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I do not feel the game should design towards resets that take that long. I saw below that you heavily leaned on the School system and the dust that lets you timeskip, but the game explicitly sets that to be an optional system because most people don't want to spend time on repetitive minigames. And if resets are starting to creep past the week point it means that progression should be looked at - is that a wall, is that the end of currently available content, is progression tuned right, etc... - because I don't see the point in the game degenerating into something I only check in on once a week or so. That's a recipe for loss of interest. Like, there are a lot of really good idle games that respect player's time investment and that tend towards the 24-48 hour check in timer for a very good reason, all throughout their content.

I understand however that GooBoo is in a constant state of flux regarding progression tuning so who knows where it will end up, but I was 100% among those people who saw the timer tuning on the recent Farm change and recoiled. It was nice that the dev undid some of that but still, idk if I really like the idea that resets are to be pushed out into a sort of week+ timeframe if the player doesn't lean on the School feature.

As to events, well, I don't agree with the philosophy that "you'll get everything in 3 to 4 years". That's insane design to me. Why not have the events rewards obtainable in a give loop of an event and just iterate or add slight expansion content on the next year? Or hell, just one and done it. Because it's very demoralizing to me to be like "oh yeah when events roll around wait for 48 hours then follow a Discord guide precisely and then return again for the same thing over the course of several years". I'm sorry, that's really bad.