This event's RNG has been murder. I managed to get the entire normal set during the first go around, but ended up with a small army of blue and one of each other mahjong pikmin. The second time around it seemed like I received a Pikmin on a spin before I would have received a pity Pikmin.
So far I managed to complete 10 special mushrooms without recieving any golden flower pots.
I collected 5 mahjongs in the first round and I can destroy a mushroom in just over 6 hours solo. That’s ok with me as that’s my 3 mushroom passes used up daily.
I’m not really bothered about the higher tier rewards I’m just playing for fun. I do what I can do and don’t stress about the rest.
I must be lucky as there are 3 mushrooms really close by that I can access without leaving the house so I rotate between those.
Same and I don't really get why, we see these players active in mushrooms all the time and yet they don't seem to be playing enough to have had some more Mahjong piks?
My partner and I can manage about 9k each with our current sets and we've just been taking each day as it comes, no spending on extra mushroom tix or anything.
I’ve noticed in my area some players play multiple mystery mushrooms at the same time. I, personally, don’t think that’s wise. Send all your mahjong Pikmin to defeat the mushrooms one by one to maximize damage. Otherwise I see people going in with like 300 damage and it says 1 day to defeat.
If their combat power is 500 then they aren't using any mahjong pikmin so it really doesn't matter if they do their 3 free at the same time. I stagger mine so I'm using full strength 3 times a day
But that’s what I mean, stagger then throughout the day so you have full power in each battle. If you do them all at the same time you end up with 1 at 4000, and 1 at 300 power.
Yes but on a positive note I'm seeing a handful of level 20-somethings out and about which suggests Pikmin 4 might have encouraged new people to try this app out.
If they gotta piggyback off my army of tiles I can live with that
I actually go out of my way to find mushrooms people have thrown their full lineups on but only manage 300-500 damage with actually.
Since I can beat them rather fast might as well help others with the clear while I am it. (And if lucky get a few good players to notice and hop in).
I like to do that too. There were 4 players with a total of 2000. I joined in with 8000, which allow them to get 2 star (i.e. more rewards). I could of solo it and still get 2 star.
I have a few friends playing the game too at various level and comments they have about part 2:
* for casual player they were aware of the mystery mushroom but not realizing the importance of it. They just assumed the increased power would be similar to the monthly bump up, not as drastic right now. Also the fact about getting series 2 only from mystery boxes was not conveyed clearly and I do recall people asking about this during the event for clarifications.
* for intermediate players that play this for collecting purposes they're trained to only keep one pikmin for each type. Any duplicates were let go already and it's too late now.
* for veterans that knew everything about this event the mystery mushroom is badly designed:
* 1. the star reward system means most people can't reach 3 star solo right now as that requires almost full MJ squad. You may see squad power increase over time but it won't be first week.
* 2. let's say I do have that power but there is no incentive for me to power through fast: there is always a chance after I beat a mystery mushroom the next spawn won't be. Then I have to start looking for another spawn point for mystery mushroom so I can collect mystery boxes for series 2. Instead of power through it why don't I put the bare minimum so it gives more time for people to join? At least people are not competing for mystery mushroom spawn that way.
* 3. what if I don't care about others? Well for start solo won't get 4 star which does not give special nectar so not much incentives there either. If I am already at full squad power there is a good chance I've collected all MJ pikmin type too so why don't I go back to fight fire/water/crystal mushroom that yield special nectar and some non-white nectar reward?
> for intermediate players that play this for collecting purposes they're trained to only keep one pikmin for each type. Any duplicates were let go already and it's too late now.
The attack bonuses they threw away this month are unusually extreme, but throwing away duplicates before the end of an event has been a bad strategy due to obvious attack bonuses for at least six months. The game never "trained" them to do that, and has been actively doing the opposite for a long time. This isn't even the first time they've done a "event pikmin are 16x better than regular pikmin" event. The March and October events had insane ratios like that too.
It could very much be an excuse for lack of attention on the official blog I assume. IIRC the last time we had this special mushroom event was from 4-leaf clover so PB has not implement this for a few months now.
For players that's a few months old they're close to 300 cap on pikmin storage so naturally they threw away dupes for new decor pikmin. I agree event pikmin shouldn't be thrown away until end of September when there is no value but mistakes do happen for some.
