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New Upgrade/skill - "Earnest Extractor"

You know what's not fun? Mining. Having to click on a rock, click on mine every 4 seconds or so is pretty boring.

You know what would be less boring? Being able to to that once to mine a rock down to nothing! This is my vision.

Let's conjure up some details: essentially, all this would do would be to restart the progress bar immediately after it fills. Each fill of the bar would have the effect of a single mine action has now; you receive chunks from the rock you're mining, any bonuses gained from others helping you mine is received, a check for bonus goodies is performed and recieved if applicable, the size of the rock is depleted, and you lose energy. Hitting the cancel button would do the same thing it does now: simply stops mining.

This is definitely not intended to continue botting the same rock once it regenerates, if you're still hanging around. Once the instance of the rock you've begun to mine depletes completely, the effect ends.

So, what are the benefits? Mostly, just not having to click "Mine" every four seconds. Why is that a good thing? Well, you could, say, participate more actively in chat. Or go do a pee. For the powergamers, it also means less time wasted on your Earthshakers.

Mostly, it's about not having to click mine every 4 seconds.

Posted 77 days ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • -Attempt at pre-emptively addressing criticism / supporting assertions-
    Making a batch of 20 tinctures takes FOREVER, but at least you can do other things while that's going down! Heck you can even meditate while doing that! This thing would still exclude the same actions mining already does.

    I guess this could be slippery sloped into dirt piles / peat bogs / harvesting trees, but honestly those aren't nearly as tedious as rocks. For one, those each can be done only so many times a day. Rocks are limited to how fast they're dug up / respawned. Most other day-repeatable resources are single shot / nigh instantaneous stuff, like barnacles.
    Posted 77 days ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm sure TS can add a potion for it....

    [ I would have preferred TS simply reduced the number of clicks required to garden... ]

    Edit: but if the potions caused the resources to spew all over, moving-box style, that would be hilarious! Exploding peat bogs!!!
    Posted 76 days ago by Sturminator 5 Subscriber! | Permalink