Game Development: Boarded up Feelings

[Procne]

Well, I'm not telling that, just trying to get more info in hope of reaching some conclusions. Later today I will post screenies of my 7 piles and write how many boards each gave.

But I think terrain on which pile is placed is highly important. You could expect that a pile placed on grass / forest terrain will get moldy, and one placed on something dry, like dirt / sand / pavement will not.

[Gallient]

I know I've gotten 40/40 on forest, I agree by all my results there must be a randomness to it since I've seen 40/40 from one spot produce at least half moldy from a subsequent pile in the same place. I now have a bunch of piles on grass which will dry in the next day or two. all of them have exactly 5 tiles spacing between the half tiles the board piles edge out on. No other objects anywhere near it. Will report results.

[darnokpl]

I know I've gotten 40/40 on forest, I agree by all my results there must be a randomness to it since I've seen 40/40 from one spot produce at least half moldy from a subsequent pile in the same place. I now have a bunch of piles on grass which will dry in the next day or two. all of them have exactly 5 tiles spacing between the half tiles the board piles edge out on. No other objects anywhere near it. Will report results.

Maybe it is working like tree growing in HnH, so walking around timber piles makes more moldy boards?

[Gallient]

Maybe it is working like tree growing in HnH, so walking around timber piles makes more moldy boards?

That would probably make sense, the first round I was not on much during the 5-day period. Also I've had a couple piles throwing out only 1 or 2 moldy boards which were on the outskirts of my encampment and I walked around them very rarely.

[darnokpl]

Maybe it is working like tree growing in HnH, so walking around timber piles makes more moldy boards?

That would probably make sense, the first round I was not on much during the 5-day period. Also I've had a couple piles throwing out only 1 or 2 moldy boards which were on the outskirts of my encampment and I walked around them very rarely.

I got same results 38 dry boards and only thing that could cause that is me walking around pile.

[Malakai]

How much sucess are people having planing dry boards? And what level Hammer & Nail do you have.
Personally i am level 102, and get about 60 to 70% planed boards.
Have anyone found that a high level in another skill is helpfull?

[Gallient]

How much sucess are people having planing dry boards? And what level Hammer & Nail do you have.
Personally i am level 102, and get about 60 to 70% planed boards.
Have anyone found that a high level in another skill is helpfull?

I'm at 120 and get about the same results. I think the boost is relatively small so only really noticeable over large differences especially in the earlier levels.

[Malakai]

Collected 6 piles of boards today. 3 of them was 100% good, one was aboyt 50% and the last two was 12%.
Planed 96 boards where 64 became planed boards. So out of this sample size i got a 66.6% success rate.

[Galthon]

There does seem to be a huge degree of randomness. I had a pile give 40/40 dry boards, and another with the exact same spacing gave 17/40.

Yeah, that was more the source of my irritation than anything else. I've found unclaimed piles in far, far worse places then where I placed my own, and gotten much better results from looting them. I'm not a huge fan of the RNG, for I am certain the BitGods hate me. I can accept it being a factor for the "extra-special" results of certain things, but I despise depending on it for required to advance materials.

[ramuller]

There does seem to be a huge degree of randomness. I had a pile give 40/40 dry boards, and another with the exact same spacing gave 17/40.

Yeah, that was more the source of my irritation than anything else. I've found unclaimed piles in far, far worse places then where I placed my own, and gotten much better results from looting them. I'm not a huge fan of the RNG, for I am certain the BitGods hate me. I can accept it being a factor for the "extra-special" results of certain things, but I despise depending on it for required to advance materials.

On the other hand, I have played games with no randomness in combat or other activities and they get boring very fast (any situation has a single optimum sequence of actions that always works -- ignoring PvP).