When it comes to mining,there are several things that contribute to opening 1000+ tabs.. and yes,the site is partly responsible for this mining situation issue as well since the way of obtaining gold is a massive grind in itself. If the features on the site support grind, and reward of clicking thousands of critters then why would anyone think that mining wouldn't become a big thing especially when it wasn't seen as bad thing by those who run this site?
1) you get 1 gold per critter clicked (adult). With means,to get a certain creature you want (lets say,Enox), you need to click 7700 critters to get
1 egg. If you want 2 pairs of Enoxes to breed them and get more, you need to click 30800 adults. That's...insane. The clicking reward you less than a gacha game that prompts you to do a 3-minute daily quest to obtain valuable currency.
The more gold you get per critter,the less need is there to mine thousands of critters to get 4 eggs. Most people don't mine thousands of critters because they want an army of specific critter,they do it because clicking on a critter gives so little gold they have
no other choice than to click x100 more than they want to to get that one egg from the shop...dosen't help that we need to click on a critter to grow it either. Maybe only hatchlings and eggs should give gold,and adults should give a 0?
Personally I didn't goldmine because I wanted to become billionare,I did it because I had to to buy the donation pets I wanted (or more SB critters from the Shop or critters I cannot obtain because they are event-specific). Clicking a few pets (10-15 pets) manually gave you nothing of worth.
2) No cap. You could mine all day long to click all adults to get tons of gold. If you wanted 1 mil,it was fully possible as far you farmed. If there was a cap that you cannot obtain more than (lets say) 20k per day, it would hopefully lower the requests the site has to process. (note:The goldgaining cap would be put on obtaining gold from clicking.You could still obtain it from quests,selling things and such).
3) Removing the ability to gain gold from anywhere in a game where getting certain eggs come only from the shop is... well,it sounds a bit salty
. The users did not create this situation on their own,the site has (through several years) encouraged mining, so coming and saying "if you keep doing this we will just remove this option completely" on a site where there is NO other way to gain gold leaves very bitter taste in my mouth. The 1 gold per click and no cap dosen't help either. Removing obtaining gold from clicking would be more of a punishment than solving the things that made people farm and mine gold in the first place. Then we also have the need to click the hatchlings as well eggs to make them grow and clicking threads are a thing... back in the days when I was clicking eggs, I would go though hundreds of eggs at once. So then it was not farming for gold,it was view-farming to make eggs hatch and make the hatchlings to grow up as quickly as possible.
4) since mining now results in a ban,this message (and any other big site update) should be sent as a newsletter to all users (if that is even possible). I know it's shown on the front page of Magistream when you login, but the first thing I see is the stream and the eggs,as well as the menu above it and welcome-message below it. I saw the news because I forced myself to look beneath the stream and the welcome-message. You would be surprised how many people don't read the newsposts (this goes for all games,not only Magistream). Once another newspost comes,this post will be well... probably rarely (if ever) read by anyone who hasn't seen it already.If it's a returning player who hasn't logged in in several months comes after new big news are published,this one will probably never be viewed by that user.
Just a note,I am not against stopping goldmining. If it takes down the site,then I agree with the decision of banning it,I rather have smooth running site experience rather than millions of gold . However, I am not going to support removal of critters giving gold until other means of obtaining it.
Ideas
*Maybe we could help out Remy at the Inn and each time we do we get XXX gold? It would have cooldown timer,of course.
help for 1h= xx gold (1h cooldown time)
help for 2-4h= xxx gold (2-4h cooldown time)
help for 4-8h= xxxx gold (4-8h cooldown time)
This would be a pretty good way of getting gold for both causal and players that visit the site everyday or only once in a while.
* bank interest. You slap the gold in a bank,and you have certain % of interest you gain daily. The more gold in the bank,the lower the interest.The interest is gained every 24h.
