So there has been some contention about people using 10 of the same task station in an enclosure to maximize getting that task stations badges.
While I didn’t think people would go to that extreme when I created the pengis, I did want to encourage people to work together and share enclosures / task stations.
Using 10 of the same task station isn’t cheating, but was unexpected. This isnt an exploit, and is working correctly - I would say it’s thinking outside the box.
However, I recognize this situation isn’t ideal, especially if you don’t have the means to set up 10 of each task station in an enclosure and one of the things that has always disappointed me about breedables in general was that the people with the most money always come out on top.
What I plan to do is this: going forward, tasks will have a kind of inverse difficulty factor associated with them. The current set of task stations will have a factor of 10 (as they are now) and pengis can only do a single task (at seperate individual task stations) a maximum of 10 times. Future task stations will have a factor of 3.
This means that when next months task station comes out, there will be no use in having more than 3 in one enclosure (of that type.)
I know this is going to be unpopular, but I will not retroactively introduce limits on things people have already bought. I feel this would be unfair to them, and by not introducing limits on the currently available task stations everyone is at a level playing field.
Tasks were meant to be a fun addition to pengis and the traits that are unlocked by tasks are a reflection on that, I’ve kept it a mystery to not spoil the discovery.. You don’t have to do any tasks at all to access the more special traits like eyes, feathers beaks, feet etc.
As always, I am open to suggestions, I really do want pengis to be more than just another breedable where we can have fun together doing something a little bit different.