Suggestions

I am aware that certain transmutation materials are harder to obtain than others due to a lower drop rate. It adds fun challenge to the brewing process! However, lately I have been reducing lots of trinket items and I have, 15 times in a row (over 7 hours of collective brewing), received green sludge. It's getting to be a bit irritating, especially because brewing takes 30 mins.

Even with Arlo's 'rugged work' which randomly selects tiles, the wait is only 15 mins so I can easily dig a few times while online briefly to do daily tasks. Baldwin's Brew has been a bit too much of a challenge lately for me as a player that doesn't want to spend hours online every day. I think it would be nice to make this activity more compatible for casual players.

Adjusting the drop rates and/or brew time would, in my opinion, be the ideal solution, but you could also solve this issue by allowing several items to be reduced at once or creating a limited automatic brewing queue (for example, perhaps a max of 5 items at once or 5 brews in a row). I understand the desire to encourage active rather than idle play but again, I feel like there could be at least some compromise in this area.

If you're level 10 and over, you can convert your greens into yellows, your yellows into oranges, your oranges into reds and such.

Absolutely no to a Baldwin queue. The game should not play itself.

baldwin has been as it is for a while now, it might throw off balance to suddenly halve brew time.

I would support a manual queue, where you can load up a bunch of items in one go, then return to the cauldron to retrieve one and load the next in one click. This streamlines the process somewhat (loading items is always what takes the most time for me) while still requiring user interaction and getting ad views for the site.

[quote name="Corviknight" date="2022-06-19 13:00:25" ] If you're level 10 and over, you can convert your greens into yellows, your yellows into oranges, your oranges into reds and such. Absolutely no to a Baldwin queue. The game should not play itself. [/quote] I'm level 9, approaching level 10 and I am aware that I'll soon be able to brew materials. Just suggesting that for newer users who still want to casually get into the game, it might be nice to have some better control over obtaining materials. I've been playing for a few years but I didn't touch Baldwin's Brew until this year because the difficulty and time-consumption is a bit intimidating. It would be nice to see Baldwin's be more accessible to newer users or those who have limited play time. Also I did note that the queue idea wasn't my preferred suggestion. I do think there are flaws with that idea. However, I am not suggesting that the game play itself. Like I said, the emphasis should be on active play but there should be some way to retain that while still making the feature more balanced.

[quote name="Crowbar" date="2022-06-19 13:39:41" ] baldwin has been as it is for a while now, it might throw off balance to suddenly halve brew time. I would support a manual queue, where you can load up a bunch of items in one go, then return to the cauldron to retrieve one and load the next in one click. This streamlines the process somewhat (loading items is always what takes the most time for me) while still requiring user interaction and getting ad views for the site. [/quote] The manual queue sounds like a really good idea! Balanced and fair.