No pearls

[Granger]

area based

Oh just got a pearl here, lets pick up the cauldron and move to the next spot... rinse and repeat.

That's why I suggested both character and area specific components.

[pppp]

Place 10 alts 300 tiles apart each, profit. Entirely doable for a faction. Can even have one cauldron per alt. The only part that sucks here for big bois is managing these 10 locations. I wrote that already.

[jock]

I know this will get flamed a little but it might be a solution.

Split the global pool into continents or 4 quadrents of the map.

Now split it again 30/70 towards premium players.Now this MAY come across as pay to win but it will reduce the number of bots getting the perils or force them to pay for the game and invest more to support the game to get the best odds. (Which a fair few will do).

That will break up the number of bots in each pool allow more players to get acces to the chance to get perils and i expect it will increase the use of subtokens creating a nice sink for them hopefully pushing up there value in trade aswell.

This can be done for all rare foragables. Flame away.

[MagicManICT]

When is the "pearl" generated--on harvest of the mussel, or on boiling of said mussel? If the former, seems you spread the field out already, and there's no "competition" of who boils their mussel first. If on the latter, it's easy to game by just taking your cauldron and mussels a few maps over and trying again.

My money is that the whole system already works based on the pearl being generated when the map is seeded at load time. If you aren't finding pearls in your area, you're on at the wrong time, or you need to go elsewhere to gather mussels.

[pppp]

What I hope for is big bois going like "that cauldron carrying is too boring, hey nab, come and boil my mussels for me".

[shubla]

As an update:
I have gave up on trying to find pearls.
I boiled probably 2000+ mussels this world, 0 pearls.

If devs think that a good fix for people botting pearls is to just remove pearls from the game, why dont you delete your whole game to solve the botting once and for all?

[Haho9]

I'm just going to leave this here
https://imgur.com/a/MyxADvd

[MagicManICT]

Shubla, I think you're just having shit luck with pearls this world. I don't know what else to tell you. I see people post this same type of issue over on the Path of Exile forums for certain specific crafting items.

[ricky]

Obviously, when loftar isnt working on client rendering, he's optimizing the Desire Sensor

[riisinkerääjä]

Yeah and @shubla your mate boiled 150 pearls in ur village and got 4 pearls its rng and it tends to be 1/130 ratio i boiled 1300 mussels dor 15 pearls