@Zeke said in Thank you for putting SG scratch cost the same as JP.:

Honestly the fact you can pull 49 times off something that requires a pseudo currency is pretty nice.

Definitely!

It's difficult to equate it to an SG saving because it's not like they set the odds without any awareness that players could get up to 49 free scratches, and if the odds were better it's not necessarily as much of a saving because you'd have to account for the greater chance of the player getting the item within fewer scratches. I don't much care to do the maths on that but it's something to consider.

The free scratch mechanic is great for encouraging players to check in regularly and keep player retention and engagement. I think it'd have been better still if it counted towards the choice ticket (since that would be extra incentive still to log in at least 40 of 49 days on top of giving the feeling of being more generous) but it's still something and I think a good thing.

@Zeke said in Thank you for putting SG scratch cost the same as JP.:

you'll have 60 free tickets for the SG scratch if you log in everyday. You'll get what you want eventually.

It's about 49 days (I think, maintenance boundaries make it a little unclear but it'll be within 1 of that).

For reference purposes if you want one specific 1/203 ("0.492%") item then odds of getting it at least once from 49 free scratches are still only about 21.5%, so it's probably not wise to give people that assurance.

Edit - Decided to extend this reply a bit since it might be of interest to some: A quick chart of the chances of getting one specific item at least once from 49 free scratches overall, based on its probability:

Note if you want multiple items this chart isn't too useful; you can't just add or multiply the numbers together. That'd require some extra calculation depending on what precisely you wanted to know the odds of.

Most of the SG comes from getting S ranks on the Hardcore difficulty of the quests.

For most of the quests, this is based on damage received, and up to mid-Episode 3 enemies scale to your class level in hardcore so it's easier to pull that off with a low-level ranged class. A Ranger with a starter 7★ or higher rifle that has a low equip requirement makes Episodes 1 and 2 pretty easy to S rank on hardcore with cautious play.

Beyond that, where enemies are high level regardless, I'd suggest grabbing the Jinga and Vulcan Egg 14★ collection folders and completing those, and using a Summoner since you can have the pet fight at range and avoid damage that way.

@HarmlessSyan said in Thank you for putting SG scratch cost the same as JP.:

@Miraglyth that convert thing is very arguable still since global gets to keep all the pulls.

Within one set this is indeed a net neutral.

But Global has no replacement for JP's ability to use 25 (and at one point 17, which Global never got an equivalent for) badges from previous sets in the permanent. JP players who had recycle badges left over from past sets got to use them for their permanent and we didn't. Within the scope of that comparison, Global has it objectively worse, and that was my only point.

I'm not comparing the two SG scratch philosophies here; that would be an entirely separate discussion. I'm literally just describing the specific drawback of Global not being able to use past recycle badges for permanent like JP could, which makes SG Collection worse for Global and therefore Passionate Spirit the first ever Global SG Scratch to not be scuffed. That's all.

And let's not get started with Evil Angelo...

@Ryoga said in Thank you for putting SG scratch cost the same as JP.:

If it's the same as jp then they didn't change anything.

It being the same as JP is a change. Global has never not been screwed on SG scratches before compared to JP. Even SG Collection was arguably the only permanent scratch to be worse than a JP one, since we never got a 30% discount or the ability to convert past recycle badges into choice tickets.

We were always just suppressing f-factor in natives in PSO2 which was a rather tenuous way to turn native species into enemies for ARKS ops, especially when Franca kept asking for various body parts of the animals we allegedly saving with combat.

Personally, being stuck on one world with limited food sources and not enough agricultural let alone scientific development to be able to consider Earth-modern nutrition, and therefore needing to farm meat from species that are clearly in no extinction danger, it's a touch of realism and a nice break from being tenuously believable environmentalists.

@MarbleAsh723440 said in THIS WHOLE GODDAMN PLACE HAD 6 LOBSTERS:

@Miraglyth said in THIS WHOLE GODDAMN PLACE HAD 6 LOBSTERS:

Since today's task is meat (and still needs 10), it's hard to say how much the measures will help.

Uhh, they reduced it and I only needed 5 meat, not 10.

Hum. I must've been mistaken about that part. It's definitely saying 5 for me now.

But my point remains. It doesn't matter if tasks only ask for 5 if less than 5 spawn in a day. It'll still punish people who gathered too many of a resource in the day before it was needed for a task.

We'll need a few days now to really get an idea for what they've changed, but if it's not enough the advice is going to continue to be to never pick up anything unless it progresses a task and that would continue to be terrible design.

@MarbleAsh723440 said in THIS WHOLE GODDAMN PLACE HAD 6 LOBSTERS:

I believe the spawn rate is the same but they reduced the amount needed for dailies.

They claim to have "fixed a bug" about spawns, which ostensibly means they've changed something that'll make them spawn more. See the bug fix list in the maintenance notes:

Fixing a Bug Where Gathering Items Do Not Appear Correctly.

@RainGnyu said in THIS WHOLE GODDAMN PLACE HAD 6 LOBSTERS:

Run along the edge of the zone...

And if there aren't any to pick up, does that magically make them spawn faster? Seems like you're missing the problem entirely.

@MarbleAsh723440 said in THIS WHOLE GODDAMN PLACE HAD 6 LOBSTERS:

They actually reduced/fixed it. Well, no more 8/10 LOBSTERS FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEE

Since today's task is meat (and still needs 10), it's hard to say how much the measures will help.