Some potions would become redundant take that into consideration first. Interesting concept

It is like you have something called a rarity excluder, which if its G.100 it will narrow down your item or pixpet rarity to under 33%. If you say the items are there arent rare then are you making excluder potions not be able to use in that path? And that would also defeat the purpose on having the instant return potion which a lot of people use and most of times are really useful. The actual thing in the game that keeps us playing is to wait, some people don’t mind waiting and if they dont want to wait and want good stuff, the instant hoard return is what they use. And imagine, hoard times and rest times must go up each time, which at last, every path results in long waiting.

Its just... you don't understand really how the game would work without potions in use. I would hope that the hoarding times (which were shorten about 2 months ago, which made it so much better already) won't change anymore. Originally it would be 30 min for the first hoard, now 20. We can't shorten that more. We live by that if you want better things, you will need to wait.

It's true, so that's really the reason houses are there too! When you're in the starter hut you only get 2 pixpet slots, and when your pets get higher and higher in lvl, they take longer. And when people have mansions or villas, they might not think twice about sending pets out. Oh, and when you send out pixpets in the shorter route I think it should take less food pellets?

I understand that you're just giving examples, but I'm still replying to your examples so that you understand you're not alone in your thinking. ^^ And we're always happy when someone cares about the game enough to take the time and effort to make suggestions, so thank you muchly c:

I wasn't saying that impatience was a bad thing, so I hope I didn't come off that way. It's just part of a play style, and I'd like to see us accommodate at least the most common play styles. The fact that we're still seeing concerns about hoard times despite the changes that have already been made means that we still haven't found a solution that works for those particular play styles. Of course, it's impossible to satisfy everyone, but I think your suggestion is a step in the right direction because one thing that people like about games (and often expect, these days) is flexibility with their gaming experience. Being able to choose a pet's hoard time, no matter how it works or what the drawbacks would be, would help with that. And of course there are going to be more minigames in the future, so I'm glad to see that you made a suggestion for one, because we could really use specific suggestions on how to make the game more engaging. I can't say what else the future has in store, but Komodo is constantly updating the game and listening to the most common suggestions, and you can be assured that "more activities" is the most common suggestion! It just takes time (and money, for anything that Komodo can't make himself) to implement them, but more activities are coming, slowly but surely.

To answer your question, a level 100 pet's hoard time is 1 day, 9 hours, and 20 minutes. Before hoard times were shortened, it was 2 days and 2 hours (30 minutes per level) for a while, and you might be surprised how many players at the time thought that was fair. The reason it was shortened was because we had a sudden influx of players who felt otherwise--which is fine, because playerbases change as they grow, and as I said I'd like to see us accommodate different play styles. Around the beginning of beta, a level 100's hoard time was 4 days (1 hour per level), although no one ever had to endure that because it was halved before anyone's pets reached that level.

Another common suggestion is regarding interactions. Some people feel that 6 a day isn't enough, me included, because that makes it hard to return interactions in a timely manner. There also used to be a pumpkin seed shortage, and people were exclusively using their egg-help interactions to get pumpkin seeds, which made it difficult for anyone to get SLVL interactions, but Komodo tweaked hoards so that pumpkin seeds are a much more common find now. I haven't heard from anyone who originally complained about that, so they must've liked the change, but it would still be nice to have more interactions for the first reason I mentioned. Infinite interactions are debatable, but one could say that you already have them, since unregistered users can interact. All you'd have to do is log out, use your unregistered interactions, clear your cookies for the past hour, and do it all over again, as much as you want. I've never tried it, but we don't have a rule against it (that I know of).

As for housing, unfortunately that's meant to take a long time, since it's one of the main goals of the game other than collecting pets. If you need tips on all of the different ways to make money in the game, this is a good thread.

As a newbie, I'm probably not familiar enough with the site to pretend to know what you guys are talking about with the potions, but I can easily say nothing should change there.

That being said, I definitely think hoarding needs something different. I very much like the idea of having more options for it. I dread sending my pets on hoards now because they range into the half-a-day to full-24 hour lengths, and I have almost nothing to brew, cook or refine, so I need to keep sending them on these long hoards to get items. And the amount of items I've gotten are abysmal for a full-day of waiting(Not complaining, just stating facts). I feel as if I'm not playing or indulging in a game at all.

From my point of view, I joined just this week(huzzah!). I instant-hatched my first pixpet, and he immediately found an egg on his first hoard. I made the mistake of waiting to hatch the Veemooth(do all eggs take 76 hours... uuuugh...).

So I garnered very early on that this game is about patience and waiting. I'm sort of fine with that. I'm patient and can wait, but in the early on-set for all games, this system isn't great in catching and keeping the attention of new potential players.

My first pet leveled up enough from his first hoard to skip right into 3-5 hour hoard times. So I gathered my first hoard, rested and sent him packing again and then... Well, I did my laundry and didn't return until the next day because there was nothing else to do here. With any game, it's the first moment of play that's the most crucial and determines whether the site can keep the attention of a user and keep them logged on for longer times or returning more frequently.

So I'm basically saying having more options for sending a pet on hoard would be awesome and beneficial. I'm not saying to give more items or rarer ones at a faster rate, but there definitely needs to be an option for a shorter path.

I'll be blunt. I'm not all that invested here, aside from my love of the artwork and house customization. The lengthy hoard runs that increase every time I send my pet out almost makes me question if I want to bother coming back to send my pet for another day all over again. I feel disconnected, because I log on, send a pet out, then leave.

Sorry if any of this has already been brought up/discussed or pointed out, I didn't read all of the posts.

So to help with the overall Hoards Suggestion, I would like to throw the idea of a junkyard out there. Maybe broken items can be introduced for shorter hoards? For example: If my pixpet is going out for a five or ten minute run through a swamp or trash heap, even if he only brings me back junk items that are worth 1 PC(or 0, because it's trash and would be funny to throw into your house as a stinky decoration), I would feel like I'm getting back something worth the lesser time I sent him out for. And maybe "broken" items could be a thing. Chunks of items or partial liquid ingredients/seed bags/what not that you can combine with refining/cooking/brewing to make a fully restored, "Liquid quartz" or something.

So let's say a level 100 pet goes on a hoard path that takes half the time(50 hours, right?). He comes back with a legendary egg! Oh... but it's fossilized. And you need an equally rare item(like a potion, or another equally rare item you find on another half-hoard) to revive and be able to hatch it. So a person could either sell the egg for half the price of a ready-to-hatch one, or they can buy/find the revitalizer and eventually wait to hatch the egg. So that way those Rarity Excluder would still be just as potent for a reduced-time hoard. Right? Possibly. Uh, if the math doesn't check out, then just ignore me.

But uh, that's just a vague example. I haven't dabbled in potions enough to have any experience with the Rarity Excluder, so I'm not certain how it works. But I think it would be cool to be able to find, "junk" that can be further combined. Like finding empty bottles of glass and then finding uncut gems and refining them to make a "liquid quartz" or anything else. It could be expanded to be more or less complicated, but I hope my general outline of the base idea is understandable.

Waiting times really make me question whether I am doing things right, too. I keep looking into the site, but there's almost never something for me to do. I would really appreciate the idea(s) brought up, I already find myself forgetting about the game because all I can do is check in twice a day.