Talk:Fate
personal observations on fate:
- fate seems to diminish over playing time, and regenerate over time when logged out.
- no specific experiment, just general observation in that fatespawns seem more common when first logging in, and rare if ever the last hours before logging out.
- lore events, or the actions that affect lore events, also seem to affect fatespawns.
- EXPERIMENT 1: found a bolete, checked a willow tree: no lore event, picked the bolete, checked willow tree again: got willow lore event.
- EXPERIMENT 2: same one as described below. after picking the first bolete that was on meadow, went onto forest to look for the other one, went back onto meadow and got the grass lore event.
- obtaining a fated item diminishes your fate.
- EXPERIMENT: found 2 boletes in 2 different chunks close by eachother, made an alt stand guard at one to keep it from refreshing, collected the other, when i went back to the first one i couldn't see it anymore.
- a fated forageable appearing, but not being picked, does not diminish your fate.
- EXPERIMENT: not picking a bolete resulted in me seeing 2 more boletes in under 5 minutes. normally picking a bolete results in not finding one for a day or so.
these lead me to believe that fate is a modifier value (possibly the same one that lore events use) that enters the required forage level formula as a chance: , that goes down by doing certain actions (like the ones that trigger lore events), and goes up by being offline.
some extrapolations that are probably incorrect, but might be true to some extent:
quoting jorb: Sketchbook pages can be bought from the store, or crafted using a rare fatespawn.
this might be a pleonasm, but it could imply there are also common fatespawns that we don't even realize are fatebound, and only reduce fate slightly. possible common fatespawns might be lady's mantles on meadows and frog's crowns in swamps. one experiment with a bolete and picking meadow lady's mantles didn't cause it to disappear, but this might be just mean they only lower fate slightly and my fate was still up high enough to see that particular bolete.