I think there should be a bank where you can store pixels to keep them safe. Maybe in the form of a piggy bank or something along those lines?
For the love of Pete, there's something about going to a higher level planet with 5k in pixels, then dieing repeatedly to the harder mobs and ending up with 20 pixels. It seem like you lose 25% of the pixels you have when you die. We need a piggy bank or safe to store our precious money.
Not being able to stash your money goes totally against a prime game developer credo. That is to make your game challenging, yet not punish players for being imperfect.
Adding a bank is not a good idea if we're talking about the bank which can have near unlimited amount of money(In this case pixels) and is unaffected by the death penalty. This will completely negate the fear of the death penalty and people will most likely abuse it by for example placing all their money in the bank, go deep down into a cave, mine a lot of things and die as a shortcut to get to the spaceship. It would be interesting if there were a variety of objects/furnitures which could hold different amounts of pixels. This would make it required for a player to make some kind of treasure room if they want to store their pixels. This would increase the want of making a base where you could store items in, instead of using your spaceship with a small piggybank in it which could hold endless amounts of pixels, which would reduce the want of making a base.
This can already be achieved by simply pressing ESC and clicking the Save and Exit button. Start up the game and you are back in your ship with all pixels intact along with any items you've added to your inventory.
I think a bank would be ok, but would then like to see the current pixel sink methods, that people seem to hate, remain and be balanced to meet that.
It sucks to lose so many pixels on death after saving up. But at the same time, it would get boring quick if you could just rampage through everything without fear of death. There needs to be some balance, not sure it's there just yet.
I didn't see this post before but I posted a compromise nn a threat above. How about a piggy bank that holds only a limited amount of pixels? eg 500 pixels for its first tier then 1000 for the next and so on. That way you can store some pixels but still have to go out and farm with a few in your back pocket...and stop the trivializing of death.
Here's my suggestion: Have a bank where the player can store their Pixels...but only in 1,000-Pixel denominations. On top of that, make the Pixel loss on death much, much steeper to encourage players to use the bank. Like, maybe lose half your Pixels, or all of them.
