Suggestion: Tweak the crab grab drop rates

[King of Mint]

There are different set drops rates for every different set of unlocks. As you unlock more of everything of one type (such as different hat types, crabs, skill points etc.) the crab grab drops rates change but the percent redistribution all goes to extra lives it seems. For example I've unlocked every crab, all skill points maxed out, out of 26 unlock-able hats each with 5 levels, I only have 2 hats left to complete (5 levels missing total). With that in mind, the extra life chance for a normal crab grab is 68.44%. For royal crab grab it is 67.14%. I have over 1800 extra lives. All I want is to complete getting all the hats and different skins, but its not worth it. Getting coins or 50 pearls to spend on just extra lives with the occasional singular pearl or powerup (the power up drops are kind of besides the point when you have 50 plus of every type except the magnet) just really takes it out of you. In the beginning there was a sense of hope to get something good from a crab grab, but now it just feels like a waste of time. I'd appreciate if the developer could maybe redo the percent redistribution, not even all the way or a lot, just make it so higher level players aren't wasting their time participating in key aspects of the game (crab grabs and quests.) I think this is doable because the more skins you have, makes no difference. Its something meant to reward the player to keep playing, but having 200 hours in a game like this and still missing 40 skins total? I want to keep unlocking stuff, but the curve is getting too extreme as well, leveling up to level 50 on every crab will seem to get you no further than crab legend 1. If I've leveled up every crab and am no longer even getting any skins, I feel like there's a loss of motivation to even play.

[White ⁧⁧Wolf]

Agreed, mostly been having the exact same issue. I've probably used 1000 crab grabs in the last month or two and gotten maybe 1 skin from it - a super rare one even which are fairly 'common' compared to many others. At this rate it would take like 10 years to get all skins, so yeah I think drop rates need to get boosted with every single 'empty' crab grab.

[Cartridge]

i have an associated question to that, is it even possible to drop every skin ? Some Skins just dont seem to appear in shop offers , so i wondering if they even in the list for droppable items. I reffering to Mantis Joker or Artsy skin for Example. Last one showed once like 3 weeks ago (after update), also coming with a special royal crab offer , didnt had any pearls ready that time. I Assume it was somewhat like a special event week or sth like that. Is that intentionally ? or is it somehow bugged. And to come back to that Thread Can you even get all skins on Crab grab.

[Adriannosaurus]

Originally posted by Cartridge:

i have an associated question to that, is it even possible to drop every skin ? Some Skins just dont seem to appear in shop offers , so i wondering if they even in the list for droppable items. I reffering to Mantis Joker or Artsy skin for Example. Last one showed once like 3 weeks ago (after update), also coming with a special royal crab offer , didnt had any pearls ready that time. I Assume it was somewhat like a special event week or sth like that. Is that intentionally ? or is it somehow bugged. And to come back to that Thread Can you even get all skins on Crab grab.

I have an elf skin for the brown crab, which I believe was a holiday special that I got with pearls. So I don't think you can get all skins via Crab Grab, but I would imagine that all of the standard ones are in there somewhere. Standard skins being the ones listed for every crab by default

[King of Mint]

Originally posted by Adriannosaurus:

Originally posted by Cartridge:

i have an associated question to that, is it even possible to drop every skin ? Some Skins just dont seem to appear in shop offers , so i wondering if they even in the list for droppable items. I reffering to Mantis Joker or Artsy skin for Example. Last one showed once like 3 weeks ago (after update), also coming with a special royal crab offer , didnt had any pearls ready that time. I Assume it was somewhat like a special event week or sth like that. Is that intentionally ? or is it somehow bugged. And to come back to that Thread Can you even get all skins on Crab grab.

I have an elf skin for the brown crab, which I believe was a holiday special that I got with pearls. So I don't think you can get all skins via Crab Grab, but I would imagine that all of the standard ones are in there somewhere. Standard skins being the ones listed for every crab by default

See i got the elf skin too but through a normal crab grab less than a month ago. So I think they're all in there, but the chances of getting them are so abysmally low, especially for a "special" skin to drop. The chances through a normal crab grab is 1/10,000, and for royal 1/1,000. There are 15 unlockable legendary skins, and in theory to get all of them through royal crab grabs would take 750,000 pearls. for normal crab grabs it would take 75,000,000 coins. At best i could farm 4,000 coins an hour give or take. So in theory that would require 18,750 hours (781.25 days or 2.14 years) of continuous coin farming. Also I don't play on mobile but the mobile mechanics are different at least with the fact you can watch ads for guaranteed prizes and pearls a day. Like no lie, it'll give you up to 5,000 coins a day for ads, as well as something like 10 pearls a day, plus 2 of each power up a day, and 3 free crab grabs a day (they only give you 3 prizes compared to the normal 4.) As well as being able to double up to 5 rewards a day. So the difference in mobile and steam players is quite different, so giving every player the same percentage of winning a prize when mobile players don't even have to put in nearly as much work seems wrong.

[King of Mint]

Also the crab hat drop chances remain in place even after completing the sets, i have all the different hats essentially, but the percentages to get them remain unlike the different crab types which disappear after unlocking all of that class of crab. So how is there a 2.49% chance at unlocking a common hat of which i have all?

[Adriannosaurus]

Originally posted by mcdowelltristan:

Originally posted by Adriannosaurus:

I have an elf skin for the brown crab, which I believe was a holiday special that I got with pearls. So I don't think you can get all skins via Crab Grab, but I would imagine that all of the standard ones are in there somewhere. Standard skins being the ones listed for every crab by default

See i got the elf skin too but through a normal crab grab less than a month ago. So I think they're all in there, but the chances of getting them are so abysmally low, especially for a "special" skin to drop. The chances through a normal crab grab is 1/10,000, and for royal 1/1,000. There are 15 unlockable legendary skins, and in theory to get all of them through royal crab grabs would take 750,000 pearls. for normal crab grabs it would take 75,000,000 coins. At best i could farm 4,000 coins an hour give or take. So in theory that would require 18,750 hours (781.25 days or 2.14 years) of continuous coin farming. Also I don't play on mobile but the mobile mechanics are different at least with the fact you can watch ads for guaranteed prizes and pearls a day. Like no lie, it'll give you up to 5,000 coins a day for ads, as well as something like 10 pearls a day, plus 2 of each power up a day, and 3 free crab grabs a day (they only give you 3 prizes compared to the normal 4.) As well as being able to double up to 5 rewards a day. So the difference in mobile and steam players is quite different, so giving every player the same percentage of winning a prize when mobile players don't even have to put in nearly as much work seems wrong.

I'm not on mobile either, that's very interesting how different the mechanics are... Mobile nets so many more resources! 👀

[Ito]

ok

[King of Mint]

In less than 12 hours, I did 14,000 coins worth of normal crab grabs and 2 royal crab grabs and nothing but lives, power ups, and a few pearls. I think i might be done with the crab for a while.