Development Update #21
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Posted 2022-12-20 19:21:04
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 🐾Celtic Blood 🐎🐕 #71347 |
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Posted 2022-12-22 16:27:17
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Spiritofthenight #92459 |
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Posted 2022-12-22 17:14:55
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-LoveBird- #107246 |
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Posted 2022-12-22 17:38:29
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 Food? #20022 |
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Posted 2022-12-23 08:45:26
 And I love the new dark hazel and clay eyes! |
Eelai #1355 |
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Posted 2022-12-24 02:40:24 (edited)
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 Dżanek #24018 |
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Posted 2022-12-24 03:10:49 (edited)
The quests are the same. Both are simple tutorial type quests that are meant to encourage users to try and continue to use various aspects of the website. And in my opinion, melvin has extremely easy quests. The snake has extremely easy to medium difficulty quests (though even then the difficult ones just rely on rng. That's it. Battle trophies). I don't know much about Lioden, but from my understanding, their quest snake is notoriously hard. Like quests sometimes take 1-4 days to complete. If we had easy melvin and then hard quest snake, I could kind of vibe more with the update. It would provide short term goals for the less experienced and hard long term goals for the more experienced members. And another point. Honestly, I thought people were just complaining that it was too hard to find matching pups. I did it every single day and it wasn't that hard, but I haven't done it for probably months - once quest was completed. I got the Melvin Enclave quest today. And it took 6 redos with the enclave bear to find a matching pup. And I'm not talking like "give me caelum pup with fae eyes". These were basic skins like bistre, blue, black. They were COMPLETELY right. My only guess is that people can't be bothered to list enclave pups anymore, because the enclave has plenty of pups. 90 - 100 pages of pups a day. 20 SC isn't much payoff to sell it for enclave quest, especially with daily food and amusement costs mixed in. We really really really need the enclave update. Once it's released, there will be a unique currency with unique items, and the price of pups will rise. People will be more interested in listing their pups if they get 40/50/100 sc. I just don't know about Melvin. He's cute. I like his little chats. But he didn't really add much to the game. Maybe something will come that balances it, but the SC prices have shot up by 100 SC. They've started to settle, but each day people get more SC, so we can't really fully understand the effects until Day 10 Streak Bonus. And while it doesn't effect me too hard, it's not helpful to newer players. It doesn't matter how much SC they earn a day if too much SC is pushed into the game because than prices just skyrocket. I've already seeing studs raising their pricing to better match the new 1:400 SC rate. It's like "yay you get 100 more sc a day! But oh it costs 100 sc more to buy a gc so it's like you earned the same anyway :( " And I just want to mention to the devs I am VERY grateful for the update. I'm in the camp that a dev update once a month is amazing even if it doesn't have the most features. If it had just been the backgrounds and eyes, I would have still said thank you and been excited for new content. I'm just not 100% sure about Melvin at the moment |
 Slothie #2938 |
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Posted 2022-12-24 10:06:43
all easily achievable just by going about your day on Wolvden. This is the part I sometimes question, now that I've had a few days of Melvin quests. I'd agree that most of them are things I do daily, like exploring, feeding wolves, hunting, scouting, etc. And while it may not be the case for everyone, I find that I'm usually puptraining everyday too. However, I can see that there will be days where I don't have pups to train, and I'm gonna get that quest. Also... I have adolescents, and at some points I have a bunch of them. But unless my herbalist is getting old, I'm not going to be training a replacement. So I've gotten that "send an apprentice foraging" quest twice now and I've had to go out of my way to do that. The quest snake's "train an adolescent" is much more understanding. Besides that, yeah a lot of Melvin's quests are either the same as the snake's or an easier version. And while I'm here, ditto on the Enclave stuff mentioned by Dżanek and Slothie. I find doing the quests tedious at best and now that I've gotten the acheivement tied to them I find its not worth my time to do them anymore |
Food? #20022 |
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Posted 2022-12-25 01:42:54
There's not much going on with Melvin. He's cute and I like his chatter, but he comes across as quest snake 2.0 when the snake could've just gotten (another) revamp. (Such as, selecting difficulty of quests instead of getting 3 random.) You can't even skip the quests you don't want to do like you can with the snake, because you'll lose your streak. Enclave quests are a headache, no thank you. The SC is probably nice for newer players getting den slots, but otherwise, I don't know. I don't hate him, I'm just kinda eh. I was hoping he would bring achievements, at least. Nice seeing new stuff added though! Love the new eyes and BGs, Clay especially is lovely! And of course, happy holidays to those who celebrate! 
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 Whirligig (Active: Event) #11137 |