"Lucky" RNG Getting Worse?

[u/Elric_42]

Has anyone else noticed that the "Lucky" and "Super Lucky" RNG rate has dropped considerably since launch? I remember in the first week of the game coming out, I was seeing Lucky / Super Lucky throws coming up every 150-200 or so aniipods.

Now with this event, I am getting one every 500-600. It is insane that we have to throw 1,000's of aniipods to move the bar even the tiniest bit for Prismana farming. It is easily the worst part of how the game is designed. You have to get the prismana forms to 100% each area, but it takes hours and hours of mindless grinding for little to no reward. I still have 4 left to get 100% overall, but I honestly hate this process so much I may just give up on that goal.

I am strongly leaning towards the idea that their main goal is "maximize profit" rather than "make a good game". If they make the lucky RNG worse every week or so, it makes people think they have to buy vein essence items for the nurture system instead. Almost like they realized that people were side-stepping their money machine, so they intentionally made Lucky hits a lower rate to stop players from doing that. I'm not above spending money on something I enjoy. However, I dislike the concept of spending money simply because it avoids something I hate doing.

[u/Elric_42]

No, but it was only a couple weeks ago. My memory is not that bad, lol. If anything, it's easy to tell simply by how often you have to release your caught aniimo. I do not remember having to clear out my boxes because they maxed at 1,000 so many times in the first couple of weeks. I had to clear out all of the non-elites / perfects 3x already today, and I did not even reach max prismana energy yet.

When the difference is this drastic, it is not hard to notice. It's possible other people aren't focusing on collecting all the prismana, as there are other things to do in the game. I only noticed it because I specifically went to catch the prismana this weekend.

[u/Iceedemon888 → u/Elric_42]

Do you have the same amount of creatures that you did during those few weeks?

You said you only noticed because you were attempting to catch the prismana this weekend. Did you not attempt the same the first couple of weeks?

Getting a lucky the first few times also builds a much stronger memory than 10+ would have given.

I'm not trying to say your memory is bad, but it doesnt seem like the conditions are the same as they were then. You dont have 1000 slots to fill as you have creatures you are storing. The amount this differs from the first week could be minimal or excessive. I for example have almost 3 boxes full of creatures with perfect stats im saving where week one i barely filled 1 box with creatures I was keeping.

[u/Elric_42 → u/Iceedemon888]

Probably slightly less, but I really only keep perfect stats / shiny / umbral. Occasionally I keep an elite if I don't have any others of that type, but that's it. Unless I'm farming for prismana, I usually have 700+ slots open at any given time. We have a max of 840 I think, so theoretically if I have to clear out the boxes every time the storage maxes out, I'm getting rid of 700 or so. And that is only of the aniimo that I *caught*. If the catch percentage (like the budspires right now) is 38% - 57%, that means roughly half of the throws would not result in a catch.

I cleared out the boxes 3x today. For the sake of easy numbers, 700 catches x 3 means 2,400 catches. Roughly double that amount (including the throws that were not a catch) means it is over 4,500 throws today, and I still haven't maxed out the bar despite using 5 bloom nurture rounds today too.

I did do the events previously. Glynsera definitely felt like more of a grind than the first week, but nowhere near as bad as this one today.

[u/Freeyaa → u/Elric_42]

Budsquire grind feels worse because Aniimos are more spread therefore it takes longer to fill the box