Remove Hunt Trail Size Distinction From Quests

Remove Hunt Trail Size Distinction From Quests
Posted 2021-09-22 04:03:54 #527979 Hello! I suggest removing the trail size distinction from quests. This would solve several frustrations that stem from players' varying home biomes, pack sizes and hunting team ability. Problems with requiring small/critter trails: - Under normal circumstances, players tend to choose larger trails in order to get the best XP/food. Larger packs need to catch as much food as they can get. - The player can only hunt a set number of times per day (max around 15-20 for a regular dedicated player who checks back frequently.) This means having to hunt a set number of small or critter trails for a quest can feel like a waste of time or a trade-off if you're in a biome where you can reliably catch large prey. If you are 'scraping the line' on your hunting-to-wolves-fed ratio it might be something you can't afford to do at all. Problems with requiring large/medium trails: - Objectively impossible for players with either a poor enough hunting team or a hard enough biome (or both.) Comparatively easy for other players. The lack of prey in harder biomes already provides enough difficulty without making some quests functionally impossible like this. There's already a thread about this one, but this suggestion solves the problem without needing to have hunting quests tailored per player/biome or have the game work out a bespoke threshold to start receiving each quest type. Without a size distinction, players would be able to reliably complete their hunt quests in harder biomes and wouldn't be encumbered by critter trail quests in easier biomes. The only "downside" I can see from this is that it makes it more likely for players to complete hunt quests (ie, slightly more SC going into the game), but this would happen because of a removal of frustration/feelings of unfairness, not because it makes the quests objectively easier, so I think it's OK.	unsknown #21142

Posted 2021-09-22 04:03:54

#527979

Hello! I suggest removing the trail size distinction from quests. This would solve several frustrations that stem from players' varying home biomes, pack sizes and hunting team ability.

Problems with requiring small/critter trails:

- Under normal circumstances, players tend to choose larger trails in order to get the best XP/food. Larger packs need to catch as much food as they can get.
- The player can only hunt a set number of times per day (max around 15-20 for a regular dedicated player who checks back frequently.)

This means having to hunt a set number of small or critter trails for a quest can feel like a waste of time or a trade-off if you're in a biome where you can reliably catch large prey. If you are 'scraping the line' on your hunting-to-wolves-fed ratio it might be something you can't afford to do at all.

Problems with requiring large/medium trails:

- Objectively impossible for players with either a poor enough hunting team or a hard enough biome (or both.) Comparatively easy for other players. The lack of prey in harder biomes already provides enough difficulty without making some quests functionally impossible like this. There's already a thread about this one, but this suggestion solves the problem without needing to have hunting quests tailored per player/biome or have the game work out a bespoke threshold to start receiving each quest type.

Without a size distinction, players would be able to reliably complete their hunt quests in harder biomes and wouldn't be encumbered by critter trail quests in easier biomes.

The only "downside" I can see from this is that it makes it more likely for players to complete hunt quests (ie, slightly more SC going into the game), but this would happen because of a removal of frustration/feelings of unfairness, not because it makes the quests objectively easier, so I think it's OK.

unsknown
#21142

Posted 2021-09-22 12:35:59 (edited)

#528346

Support. I was the author of the thread asking if not to remove the size distinction to at the very least alter it by biome so that players like myself in Glacier don't keep getting large trail hunt quests that are impossible for us to complete, but I would also be fine with it if the trail distinction was removed entirely. Just as long as my hunt quests stop being uncompletable.

Thistle ⭐ [He/Him]
#29533

Posted 2021-10-04 01:45:08

#535543

Hey there! This has already been suggested on this topic, so we'll be locking yours as a duplicate. Please be sure to use the Search feature before posting a suggestion in the future to avoid duplicate topics!

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