Fishing/Bughunting Bug

Summary:

Old bug is old

Fishing/Bughunting Bug

Kinak 07 May 2019 05:50

Found an old bug that I believe was preventing +Fishing (and more recently +Bug Hunting) from taking effect. However, it was also making experience in those activities vastly more effective than it was supposed to be.

So it'll take a while to see exactly how that shakes out. I think both activities will still be worthwhile, just require a bit more investment, but I'm open to revisiting their difficulty once things have settled.

Oh, and it's totally possible this change hilariously broke something else down the line. So obviously let me know if I blew something up.

Cheers!
Kinak

Re: Fishing/Bughunting Bug

Cryptodynamic 08 May 2019 14:31

Is it that fishing/bugcatching attempts were giving experience at too high a level? (E.g., you hit Comfortable, and a particular result should either stop giving you experience, or give it less reliably.)

If that's the case, is the upper end we can reach still the same and it just might be harder to get there, or has the cap on what we can get experience from been lowered?

Re: Fishing/Bughunting Bug

Kinak 09 May 2019 16:14

The experience gain should actually be the same, so you'll gain the same ranks at the same times. So ranks will look 100% the same.

The difference is, behind the scenes, the middle ranks were counting for so much that the upper ranks weren't really doing anything. So, the ranks and XP are the same, it's the effectiveness that's evened out. In practice that means people will be worse at the middle ranks, but pretty similar at both ends.

Cheers!
Kinak