pookandpie
Refugee
My buddies and I have been playing 2.0 and its updates, and we finished all of the badges a little while ago. I was told the loot caps raise once you get the wasteland badge, but I didn't pay much attention to it for another 10-15 hours of play until I remembered I could open the stats screen and see my loot stage. We always build our forever home in the snow biome, that's specifically where we set up camp every single new game we create because it's the biome that we think looks the nicest.
But, even with the wasteland badge, my loot stage is capped to 180 in the snow biome? Why? What is the actual purpose for this?
Why would getting the last badge not remove *all* of the loot caps? Why does this system indirectly punish you if you have a biome you'd prefer to stay in that isn't the wasteland? Toggling this feature off changed our loot stage from 180 in the snow to 340+, which is a huge leap. I understand that biome progression wants to push you through the biomes one at a time. I understand that completely, because up until this point I haven't so much as touched the burnt forest biome since it was re-added to random world generation. So that I get, sure, but why leave the punishment in place (the loot cap) after I've completely engaged with the system? It seems nonsensical.
But, even with the wasteland badge, my loot stage is capped to 180 in the snow biome? Why? What is the actual purpose for this?
Why would getting the last badge not remove *all* of the loot caps? Why does this system indirectly punish you if you have a biome you'd prefer to stay in that isn't the wasteland? Toggling this feature off changed our loot stage from 180 in the snow to 340+, which is a huge leap. I understand that biome progression wants to push you through the biomes one at a time. I understand that completely, because up until this point I haven't so much as touched the burnt forest biome since it was re-added to random world generation. So that I get, sure, but why leave the punishment in place (the loot cap) after I've completely engaged with the system? It seems nonsensical.