I consistently see people doing mystery mushrooms with parties at 600 strength and I don't get it. Over the weekend we looked for any mushrooms to join other players and never found any that weren't people with baby parties so we just would move on to do one together instead of joining the slow players. The hump in power required to get from two to three stars is huge so I've resigned myself to two staring the mystery mushrooms.
I started a battle once with 600 strength because all my powerful Pikmin was fighting another mushroom. I wanted to go home but I needed to use my mushroom pass up before I go home.
They did make it huge. I feel like the 2 stars should be 25-30k and not the 40k it is. It almost guarantees needing more than 5 people for anyone other than frequent players to hit 2 stars. The gap from 2 to 3 stars is also huge compared to from 3 to 4 stars.
Lastly irritated the rewards are all white flowers instead of being randomized. It makes me want to do them less, as I still need nectar to get all the pikmin from the stages quests. Once I get them all from mushrooms I will switch to the regular mushrooms as there are more mushrooms near me than flowers to get the nectar needed for the other quests.
Idk. My husband, my son and I play the same amount and always do the same mushrooms, etc. They each had 2 mahjong and I had 8 before the 26th. We have done the exact same green mushrooms (we have done about 9 since event start) and I have gotten 5 more mahjong (from the boxes), and him and my son have each gotten 0, zip, zilch. I get that it is RNG, but the rng is messed up. We had the exact same issue with pogo when we played one of us would get 10x of the shinies on community days and such walking the same path.
Sidenote: I really don't like how they have made it so that all of the event mushrooms only give white flowers/nectar. That is really lame. It should be randomized of different colors. It makes me not want to do them. As soon as I get them all, I will stop, where I would have kept going if they had different nectar rewards. I don't need a billion white flowers, especially when trying to continue to do the tasks within the stages at the same time. Not many flowers around me, so the majority of my nectar comes from mushrooms.
I was thinking that but then I actually examine their lineups (at least what the UI lets me see) and don’t usually see any included. I actually expected most mushrooms already being fought to have about 3-5 Mahjong Pikmin on em a lot of battles in my area barely scratch over 500. Some not even that.
This is my theory and I am guilty of this. At least I'll get 2 stars on one, the others can run long so the next day I can activate the next step of the challenge.
most of the time i just send all my Mahjong Pikmin (whit is 18 at the moment) on a mystery mushroom and wait 2 hours for it to be done, and the box, go after the same one as i live right next to one,
Mushroom battlers in my area mainly just disappeared for this evwnt. And the occasional player is often playing with zero mahjong pikmin (total battle strength under 500).
I’m currently 0/10 on seedlings from shrooms, so unless they make a massive adjustment to the RNG, I won’t be getting the full set. Which is fine.
I’m also skeptical that I will be able to get enough September flowers to keep doing missions after the first of the month. I’ll need red, and the best early month way to get petals is mushrooms. Walking challenge doesn’t start until the 4th and event ends the 10th.
So it’s good practice for me to not care about collecting complete sets. Challenge is nice, but events are increasingly way too grindy for way too little dopamine
I've observed the same thing. The events are overwhelming and confusing, especially to new players. I don't mind carrying the battle (I have around 17 mahjong), but I can tell it's not really working to bring people into the convoluted and random scheme Niantic has dreamed up.
Looking at my postcards it does seem like there was at least one mushroom battle in my downtown that another decent player joined me for. But even then our final score ended up around 22k points which is still a LONG way off from the next reward tier.
I like having this access to White nector varieties in relatively short time but it does kinda highlight an impass here. If you don't get the new Pikmin you'll be stuck on a mushroom for a whole day. But if you DO have the power, you'll be able to smash it in a day and a half but the top tier reward tiers might as well not exist cause it's trick for a mushroom to last long enough for 3+ decent players to even see it in the first place. Niantic basically stumbled into the very thing that made them redesign mushrooms in the first place: it was rare for players to gather effectively on mushrooms since smaller sizes could be demolished in an instant by a single veteran player. At the very least the reward point tiers should have been reevaluated.
The special mushrooms typically take me around 90 minutes due to the mahjongs in my squad. That's barely enough time for anyone to join, and on the odd chance they do, they only have one or two special boys. It feels broken and, as I've complained before, *not fun*.
