lachlaan wrote:I can afford to spend 8 minutes on it, but does it have to be 8 minutes doing nothing? By all means make me dance around the tree or kick it to shake the leaves off, but if my alternatives are boredom or bust then slowly similar mechanics will end up spelling "Just go be bored elsewhere", and I hope the intent isn't to push people that way.
Yes, that is exactly the point. Until now the same few people are gathering the majority of resources, having to reserve entire house floors for e.g. heartwood leaves that they don't even need. Now maybe other people have a chance. If it's too boring, maybe you don't need the resource after all and you should indeed go and be bored elsewhere. This technically goes against the original idea that local resources were something you would want to fight over, but most resources other than icicles aren't useful enough for that to work.
I'd rather prefer other solutions such as the resource being able to spawn in a huge radius around a center point, making you go look for it, but this simple timer is already better than things were before.