Sad temple makes sad noises

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Could have been worse. But I will wait a day or two until the "no locks" fluke goes away.

I think you're onto something. Lately I'm getting a lot more random room cards now, especially from spymasters, and random locks from other rooms. It's like they made locks less common from spymasters, gave it a higher chance to spawn from other rooms, and boosted spawn rates of all room cards everywhere.

This could be superstition but I feel it works so if you are desperate try this: in spymaster rooms make sure the spymaster is the last mob you kill.

Medallions drop when you get “room completed” and it feels to me like if you get that room completion from killing the spymaster it has a higher chance of dropping a lock.

Source: none at all but I have a completed temple and have run many many times. Every time I add a leecher to my temple I get way fewer locks and I attribute that to the fact I just want to clear fast because I don’t want to keep them waiting and that’s causing me not to save the spymaster for last.

Rip. Have u tried a short atziri farming temple?

I am at the same position in the temple like yours. Anytime I get to a corner I stop getting locks. My advice, add some feeder rooms every chance you get until the chain one is complete. It saved me from loosing days of efforts multiple times already. You can add random garrisons and alchemy labs on your main chain too. Sometimes I get 5 locks in a run; other times it’s absolutely nothing

Imo you are onto something. Like my past 25 temples have been eternal struggle for locks but today I've hit twice the situation where I was left out of locks.

What's more Spymasters indeed have stopped dropping medalions. I was saved couple times by Alchemy Lab/Garrison but Spymasters literally have not been dropping locks or have been heavily leaning towards rooms.

I would have understood if it was 5-6 temples but this is a pattern from over 40 temples. I cannot simply anymore aggregate locks in large temple. Even if I get lucky run with 3+4 locks it's almost immediately eaten by a run with 0 or 1 locks. 1 lock runs are which have been so far a rare occurrence became a one every 4 temples. This is disgusting...

This is really weird, but 4 days ago, I had a full two days where I would only be getting 1-2 locks, I was on the edge of having my second snake destabilise constantly (have a 77 room maxed fubgun temple). Someone made a post like this 4 days ago, many people agreed. On the 21st, locks started dropping like crazy, I had 6+ locks all the time, come the 23rd and late night on 22nd I was getting barely any locks again… maybe it’s a rotational 2 day curse lol

It took me 77 hours to build my full temple (got super lucky). I’ve had it for about a month and there is never consistency which would be labelled RNG of course, though the varying nature and peaks and troughs of either an abundance of locks dropping for days versus a small amount of locks dropping for days is too consistent. It is either I’m dropping 2+ locks per run of a day or two OR I’m dropping 1-2 or even 0 for a day or two… RNG is not meant to have a consistent pattern.

You’re not alone. They definitely nerfed it. I hate this shadow nerfs without communications. I’ve spent so much time building my temple slowly and now the entire second chain is gone. The main chain is also slowly dying. I absolutely hate GGG for doing this.

Idk if it's true or not, just something I tested briefly, but when I have two rooms locked then I usually only see 0-2 locks drop. When I have one room locked I usually see 3+ usually, RARELY 2. I don't know if it has something to do with that now, but I have had better luck only locking my main chain and then picking up locks, doing the 2nd one, and then going back in for 1 more that dropped. Even let me upgrade a ton of my room tiers and still have full locks.

I have been building for about a month slowly and finished the first chain yesterday though. But doing the golems parts with 2-3 locks I was STARVING and nothing was dropping, had to redo a few times due to destabilization. After I finished that and was back to only needing to 1 lock I was flooded with them. Older videos always talk about lock abundance, but when I'm 2 locking I am starving constantly so I feel like something changed unless people of the past were just luckier somehow? There are so many posts of people having lock troubles the past week.

I have 6 spare locks but no rooms to continue