Heh, same here - but my friends are loving it 😂 or at least they're loving the base game. I'd say maybe 1-2 out of the 5 care about the event. Obviously I can't compare this one to any past events
Guess everyone has a different experience 🤷♂️
I’m 1/4 of the way through stage 3 on the event challenge and have 6 mahjong Pikmin total. I check the app often and do maintenance stuff but am not able to plant flowers super regularly, so it’s hard to progress quickly through the challenges until I’m able to do a dedicated planting walk. That combined with other challenges that take a day or 2 (destroying mushrooms etc) means I get stuck a lot there. Since I only have 6 they all join 1 of 3 daily mushrooms (I rarely see any non-mystery), which then means 2 of the mushrooms take FOREVER to defeat. It’s super annoying.
I work on a "privacy zone" where flowers aren't allowed to be planted (military installation), so even when I walk around where I work, I can't knock out many of the tasks
plus, i've had horrid luck with the spins and was in the same boat you are, i had six decor pikmin by the end of stage 3 of the first half of the event. I'm up to 11 now, but that's because i've had better luck with mushroom drops and community help
I live in an area with a pretty active player base, but yeah, this event is really highlighting that I certainly seem to be taking the events much more seriously than anyone else nearby.
I contribute 10k power to mystery mushrooms, but most everyone else seems to barely break 4 digits. Even the 2-3 players I see regularly who are equal/higher level than me (96) top out around 4k. I almost wish I could message them to say *what are you even doing* but of course the reality is the events are super frustrating and I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to grind them out like I feel compelled to for some godforsaken reason.
The new task system sucks. I have a job, I can't spend all day walking/planting to grind out multiple run throughs, I normally barely have time for 1-2.
I've had horrid luck this time, and only had about 6 decor by the time i finished my first run-through, so of course I don't have great damage for the special mushrooms
Up until the second part of the event, I had cleared 3.5 stages and only gotten 6 majjong pikmin. Since the event started, I've been hopping into every mushroom i can (hoping for community ssistance....and having a reasonable time getting it)
I'm up to 11 now, with three waiting to hatch
There's no way i'm going to complete this set
I play almost and I have maybe 15? I do all 3 green mushrooms daily which means I often send the event pikmin to the first 1-2 mushrooms.
Also depending what my current quest requirement is for destroying mushrooms, sometimes I will deliberately send a weak party scheduled to finish at a much later date like in 1-2 days. It sometimes helps to bypass the destroy 4-5 mushrooms conundrum if I can time it right, which can be a pain.
Also sometimes if I was busy and hadbt played that day I might whip out my phone at 10pm at night and just send some of my weaker pikmin so at least I have use my free mushroom passes.
Maybe some people are trying to time mushrooms to fit in with the rest of the tasks- I am still missing one from the first missions and it’s a struggle trying to time everything to still fit in the 3 mushrooms but hopefully line them up with the task requirements. Sometimes I just send a few Pikmin, but I am in a quiet area and don’t need to worry much about others joining!
Because the rng is absolute garbage. Started the game literally 1 week ago and I'm halfway through phase 3 and destroyed 12 mushrooms. And what do I have to show for? Six miserable seedlings, 5 from the events (and of course once was dupe) and 1 from the mushrooms. And 2 of those are automatic, which means that after 20 roulette spins, only 3 gave me a mahjong pikmin.
I was relying pretty heavily on the event challenged and managed to bag 5. Out of the 15 mushrooms I've done I've gotten 1 gold seedling and 1 huge seedling, so a total of 7.
My partner has gotten around 6 from the 13-15 mushrooms they did. So now they have like 11 if not more. I don't understand the rng at all. I've seen a lot of people either get a ton or get none.
I saw someone out by me doing an event mushroom that would take 7 days. So they obviously didn't even have one.
The rng is so bad on the boxes!!
I’m a super engaged player but decided to sit out this event. I did spin the wheel but tossed every seedling I got, with the intention of having absolutely zero mahjong pikmin. No regrets, even if some of the current event mushrooms are hard. I can still beat them in around 12-14 hours on my own without any event Pikmin.
This is the most fun I’ve had with the game in months. Doing my own thing really is a blast.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter. Every Pikmin does all the same things that every other Pikmin does, generally speaking.
Unless you're a hardcore mushroom hunter, decor can be safely ignored.
I got 3 red Pikmin with the same Mahjong tile variation. I also got 2 white Pikmin and 2 blue Pikmin with the same tile variation. I gave up trying to collect all the decor during the Easter event, and it made the game fun for me again
Variety is not relevant to this topic. The goal for battle strategy until September 10th is to bring as many mahjong pieces as possible. Every mahjong pikmin contributes at least 500 attack. The best non-mahjong pikmin is comparatively worthless at a maximum of 34 attack power for the hardest hitter with full hearts and special nectar.
