pawborough errands are bad
this is complaining, i hate this system, i wanted to be nice but its hard when a system is this fucking awful. i think the only way to salvage errands is a complete rework because oh my god this sucks.
honestly i haven't had less fun on a petsite minigame since the santae minimal minigame. the only difference is that you need to play errands at least once every day to maintain your streak to get money while the minimals were (THANKFULLY) optional.
okay that is pretty harsh to say but let me explain why i feel that errands are the worst thing on the site right now by explaining the actual mechanics
so all units are 2x2 squares that can move on a grid, each turn you get to move and do one of many actions, notably you CAN NOT move after doing an action. you are allowed to do half steps but there is not much point in doing so
update: I failed to mention it but obstacles used to not be highlighted, they now are. Good change!
the numbered buttons are your abilities and this is where it gets annoying
you might be thinking "hey laverna! i thought this had less choice than pixel cats! 5 whole abilities is 1 more than what pce gives you!" shut up let me explain. notably i don't have a ranger cat so i don't know if the abilities are different for them or not
the first ability is your attack, rangers get a ranged attack while fighters get a melee, it costs 2 stamina (trust me, we'll GET THERE)
the second is your defense, it costs 1 stamina and makes their next speed roll have +1 green dice (basically a good dice)
the third is a self heal, it costs 1 stamina
the fourth is warrior's spirit which costs 1 stamina, it doesn't explain what it does in game but all it does is give your next attack +1 green dice
and the 5th ability is magic, my cat is bad at magic so this does basically nothing for him
then the three lettered buttons, first is backpack where you can use items, i don't bring items because they aren't that good but they're slightly better than the next button...
rest.... we'll skip this one for now so you can truly understand the horrors of this dogshit ability
then pass, you need to press this button when your turn is done so keep a finger on the F key!
update: There is a slider that will auto end your turn for you. Another good change!
here are the cat bars, it sits on the left side of the screen under the action log.
Name | Player username (btw, feel free to friend me if ya want!)
then under that is our kitty portrait, hello kitty!
to the right of the cat is the class and the level
health is health, it hit 0 and you lose
EXP is experience, get enough to level up and then you can use skill points to improve the cat's stats
under that are your statuses, riveting
you might've noticed that stamina was excluded and that's because stamina, by far, is the worst system in all of pawborough.
stamina starts every errand full like your health does, its maximum is determined by your cat's stamina stat, sacred has 30 stamina and so his max is 30. when you win a fight, your stamina carries over to the next battle just like health does, if you have 20 at the end of one fight you go into the next with 20. simple
also remember how i said abilities cost stamina? including the BASIC ATTACK? well since that costs 2 sacred essentially has 15 attacks at the start of the game. guess what, i finished the fight i showed previously, and only have 7 attacks left.
"but surely there's a way to regenerate stamina!" correct! there is!
food will use up your turn and make you regenerate a set amount of stamina for eating it, so if you bring say, a kebab that gives 4 stamina, you can get 4 stamina when you want! wow! but you can only use one item per turn... but at least it's better than rest
rest is a simple but FRUSTRATING ability.
at the start of your turn, your cat can rest. this uses up their turn to recover 10% of your max stamina (rounded down). "ok? that seems fine. what is the issue?" what AREN'T the issues?
you can't move then rest, you can only rest then end turn which means you have to sit still, which if you're next to an enemy they will get free hits in. and let's think about that 10% recovery, so sacred has 30 max stamina, remove the 0 and you get 3 stamina per use. if your cat has 20-29 stamina you will only get 2 stamina per use which is only enough to recover 1 FUCKING ATTACK. if you want to recover anything more you need to invest multiple level ups into getting 30 stamina at least. and even then your rest only recovers 3 a fuckin turn so if you have low stamina you have to spend up to 10 GOD DAMN TURNS DOING NOTHING
you need to invest so much into ONE STAT to make ONE ABILITY useful just so you can play the fucking game. also did i mention you get punished for 0 stamina? yeah so don't let that happen! waste several turns getting your stamina back! fucker!
"but at least there's enemy variety..?"
it's just 1v1s against the same guy over and over again, the enemy cats aren't even different classes the only actual difference is spawn position and the terrain. that's it. you can also just win by walking over to the enemy then pressing 1 -> e -> f -> f -> repeat (attack, confirm, close popup, end turn)
if you don't think it's all that bad, then sign up for PB and do errands, try doing any errand that is C or B ranked and try to tell me that its not annoying and repetitive
im optimistic the site will get better, but for right now... do one E or D tier errand a day for your streak and nothing more
edit: apparently to get incense (cat spawning items) you need to get to level 20+ content... that sounds so miserable to grind
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