Point of the desert obelisk

[Worblehat]

I think I have to challenge for the title.

We've seen your farm. You may have moments of laziness, but you're definitely not a Lazy Farmer!

 

[imnvs]

We've seen your farm. You may have moments of laziness, but you're definitely not a Lazy Farmer!

All three of my barns/coops have auto-grabbers and auto-petters. I really only have to work 3 days a week to harvest and process everything (and I'm still done by 6pm on these "working days"), 4 days if the week is the 3rd week of Summer or Winter (that's when my cellar comes up on Saturday). The rest of the days I'm done with all my chores by 11 am and have 2/3 of the day to goof off! I may not look lazy, but that's because I work some days so I can be lazy on others.

 

[Lew Zealand]

All three of my barns/coops have auto-grabbers and auto-petters. I really only have to work 3 days a week to harvest and process everything (and I'm still done by 6pm on these "working days"), 4 days if the week is the 3rd week of Summer or Winter (that's when my cellar comes up on Saturday). The rest of the days I'm done with all my chores by 11 am and have 2/3 of the day to goof off! I may not look lazy, but that's because I work some days so I can be lazy on others.

Lazy and Efficiency have an unusual relationship that some do not comprehend.

I recently had a look at Lazy's Facebook page and when looking at their status wrt Efficiency, this came up:

There's the whole philosophical argument of basal Laziness where any effort above the bare minimum to draw breath and maybe wick moisture from the air to replenish your bodily water is considered to be an affront to the laws of Entropy, and therefore antithetical to the smooth distribution of energy throughout the universe. Pro tip: those in the know see Gravity as the ultimate evil as it causes ostentatious concentrations and expenditures of energy by self-assembling things such as Stars, Planets, and Pop-Tarts. But Gravity does these things without any effort of its own. God and the Devil in equal parts. Clever girl!

But there are definite Laziness benefits to be accrued by first committing to a basal level of Efficiency as slight increases of this initial effort can be rewarded by significant decreases in effort later on. Getting 2M g for the Return Sceptre, 0.5 to 1M g for the Obelisks, 25K g for Auto-Grabbers, and finding those Auto-Petters* are worth the effort expenditure so tending the later Farm is an exercise in slumber management. However having more than 1 Coop and Barn each is something that everyone will need to assess as that extra effort may not be returning enough g or resources to warrant the Energy and Time loss. I can understand it if you like to do Skull Cavern or Volcano Dungeon runs, as you'll need a lot of Iridium Cheese if that's what you use for Energy.

But really. My friends... Those sound like effort. I'm sweating just thinking about it.





* Sit right back and listen here to a tale of woe and misfortune. On my first serious Skull Cavern run I (probably) had enough resources to reach Level 100 and found a lot of shiny things on the way down (Prismatics, Iridium Ore, Gems, etc.) but most importantly an Auto-Petter! Now a true Lazy person would have aborted the run right there as the rightful purpose for the Skull Cavern run had been achieved: Step 11 in The Lauded and Least Effortful Quest for More Laziness was completed and really Level 100 is only for sweaty Try-Hards. But I was playing late at night and apparently with a localized IQ drop to room temperature in Celsius (from it's usual Kelvin level), I kept going.

Wrap your head around that. I kept expending effort Bombing and Staircasing instead of lounging next to my very own Auto-Petter. And you know where this is going. I got walloped by those stupid Serpents or whatever and got my rear end handed to me, woke up later and you *know* what went missing. Mr Qi wandered in and reacquired the Auto-Petter and the Prismatics for good measure. Needless to say, I did not save that day and stopped playing for a few days. And when I finally got a face-to-face with him, the slippery bugger denied everything and tried to make it up to me with some questionable Snake Milk. Which increased my Health.

Not my Energy.

Bogus.

 

[Cuusardo]

I am a fan of the obelisks, because I love teleporting around the world at my leisure. It gives me more time to get things done during the day. They're also pretty cool extra big ass decorations for my farm.

Warp totems are also good for teleporting around and can be used anywhere (unlike obelisks, which are technically buildings), but they're single use items and you have to make more of them.

 

[CryogenCrystals]

Yeah that is true about the decorqtion impact too, I saw a picture of a farm recently with the obelisks placed strategically to compliment the colors of their other farm design elements... It was pretty neat what they did with it.
Oh, and someone did rainbow museum artifact arrangement for Pride, that was pretty cool too.