Lutefisk God broken?

Ok. No idea now if it's a bug or i'm REALLY unlucky.

As far i played, i need from 50 to 100 lutefisk to get an item.

With the 1.05 patch i've placed more than 200 lutefisk on them and it still doesn't give me anything :v

 

I'm wondering if it's merely a change in the lutefisk formula, or is it a bug, because I've donated over 100 so far (in the previous version, that just about guaranteed an artifact). They did change how the lutefisk cube operates so that stacks are converted one for one, so I'm wondering if this is just part of the documented 'lutefisk balancing'.

 

Ok, I just got an artifact after handing in only a few more lutefisk -- so it looks to me like this is not a bug, just a change in the formula. 100 or so used to be the 'optimal' number of lutefisk to turn in -- I'm wondering what it is now.

 

Yeah i was wondering the same. With 223 lutefisk i got a wooden sword with only a +1fire damage.

After that with 18 i got a decent ring with +1melee and +1Trap Radius Sight.

Now i'm again at 120+ and it still doesn't give me anything :V

 

i would rather throw 500 softballs and cheap copper bolts into that cube at once then 100 of them individually.

 

Ah. :V

Thanks for the clarification

 

I'm sure the nutritional value of one (1) unit of lutefisk is only marginally superior to that of one (1) softball.

 

That sounds like a good middle ground to me Nicholas. I was a stack splitter, and after like floor 3 or 4 I'd have 10 stacks of 50 lutefisk a piece to throw at shrines, so I almost never picked up anything off the floor past those levels, unless it was an artifact to mess with.

 

That all makes sense -- I figured it was something like that. I was someone who only occasionally split stacks (usually I just lived with the division). I was more likely to split the lutefisk into stacks of 100. I don't yet have an opinion about what the 'right' number is, but I'm sure I'll have a better feel for it after a few games.

 

I would say with this system about 10-20% of my lutefisk comes from unstackable items. Maybe about 200-300 lutefisk per floor if I am aggressive about dropping bolts in there. You pretty much have to drop all ranged item stacks in there to get those numbers though.

 

Yes, I know, warskull, which makes this kind of silly.

Is it just me, or does this seem like overkill?
500 lutefisk for an item that's rarely that useful?
I don't know, I'd prefer it if it was dropped to 200, and given better powers.

 

It seems like the easiest solution to the lutefisk problem would be to have the number of 'fisk received be determined by the purchase or sell price of the object or stack of objects placed in the cube. Items or stacks that don't meet a minimum value could be rejected. Cheap items would give only one 'fisk while more expensive items, such as artifacts, would give several.

 

Lol I never touched lutefisk anymore since the patch. I still kept the box though for a convenient garbage can.

And since I beaten the game twice already after 1.05 official release, you know the Lutefisk God have gotten many hours of neglect. Then again, I haven't done a single Inconsequencia Quest either.

 

Nicholas, as there are now 500 lutefisk needed for the maximum chance, I assume the item enchantments available have also scaled relatively? So instead of getting +1 enchantment for every 25 lutefisk, its now one for every 125 lutefisk?

 

I popped 500 in yesterday and I got a good item out. Unfortunately, it was a spear, and I'm using swords. *shrug*

 

Stop whining, people

 

I kind of agree though... it's about 300 Lutefisk on average to get something. I was a vampire and throwing all my food in the Cube and I think I got 2 Lutefisk God rewards in an entire playthrough. There was absolutely no way I was every going to "break" every statue I came across, there's not enough Lutefisk to go around. Personally I'd say somewhere between where it was in 1.0.3 and now would be fair - say 1:250 or 1:300 instead of 1:100 and 1:500?

 

This needs a mean solution. 300 lutefisks I say.