Timeline of events:
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned something about the increased fruit drop on Next Island, and on this same forum, Official Circe replied that it wasn’t a bug… Okay, let’s keep looking for fruit and stones…
Also, in a previous post (I haven’t found it, but I remember… I don’t think it’s a “Mandela effect”), it was said that the Secret Island server had disconnected from the Next Island server… Well, no problem…
Well, it did happen… we’ve all seen the Super-Mega-Bug on Secret Island… we’ve all taken advantage of it… So there wasn’t as much of a “disconnection” between the two islands as it seemed…
Since the last VU, this has been corrected, and Next Island is dropping stones and fruit more or less as usual: Not much… I’d say even less than before, but that’s my personal assessment…
We can deduce that the “Resource Gatherer” aspect has been “tweaked” to correct this… and it has led to an unwanted side effect: Trees…
A month or two ago, while doing the “Become an Islander” quest, and long before the SI-NI bug, tree cutting was pretty decent… sometimes I’d get 1 or 2 peds from Wood Shaving, once I got 9 peds, and one day I could consider it a Global when a Large tree gave me 13 peds…
Now, if you get 5 pecs from Wood Shaving, you’re a lucky man… The consequence is that you need to use a big tree cutter for large trees, with high decay… and with the current lack of Wood Shaving, tree cutting is now a luxury profession…
So… Could you please check what’s happened with the tree thing? Or is this a general adjustment to “Resource Gatherer”?..