There have been some tickets created which will most likely result in some fixes Monday morning.
It’s off by default and not really necessary for solo players—especially if you move around the map a lot. You’ll always have plenty to find without the world becoming empty.
From what I've seen in streams, you have nothing to worry about. They are finding tons of magazines of all types. In fact, there may be far too many in loot right now. Yes, they'll find more of what they spec into but it won't be so significant. Besides, unless I'm mistaken, my understanding is that the increased chance of finding the magazines doesn't reduce the chance of finding the other magazines. Now, yes, they are going to level up their crafting skills more than you will yours - even 1 more magazine than you is more than you. But it isn't really such a big deal. You aren't going to be worse off. Your crafting and their crafting are two entirely different things as you've said. Just because you have 60/100 magazines in crafting hammers and they have 80/100 in crafting pistols, it really doesn't matter. There isn't really a comparison between the two. Besides, in A20, you'd have to find the schematics to unlock the recipes and sometimes that could take a very long time. This guarantees you'll get them based on where they are in the unlocks. In the end, it'll probably be better than it was in A20 as you're not tied to RNG anymore. The magazine RNG isn't really going to be a big deal since, as I said, they are found very easily.
This is actually not possible. As I understand it, the combined probability for the contents of a loot container is always 100%. So if you assign a slightly higher probability to one item to appear then the probability of the others is automatically reduced. I would compare this to a 16 sided dice with the same number on two sides.
True, but we are removing 3 brass items, 2 lead items, glass jars, and empty cans. So there are 7 spots you might have been using in the past that are no longer being used. Not enough for every magazine but it will certainly reduce that impact.
But if you don’t take daring adventurer and don’t spam quests then the trader is much better balanced compared to A20. So now it’s a choice for how you want to play. If you want to skip to higher tier gear you can take those skills to reflect your desires and awesome stuff will be for sale and rewards. But if you want to craft most of your own gear then do a quest per day and don’t take the perk that increases quest rewards and you can have that kind of fun. In A20 the trader outpaced crafting no matter what you did.
Just a note... we are supposedly allowed multiple land claims in A21 rather than only 1, so this shouldn't be an issue. I don't know how many we're allowed to have but even 3 would cover most people's needs.
Door knobs, trophies, candlesticks and fishing weights for brass and lead are gone. You will instead just get the equivalent amount of brass or lead. Personally, I like this as the individual items usually just sat around forever in storage because it wasn't worth the time to stick 20 or 30 into a forge and then go do something because they wouldn't last long before being gone and then the forge isn't doing anything anymore. Empty cans are also gone.
This was true in the lower quality items but once you got up to over quality 3, you could have difficulty finding anything from the trader. Even on day 100 or 200, traders often have a bunch of quality 3-4 stuff and you often have to run to multiple traders to find any quality 5 or 6 stuff even with better barter maxed out. It is all RNG and that result can vary but I never found the trader to really be of much use after quality 3 or 4 except when you had no choice like with solar or when you get lucky. I really don't buy much from traders after the first couple of days (that's usually food/water if my luck finding it is bad) and then solar stuff at end game. They just really don't match your player level in what they offer.
Grand Spartan plays with experience gain at 300%. His game is not representative of where you will be on Day 10 on default settings. I don't know what his other settings are but he typically plays with very generous loot settings as well. His goal is to get to end game and a high game stage as quickly as possible to get more intense blood moon hordes.
I never paid much attention to this because I never bought weapons or tools from the trader unless I was scraping them for parts. I got my gear either through crafting, looting, or quest rewards.
I do a maximum of 2 quests a day because I don't have time for more. In fact, many days I don't do any quests at all because I'm either in the mine or working on my base.
What mechanic did they add? Quests and daring adventurer have been in the game for years. If you don’t want to skip tiers then don’t. I agree that there could be more down to balance things towards crafting even more but I still do craft a lot more in A21
The "So what? Who says players that stay at a single spot all the time on a huge open world map should keep up with levels of players that explore the map, loot and kill thousands of zombies?" part would be me and basically my whole community. You're just rewarding a *playstyle* more than a different one with this new system which is *bad* I can't stress enough *most* people (and I realize I'm drawing from personal experience, so it's anecdotal) that I've ever played this game with in over 900 *do not play to loot, explore the map, and kill thousands of zombies*. That's kinda the core of the complaint in the new system, the way the game was shaped before people could play how they *wanted* and everyone sort of broke even in the long run, at least we progressed at similar rates as a group.Just play A21 and see how it turns out
Maybe your group has to tweak things a little bit but that should be expected when participating in an Alpha. If you can't find more people being happy with looting and exploring the map you guys could do burried supply quests to get the magazines as quest rewards from time to time. Or buy more magazines. Or just be happy with slower progression because who cares?
If A21 is not for your group (which I doubt) you could always go back to A20 and play another 1000 hours there.
So what? Who says players that stay at a single spot all the time on a huge open world map should keep up with levels of players that explore the map, loot and kill thousands of zombies? If I was a builder I'd be happy to craft and build and certainly wouldn't be bothered with my team mates' levels.
But WaywardEko only plays on default settings.
They added the trader stage. Daring adventurer only gave you more options you could choose from but now it pretty much determines the trader stage.
My personal head-canon is that as you learn to survive, you begin to see more resources you can actually use and you search more thoroughly. So after 30 days (my loot respawn setting) I might go back through a building I looted once before and find more loot, things that I missed before.
Looting and scavenging were fine the way they were before, there was nothing wrong with it because for the few of us who did it they could bring enough utility from what they did that it remained beneficial while the rest of us could continue playing the way we wanted - and when I say 'nobody enjoys looting' if it's literally less than 4 people in a group of 30 then yes it's *practically* "nobody" doing it. 1 or 2 people could loot enough to sustain the rest of us and it was like that for years and there was nothing wrong with that, it just allowed each of us to play as we wanted to without need or want to change anything. We pretty much always just played vanilla, default settings, no mods, the game was in a state that kept at least my crowd happy.