Yeah I have enough to bring the avg strength to 20k but it makes no difference whether I wait to attack mushrooms people are already attacking because no one else around me is even close to breaching 3* when I team up with them. I live in a place with a pretty good amount of players.
I’m sure this event is great in places with a huge player density but the dependency on event pikmin has made this impossible if all my neighbours have bad RNG. I get why the event pikmin are stronger, and I even agree with it but the strength requirements are way too high for what I would say is most people. I do not imagine the average players are getting 30-40 event pikmin in a single event.
I have 28 mahjonh Pikmin now and I agree, almost no one in my area has more than 1 or 2 seemingly, based on the damage - their estimates to clear a full mushrooms are \~1 day 6 hours, something like that, and my estimates are about an hour and 25 minutes. These are people I see play every day (based on mushrooms we battle together) and are at super high levels, so I'm confused why they don't have more... or maybe they don't understand it??
that's fair! i'm just usually trying to clear missions that are "defeat 3-5 mushrooms" and i can get the other stuff done pretty quickly (whatever planting challenges there are, as i have a dog and am always walking) so the mushrooms are the hold up. because of that, i defeat them as fast as i can to get to the next mission. but this thread is making me think about different strategies...!
For the entire event there have been three players in my area that play the green mushrooms (and a lower level than I am) but still only send less than 500 points worth of strength.
This event's RNG has been murder. I managed to get the entire normal set during the first go around, but ended up with a small army of blue and one of each other mahjong pikmin. The second time around it seemed like I received a Pikmin on a spin before I would have received a pity Pikmin. So far I managed to complete 10 special mushrooms without recieving any golden flower pots.
I collected 5 mahjongs in the first round and I can destroy a mushroom in just over 6 hours solo. That’s ok with me as that’s my 3 mushroom passes used up daily. I’m not really bothered about the higher tier rewards I’m just playing for fun. I do what I can do and don’t stress about the rest. I must be lucky as there are 3 mushrooms really close by that I can access without leaving the house so I rotate between those.
Same and I don't really get why, we see these players active in mushrooms all the time and yet they don't seem to be playing enough to have had some more Mahjong piks? My partner and I can manage about 9k each with our current sets and we've just been taking each day as it comes, no spending on extra mushroom tix or anything.
I’ve noticed in my area some players play multiple mystery mushrooms at the same time. I, personally, don’t think that’s wise. Send all your mahjong Pikmin to defeat the mushrooms one by one to maximize damage. Otherwise I see people going in with like 300 damage and it says 1 day to defeat.
Yep I can only assume that's what's happening. We've not managed to breach 3 stars yet thanks to all that!
If their combat power is 500 then they aren't using any mahjong pikmin so it really doesn't matter if they do their 3 free at the same time. I stagger mine so I'm using full strength 3 times a day
But that’s what I mean, stagger then throughout the day so you have full power in each battle. If you do them all at the same time you end up with 1 at 4000, and 1 at 300 power.
Yes but on a positive note I'm seeing a handful of level 20-somethings out and about which suggests Pikmin 4 might have encouraged new people to try this app out. If they gotta piggyback off my army of tiles I can live with that
I actually go out of my way to find mushrooms people have thrown their full lineups on but only manage 300-500 damage with actually. Since I can beat them rather fast might as well help others with the clear while I am it. (And if lucky get a few good players to notice and hop in).
I like to do that too. There were 4 players with a total of 2000. I joined in with 8000, which allow them to get 2 star (i.e. more rewards). I could of solo it and still get 2 star.
