I found it a challenge to deduce strategies over many plays, rather than following the advice “not intended to be replayed”. The first playthrough was pretty much meaningless for me, especially given the knowledge that both time and history could affect the results. I just viewed it as one step of information gathering for the real game.
The suboptimal zones weren’t obviously suboptimal from a single pass, even Dragon Lake that always yields nothing. For all I knew, it could have yielded 5000 food with quite a low probability (and still be always optimal), or lesser amounts of food at specific combinations of time and day, or only when matching some rule based on the previous results of foraging in other zones.
After many runs I did settle on a strategy, and mentally scored myself by looking at the source to see whether there was anything that I should have spotted but didn’t. As it happened, my final strategy was almost optimal though I stayed on the rats for a few more hours than ideal.
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I found it a challenge to deduce strategies over many plays, rather than following the advice “not intended to be replayed”. The first playthrough was pretty much meaningless for me, especially given the knowledge that both time and history could affect the results. I just viewed it as one step of information gathering for the real game.
The suboptimal zones weren’t obviously suboptimal from a single pass, even Dragon Lake that always yields nothing. For all I knew, it could have yielded 5000 food with quite a low probability (and still be always optimal), or lesser amounts of food at specific combinations of time and day, or only when matching some rule based on the previous results of foraging in other zones.
After many runs I did settle on a strategy, and mentally scored myself by looking at the source to see whether there was anything that I should have spotted but didn’t. As it happened, my final strategy was almost optimal though I stayed on the rats for a few more hours than ideal.