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(re?)Adjust RNG for Coigreach Cave Encounter

(re?)Adjust RNG for Coigreach Cave Encounter
Posted 2021-11-20 01:41:47

When the Cave Encounter first released for Coigreach, it wasnt difficult for me to get the cave encounter 2 or 3 times per energy bar. While it wasn't a common encounter, it wasn't necessarily rare either. This could be just because I had good RNG at the time, but after the event quest "find five caves" was released, I started having a lot of a harder time finding the cave encounter. Luckily, I still had my anniversary meat pie so I was able to grind the event all day with extra energy bars (and even THEN it took me two days to complete the goal) to get the cave encounters I needed to progress.

I noticed people in chat and in various discords complaining of the same problem: the sudden rarity of the cave encounter to the point of going through several days and dozens of bars with hardly a glimpse of the orb that leads you into it. I cant say for certain that the rng chance for it was lowered for the mission, but it is ridiculous that its taking a good portion of the community so long to find five encounters.

I suggest that the chance should be slightly raised (again?) so that it's no longer such a miracle chance to find a cave, that it goes back to being uncommon. Let people progress through the event without forcing them to grind explores - and, potentially, energy items to try and keep up.

Again, I'm not saying it needs to be super common, but an adjustment definitely needs to be made if you have users exploring every day for five RL days and yet still be unable to complete a five-encounter quest.


EasyPlesi
#1499

Posted 2021-11-20 17:45:07
No support- I had the same problem until someone mentioned in the thread that you could only find them at night now for this part of story-where before I think it was anytime. After I realized that I found them fairly quickly. Maybe some players aren't aware of that.
Snowcat13 🌞
#3716

Posted 2021-11-20 17:46:19
I was aware from the beginning that the cave encounter was night exclusive ^^; I can't speak for others but even when exploring exclusively at night I'm having issues finding the encounter.

EasyPlesi
#1499

Posted 2021-11-20 17:56:57
i work full time (5 days a week, 8 hrs a day), and cant really be on my phone often or at all (Im on my feet moving a lot), so being able to time nighttime was hell for me, when I could get on my phone. Even when I had the time to go through a whole energy bar at night, I wasn't even getting the cave encounter enough, and when i was, they were often duds. i honestly could go through several bars without a single encounter, when before we needed them, i was getting them fairly regurally- or at least more often then i was after we needed to find them

The Magpie Kin
#419

Posted 2021-11-20 17:59:23
I'm hesitant to support/not support because I had/have a theory that the scarcity of the caves was due to the season being summer, and the nights being the shortest they could possibly be. When the encounter was first released, it was spring. Now it's back to fall, so I'm curious to see how common they'll be (though it is a tough call for folks to make with the lunar event running concurrently and ALSO being night-exclusive).

Azzy
#2727

Posted 2021-11-20 18:00:44
i personally grinded the caves out and after that focused on the lunar event, but I can see it being a difficult choice to make

The Magpie Kin
#419

Posted 2021-11-20 18:24:29
It could just be my mind tricking me, but I had been getting those encounters on a somewhat regular basis, even though a third to a half were duds. Then when I needed them, it took two-ish days of regular exploring until I got all 5. Again, I don't know if there was an actual decrease in that encounter's chance or not, so I'm hesitant to support.

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