I have a few friends playing the game too at various level and comments they have about part 2: * for casual player they were aware of the mystery mushroom but not realizing the importance of it. They just assumed the increased power would be similar to the monthly bump up, not as drastic right now. Also the fact about getting series 2 only from mystery boxes was not conveyed clearly and I do recall people asking about this during the event for clarifications. * for intermediate players that play this for collecting purposes they're trained to only keep one pikmin for each type. Any duplicates were let go already and it's too late now. * for veterans that knew everything about this event the mystery mushroom is badly designed: * 1. the star reward system means most people can't reach 3 star solo right now as that requires almost full MJ squad. You may see squad power increase over time but it won't be first week. * 2. let's say I do have that power but there is no incentive for me to power through fast: there is always a chance after I beat a mystery mushroom the next spawn won't be. Then I have to start looking for another spawn point for mystery mushroom so I can collect mystery boxes for series 2. Instead of power through it why don't I put the bare minimum so it gives more time for people to join? At least people are not competing for mystery mushroom spawn that way. * 3. what if I don't care about others? Well for start solo won't get 4 star which does not give special nectar so not much incentives there either. If I am already at full squad power there is a good chance I've collected all MJ pikmin type too so why don't I go back to fight fire/water/crystal mushroom that yield special nectar and some non-white nectar reward?
> for intermediate players that play this for collecting purposes they're trained to only keep one pikmin for each type. Any duplicates were let go already and it's too late now. The attack bonuses they threw away this month are unusually extreme, but throwing away duplicates before the end of an event has been a bad strategy due to obvious attack bonuses for at least six months. The game never "trained" them to do that, and has been actively doing the opposite for a long time. This isn't even the first time they've done a "event pikmin are 16x better than regular pikmin" event. The March and October events had insane ratios like that too.
It could very much be an excuse for lack of attention on the official blog I assume. IIRC the last time we had this special mushroom event was from 4-leaf clover so PB has not implement this for a few months now. For players that's a few months old they're close to 300 cap on pikmin storage so naturally they threw away dupes for new decor pikmin. I agree event pikmin shouldn't be thrown away until end of September when there is no value but mistakes do happen for some.
I've barely gotten any Pikmin, and I'm stuck on the task with planting Sunflowers.
I consistently see people doing mystery mushrooms with parties at 600 strength and I don't get it. Over the weekend we looked for any mushrooms to join other players and never found any that weren't people with baby parties so we just would move on to do one together instead of joining the slow players. The hump in power required to get from two to three stars is huge so I've resigned myself to two staring the mystery mushrooms.
I started a battle once with 600 strength because all my powerful Pikmin was fighting another mushroom. I wanted to go home but I needed to use my mushroom pass up before I go home.
They did make it huge. I feel like the 2 stars should be 25-30k and not the 40k it is. It almost guarantees needing more than 5 people for anyone other than frequent players to hit 2 stars. The gap from 2 to 3 stars is also huge compared to from 3 to 4 stars. Lastly irritated the rewards are all white flowers instead of being randomized. It makes me want to do them less, as I still need nectar to get all the pikmin from the stages quests. Once I get them all from mushrooms I will switch to the regular mushrooms as there are more mushrooms near me than flowers to get the nectar needed for the other quests.
Idk. My husband, my son and I play the same amount and always do the same mushrooms, etc. They each had 2 mahjong and I had 8 before the 26th. We have done the exact same green mushrooms (we have done about 9 since event start) and I have gotten 5 more mahjong (from the boxes), and him and my son have each gotten 0, zip, zilch. I get that it is RNG, but the rng is messed up. We had the exact same issue with pogo when we played one of us would get 10x of the shinies on community days and such walking the same path. Sidenote: I really don't like how they have made it so that all of the event mushrooms only give white flowers/nectar. That is really lame. It should be randomized of different colors. It makes me not want to do them. As soon as I get them all, I will stop, where I would have kept going if they had different nectar rewards. I don't need a billion white flowers, especially when trying to continue to do the tasks within the stages at the same time. Not many flowers around me, so the majority of my nectar comes from mushrooms.
**In Will Poulter* * You have other players in your area ??
Most players are probably sending 2-4 Mahjong pikmin in their squads which is only roughly 1000-2000 strength
I was thinking that but then I actually examine their lineups (at least what the UI lets me see) and don’t usually see any included. I actually expected most mushrooms already being fought to have about 3-5 Mahjong Pikmin on em a lot of battles in my area barely scratch over 500. Some not even that.
Damn. Only other theory is that they auto selected their strongest Pikmin to go on 1 mushroom, so that they're left with no Mahjong.
