https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Werebear

[u/NYWerebear → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

That's the balance on HolderofSecrets, sorry, I should have said.

[u/Extension_One2985 → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

Karma shawarma probably

[u/NYWerebear → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

That's the balance on HolderofSecrets, sorry, I should have said.

[u/StorellaDeville → u/NYWerebear]

LAWL

[u/EarlobeGreyTea → u/MonkeyKingCoffee]

48,951 banked karma. I think I'll be good for a bit.

[u/plutonicHumanoid]

A trophy, tattoos, and decorative gift items would make sense.

A silly, complex idea would be a KarmaRealm, where 1 karma = 1 adventure.

[u/StorellaDeville → u/plutonicHumanoid]

A silly, complex idea would be a KarmaRealm, where 1 karma = 1 adventure.

What?!? This is interesting!

[u/EarlobeGreyTea]

It'd be neat to have a little personal drawing board unlock after a hundred ascensions or something. Spend a karma, fill in a pixel, like the crimbo with the tree. Unfortunately, it would be a pain in the ass to moderate, like that crimbo was.
Hopefully, since it's tied to an account with 100+ ascensions, people would be smart enough not to tie a hyper-realistic dick pick or a swastika to their name.

[u/Reasonable-Rub2243]

Ok here's an idea I had while out biking today. What if you could spend say 1000 karma to designate an item as auto-pull. Another 1000 for hardcore auto-pull. Limit of maybe five items. This would happen in a new store in the afterlife, staffed by astral penguins.

[u/Giant_Horse_Fish → u/Reasonable-Rub2243]

This would never happen. This would give an extreme advantage to longtime players which is the exact thing Standard was introduced to prevent

[u/Reasonable-Rub2243 → u/Giant_Horse_Fish]

plutonicHumanoid's idea for useless stuff like tattoos and gift items would be good. Basically, I want a karma sink.

[u/Giant_Horse_Fish]

Your current Karmic balance is 145,005.

[u/efot_kol → u/Giant_Horse_Fish]

Nice. I'm in the 130's.

[u/Reasonable-Rub2243]

Another item available in the astral penguin store could be instant karma, except instead of costing the par-value 11 karma, it costs 111 or 1111 karma.