You know most people you saw are EA Players.
The reason they can build things really fast is not because of the 2 weeks or 4 weeks ahead than you guys.
We had “experience” for the game since alpha beta till now.
Even we started at the same time, when you still learning how to crafting some gears / weapons, we already finish all the towns & Portal networks.
Without us building all the market / portal system for you, it will be a nightmare.
You didn’t experience the time when we need to travel for gathering gems / diamond for 10000c travel feeds.
Think about it, how many travel you can do without all the portals set up ?
Also the only income source is the feats and objects which is really a few.
(no market , no shop , no town, and no portals)
Please, stop thinking that we have a lot of advantages than you guys because we started earlier.
We can build things faster because we know the game way much better than you guys.
As result, you need to learn the game for at least 1 month to 2 month to do the same thing as us.
(For most Ea players we have at least 2 month to 2 years game experience during the alpha beta)
the idea of “wipe because some started later” is useless.
What if there is a steam sale in a year?
then again a wipe so that ppl that use the sale are on pair?
what if there is an xbox version released in 2 years, then another wipe?
I have to agree, been out on t4-t5 worlds killing Strong Splitters and higher for a few hours, zero eyes, got lots of other stuff though but right now I am giving up on this, I don’t think forging is worth this much grind time and so little return for the effort just isn’t fun for me. It’s a shame because I was just getting into forging and enjoying it despite the RNG nonsense.
So where can you actually get a spitter eye? I have killed tons on them and I have not got a single one. I kill mighty spitters, stout, elite, toxic… I have had no prob getting stock eye. I personally only use draining compound which I think is far better then pure compound, but my customers will only buy pure and I am running out of stock.
Ok , ASSUMING you have the eyes WHY make compound 1 or 2. Same number of the RARE drop to make Compound 3. Requiring for 1 is simply dumb. Defeats the purpose of even having it. could argue for 2 and no orb and then orb and RARE drop for 3. but it is what it is. Game is getting far too grindy too put time into even building…… (sad). Give it till next yr.
As the dev in charge of all of this has already said. It’s not fun if it’s not difficult that’s the reasoning behind every thing they do now. They know what’s best for us Bruv.
edit: removed playfully rude comment from my post.
Its not hard. its dam near impossible. I want to get into forging but as I can’t get hold of any useful quantities of eyes without hunting on high tear worlds with a fully leveled character speced specifically for it I’m just blocked. Shops don’t have them. Can’t get them myself.
I fully agree. Things shouldn’t be made more difficult. Add in harder things sure, but don’t make what’s in the game harder. I had this discussion before, and they didn’t learn a thing from the last one. They just basically said “if it’s easy it’s boring” and that was the reason to add things to recipes.
u dont need fully lvld character to hunt on T5+
my hunter is lvl 36 and easily solo meteors there. but to hunt just roaming spitter u can do it with half the lvl. Forging is mid to end game, not early game on lvl 1 or something like this.
It just makes some sense that u cant get every material there is, without any special skill set and some preparation. But u can still buy it from hunter who risk their ass getting it.
that getting spitter eyes is impossible, is a blatant lie. Next time add ur lvl and how specific ur skill set is for this task, and what items, weapons, tools u are using, and maybe we can advise u what u could do to get eyes easier
not impossible but the drop rate is ridiculously low, unless the devs plan on this being obtained in any useful amounts only by mass group farming, this leaves out a whole swath of players who solo game mainly or don’t play in the hours where big hunting groups are active and enjoy forging, I’m one of them. So I guess having obtained 11 splitter eyes over 3 characters is my fault for not playing the game properly and I learnt nothing in long play sessions in early access.
What is the drop rate of splitter eyes, anyone know? I’m guessing it’s ultra rare, which is fine if you are talking high end crafting mats, but entry level? That sounds like mindless grind to me.
I have 610 hours in this game and have done my fair share of grind in Boundless, this eye issue is just needless grind time for very little return, and all my opinion of course, I just hit my personal grind wall and have given up for now. I am waiting to see what else changes for a few updates before continuing, if at all.
the drop rate is not low, but u need to fight at least mighty spitter and have maxed luck, to get them consistently. If u dont have the combat skills for them u should try some stealth, a tool with auto collect and just walk along a lava sea to scavange some hunting loot (need to be t5+ for some numbers of mighty spitter)
but you don’t know the drop rate, nor do I. Lets have some real numbers and then we can discuss if it is low or not, until then this is a pointless discussion really. I know how and what to hunt and what skills I need, I now need to actually find out if I am wasting my time or not vs drop rate/kill ratio. Nothing else matters.
it kinda felt like i get from more than half of the mighty spitter some eyes… .but dont have data at all, and it might be even a too small number to get some real picture
not really, my personal experience is that the drop rate is very low, but I don’t know the actual drop rate percentage so without real numbers I’m just going on my experience, not actual hard number facts.
He has no idea of what he’s talking about. No point in arguing with him. Several of us were just talking on Discord about how laughably easy it is to farm the eyes. If they want to believe it’s difficult, then let them.
I’m not arguing with anyone, if you have pearls of wisdom to shed on this then lets hear it. I am more than happy to be educated by a clearly better informed person.
Looking at the drop rate from another point of view. If anything has sufficient drop rate against effective value there should be an obtainable supply available in shops as people who can will farm them to make money. It may not be huge numbers or possibly affordable mid game but they should be there. In an hour of searching shops across most of the major shopping hubs I found one shop with 6 eyes for sale at 1000c each and that is it. Compare this to say any of the orbs that also come from T5/T6 worlds where it can only take a few minutes to find a shop with them in stock at a (mostly) reasonable price.
The other boon compounds are not worth using as they add so many random drawbacks to make the tools almost always unusable.
Forging should be possible to some extent for dabblers after a few months play, using low level materials and producing low level gear that only gives slight improvement but are affordable and better than vanilla tools and then allow the player to get better/make better gear over time until they reach end game. At the moment the only real forging going on is the top end stuff for ultra late game that mostly isn’t for ‘day to day’ use for most players. at the moment if you need a low end aoe shovel for clearing soil and sand on a T1 world to make way for a build for instance and you are out of luck. The need, cost and lack of spitter eyes means that only the upper tier forging materials and tools are worth making leaving about 70% of the forging not even being looked at.
that’s the reasoning behind every thing they do now. They know what’s best for us Bruv.