Both Arlo's Ancient Artifacts and Baldwin's Bubbling Brew have a gameplay loop that asks players to return multiple times a day. The frustrating part, however, is that it requires you to manually select each item and action every single time, with no way to streamline it.
Suggestions for a "Queue" of work/items are generally disliked, as they would prevent the player from revisiting these pages as intended and reduce the site's ad revenue. That's not what I'm talking about today.
The suggestions are simple:
For visual clarity, there could be small icons next to the "Repeat" button indicating which action you would be repeating, along with the miniature thumbnail for reference of which item you would be excavating/reducing/creating next.
We already see shrunken thumbnails that include tooltips on each Arlo plot, so the "shrinking" coding is already present there - and hopefully wouldn't be obstructively difficult to add to Baldwin.
There is no difference in page loads with these options, so the amount of pageviews, ad revenue, and gameplay would not be altered whatsoever. The process would still be one-at-a-time in all cases.
All this would do is streamline the process of digging for artifacts and mass-producing transmutation materials that players are already doing every day - something highly desirable for something you can do every day.
If I've overlooked something or forgotten an existing mechanic that would complicate this, please let me know.
Suggestions for a "Queue" of work/items are generally disliked, as they would prevent the player from revisiting these pages as intended and reduce the site's ad revenue. That's not what I'm talking about today.
The suggestions are simple:
- Add a button to "Repeat my last work" in Arlo's Artifacts. This could be located at the top of each digsite's page, near the "Send Research Notes" button.
While this is perhaps not necessary for Rugged Work, this would instead provide an option for repeating 1 Precise work in the last plot you ordered Precise work in. - Add a button to "Repeat my last brew" in Baldwin. This could be located in both the Transmute Objects page, below the "Transmute" button, and the Create New Items page, below the "Cauldron is ready!" icon.
Same principle; either melt down another copy of the same item you last reduced, or repeat the last recipe you brewed. If you've run out of the item you were reducing, the button would grey out until you select something different. Repeating recipes would give you the usual pop-up, including if you're missing an ingredient.
For visual clarity, there could be small icons next to the "Repeat" button indicating which action you would be repeating, along with the miniature thumbnail for reference of which item you would be excavating/reducing/creating next.
We already see shrunken thumbnails that include tooltips on each Arlo plot, so the "shrinking" coding is already present there - and hopefully wouldn't be obstructively difficult to add to Baldwin.
There is no difference in page loads with these options, so the amount of pageviews, ad revenue, and gameplay would not be altered whatsoever. The process would still be one-at-a-time in all cases.
All this would do is streamline the process of digging for artifacts and mass-producing transmutation materials that players are already doing every day - something highly desirable for something you can do every day.
If I've overlooked something or forgotten an existing mechanic that would complicate this, please let me know.
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Robin Nightmares they/them/theirs | FR Time +0 +[Wasteland Radio Hatchery]+ - - |
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cillian || adult || he/they
