@Takkju
Thank you

Seems like a nice update overall, but the regular item rarity excluder change tho, that one hurts. Was hoping to hunt down some cool decorations but guess that's going to be a much bigger investment now as the massive amount of ingredients don't come out of nowhere.

I've calculated how much making a Rarity Excluder will cost the player now. The result is... At least 400 PC total. The Voxels alone are worth 240 PC (15 PC each), but then there's other ingredients, too. I have never seen a rare decor item selling for more than 200PC, some of them don't even reach the "Top Item Auction Bids" list.

So, essentially, I imagine brewing a new Rarity Excluder scenario would go like this:
- planting 2-8 pumpkin seeds of the same color, the highest grade you can manage
- waiting 2 weeks with an already full-grown Voxel Plant
- finally giving your pet a potion only for it to return with something like a sewing machine you could've easily bought for 25 PC on the market.

No, really, what is the point of this potion now that it's too expensive to make and doesn't guarantee any good finds? I've only used a Rarity Excluder once before and all I've got back then was a troffinch egg and a colored Designer Pot. It was a little underwhelming, I could've bought these items cheaper on the market. Imagine something like this happening now that the Rarity Excluder Potion requires x4 ingredients than before. It would be simply disheartening. This is a total overkill.

In my opinion introducing a new Rarity Excluder for Pixpet eggs alone balances things out already, there's no reason to increase the number of ingredients needed for these potions on top of that. Please don't forget that a Rarity Excluder is useless on it's own, it has to be paired with other potions in order to have any effect at all. Don't you think that making 2 potions to get just 1 item is balanced enough already?

We're awfully close to April Fools, is this a joke?

Personally, I have never used a rarity excluder potion on my pixpets before. Sure, having a better chance of getting a rare item is nice, but I thought even 4 voxels was too many to use on one potion, especially one that needs another potion to even work. I believe that SLVL and regular decoration/pixpet potions work just as well for finding rare items, even if you need to do a couple of tries.

I like the change that higher level pets can find more rare items. It gives more incentive to levelling up your pets rather than just getting a new one when the old one starts taking too long on hoards. However, I think that long hoard times are going to become an issue because high-level pets can find any rarity level. It would suck if you sent out a level 100 pet for 2 days and all they came back with was a plastic table.

The only major problem I have with this update is the Item Find Quantity changes. I am lucky that I have 2 rooms with 70 SLVL, so even if I don't receive any SLVL pats from people, I can still send out my pets and receive high-quality potion items. But if you are a new player or anyone that doesn't receive regular interactions or has little decoration items, the chances of finding good potion items has decreased greatly.

Say you have a room with 20 SLVL and have had no interactions, using the liquid turquoise example, you would receive 1-2 (8 x 0.2 = 1.6, round up or down?) liquid turquoise with a grade anywhere from 5 to 35 (20 - 15 = 5, 20 + 15 = 35). I think this is unfair because sending pixpets on hoards is already hard when you don't have a steady food supply of pumpkins. The smaller houses only have 1 pumpkin spot, so you'll need to decide whether to use those pumpkins for food or for potions. When you add in the fact that more people prefer to click eggs rather than interact with pets, this problem only gets worse.

I definitely think the hoarding mechanism needed an update, so I'm glad to see that it's actively being worked on. I look forward to the future of hoarding and hope that we can all come to some sort of agreement in the end. :)

The contrairy is the case. The SLVL is now not as important anymore for pixpet finds of lower level pets. Lover level pets are now much more likely to find stuff. :) Once they reach higher levels they will also find rarer things to increase the SLVL. It is true that a small house can not hold many rare items, however already a SLVL of 50 is very good and can be achieved with the help of lottery interactions.
I agree with you that the potions may turn out to be too expensive. More balancing will be done to the hoards definitely!

I don't really mind most of the things in this update, but this?



Big oof.

Okay, now I found an update what dissapointed me a bit.


This is the PixPet involved in the thing.

I sent him hoarding, and well... This is what he got back:



So well, I think now I'm going to need to get accustomed to get Low or Void items. At least got an Egg what I can sell back to server, but...

Well.

(And I say what I need to get accustomed, because my avg SLVL for my principal 2 PixPets is 32, and for the others between 15 and 25 )

EDIT:

Okay, now the other PixPet I have on Back Yard returned from hoarding.



Guess what?



Now I'm afraid of send my PixPets again for hoarding without SLVL below 50 (and need to be lucky enough to have enough people for interact with my PixPets... )

Don't worry, you can check my previous comment about what I got on hoards. Those two PixPets were on Back Yard, who has only SLVL 3.

I'm sending the big boys into hoarding to find if at least they can get something... useful.





Now let's wait.

I agree with you... however, this never happened to me before. I'm used to get G10-30 items in PixPets with low levels and close to zero SLVL, and something affected that in the bad way.



However, as I pointed, let's wait until the big ones come back...