#Increase the spawn rate of Great Ones taken while NOT grinding

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wintry comet
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With the explosion of grinding for Great Ones, it has left many feeling like the only way for them to get a GO is through starting to grind. This can lead to burnout and a loss of enjoyment in the game for more traditional hunters. Most content creators seem to be spending most of their time grinding, however, so it can lead to a sense of FOMO for those without GOs in their lodge.

Also, with the GO somewhat devaluing diamonds, it would be nice to see a higher probability of spawning a GO through traditional, organic hunting.

Some ideas for how to accomplish this-

  1. Increase the spawn rate for GO potential species harvested after harvesting a different species. So if a whitetail for instance is harvested after just harvesting another species, it has a higher probability of respawning as a GO.
  2. Increase the probability to spawn a GO on animals “x” amount of minutes after fast traveling. Organic hunts often include long stretches of time running through the woods seeing what you stumble upon.
  3. Other ideas?

TO BE CLEAR- I am not suggesting to increase the Spawn Rate of Great Ones across the board. Grinding has already made it easy enough to get one. My point is about finding a creative way to make it plausible for a non-grinder to spawn a GO without increasing the spawn rate for GOs while grinding.

split rapids
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Great Ones Are Supposed To Be Rare. They’re Not Supposed To Be Easy To Get. Increasing Their Spawns Will Simply Make Them Less Special. You Can Grind Feed Zones Or Rest Zones, The Only Reason That People Grind Drink Zones Is Because The Animals Are Generally In Open Areas, Allowing For Good Shots.

wintry comet
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Exactly- that naturally discourages people from grinding feed and rest zones. When grinders literally have a hundred plus GOs, they’re no longer rare.

It takes a grinder less time to kill 1 thousand deer than an organic hunter 1 hundred. The point isnt to increase the total GOs spawned. Its to make it possible to get a GO while organic hunting. If it took say 2500 kills to spawn a given Great One, that would be nearly impossible to do through an organic hunt. I am just suggesting leveling the playing field and making it possible to spawn a GO without having to grind.

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I’m not sure its good for the long term health and popularity of the game for it to be all about grinding.

split rapids
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Yeah, Do You Know Why These Grinders Have So Many Great Ones? Because It’s Their Job. Content Creators Spend Easily 12 - 16 Hours PER DAY Grinding. Also, The Game Isn’t All About Grinding, Some People Just Enjoy It More Than Others. If You Want To Grind Feed And Rest Zones, You Can. It’s Simply Easier And More Efficient To Grind Drink Zones.

stable grove
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It's all random, I've gotten one in under 300 and one over 4k kills. One was already on a paqrue multiplayer, it's all random. Grinding is just the most common way of getting one. Drink zones are usually by an open area, and like Mr.Schrader said the people who have 50+ great ones they spend all day playing the game. You can play however you want, it's just a game

wintry comet
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Lol I am not suggesting to make it easier to spawn a GO through grinding feed zones. The point is to make it plausible to spawn a GO without grinding at all. The suggestion about feed zones is because all grinders only focus on drink zones because its much easier.

I understand that anyone can play how they want. I am not saying that they should do away with grinding. Can you admit that its not really viable to get a GO through just organic hunting?

And to your earlier point about how they’re supposed to be rare, grinding itself has devalued the GO. Jaxy has admitted as much on stream.

stable grove
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But if they made them more common, then the G1 is devalued, instead of 100 G1s, some people could be getting thousands

wintry comet
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Guys I am not suggesting to make them more common. Increasing the spawn rate by just a few times on say my first point above wouldn’t lead to iBuy or other grinders getting any more GOs. It would still take ages to accumulate a few hundred kills of a black bear by just running around the woods. But it would hopefully at least become plausible to spawn one while organic hunting.

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Increase the spawn rate of Great Ones taken while NOT grinding

stable grove
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@wintry comet It's plausible to get a G1 by grinding feed / rest zones, I just think the more popular method is with drink zones. It is plausible to do it, just might take more time than say using 16 tents with 32 tripods at drink zones with 10 - 15 deer at them, and doing HM, etc. And technically you're never not grinding, it's just slower than some of the content creators doing it.

wintry comet
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I am not grinding when I run through Rev and kill 5 different species in a couple hours. Thats what I mean by an “organic” hunt.

stable grove
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If they did change the feed / rest zones to be more able to get G1s people would definatly take advantage of it. And I have a sneaky suspicion most people who play the game don't know what a G1 is / they don't have the time for one (i get your point) but if they really wanted one they would grind for it. And I personally don't do organic hunts, but I see why you want to be able to get one during it. It's just it would be exploited I bet by some people. Not that I'm saying I'm against it, but people would take advantage of an easier way to get one.

wintry comet
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Look I have 6 or 7 GOs taken while grinding. But it has taken away all enjoyment from playing the game. I would be happy to spend twice the amount of time organic hunting than grinding to get a GO. But its currently just not viable.

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Clearly its a pretty unpopular idea, though 🤪

stable grove
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Is it unpopular sadly.

wild yew
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Perhaps one great one per great one map(upon first opening it up,much like the NEM loading screen) which would rarely come up from its beds in deep brush,drink and feed at night.

wintry comet
stable grove
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@wild yew there was a mule deer by where I live, it was a really nice buck. Everyone was after it, but it was up at the tippy top of the mountain, and no one has shot it yet.

green zodiac
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Ehhhhhhhhh idk, I’ve spent over 5000 hours on the game doing multiple grinds and have always came up short, I think it could differ on the G1 species however. Like, it isn’t EXTREMELY RARE to see a droptine buck. But something like the moose is unheard of.

wild yew
stable grove
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@wild yew utah

wild yew
stable grove
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@wild yew I'm getting it this year don't you dare! You don't even know where it is in utah.

wild yew
stable grove
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@wild yew No you won't!!!

wild yew
stable grove
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@wild yew Indeed I do, plus you gotta get all the guns and liscenses and atvs and stuff.

wild yew
stable grove
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I'm watching you @wild yew ...

split rapids
wintry comet
split rapids
zinc ridge
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burnt matrix
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grinding sucks

modest stag
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eventually this problem will solve itself. Assuming EW continues adding great ones there will come a point in the games lifespan were there are so many great ones that they become more common. if every species had a great one (which I'm almost sure will never happen) then the chances of spawning one by just walking around and shooting stuff is going to be significantly higher.

I do agree with you though, upping spawn rates of species is basically the only way to make great ones more common without spawning a new crazy grinding method.

stable grove
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i think one day when maps become very limited to make they will add 1 or more greats ones per update, but until we get almost every huntable animal species i doubt we will get that many great ones

outer wing
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👍

outer wing