Post by Skevington on Mar 23, 2009 18:02:10 GMT -8
I'd like to share my thoughts and experience with the foraging puzzle.
Foraging is a crafting puzzle in Y!PP that has multiple uses. You can play it while on ships docked at uninhabited islands to forage for fruits and rarely precious gems and gold nuggets. You can also play the puzzle on a Cursed Isles trip to plunder the natives' booty for great rewards.
First, I'd like to link a video made by Uino of the Midnight ocean that helped me immensely in Foraging outside of the Cursed Isles. The rest of the post will assume you've watched it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQeliDvpME
He covers the basics of movement and strategy very well in the above video. The points on strategy and scoring in the game when played outside of the Cursed Isles that I took away from watching it were very useful in my rated game. Clearing chests in combos, with efficient moves is the way to get your standing up.
Now in the Cursed Isles, the game should be played a little differently. The games played there are unrated, and do not effect your standing or experience. Combos themselves give you no bonus. The only thing that matters there is the number of chests you clear, and since you only have a limited amount of time for each session, speed is the name of the game. The techniques and advice from Uino's video on how to clear so that you don't end up with stuck chests and such are still very useful though.
I'd like to share some tips from experience in the Cursed Isles, and observing players who always score well on the Duty Reports there.
- You should be ready to forage as soon as the fray ends. You can manually dismiss the Rumble or SF game right as it ends, then click the loot pile to start the forage puzzle, and gain a few extra seconds than if you had let it start automatically.
- If you do end up with a forage board of stuck chests, you can dismiss the game and start again. This may be the better option than waiting for one of the special pieces to spawn
- Monkey and Ant special pieces can be particularlly frustrating in CI since they have such long animation times. They can rob you of valuable seconds.
That's about it for now. Hope you find it useful, and props to Uino for making such a great tutorial video.
Foraging is a crafting puzzle in Y!PP that has multiple uses. You can play it while on ships docked at uninhabited islands to forage for fruits and rarely precious gems and gold nuggets. You can also play the puzzle on a Cursed Isles trip to plunder the natives' booty for great rewards.
First, I'd like to link a video made by Uino of the Midnight ocean that helped me immensely in Foraging outside of the Cursed Isles. The rest of the post will assume you've watched it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQeliDvpME
He covers the basics of movement and strategy very well in the above video. The points on strategy and scoring in the game when played outside of the Cursed Isles that I took away from watching it were very useful in my rated game. Clearing chests in combos, with efficient moves is the way to get your standing up.
Now in the Cursed Isles, the game should be played a little differently. The games played there are unrated, and do not effect your standing or experience. Combos themselves give you no bonus. The only thing that matters there is the number of chests you clear, and since you only have a limited amount of time for each session, speed is the name of the game. The techniques and advice from Uino's video on how to clear so that you don't end up with stuck chests and such are still very useful though.
I'd like to share some tips from experience in the Cursed Isles, and observing players who always score well on the Duty Reports there.
- You should be ready to forage as soon as the fray ends. You can manually dismiss the Rumble or SF game right as it ends, then click the loot pile to start the forage puzzle, and gain a few extra seconds than if you had let it start automatically.
- If you do end up with a forage board of stuck chests, you can dismiss the game and start again. This may be the better option than waiting for one of the special pieces to spawn
- Monkey and Ant special pieces can be particularlly frustrating in CI since they have such long animation times. They can rob you of valuable seconds.
That's about it for now. Hope you find it useful, and props to Uino for making such a great tutorial video.
