I was excited about arlo until a few days in it is just a RNG fest with FOUR LAYERS OF RNG.
That is too fucking much, I am out. Also once you complete a tile, it automatically resets and you are forced to waste pickaxes on the completed tiles once again because it is RNG AGAIN.
Fuck this RNG bullshit who thought that would be fun?????
Uh, numbers if magnifying glasses is not tied to research notes at all. Research notes from friends act more like a 1/5th pickaxe in that you can't choose the plot.
you are forced to waste pickaxes on the completed tiles
You aren't required to use your daily tools from muster. Once pickaxes stop being worth using on the current plot (when the ratio goes above five to one on tiles you don't want to tiles you want), stop using them. Save them for the next digsite.
At first I was mad, too, at how little control the plot resetting gives, but I understand now and appreciate a bit how it gives a long-term resource strategy game to reward those patient enough to NOT use magnifying glasses on a brand new digsite (pickaxes are better on new digsites when you'd be happy to uncover any tile) and accumulate them for when plots start being cleared and pickaxes stop being worth it. Then, once a new digsite is added (probably going to be a new one every several months/year judging by how often Baldwin content updates get added), you can go ham with your hoarded pickaxes. If you're patient, you'll come out ahead of players who use all of their tools up immediately.
I really wish it would at least drastically reduce the chances of a random pickaxe going to a tile on an item you've already unearthed at least once, when there's more you haven't.
I've completed ONE item and yet I'm averaging one tile per pickaxe going back to that same damn set. And it doesn't make sense not to use the pickaxes yet because otherwise I'm going one tile at a time for the rest of eternity to even get through this digsite. God I hate RNG shit like this.
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Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-10 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)That is too fucking much, I am out. Also once you complete a tile, it automatically resets and you are forced to waste pickaxes on the completed tiles once again because it is RNG AGAIN.
Fuck this RNG bullshit who thought that would be fun?????
Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
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(Anonymous) 2022-02-10 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)You aren't required to use your daily tools from muster. Once pickaxes stop being worth using on the current plot (when the ratio goes above five to one on tiles you don't want to tiles you want), stop using them. Save them for the next digsite.
At first I was mad, too, at how little control the plot resetting gives, but I understand now and appreciate a bit how it gives a long-term resource strategy game to reward those patient enough to NOT use magnifying glasses on a brand new digsite (pickaxes are better on new digsites when you'd be happy to uncover any tile) and accumulate them for when plots start being cleared and pickaxes stop being worth it. Then, once a new digsite is added (probably going to be a new one every several months/year judging by how often Baldwin content updates get added), you can go ham with your hoarded pickaxes. If you're patient, you'll come out ahead of players who use all of their tools up immediately.
Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-10 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)(probably going to be a new one every several months/year judging by how often Baldwin content updates get added)
some of us would like to play the game a bit more often than once a year...
Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-11 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)I've completed ONE item and yet I'm averaging one tile per pickaxe going back to that same damn set. And it doesn't make sense not to use the pickaxes yet because otherwise I'm going one tile at a time for the rest of eternity to even get through this digsite. God I hate RNG shit like this.