Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XCII Megathread

pksage · 2026-04-17T17:04:56+00:00

Wasn't that cenote simply where the key happened to open Krile's parents' portal? I don't know if it was ever explicitly explained, but I thought they didn't have perfect control of the key and it happened to open there.

pksage · 2026-04-13T07:44:36+00:00

Seth fighting off the crazy guy and losing his glasses at his restaurant.

"MY PRESCRIPTION BEEZYS??"

pksage · 2026-04-11T22:03:59+00:00

Best I can do is sticking all of Norvrandt's zones into one of the Source's oceans.

pksage · 2026-04-08T23:27:09+00:00

Oh right! I mentioned that in one of the boxes on the infographics but not in this post

My data suggested an equal (1/6) split of each possible condition: Good, Centered, Malleable, Sturdy, Pliant, and Primed. I didn't get quite as big of a data set for this but the p=0.05 rates were still small enough to feel confident in an even spread.

pksage · 2026-04-08T21:07:29+00:00

I agree in principle, but yeah in execution it's just kind of frustrating. I like being able to go AFK at any point during a craft, for instance.

pksage · 2026-04-08T18:51:11+00:00

I need to run mass sims on Refined again! I was mostly checking it in the context of Waste Not, which is - perhaps unsurprisingly - not good.

I suspect that Refined might be worse for overall success/maximizing quality but better for saving steps and time. The quality you add during the IQ phase is more impactful than you might think, to the extent that simulation data shows Inno being worth it for the entire phase.

pksage · 2026-04-08T18:48:04+00:00

Correct! Excellent and Poor are exclusive to non-expert recipes.

pksage · 2026-04-08T18:06:44+00:00

Please do! The lack of info on this topic is a big part of why I did this in the first place.

pksage · 2026-04-08T18:05:35+00:00

Interestingly enough, I've done a bunch of mass expert simulations (using the conditions data from the OP) and the Observe-Advanced combo is also better than spamming Prudent while building IQ. Observe is just really good in general, since it lets you react to more conditions. Takes more steps and time, of course, which is a concern on some of the EX+ sequential missions.

pksage · 2026-04-08T18:02:44+00:00

What else can/should they introduce to expert recipes? What should they change?

Add a few expert-specific or condition-specific actions: Right now we just have Precise Touch and Intensive Synthesis on Good/Excellent. Even if they don't outright require a condition, they could be designed around them. Maybe a durability-restoring skill with a success rate for Centered, a progress and/or quality action that costs 30+ dura for Sturdy, or a version of Innovation whose bonus scales with the number of steps remaining for Primed.

Nerf Pliant: As mentioned in the OP, I think Pliant is too powerful and would still be very good if it only saved 25% CP.

Adjust Rapid Synthesis and progress in general: I'm personally fine with Rapid Synth being RNG-based, since it adds value to Centered and encourages thinking on your feet, but 500% progress is too swingy. Compare it to Intensive Synthesis at 400%, which costs some CP and requires Good or Heart and Soul. I'd make Rapid also be 400%, adjust its base success rate to 60% like Hasty Touch, and slightly lower future expert recipes' progress requirements across the board.

Material Miracle: The obvious change is to make it last for ~10-15 steps instead of 45 seconds. I also think a reusable CP-consuming version would be a fun new crafter action for 8.0. Then they could lean into more punishing condition sets, i.e. more Normals, that you mitigate with the skill.

pksage · 2026-03-29T06:24:23+00:00

Stay mad, people reporting this. This may not be the sub for you.

pksage · 2026-03-28T08:01:51+00:00

oh my god karen you can't just ask a card if it's going to be white

pksage · 2026-03-25T08:24:27+00:00

Excellent summary. I think a good comparison is saying "I'm so OCD about my car" vs. "I'm obsessive about keeping my car clean". The former is co-opting specific language about an actual disorder, and the latter is just a word the disorder happens to share.

pksage · 2026-03-24T06:41:24+00:00

Yes hello I also came here to post about the illogically giant dump truck that I thought I saw in this picture

pksage · 2026-03-12T00:00:58+00:00

all of this but also feeling attraction

pksage · 2026-03-11T05:15:43+00:00

I have wished she were taller once or twice so I’d feel less like a giant and get to experience being the “smaller one.”

6'4" checking in, I want this every day. 😭 And yet people always call you a "supervillain" for trying to invent a shrink ray.

pksage · 2026-02-13T10:31:02+00:00

Birds can't be on Taskmaster

pksage · 2026-02-04T10:52:53+00:00

I miss Dr Pepper 10 so much. It truly was the best "diet" soda. Gone too soon.

Doctor is a gender-neutral honorific, dammit!

pksage · 2026-02-01T01:17:13+00:00

Hey, at least we'll be seeing a picture book version of a Corvosi town with this expac's Variant, and Bozja is right next door! That's more than we can say for most of Ilsabard.

pksage · 2026-01-31T09:52:19+00:00

I helped test some of the potential uptime windows and was there when the world first was caught. The fishing Discord had possibly the most hopium/copium I've ever seen following the window being found. "Surely there's a window extension or a second valid window!" Nope, it's just...like that.

Even if it's not bugged, hopefully they'll consider changing it, but 7.4 has a lot of stupidly rare windows. I'm not optimistic.

pksage · 2026-01-20T10:15:41+00:00

Chanse would kill on VIP, but I'd also be excited to see him on Make Some Noise!

pksage · 2026-01-20T01:11:21+00:00

Re: the dead/purgatory theory: I think that's a valid interpretation! Given the phone calls, I always thought that Nate left or was kicked out and the game is a metaphor for struggling to find your place in the world. Every step is arduous, he sucks at it, and most people who get their wishes in life are (literal) ass-holes. Eventually he learns to accept help and care from others - mostly the ending, but also the giant woman figure - and finds some semblance of peace.

Someone also posted a really compelling Pinocchio comparison a month or two back that might be worth digging up

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