Gacha mechanics with Furniture chests

[Tikimik]

Hello,
First of all let me explain I dont mind that much the furniture chest have a random drop, it is the access to this chest that is bothering me. You can get very few chest per year, while the item list huge, it is very hard to get specific item you want for house decorating, even the showroom recipes that require a large amount of furniture chest items are almost imposibble to complete.
Please considere adding a shop/recipe/drop for this item, maybe a abandoned ikea store that serve as a mine, a random amazon drone moob, or simply add them to the shops, anything like that would much apprecieted

[Wicked]

Calling it gacha is quite exaggerated (considering how it doesn't involve real money), but sure stuff being chest exclusive is stupid. You can do a quicksave load if you didn't get the stuff you need.

[Endora]

And you can buy the showroom houses without the furniture, butI only tested it on EA, so I don't know if is still possible. You'll have to decorate yourself.

[maestro]

Originally posted by Endora:

And you can buy the showroom houses without the furniture, butI only tested it on EA, so I don't know if is still possible. You'll have to decorate yourself.

You can, at least it seems like it.

It gives you a warning that you'll be missing said furniture which implies that it is possible to buy a showroom house without the furniture.

It's just IF you have it, the game will automatically place said furniture where it belongs, but otherwise you'll just get empty rooms.

[Sunny]

RNG being involved does not make it gacha, lol. There's a wee bit (sarcastic understatement) more to it than that.

"I don't like this! Gacha!" -- not how it works.

[Tesityr]

Originally posted by Sunny:

RNG being involved does not make it gacha, lol. There's a wee bit (sarcastic understatement) more to it than that.

"I don't like this! Gacha!" -- not how it works.

Originally posted by WickedQuence:

Calling it gacha is quite exaggerated (considering how it doesn't involve real money), but sure stuff being chest exclusive is stupid. You can do a quicksave load if you didn't get the stuff you need.

Actually, technically that's all it needs (RNG) - "gacha" is based on the concept of "got-ya!" where you spend money for not what you want exactly, but a 'chance' at what you want - but the store running the coin-operated toy dispensers it is based on 'already got' your money (if you didn't get want you want) = "GOT YA!" (gocha is the romanized japanese adopted version). Gacha Games seems to have started (and their name) in the 1960s in Japan, as the toy dispensers based on 'chance')

It does not need to involve 'real life' money, it can utlize in-game currency; the concept is that you don't know what you are going to get (eg. Loot Boxes).

[uNiels 💗]

The vast majority of the furniture items in the game can be gotten through another way (many even through multiple ways) in addition to the furniture chest.

There's maybe a handful or a dozen furniture items out of the huge list of items that can be gotten only from the furniture chest.

Also, there's no need to get them as quickly or as early as possible. You can take your time.

[Shaennlyae]

Hello, 1h30 that I recharge hoping 1 elegant sofa for my living room (and to really do what I want, I would need 2...). 55 items (all in the list) EXCEPT the sofa. I give up. I think maybe we should review the system? I can conceive of a rare furniture principle, but not at this point... Perhaps to reward them at the Golden Goose ?
For the style system, I think it would be interesting to be able to visualize them in the encyclopedia for example, in order to choose if it could potentially interest us.
Since we can not change the color of the DLC furniture (very pretty anyway), but we can do it with these furniture, please dear dev, let us get them more easily. Thank you ! :)

[syzara]

I assume you meant reloading rather than recharging.

Anyhow, there are a lot of possibilities for the one single Furniture Chest. I am glad that stuff got added, but that they put it in the hardly available box is mostly a nuisance.

[Shaennlyae]

Originally posted by syzara:

I assume you meant reloading rather than recharging.

Anyhow, there are a lot of possibilities for the one single Furniture Chest. I am glad that stuff got added, but that they put it in the hardly available box is mostly a nuisance.

Yes, sorry, for the wrong traduction ^^

[Bobucles]

Does a random loot gacha really fit in with the town policy of conserving water? It takes a considerable amount of raw materials and water to build furniture. If someone were to open up a dozen boxes and throw half of them away, that'd create a ton of pointless garbage.

[Shaennlyae]

Originally posted by Bobucles:

Does a random loot gacha really fit in with the town policy of conserving water? It takes a considerable amount of raw materials and water to build furniture. If someone were to open up a dozen boxes and throw half of them away, that'd create a ton of pointless garbage.

You don’t throw away the contents of the chest, you reload the part so there’s only one open chest. But your point of view can be interesting. Imagine that these pieces of furniture require a lot of materials. What if we were to consider being able to exchange them for a certain amount of scraps ? Like 150 quality woods, 100 of iron, 50 of aluminum for 1 piece of furniture, plus a certain amount of gold, so that they remain a little difficult to obtain? Or materials, boards, ingots, gems or both...

[Bobucles]

you reload the part so there’s only one open chest

Does throwing away a hundred timelines count as industrial waste? All that lost water...