Posted by [ALL] Explore Encounter That Drops Beetle Corpses

Wolv [G3 Clean
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2019-02-10 10:25:17
There are a whopping two Jewelry: White Sarong items and three Jewelry: Black Bedlah items in the game as of this post! (Feb 10 2019)

Beetles are found at random from that grub explore encounter. The species of the beetle is completely random, as well as the color. It's possible to breed them, but that's something very few players invest time and resources into.

It'd be nice if there was a fairly rare explore event that had a chance of dropping one random dead beetle item of a common color/species. (Maybe, on an especially rare occasion, an uncommon.)
Now that there are decors related to beetles, it'd be nice if it was possible for the average person to get ahold of them a little more easily.

I know one of the main ideas behind beetle corpse items is that it's a memento of a beetle you've raised, but...
How many people on this site even raise them in the first place? I don't mean this as "we shouldn't bother thinking about them at all" but proportionally to Lioden's playerbase, the people who actively use beetles is pretty low from what I've seen.

Edit: I'm not actually sure if this is the right place to post this, since it's only kind of event-related. It could be something for March, but year-round would be nice...

Edit 2: Alternatively, making beetle keeping easier to navigate would be another good way to help.
Right now there's no way to tell the status of your beetles without going specifically into the Beetle Mound, so it's very easy for even dedicated people to end up with all of them unexpectedly dead.
Some kind of hunger alert in the Daily Rollover Summary might be good as a minimum instead of only "It's already dead!" notifications.



This suggestion has 15 supports and 1 NO support.



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Edited on 23/07/19 @ 19:13:42 by a Moderator

Deku (#117676)

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2019-02-12 09:07:26
Support! I really like the beetle decor, but there’s just no way I’m going through the trouble of finding larve, hoping I get the right one, raising it up, then repeating that several times just to craft a decor. I get the feeling that the decor was made to encourage players to participate in beetle raising, but uh, I don’t think it really worked.



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Wolv [G3 Clean
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2019-02-12 09:42:25
Yeah! I think it's all a mix of "I really want this cool decor!" and "I REALLY DON'T want to have to do all this beetle stuff I'm not interested in just to get it..."
"Do I really want to have to gather a total of 15 specific beetles - which I most likely have never raised before - and wait for them to die just to get this one (1) decor? I have my lions to worry about already/I don't have time for that..."
The low reward of beetle raising is another matter entirely, but it's just too much of a hassle in general. If it's something more obtainable through normal explore gameplay, even rarely with the huge number of different beetle items, it makes a massive difference to me.



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Polaris (#151542)

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2019-02-12 13:06:07
No support, this would disincentivize beetle keeping. Finding ways to attract more people into keeping beetles would be preferable in my view



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Bezthiel 🍉 (#81210)

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2019-02-12 13:17:47
I thought the beetles were really really cool when they were released. I collected so many dead giraffe colored giraffa... aaaannnd- giraffa aren't even used to craft anything at all. Cool, cool.

Also, mine all died one generation because there's no alert for when they get hungry and all of a sudden I was out of painstakingly stat-raised, rare colored beetles. Those are bigger deal-breakers for beetle raising to me. They won't encourage me to go back to doing it until it's easier to keep track.

Then, to top it all off, some of those beetle corpses are from recently introduced species of a rare color. (Not giraffa though, nooo) So I have to hope I find a new beetle of a rare color out of the hundreds of beetles there are to find, and a mate for it! So they can have three babies that I'll probably starve, cuz again, there's no alert and nothing on their mound on your den page to indicate the little shits are gonna die...

Plus, when I cared about raising beetles, space for their larva was a serious issue. Making room for 15 extra beetles would have left me with... 4 slots for raising the giraffe colored giraffa I loved.

I know they're a vanity pet, and I was more than willing to keep buying those extra slots for 1gb each, but consider the cost for those that aren't!



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Wolv [G3 Clean
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2019-02-12 13:23:25
In that case, altering beetle keeping as a whole would be better... It's true that adding an encounter like this would make it less likely for any people to take care of beetles at all.

Alerts are the major issue... Since you can't see beetles or their hunger without going specifically into the mound, it's very easy to forget to feed them and just end up with an alert that tells you they've all died unexpectedly. The biggest problem here is "hassle", after all.

I'll edit the post, too, to specify it shouldn't be the rarer colors.



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Bezthiel 🍉 (#81210)

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2019-02-12 14:03:47
Perfect! Making it easier to get those 10 common corpses is a good compromise, I think. Then hopefully they can work on improvements to make raising the rare colored ones a bit more worth it.



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