Gathering strikes again! My friend with level 15 Digging grabbed 46 chests yesterday, while I spent all my turns in Digging today (with level 25) and pulled exactly zero.
Now, this isn't quite a suggestion to fix Gathering. Yes, it's broken right now and I'd love to see it revamped (if you would, too, give some love to this thread!). However, this is a rather simpler solution to the problem described above, in which someone with a lower level can wind up with more chances at a egg/scroll than someone with a higher level.
Put Strange Chests in the same Gathering category as festival currency.
Think about it. Chests aren't guaranteed to have anything good in them - they're not like the skin-and-treasure chests of the festivals. In fact, most of them have food in them, and not a lot of it at that. Festival currency is calculated separately from other Gathering items, so we don't run into the backwards-leveling problem - and like festival currency, you need to get a lot of them in one place to do you any good.
This also helps the people that don't play the Coliseum but spend their turns in Digging and Scavenging: they won't have to choose between possibly wasting their treasure on worthless lottery tickets, or [insert reason that they don't play Coli, which could be one of many].
It works thematically, too - NoN is the "December holiday," after all. The admins could even pretend it was their own idea! A little "it has been brought to our attention that Chests, which were supposed to work like X, weren't, and that has been fixed now" never hurt anyone.
If this has been suggested before, forgive me. I didn't see any older thread in the mad flood of "fix this about NoN!" threads, but would gladly support one.
ETA: To clarify, I'm not suggesting (and don't think) that we should be able to turn in Strange Chests to Joxar for items, or anything like that. This is a unique event and the lottery-style play is interesting and fun. This suggestion is just a way to make sure that the event doesn't stay at "Gather fun chests!" for the new players and "Grind endlessly in the Coli for fun chests!" for older ones.
Now, this isn't quite a suggestion to fix Gathering. Yes, it's broken right now and I'd love to see it revamped (if you would, too, give some love to this thread!). However, this is a rather simpler solution to the problem described above, in which someone with a lower level can wind up with more chances at a egg/scroll than someone with a higher level.
Put Strange Chests in the same Gathering category as festival currency.
Think about it. Chests aren't guaranteed to have anything good in them - they're not like the skin-and-treasure chests of the festivals. In fact, most of them have food in them, and not a lot of it at that. Festival currency is calculated separately from other Gathering items, so we don't run into the backwards-leveling problem - and like festival currency, you need to get a lot of them in one place to do you any good.
This also helps the people that don't play the Coliseum but spend their turns in Digging and Scavenging: they won't have to choose between possibly wasting their treasure on worthless lottery tickets, or [insert reason that they don't play Coli, which could be one of many].
It works thematically, too - NoN is the "December holiday," after all. The admins could even pretend it was their own idea! A little "it has been brought to our attention that Chests, which were supposed to work like X, weren't, and that has been fixed now" never hurt anyone.
If this has been suggested before, forgive me. I didn't see any older thread in the mad flood of "fix this about NoN!" threads, but would gladly support one.
ETA: To clarify, I'm not suggesting (and don't think) that we should be able to turn in Strange Chests to Joxar for items, or anything like that. This is a unique event and the lottery-style play is interesting and fun. This suggestion is just a way to make sure that the event doesn't stay at "Gather fun chests!" for the new players and "Grind endlessly in the Coli for fun chests!" for older ones.
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