Something wrong with 3D printer sampler?

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

I just AFK'd spores to get over 17000 spore caps and then i went to sample it gave me 20. The talent is supposed to at least 10% of your afk gains, so i should have gotten over 170. Is it capped based on what you can carry in inventory? Would be nice to know in the info on the skill...

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The printer samples based off of your afk gain rate for one hour. Multikill greatly impacts this once you unlock it.

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This info is in the Hints tab nobody ever looks at. (And I think multiple other places)

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

So a skill info and quest dialog window does not give all the needed info and forces you to look for tips? Looking in wiki also says no different than AFK gains not specifying something as simple as adding the word 'hourly' in there :T Everything i read made me determine i needed to afk gather/fight to determine the sample size. I look on wiki before i even consider the tips, no offence but most games have worthless tips sections.

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Yeah you know I didn't interpret it that way when I saw it but I see how the talent is unfortunately worded looking at it. Also, I was surprised too to not find it stated in the wiki.

"Cast to sample X amount of current AFK gains." Doesn't say gains rate. Maybe Lava will see this and do some editing?

[Shedar]

but should you really afk for an hour for taking a sample? It seems you can get the same amount by entering that map and casting sampler after buff skills?

[CatTacAttack]

Originally posted by Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s:

Looking in wiki also says no different than AFK gains not specifying something as simple as adding the word 'hourly' in there :T

It says "AFK gains", not "Your last AFK rewards". The wording is clear to it being gains in general, rather than a specific instance of what you gained.
I can absolutely get how you would misunderstand, since it's a bit of a specific wording. Maybe it could be worded more clearly, but getting too specific would take up too much text. I'm not sure if it's worth changing in this case.

Also, just looking at this logically: Would gaining 1700 (10% of 17k) caps per hour really be reasonable? Not at all. Even with the 1-2 day investment of an AFK character. Maybe if it were 0.1% then it could be ok... leave someone AFK at spores for a month and you get 1 million spores and 1k spores per hour as your reward.

Originally posted by Shedar:

but should you really afk for an hour for taking a sample? It seems you can get the same amount by entering that map and casting sampler after buff skills?

You don't need to AFK an hour. Use the skill and it gives you a count based on your hourly rewards (as shown in the AFK Info window), as you say.

[Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s]

Then when you return from AFK, it needs to be reworded at the top of the screen, it says "AFK gains" that is what i ran off of and threw me way off.

[CatTacAttack]

Originally posted by Ov Å̪e̞oη̣s:

Then when you return from AFK, it needs to be reworded at the top of the screen, it says "AFK gains" that is what i ran off of and threw me way off.

Oh yeah I see. Never paid attention to that text. That is kinda misleading.
That being said, the sample skill says "10% of your current AFK gains *rate*". A set of AFK gains is not a rate. It's true that it doesn't specify that it's the hourly rate.
In any case, I think rewording it would just be more trouble than it's worth, what with trying to find a different sentence that isn't too long.