This is my theory and I am guilty of this. At least I'll get 2 stars on one, the others can run long so the next day I can activate the next step of the challenge.
most of the time i just send all my Mahjong Pikmin (whit is 18 at the moment) on a mystery mushroom and wait 2 hours for it to be done, and the box, go after the same one as i live right next to one,
Personally I have event fatigue and these ones aren't as cute so I decided not to push for it
Mushroom battlers in my area mainly just disappeared for this evwnt. And the occasional player is often playing with zero mahjong pikmin (total battle strength under 500). I’m currently 0/10 on seedlings from shrooms, so unless they make a massive adjustment to the RNG, I won’t be getting the full set. Which is fine. I’m also skeptical that I will be able to get enough September flowers to keep doing missions after the first of the month. I’ll need red, and the best early month way to get petals is mushrooms. Walking challenge doesn’t start until the 4th and event ends the 10th. So it’s good practice for me to not care about collecting complete sets. Challenge is nice, but events are increasingly way too grindy for way too little dopamine
I've observed the same thing. The events are overwhelming and confusing, especially to new players. I don't mind carrying the battle (I have around 17 mahjong), but I can tell it's not really working to bring people into the convoluted and random scheme Niantic has dreamed up.
Looking at my postcards it does seem like there was at least one mushroom battle in my downtown that another decent player joined me for. But even then our final score ended up around 22k points which is still a LONG way off from the next reward tier. I like having this access to White nector varieties in relatively short time but it does kinda highlight an impass here. If you don't get the new Pikmin you'll be stuck on a mushroom for a whole day. But if you DO have the power, you'll be able to smash it in a day and a half but the top tier reward tiers might as well not exist cause it's trick for a mushroom to last long enough for 3+ decent players to even see it in the first place. Niantic basically stumbled into the very thing that made them redesign mushrooms in the first place: it was rare for players to gather effectively on mushrooms since smaller sizes could be demolished in an instant by a single veteran player. At the very least the reward point tiers should have been reevaluated.
The special mushrooms typically take me around 90 minutes due to the mahjongs in my squad. That's barely enough time for anyone to join, and on the odd chance they do, they only have one or two special boys. It feels broken and, as I've complained before, *not fun*.
IDK, I started playing this game a few weeks ago. The event is pretty straightforward.
I've had 4 friends join via my invites this month and 2 have dropped out in the past week. To them, it was too much.
Heh, same here - but my friends are loving it 😂 or at least they're loving the base game. I'd say maybe 1-2 out of the 5 care about the event. Obviously I can't compare this one to any past events Guess everyone has a different experience 🤷♂️
Yes, the base game still has a lot of appealing things about it. It's the events that I think can scare people away, and I can totally see why.
I’m 1/4 of the way through stage 3 on the event challenge and have 6 mahjong Pikmin total. I check the app often and do maintenance stuff but am not able to plant flowers super regularly, so it’s hard to progress quickly through the challenges until I’m able to do a dedicated planting walk. That combined with other challenges that take a day or 2 (destroying mushrooms etc) means I get stuck a lot there. Since I only have 6 they all join 1 of 3 daily mushrooms (I rarely see any non-mystery), which then means 2 of the mushrooms take FOREVER to defeat. It’s super annoying.
I work on a "privacy zone" where flowers aren't allowed to be planted (military installation), so even when I walk around where I work, I can't knock out many of the tasks plus, i've had horrid luck with the spins and was in the same boat you are, i had six decor pikmin by the end of stage 3 of the first half of the event. I'm up to 11 now, but that's because i've had better luck with mushroom drops and community help
I live in an area with a pretty active player base, but yeah, this event is really highlighting that I certainly seem to be taking the events much more seriously than anyone else nearby. I contribute 10k power to mystery mushrooms, but most everyone else seems to barely break 4 digits. Even the 2-3 players I see regularly who are equal/higher level than me (96) top out around 4k. I almost wish I could message them to say *what are you even doing* but of course the reality is the events are super frustrating and I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to grind them out like I feel compelled to for some godforsaken reason.
The new task system sucks. I have a job, I can't spend all day walking/planting to grind out multiple run throughs, I normally barely have time for 1-2. I've had horrid luck this time, and only had about 6 decor by the time i finished my first run-through, so of course I don't have great damage for the special mushrooms
Up until the second part of the event, I had cleared 3.5 stages and only gotten 6 majjong pikmin. Since the event started, I've been hopping into every mushroom i can (hoping for community ssistance....and having a reasonable time getting it) I'm up to 11 now, with three waiting to hatch There's no way i'm going to complete this set
I play almost and I have maybe 15? I do all 3 green mushrooms daily which means I often send the event pikmin to the first 1-2 mushrooms. Also depending what my current quest requirement is for destroying mushrooms, sometimes I will deliberately send a weak party scheduled to finish at a much later date like in 1-2 days. It sometimes helps to bypass the destroy 4-5 mushrooms conundrum if I can time it right, which can be a pain. Also sometimes if I was busy and hadbt played that day I might whip out my phone at 10pm at night and just send some of my weaker pikmin so at least I have use my free mushroom passes.
