Possibility of failure while gathering rare resources

[SekoETC]

Split from varied quantities of resources:

I wrote: It would be nice if there was a chance of failure and you'd end up with 0 grams but it wouldn't say "project finished 0 grams ending in the inventory of X" but instead it would say "the project finished unsuccessfully: No #resource# was found." Then again you could also find a rich source, which would give you more than the +20% of what you were looking for.

This would mostly affect rare things such as gold, pearls and diamonds.

Slightly off-topic: It's stupid that the random variation is the same for all the repeats, since currently if you have time then you can experiment with various hour-long projects and pick the one with the biggest outcome.

[Wilmer Bordonado]

I don't think gold or diamonds should be considered as "rare" resources.

Wilmer B.

[tiddy ogg]

[quote="SekoETC"]
Slightly off-topic: It's stupid that the random variation is the same for all the repeats, since currently if you have time then you can experiment with various hour-long projects and pick the one with the biggest outcome.[/quote]

I agree. At the moment, once you finish one stage of a project, and find it a poor return, the obvious thing to do is abandon it and start another, leaving many unfinished ones cluttering up the place.

[Chris Johnson]

I don't think this is a great idea, and how do you define what a rare resource is - What we could do is implement a +/- 100% deviation for all resources but I think the existing +/- 20% is fine

I do agree with the issue about projects repeats - each repeat should have it's own randomised yield.

Which makes this difficult - as I'd like to move this to rejected for the first suggestion but also to accepted for the 2nd - So we'll just have to leave it here .

[Nakranoth]

Maybe you should start a new thread in the... well now you implemented it... so in the implemented thread, and move this one to rejected.