1) necessity to clear all dungeon "to zero" - kill all monster to get as much exp from one level as you could. Without exploring every corner you dramatically reduce your chances to survive in compare to players who clear everything. But scouting every tile feels quite BORING sometimes, especially at the beginning.
2) necessity to cheeze items from shops at Bree, and _especially_ at dungeon towns. You have to scum shops in dungeon towns for a lot of hours to get items with resistances which you need. Cheezing shops for hours is no doubt BORING.
So I think it would be great to have a IDDC-like mode without necessity to clear every small corner of the dungeon and scum shops - with very dinamycal, fast-style and in the same moment hardcore gameplay.
I thought a lot about how to fix this two problems but didn't had any good ideas... I thought about limiting exp.. About giving exp only for going to the next level.. Its was quite bad ideas. Then I've asked my wife, Shtukensia, for an advice and she proposed GREAT idea! Limit your time at the certain level! Its really genious! Shtukensia, we love you!

So lets call this mode Zeitnot; its German term from chess; literally “need of time” (zeit - time; not - "need" (like in chess). Also it called "time trouble" (in Russia we call it just Zeitnot - Цейтнот

Idea, as all genius - very simple: limit time when character could be at any level. If you stay more then certain time limit - you getting forced down automatically
1) after you created character you could stay in Bree for 5 minutes (for example.. we need to think about numbers). After 5 minutes you get automatically pushed undeground in IDDC dungeon -50 ft. So you could buy just a few items in Bree and can not cheeze!
2) at -50 lvl you could stay only 3 minutes again. Kill and gather as much as you could - and be hurry! Cause in 3 minutes you would fall down again - at next lvl: -100 ft.
3) the same at every level. But the more deeper you go - the more time you got. So after lvl 5 (-250 ft) you could stay at lvl for 5 minutes. After -500 ft - 7 minutes & etc.
4) when you go to the dungeon towns (-1000 ft and -3000 ft) you also have limited time there - so choose wisely what to buy there - you can't cheeze forever

5) if you wish you could go to the next level before timer ends (useful at terrifying lvls). Maybe also give small bonus to time to the next lvl if you go there before timer ends - need to think about it...
I think it would be awesome to leave IDDC-mode as it is now, cause a lot of players like traditional gameplay without haste and just add this new mode as separate with its own score ladder.
Guys.. What I can say. Its great idea by Shtukensia and its my dream. Just non-stop extreamely dynamic playing without boring stops and lurking in the corners... A lot of fun and.. deaths. Yes, this mode would be somewhat harder then IDDC, it would be very different by dynamics. A lot of new emotions! Hope to see it in-game one day

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