Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The fact that doing farming activities is a slower route than managing the spreadsheet indicates that the spreadsheet is the intended and expected way of approaching the content, and if you don't want to engage with it then you have to settle for a slower way of earning cowries.
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Players optimizing the fun out of something does not mean that is the intended or expected way to approach it. If so then every mechanic skip ever is the "intended" way to do that encounter because it's the fastest way.

It's fine you don't like it. It's fine if LOTS of people don't like it or don't want to engage with it or wish something else was made instead of it.

What I'm tired of is people acting like the island failed to be something it was never meant to be or that it's locked behind a rigorous and grueling grind.


I haven't read one guide. I have no idea what time the "special" animals spawn. I don't know what the optimal product cycle is or even what exactly "groove" does. I did however discover for myself the basics of drops, groove and setting automation for the week so i can pop in for a couple minutes a day to click some stuff and rack up some currency.

I may not be the first with the expensive mount, but I'll have it eventually. I'll also eventually have every single other reward there with a few minutes "invested" every day or maybe 30 minutes a week popping in to click my auto-farmed stacks through. The system literally churns time into blue cowries. Everything waits if you ignore it too. The animals drop to baseline mood and the plants just stop growing. If you wished you could just send out your gatherers for an entire week and then next week exclusively produce the "expensive" recipe that used the rare from those gatherings and make back enough to do it all over again and you'd still accrue materials in excess that you could mill for more cowries than you spent.

Come back to it later.


There's no reason to have it all NOW. There's no reason you need it FIRST. If you choose to put stock in those values you need to be ready to invest unusually.