Item pricing is way too high versus animal harvest value

[jthibeault]

I've put quite a bit of IRL money into this game (much more than COTW), and actually don't have a lot to show for it.

Basically one good weapon (reverse draw crossbow with the worthless scope, that has less magnification than the iron sights, LOL) and a starter kit for Magpie goose hunting (12ga pump shotgun with red dot sight, lures, tent, and 12 decoys). The EM prices are ridiculous too, but that's my own fault for paying IRL dollars because I am impatient.

Ok, so I have a Grinding setup, to grind Magpie geese....yay, I can get GM's to get some more items.

MY GOD, the GRIND!!

I just took a look at the latest GM purchase history, and could get data on the last 96 geese harvested, for a total of $3644GM with an average goose price of $38GM's.

A simple tent, at a cost of $9350GM, is going to take 246 geese!!! LOL

One simple item for 246 geese.

So, for anyone thinking they are going to be able to get equiped by grinding GM's, forget it.

There, complaining complete. I feel better now, LOL.

[skunkasa]

missions ?

[Nicpus]

The grind isnt that bad tbh if you hunt animals, do the daily missions and the main missions in the mix. Doing all the 3 will get you a ton of gm$ and already from just doing that ive been able to get myself some new weapons.

[matheus]

Could go back to the membership days where you couldn't buy anything with GM.

[shrekstyle]

Go to the hunter wiki and see what animal missions you can do with the weapons you have.

Try to find animals that you can complete their mission list and you will usually get over 10000$gm per animal.

Animals that can be called are faster to do.

Do the missions and get more stuff but always make sure you have 13600 $gm when you are finished so you can reset the animal missions and do them again to get more $gm's and more equipment to complete more animals than the last reset.

[AbSlayer]

Game is not call lets go hunting for money
Idea is have fun hunting and as a side benefit earn some points to buy things
Sooner you accept this the more fun you will have

[jthibeault]

Yes, I do missions, and yes, I am enjoying the game, but I want another tent, NOW, so I'm willing to grind (and complain I guess).

You have to admit that the animal harvest value is way low, and some of them just don't make any sense. Why is a goose more valuable than an Elk? LOL

In COTW on the other hand, harvest values are a little high, so there really is no grind for items there. Of course in order to get the better items, you need to pay for the DLC, so whatever....

I needed to vent, and you all are nice enough to offer helpful suggestions.

I have my tent now, AND I have the achievement for 500 Magpie harvests, LOL.

[bairms15]

I can understand this mindset if you don't plan to put a ton of time into the game. It does take a long time to earn enough money to buy things. If you think you're going to play this game for 50 hours and accomplish everything like some $60 "triple A" game, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

I don't even know what the game was like with a membership before it was "free" but I can say in all honesty this is the only "free" game I've ever spent money on. I just started playing the game in September, and Steam says I have 570.7 hours in it. I've spent $49.15 real money on the game, and to spend that amount of money on a game I got for free, when I've spent $60 on games I've completed in 20 hours, I have no problem with. If you like the cycle of this game, you love the cycle of this game. You have to enjoy the grind. The missions are awesome. Some are dumb, sure, but most help you work on some skill, or at least patience.

Look at it this way. There's 5 people in the world that have the max hunter score(at least before the puma was released, now nobody does). It's not a game that's meant to be "completed". It's meant for you to enjoy virtual hunting. If you're not enjoying the actual hunting, why play it anyway? It's not a game for completionists.

Also, your gm$ number of 3644 for all those magpies is what you get for completing the last mission for most species(3600 gm$). Branch out and hunt something other than magpies. Get into the missions and learn the rest of the species. There's tons of fun to be had without focusing on some arbitrary grind. I want new equipment too, but the satisfaction comes from hunting in this game, not buying.

[Keel]

Been playing on and off since 2012.
The way they have it set up now is far better then when i started.

Although i had no problem paying membership (because it worked out to very cheap per month) The cost of new items was purely through their money system which was paid to get... with the exception of trying to compete in competitions which can be impossible almost for new players. And the $$$ rewards wern't significant enough.

Just play the game for the sake of enjoying the game. Like everyone has said finish your missions and over a couple of weeks it will add up pretty quick.

[Kak2R🍸🧀]

Dude if you do all 600 missions that is worth 600500gm$. Yes, six hundred thousand. I mean regular missions, not daily missions. Daily missions are peanuts compared to regular missions.

Use this tool to help you figure out the most profitable (in terms of missions unlocked) weapons to buy based on the weapons you already have
https://missionitemtool.herokuapp.com/

And there are some who only do a few mission packs before resetting - they get good at those mission packs - and they are only interested in hunting a few species or using a few weapons - also profitable.

[jthibeault]

Hey KingGhidorah, thanks for that link!

Wow, what a spreadsheet. This should be in a stickied post.

[Hylie Pistof]

i remember already telling you to stick with the missions ^^ harvest is some nice $ aside but more a compensation for the ammo you have to buy.

the basic guns allow you to hunt quite alot, and earn $ from the missions. also you will/can complete severall missions in just one hunt, and as mentioned, they will increase your reward till 3000+ Gm$ at later missions ;) for that you can buy good gear and do more missions.
if you play to complete a game, this is nothing for you.. there is no real goal here, just an approach to simulate hunting. sitting around waiting for ducks is only one way, there are more.

but i aggree, the harvest value for some animals is weired calculated. small predators pay well, turkys pay well, but a red deer, no matter how huge...??^^ could be more. and some guns/gear are expensive relative to how usefull they are (like your duck setup).

still i like to play this without looking at money, have no tents, no car, no trophy lodge... still i like to sneak though the reserves, letting the game suprise me, and hunt what i think is worth following (not cash related).

and about the "grind" - i belive we have far to much casual games, AAA titles that costs you 50$/€/pounds and then you finnish them in a linear story in 30-50 hours. next you do is buy another overpriced game that bores you after maybe 10 hours?

hope you still have fun ;)

edit:

Originally posted by jthibeault:

So, for anyone thinking they are going to be able to get equiped by grinding GM's, forget it.

I did exactly this ^^ ive got

a backpack upgrade,
.300
.340
9.3x74
12ga pumpgun
.44 magnum
severall scopes
severall callers
treestand
consumables...

all for Gm$ ;) it is possible

sry i didnt pay the devs for the work they had :/

[fs7kills]

Yes, there's a lot of grind, I have 400hrs, 229000 gm$ earned, never bought any em$, it took me around 100hrs to get enough gm$ for a decent loadout.
Missions are the fastest way to earn gm$, do the ones that are worth it, skip the ones that take too long or that require something you don't have. If you want to make some decent money by just hunting animals without tents and/or treestands you have to learn some good hunting spots (check animal maps in the wiki and hunting guides on Youtube).
Another suggestion is checking competitions, before starting a hunt activate competitions for whatever animals are available in the area you're going to. In that way if you happen to harvest something really good you have the chance you getting some em$ for it.