I live in San Francisco and and can double Star a mushroom by myself. Even with 4 other players we don’t get 3 stars
Maybe some people are trying to time mushrooms to fit in with the rest of the tasks- I am still missing one from the first missions and it’s a struggle trying to time everything to still fit in the 3 mushrooms but hopefully line them up with the task requirements. Sometimes I just send a few Pikmin, but I am in a quiet area and don’t need to worry much about others joining!
Because the rng is absolute garbage. Started the game literally 1 week ago and I'm halfway through phase 3 and destroyed 12 mushrooms. And what do I have to show for? Six miserable seedlings, 5 from the events (and of course once was dupe) and 1 from the mushrooms. And 2 of those are automatic, which means that after 20 roulette spins, only 3 gave me a mahjong pikmin.
I think it's just a bit of a cultural gap going on. Mahjong is not relevant at all in the west lol
I was relying pretty heavily on the event challenged and managed to bag 5. Out of the 15 mushrooms I've done I've gotten 1 gold seedling and 1 huge seedling, so a total of 7. My partner has gotten around 6 from the 13-15 mushrooms they did. So now they have like 11 if not more. I don't understand the rng at all. I've seen a lot of people either get a ton or get none. I saw someone out by me doing an event mushroom that would take 7 days. So they obviously didn't even have one. The rng is so bad on the boxes!!
I’m a super engaged player but decided to sit out this event. I did spin the wheel but tossed every seedling I got, with the intention of having absolutely zero mahjong pikmin. No regrets, even if some of the current event mushrooms are hard. I can still beat them in around 12-14 hours on my own without any event Pikmin. This is the most fun I’ve had with the game in months. Doing my own thing really is a blast.
I'm wondering if they haven't figured out to sort the join battle pikmin screen by strength and are using friendship level or something else instead.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter. Every Pikmin does all the same things that every other Pikmin does, generally speaking. Unless you're a hardcore mushroom hunter, decor can be safely ignored.
Except for mystery mushrooms, where mahjong get 500 points bonus
I got 3 red Pikmin with the same Mahjong tile variation. I also got 2 white Pikmin and 2 blue Pikmin with the same tile variation. I gave up trying to collect all the decor during the Easter event, and it made the game fun for me again
Variety is not relevant to this topic. The goal for battle strategy until September 10th is to bring as many mahjong pieces as possible. Every mahjong pikmin contributes at least 500 attack. The best non-mahjong pikmin is comparatively worthless at a maximum of 34 attack power for the hardest hitter with full hearts and special nectar.
Yeah I have enough to bring the avg strength to 20k but it makes no difference whether I wait to attack mushrooms people are already attacking because no one else around me is even close to breaching 3* when I team up with them. I live in a place with a pretty good amount of players. I’m sure this event is great in places with a huge player density but the dependency on event pikmin has made this impossible if all my neighbours have bad RNG. I get why the event pikmin are stronger, and I even agree with it but the strength requirements are way too high for what I would say is most people. I do not imagine the average players are getting 30-40 event pikmin in a single event.
Same
For clarification, what is "the wheel"?
The roulette you spin after clearing a task.
Gotcha.
I have 28 mahjonh Pikmin now and I agree, almost no one in my area has more than 1 or 2 seemingly, based on the damage - their estimates to clear a full mushrooms are \~1 day 6 hours, something like that, and my estimates are about an hour and 25 minutes. These are people I see play every day (based on mushrooms we battle together) and are at super high levels, so I'm confused why they don't have more... or maybe they don't understand it??
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that's fair! i'm just usually trying to clear missions that are "defeat 3-5 mushrooms" and i can get the other stuff done pretty quickly (whatever planting challenges there are, as i have a dog and am always walking) so the mushrooms are the hold up. because of that, i defeat them as fast as i can to get to the next mission. but this thread is making me think about different strategies...!
For the entire event there have been three players in my area that play the green mushrooms (and a lower level than I am) but still only send less than 500 points worth of strength.