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Apr 10, 2016 9 years ago Official
The Adventures of
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God help us all yes it is. GOODBYE FREE BEER!

Apr 10, 2016 9 years ago Official
The Adventures of
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I swear there is somewhere. I'm running off right now but if you can't find it someone is welcome to make it in the suggestions forum!

Apr 11, 2016 9 years ago Official
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Each item gives you 0-1 crystals, so about 50%.

Thanks, changed the token and coin. Not sure why the token didn't update, it was the very first thing I changed earlier! And I managed to remember the steamworks bag but not that coin, thanks! We're keeping CSC as r125 because that kinda overrides any other rarities.

Apr 11, 2016 9 years ago Official
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Yikes, fixed. Thanks again!

Apr 13, 2016 9 years ago Official
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We won't be going back to automatically getting 1 for the "special" rarities (101, 115, 150, 160, and 175 all have the same odds). We might do another thing in the future where we make it 0-2 again for a short period, but we're not going to guarantee one!

Apr 13, 2016 9 years ago Official
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The thing about the Crystal Shop though is that it’s always been a bit of a gamble. Just looking at items that are rarity 1-99, you know the higher end of a rarity will give you 1+ crystals while the lower end you’ll be lucky to get 1. There are so many items in 115, 160, etc that we'd classify as a lower rarity if we were using a 1-99 scale, tbh. We have to look at the big picture, and if each one of those rarities guaranteed one, it’d devalue crystal prices (or we’d have to start making items cost more).

Apr 13, 2016 9 years ago Official
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No, I get that! You're more than welcome to wait until things pop up in the Recycle Beast if you think that's a better choice (with the new changes we pushed, quite a few items that are fraggable might pop up there) or whatever else. I just wanted to explain our reasoning for why we've kept it at 0-1 for the rarities over 99.

and I both want users to achieve their goals, whatever they may be. That's why we're working on bringing back old collection items where we can and doing changes to things like fragging and recycling. There's a thread in S&I that has some great ideas to "help stop hoarding" but I see it more as YES GOALS TO COMPLETE. Like the food day suggestion, there are a lot of people that want to be able to get the gourmand achievements but hunger takes ages to go down. We want to play around with that some!

Apr 13, 2016 9 years ago Official
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We're not trying to make them super easy, just actually doable in some cases (like finishing plushie/beanbag/etc collections). With the hunger suggestion, it's something we'd have to make sure it wouldn't be for too long/too quick/too easy (that's why it's something we have to play around with if we go that route).

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