Quote Originally Posted by FatalCharm View Post
Wish they would get some decent AI/algorithms/whatever for the Sanctuary workshops. Example currently: Isleworks Potion: Popularity - Low Demand Shift - Plummenting Predicted Popularity - Very High. It makes no sense!
It does make sense once you understand that Popularity is the value modifier for the entire current week and Predicted Popularity is the value modifier for all of the following week, not for tomorrow (unless it's Monday so Predicted Popularity because Popularity at weekly reset.

Quote Originally Posted by Valfreyja View Post
The Island Workshop is fine. If you're not making 23k+ cowries a week on it, you're clearly not doing it right.

I'm within 35k cowries of the 500k achievement.
No, it just means the player is doing the intended game play instead of being told what to do by the spreadsheets shared in the Discords and Reddits.

I'd argue if you're making that much a week consistently, you're actually doing it wrong. You're effectively making use of cheat codes.