Current Thoughts on islands

[Masekase_Hurricane]

My "Day One of this new thing", thoughts.

The TL;dr: None of it's good. Counterintuitive, contrary, time-consuming, waste of effort for everyone.

1. (yes, this means there's more than one)
Can we do something about the horrific negativity of the mammets? I get that it's 'lore based' and whatever, but it really puts a DOWNward cast on something that is supposed to be a "FUN" getaway from the world. Why are you making it so that people don't want to do it? Would YOU want to interact daily with a bunch of super negative people?

The incessant 'oh you don't wanna do that', 'oh my back', 'why would you do that?', 'you are inferior' attitudes that you are met with during EVERY SINGLE interaction with any of them really makes me NOT want to continue interacting with them, meaning I don't want to do your 'island' stuff AT ALL because everything you do... involves interacting with an aggressive, negative, rude, condescending or flat out ridiculous creature. There's not one single 'ray of sunshine' in the entire place save for the mammets that DON'T SPEAK AT ALL.

2. Why does it cost 1000 cowries in just one exchange, to clear an area but you have no way to earn that many cowries BACK in a single day, much less earn more? How are we intended to profit at all at this rate? And if this is how you intended it to be, then why are the purchasable items 4-12,000 cowries? That's literally MONTHS to earn enough cowries to even buy the cheapest items on the vendor unless you SLAVE yourself to the island all day every day! NO ONE wants to DO THAT! Even the lowest ranks (currently rank 6) only earn about 150-300 cowries A DAY and then have to spend that AND MORE to 'renovate' (read upgrade), and forget expanding into new areas after the second one. It will cost you 1000 again but you won't HAVE that many nor a way to EARN that many, because you need to expand to build new stuff but after the first round of builds, completing new buildings no longer gives you cowries.

I don't know about everyone ELSE in the game, but for me, I don't want ANOTHER FULL TIME JOB in a video game. You represented the Islands as a 'FUN GETAWAY' from the MAIN hustle and bustle... but it's not. It's a trick, it's a trap and I do NOT appreciate how this has been handled AT ALL.

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You can make at least 1000 cowries per day if you have 3 workshops. Chain your recipes and build up your groove

I am on technically. the morning of 'day 3' and while I didn't plant crops immediately, I DID plant them around mid-day on day one, and still none of them have blossomed, and you need that produce to make better feed.
It's been well over 24 hours, almost 36 hours at this point. It's a bit ridiculous for a thing that is supposed to be 'part time once or twice a day for a 'little' while to run.

If you put it all together, each little thing becomes a massive time sink despite what "Amplyra" has to say in rebuttal.
One of my friends is loving the entire thing and is already rank 8. I've no idea how she managed it but she's beginning to see the things I have pointed out here and is growing frustrated as well.

Treat the island like a 'zen garden' and let it slowly unfold and you may have better luck.
Try to rush anything? you'll just be sitting there with nothing to do but pick up sticks and rocks waiting for time gates to expire.

I will also edit to say, after figuring out the best put efforts of workshops, you -can- earn about 1k cowries a day.
Of course, you'll spend most of them too, on various buildings and such, so your profit to spend margin is STILL horrible if you're not letting daaays go by between building new things.

The crops take 48 hours which is very fast compared to normal gardening.

I am on technically. the morning of 'day 3' and while I didn't plant crops immediately, I DID plant them around mid-day on day one, and still none of them have blossomed, and you need that produce to make better feed.
It's been well over 24 hours, almost 36 hours at this point. It's a bit ridiculous for a thing that is supposed to be 'part time once or twice a day for a 'little' while to run.

If you put it all together, each little thing becomes a massive time sink despite what "Amplyra" has to say in rebuttal.
One of my friends is loving the entire thing and is already rank 8. I've no idea how she managed it but she's beginning to see the things I have pointed out here and is growing frustrated as well.

Treat the island like a 'zen garden' and let it slowly unfold and you may have better luck.
Try to rush anything? you'll just be sitting there with nothing to do but pick up sticks and rocks waiting for time gates to expire.

I will also edit to say, after figuring out the best put efforts of workshops, you -can- earn about 1k cowries a day.
Of course, you'll spend most of them too, on various buildings and such, so your profit to spend margin is STILL horrible if you're not letting daaays go by between building new things.

So what's your chains look like to get 1k per day with 2 workshops? Also I think your exaggerating quite a bit, I've upgraded everything I can and Rank 6 atm with 2.600 cowries to spare. At this rate I should have close to 8 - 10k by the end of the week. So 1-1.5 weeks for the dearest item seems quite reasonable to me.