Topic
Butterfly Milking
The text when a butterfly is milked is ridiculously long. The petting, nibbling, squeezing, and massaging texts are all one or two lines long. The milking text (along with the "vile to hold said essence" thing) is four or five lines long. Could something be done to shorten it?
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- I agree. I mean I want to read it but it closes before I can finish reading it.
- I have an ever bigger problem reliably clicking on the butterfly. Slippery little fellas!
- @Jabberwocky - If you're standing near/underneath the butterfly and you jump and then tap the Enter key, you get the "interaction box" and can pick the interaction you want.
- @charliepark - Thanks, will give that a try next test. Sounds a LOT better than the frantic clicking method I've been doing.
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The jumping rarely works for me. This is the most frustrating thing in the game, followed shortly after by gardening which I know is still being worked on.
I say we check the Sear's Catalog and order glitch some shiny Butterfly nets! -
jump + enter/return
works well, really. -
I wouldn't say it works *well*, but it works somewhat more easily than trying to click on one.
This difficulty interacting with butterflies is my biggest frustration in the game.
And until someone tells a new player to try jumping at just the right time from just the right height and hitting enter and using the keyboard after that, many (most?) will be similarly frustrated. We all come from different experience backgrounds, and mine is "click on things to interact", not "find a way to use the keyboard": the notion that hitting enter gives you a menu of things within your field of interaction from which to choose one is not intuitive to many of us. (And even after learning the "jump from just the right place and click enter at just the right time" trick, it took me a while to learn to use the arrow keys within that menu to select an action, I was still trying to click on the desired action and the menu flew all over the place along with the butterfly, so I kept missing and having to redo it.) Maybe there need to be more explicit hints about not bothering to try to click on anything about a butterfly when interacting with one.
+1 to the butterfly nets idea -
jumping and running and hitting enter do not work reliably for me. My best experiences are finding rocks or ledges to get me up closer to where the butterflies fly, and click on them. but still, they are fast and all I have is a trackpad. And then, even when i do get a chance to massage, the flighty things swan off before I can milk them!
pigs move much slower, and don't move a whole screen away from you, generally. -
i think glitch is moving to the point where no manual dexterity is needed to play .. which is a little sad because i really enjoy the platforming and the sense of kinetic freedom platforming brings, even if you do need to practice some of the techniques before you get the hang of them.
.. but this is all probably worth it because it'll make the game more accessible to more people. that is a lot more important than jumping around, which can create crazy client performance problems, at least for me.
maybe there's room for a branch of the skill tree that is some kind of "platforming specialist" for that aspect of the game, instead of trying to cram it into animal kinship. - i figured out myself, eventually, that hitting 'enter' works better than trying to click so I guess newbs will figure it out eventually. For me it *was* easier.
- If a map has a ledge or hill, the butterflies will tend to go higher up. They don't go out screen of the highest point on the map, but sometimes that high area is very small or on the wrong end of the map from where you are. Not sure what my point is here, but there are solutions to that problem. (maybe having the ceiling for butterflies be "horizon-al" instead of "horizontal" (hopefully you understand what I mean))
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What also might be useful would be a skill to make them easier to catch/make them hold still while you're working with them. Or at least a badge--like Butterfly Whispering translates the gibberish into English...maybe a later badge makes them easier to catch.
Meanwhile I can't WAIT to finish Remote Herdkeeping so I can leave butterfly milkers in my back yard and not have to deal with it anymore! - I wait for butterflies to fly low so I don't have to do split second timing. If they are all high, I go to the next street. If it wasn't for inventory, I'd hardly ever use the mouse in actual playing.
- I'd be curious whether there's a correlation between users on a certain platform / setup and users who are finding certain UI aspects difficult. For example, I'm on a MacBook, and I find the proximity of the trackpad to the keyboard means that it's relatively easy for me to switch from walking / jumping / selecting verbs (pure keyboard) to inventory access / use (trackpad). I wonder if people who are having trouble are those using computer mice moreso than the keyboard controls.
- You know, really now, the butterflies in Marrakesh Meadow should be flying really low, because there are so many flowers there. Just sayin'.
- @CharliePark I'm on a MacBook Pro and I still have trouble with the trackpad and butterflies. The enter trick usually works for me (if only I'd thought of it before Saturday *headdesk*).