A comparison between Woby's “retrieve” and Wormwood's carrot mouse: Perhaps the “dig” effect should be compensated to the carrot mouse./Woby的“retrieve”与沃姆伍德的胡萝卜鼠对比，也许应该把“dig”效果补偿给胡萝卜鼠

[Catapult 2.0]

  Woby's "retrieve" significantly outperforms Wormwood's carrat in every aspect. It now seems that the carrat is constrained by its older version (Wormwood was even redone before W.O.B.O.T was introduced), and its utility is increasingly falling behind similar skills of other characters.

Comparison between Woby's "Retrieve" and Wormwood's Carrat

Skill Unlocking Method:

• Carrat:1.Requires Wormwood to unlock six points on the left branch before it can be learned.
                  2.It is a faction skill that requires defeating the Celestial Champion.
• Retrieve:Can be learned directly without any prerequisites.

Usage Cost:

• Carrat:Consumes 5 points of Wormwood's HP and one carrot
• Retrieve:No cost at all.

Usage Duration:

• Carrat:Can be used for 3 days.
• Retrieve:Unlimited duration.

Item Pickup Category:

• Carrat:Only picks up food items.
• Retrieve:Can pick up any non-equipped items, including food.

Storage:

• Carrat:Items are stored in Wormwood's inventory.
• Retrieve:tems are stored in Woby's own inventory.

Pickup Speed:

• Carrat:Movement speed is 7, but since Carrat has only one inventory slot, it needs to constantly return to Wormwood.
• Retrieve:Woby's movement speed is 6, with 9 inventory slots, allowing it to continuously pick up different items.

Controllability:

• Carrat:Uncontrollable; it will pick up all food items in the vicinity and give them to Wormwood. To stop it, you have to kill it.
• Retrieve:Can be controlled to start and stop at will, as long as Woby is not in combat or in the Big Woby state.

Stability:

• Carrat:Has only 25 HP, does not avoid danger, and is almost certain to die in major battles.
• Retrieve:Woby cannot take any damage.

Maximum Quantity:

• Carrat:Up to 4 can be summoned. This might be the only advantage Carrat has over Woby in large-scale farm harvesting, but the advent of two types of harvesting robots has diminished this value.
• Retrieve:Only 1 can be used.

Practical Survival Experience:

• Carrat:Carrat is only useful at the beginning of the game for collecting seeds and after large crops are smashed in the farm. At other times, Carrat is not only extremely prone to death but also tends to pick up unwanted items (such as rotten items, Grommle Slime, and Pig Skin) and give them to Wormwood. Additionally, the unlocking conditions for Carrat are quite cumbersome, making the cost-to-benefit ratio relatively low.
• Retrieve:In addition to doing everything Carrat can do, Retrieve can also pick up loot from ranged attacks, Despair Bullets, and grass and branches cut down by the Scythe.

Compensation Proposal:

    Since a faction skill of one character is completely overshadowed by a regular skill of another character, shouldn't we compensate the former? Many ideas have been discarded in the current test server updates. We could add Woby's previous "dig" ability to Carrat to make better use of it.

• Each Carrat could "dig" once every 10 minutes, for a total of two times over three days.
• The items that can be "dug" should be revised to focus mainly on various crop seeds, with additional items like bananas, empty bottles, rotten items, mushrooms, and other items closely related to Wormwood. After opening rifts, it could dig up basic materials from the rift.
• This way, summoning multiple Carrats and keeping Carrats around would make more sense.

 

PS: In the "Year of the Carrat" content, there are many animations that could be applied here, such as using this animation as the action after a successful "dig".

Further Optimization:Carrat could place picked-up items into containers near Wormwood that already contain similar items.

 

 

 

   Woby的“retrieve”在各个方面都远超沃姆伍德的carrat，现在看来，carrat受到老版本的制约（沃姆伍德重做时甚至还没有出现W.O.B.O.T）作用越来越不如其他角色的同类型的技能了。

对比：

技能点解锁方式：

卡拉特： 1.需要沃姆伍德解锁左边分支六个仅能点，才可以学习

2.阵营技能，需要击败天体冠军

Retrieve：直接就可以学习

使用代价：

Carrat：消耗5点沃姆伍德的HP，和一个胡萝卜

Retrieve：无任何代价

使用时间：

Carrat：3天

检索：无限

拾取物品类别：

Carrat：只有食物

Retrieve：任何非装备类物品（包括食物）

储存对象：

Carrat：沃姆伍德的库存

检索：woby自己的库存

拾取速度：

Carrat：移动速度为7，但由于carrat本身只有一个库存，需要不断回到沃姆伍德身边

Retrieve：woby移动速度为6，有9个库存，可以连续拾取不同的物品

可控性：

Carrat：不可控，会将附近地上所有食物都捡给沃姆伍德，要想让它停止只能杀死它。

Retrieve：woby只要不处于战斗或大沃比状态，可以随意控制开始和停止

稳定性：

Carrat：只有25HP，不会躲避危险，遭遇大的战斗几乎必死无疑

Retrieve：woby不会受到仍和伤害

最大数量：

Carrat：4只，对于大规模农田的拾取可能是carrat在与woby的较量中唯一优势了，但两种拾取机器人的出现已经让这项工作也不那么有价值了

Retrieve：1只

实际生存体验：

    Carrat能在游戏中起作用的时期就只在游戏开局时收集一些种子和在农田里巨大作物被砸开后的收集。其他时候carrat不仅极容易死亡，而且还会不断把不应该捡的东西（例如腐烂物，格罗姆黏液，猪皮）塞到沃姆伍德身上。除此之外，carrat的解锁条件还比较坎坷，这个付出和收入比是比较低的。

   反观woby，除了可以做到carrat能做到的所有事之外，还能为沃尔特拾取远程攻击打下的战利品，绝望子弹，镰刀砍下的草树枝等。

 

补偿方案：

  一个角色的阵营技能点被另一个角色的普通技能点完全碾压，我们是不是应该对前者做出一些补偿。而本次测试服在不断变更中产生了很多废案，我们可以把woby之前的“dig”添加到carrat中来重新利用。

•   每只carrat每隔10分钟，会“dig”一次，也就是三天时间一共可以进行两次。
•   所能“dig”的物品重新进行修改，以各种作物的种子为主，再添加一些香蕉，空瓶子，腐烂物，蘑菇等和沃姆伍德息息相关的物品。开启裂隙后能挖出裂隙后的基础材料。
•   这样一来，召唤多只carrat和日常留着carrat再身边才更有意义。

  PS：Year of the carrat里有大量的动作可以应用进来，例如可以用这个动作作为“dig”成功后的动作。

更多的优化：carrat拾取物品后放到沃姆伍德附近有同类型物品的容器内。