ARTIFACT BALANCING

I can almost never stay up for mixed/uncommon dig.. screw rare dig tbh. I would love to see the dig times changes, i would HATE to see a 12 hour interval system placed. That would mean twice the artifacts, or being inconvenienced twice a day for the same amount of artifacts as before, either one is unpleasant. I don`t see many people ever say they like the dig times, so changing them would be nice. I am trying, once again, to make it. I am so close but my eyes are so heavy. Such is the curse of GC addiction.

If the dig times could be shifted that would be more than enough... Even a rotation of dig times would work very nicely :D

-Max commons likely won`t get increased as 255 is the max for a 1 byte integer, which is what is being used for storage. Changing that just for commons would be both irritating and while not too complicated, I doubt Stephen wants to do it.
-PistolPete: Thank you for summing up what I meant to say. I tend to get a little... long winded. :P

also it would be nice if the max commons could be increased because they get maxxed out easily

I agree with the point Deil points out. But at the same time there are rather useless artifacts, like black and brown orbs. You dont have to balance things out so that you use one of each for a gordo. You can make the receipts so that you need a lot of one arti to make a gordo, and a lot of another to make a historia.

lol the story of gc

yeah, I`ve never had a big problem with the lack of pinks and yellows, and never had any problem with not having enough ambers, opals, and silvers. You people just don`t dig enough. :P Everything comes up eventually. I just wish assimilated bases and minor gordos came up more :P I like the way the artifacts are now, those bases are unmakable for a reason, otherwise gordos would be a common artifact.

The dig times changes however would be absolutely lovely.

I don`t know that I agree with redoing the formulae so that all the commons are equally used. Perhaps changing it so that some of the "major" artifacts consume a lot more of one important common compared to another which use a lot of another... make it more so that it isn`t just about digging for one type but perhaps making it more efficient to make several different artifacts concurrently. Anyways, I`m very much against making the formulae "balanced" in the sense of averaging it all out. That`s pretty lame.

As for the dig times, I obviously agree (rare time is at 3:30 am for me now, 4:30 am once DST changes again) so pretty much at the worst possible time of the day for a student who usually needs to wake up between 7 and 8. Something will be done about this, I imagine, if we can get Stephen on board. Remember though when suggesting changes to think of the possible complexity of the changes. I have no idea how Stephen coded the times in. The question is, does he? I`m told that he doesn`t know how to change back the viral increased cost changes, as he`s no longer sure what he did. Anyways, all I`m trying to say is, don`t get your hopes up.

Another suggestion that may (or may not, I`ve put absolutely zero behindysis into components for other artifacts) help is making some of the other artifacts - the ones that are either useless or currently only useful as components for bigger artifacts - actually useful. Assuming that this was done on a scale from uncommons up, it would certainly impact the common effects.

Oh, yeah, one last thing. You`re NOT going to find minor gordo becoming a lesser requirement for the high level items. There is solid logic behind that.

indeed, i know its been stated before but i completely agree.

not to mention the fact that a bunch of them have effects that don`t work...