Shousha wrote:And we're done! The premise was tested. Good luck with ants, mediocre luck with dandelions and pretty bad luck with pinecows. After about the one hour mark, almost all the bootstrap LP was consumed and I spent the second hour almost entirely wandering aimlessly around a forest. Playing with multiple people would unlikely have made much of a difference (unless you had a dedicated survivalist generating cows and pulling up ants) unless they were already well established, and in that event I think it's a moot point. In the end, I had carpentry, lumberjacking, foraging, fishing, hunting, 7 exploration and about 500 LP. That was after two hours of concentrated play on a new character.
If I am "right" or "wrong" is largely irrelevant. This is data. I hope it is of some use to the developers in improving the game and to forum warriors trying to win arguments. In either event, I doubt I'll be playing the game again until things change.
burgingham wrote:Ok, you have won and you even taught me something today. That "a couple" always means 2 and cannot mean "a few". Nice work and thanks.
I have been convinced successfully that the LP system might need some early acceleration that relies on a merchanism other than raiding anthills for a rare drop. Some other option may be a good idea; I do think that if I was a total newbie, the system would at least be slightly daunting.
