Spawn rates for Insects were stealth-nerfed

[skogkyst]

I wonder if turning regular (in my case, usually bamboo) islands into tarantula islands is still viable with them having a nerfed spawn rate. It already took a lot of chasing away of wharf roaches and tiger beetles.

Based on the numbers, if I remember right, it looked like an increase to tiger beetles, wharf roaches, giant water bugs, and a 33% decrease for tarantulas. My totally unscientific guess is that it could take up between 1.5-2x the time it used to.

 

[thegunpowderincident]

Based on the numbers, if I remember right, it looked like an increase to tiger beetles, wharf roaches, giant water bugs, and a 33% decrease for tarantulas. My totally unscientific guess is that it could take up between 1.5-2x the time it used to.

Which, I don't know if I'm just slow at it, but for me was already about an hour or more. Not particularly worth it if it'll take even longer, imo. Although water bugs are not an issue if you use a bamboo island, so at least one less bug to account for.

 

[skogkyst]

Which, I don't know if I'm just slow at it, but for me was already about an hour or more. Not particularly worth it if it'll take even longer, imo. Although water bugs are not an issue if you use a bamboo island, so at least one less bug to account for.

You're not slow, it took me upwards of an hour to an hour and a half, so it would suck having to spend 2+ hours on an island just to get some tarantulas. At that point, fishing off the pier might even be a better bell maker for my time.

 

[RedPanda]

Definitely sad to be forced to kick my Peacrack habit. That was part of my daily routine. I had hybrids all along my route of other chores and I'd just snap them up along the way. It was a low-key way to make money throughout the day. If they're so against time traveling they should nerf that, or other things that they perceive as game-breaking. They even could have specifically nerfed bank interest IF time travel occurred, but not for regular people who were just saving their bells for a rainy day. Oh well.

 

[Mello]

This is dumb. Nerfed interest rates hard, nerfed spawn rates on bugs. I really don't understand what the need was to make the game grindy.

 

[Krissi2197]

You can catch scarabs in the northern hemisphere rn??

 

[pinkfawn]

i am never going to financially recover from this

 

[RedPanda]

At least for now the turnips are still giving large spikes, though who knows if they have reduced the frequency of those too. I think I'm going to lean in hard on turnip buying this Sunday and see if I can bolster my savings that way. With the Nooklings upgrade, cataloging stuff has just gotten hella expensive.

 

[Bioness]

You can catch scarabs in the northern hemisphere rn??

No, those are in July and August. This information includes all months of the year.

 

[Aleigh]

And here we are taking what little money Ali had and shoving it even farther in the stink hole once again

 

[LuchaSloth]

I've been noticing more of the valuable moths/butterflies on my island. I keep finding the sunset moth, agrias and birdwing butterflies flying around. All of which sell for a decent chunk. Much preferred to the stinkbugs and common butterflies that I was seeing previously.

 

[Solio]

Why would they do this?! If anything needs fixing, it's the completely busted turnip prices!
I really liked that you could actually make a decent sum off of common bugs instead of waiting for summer for the palm tree bugs to appear.

 

[PajamaCat]

RIP to my peacock butterfly income. You'll be missed.

 

[RedPanda]

On the plus side, we can now say peacock as much as we want without being bleeped out by the forums! lol

 

[thelonewanderer]

Definitely sad to be forced to kick my Peacrack habit. That was part of my daily routine. I had hybrids all along my route of other chores and I'd just snap them up along the way. It was a low-key way to make money throughout the day. If they're so against time traveling they should nerf that, or other things that they perceive as game-breaking. They even could have specifically nerfed bank interest IF time travel occurred, but not for regular people who were just saving their bells for a rainy day. Oh well.

This is dumb. Nerfed interest rates hard, nerfed spawn rates on bugs. I really don't understand what the need was to make the game grindy.

They aren't otherwise they would nerf the broken online stalk market. What they are doing is forcing online membership down solo player throat. A lot of us don't have online. Its all a cash scheme by Nintendo. I'm more likely to time travel than participate in the online stalk market as that thing is beyond broken.

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Why would they do this?! If anything needs fixing, it's the completely busted turnip prices!
I really liked that you could actually make a decent sum off of common bugs instead of waiting for summer for the palm tree bugs to appear.

To force online membership.

 

[RedPanda]

They aren't otherwise they would nerf the broken online stalk market. What they are doing is forcing online membership down solo player throat. A lot of us don't have online. Its all a cash scheme by Nintendo. I'm more likely to time travel than participate in the online stalk market as that thing is beyond broken.

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To force online membership.

Hmm how does the online thing make them richer? Honest question.

 

[BambieTheMayor]

I figured they did something when my tarantula farms weren't working nearly as well anymore.

I had a feeling they'd do something about it eventually as well... I made 2+ million bells with Flick within my first week or two just by selling bulk tarantulas, and everyone on Twitter had posts of how Flick was giving them 480,000 bells for a full inventory of tarantulas.

I don't really catch bugs for profit now, as I make enough from turnip profits; I just feel bad for newer players/people who can't visit other islands for better turnip prices because bugs are definitely one of the easiest sources of income, especially with Flick.

 

[Faeryn]

I thought I was doing something wrong. Used to catch so many peacock butterflies. xD

 

[thelonewanderer]

Hmm how does the online thing make them richer? Honest question.

Because every online membership make Nintendo 20 dollars and there a lot of solo AC players out there. That 1/3 the price of the profit they make from the game itself.

 

[RedPanda]

Because every online membership make Nintendo 20 dollars and there a lot of solo AC players out there. That 1/3 the price of the profit they make from the game itself.

Ahhh yes ok, of course. That makes sense. Yeah I like the social gaming aspect but my boyfriend hates it. He gets frustrated when I sell my turnips at a stranger's island for 500+ when we both have bad prices, but he doesn't want the hassle of interacting with strangers. I can appreciate that. And your point of view as well. Sigh.