I’m bored because the mining mythical I like to use has been disabled with no reason stated other than “it needs balancing”. That was several hours ago.
Let’s review some previous mythicals shall we?
So the Tom Riddle Pickaxe made it so whatever you mined dropped the block you were standing on. This basically meant you could mine ems all the time.
The deadpool pickaxe upgraded blocks as you mined them. This basically meant you could mine high value blocks up to ems and even obby all the time.
Let’s compare this to the Shrek Feet.
They make a lot ems in the mine, this basically means you can mine ems all the time.
So I would say, this item on it’s own, is a perfectly balanced mythical. It’s ability is matched by the abilities of these previous mythicals.
But as I’ve said in previous threads, and has repeatedly not been listened to, the monstrously OP item that keeps being used to make tons of money because it has no balance that you keep looking for but failing to find is Shrek’s Splooge. There’s no reason to disable the mythical at all.
There is no fair nerf you can make to the mythical. The risk of making snow white pick or the coal strat with bbh heart better than a mythical is high, because you’ll just splooge that instead. Then you have an ultra or a common special being better than a mythical…
If you didn’t want me to make so much money with the mythical, you should have listened when everyone said the problem was having spammable semis with fortune 8 blasts that make you completely dependant on using a semi to mine because it’s just that powerful. I didn’t want to do that, I like actually mining and splooge meta is boring. But nerfing the mythical instead of the splooge is just going to make actually mining terrible and splooging somewhat worse.
Now I’m bored all day, waiting for you to make a mistake instead of fixing the thing that was broken all along.
Agreed. Varm even nerfed the splooge by a block radius after the full copper layer from the BBH heart was fixed. I think a full mining set with no boosts should make 60mil/hr. Full mining set + Shrek Toes should be ~150mil/hr with no boosts. Splooge needs to be reworked.
In every previous exploit or bug to do with mining, it’s power was increased exponentially by splooge 'cos it was part of the problem all along.
After reviewing past mythicals, let’s review past splooge-like items. Items that blast with fortune.
In map 6 there was dest pick. This originally had fortune 5 and was lowered to fortune 3. With prestige perks tripling block drops and a mining boost you made like 22m with shamrock.
It’s cooldown was 20 minutes.
Cop shoes in map 7 worked with fortune, these created a blast, they had to be readjusted several times because they were so damn powerful. Multiple cop shoes being used at once had the power to crash the server, which would then reset their cd allowing them to be used again, which would crash the server again etc. Eventually these had to be changed to autosell just for the health of the server.
They had a cooldown of about 45 minutes I believe.
Even in map 9, there’s the goldilocks pick ability, exploding an absolutely massive area with originally fortune 1, now fortune 2. This has the extremely cautious cooldown of an entire day.
Now let’s look at Shrek’s Splooge. A semi you can get by the stack. It’s power by swapping to a fortune pick far exceeds every single mining method no matter what strategy you are using. The only mining strategies right now are setting up and then splooging. It’s cd is 20 seconds and you mostly get it by looting, meaning you have to buy it. This means whoever makes the most money splooging sets the price of splooge, which you will continually need to mine, making the map completely unbalanced.
Splooge should never have worked with fortune at all. If anything, it should just be something a new player can chuck in a rainbow rush instead of going at it with their miners pick.
Balance changes I would suggest are;
Just disable splooge’s mining ability entirely, or disable it’s use with fortune entirely. Nerf it into the ground. Make it the semi it deserves to be.
Actually BUFF the mythical… Currently it mines in a 3d plus shape, this is very difficult to tesselate and leads to some very inefficient mining. A 2x3 shape totalling 6 blocks would be much easier to teselate than it’s current shape, making for more efficient mining despite being less blocks. This makes normal mining much more viable.
Create a new item that isn’t a single use spammable semi that performs a similar blasting function (wu pick ability doesn’t work on blocks and has long cd), or a haste item that similarly allows a lot of blocks to be mined at once with the wu pick fortune 8. This could be a special, and ultra, a legendary, whatever. Another thing to add to the pricetag of a full mining set. Give it a proper cooldown that isn’t totally spammable. This creates a suitable replacement for splooging that isn’t completely imbalanced. Anyone who has the item can use the item, and there isn’t one person buying up every single use of the item thoroughly imbalancing the market.
Hmmm, 11 days ago, you were complaining about struggling to get to Prestige 2, but 11days past you are Prestige 5, A4 with almost 1 Bil. Seems like there is a unbalanced issue if you are ranking up that fast.
I think honestly the equality of the mythical is dependant on its distribution throughout the server. This mythical has been extremely repetitive of its fellow competitors and in my opinion we need a mining mythical which will produce a new, justified satisfactory feeling towards the game. That being said, the tom riddles pickaxe should definitely be nerfed as it is too popular within the toxic looting community that makes up a convention of money making bugs and glitches which come as a huge disadvantage towards the rest of the prison players. Hope this helped clear up the situation, please reply with any improvements to my evaluation!!!
