The new decoration system might be confusing

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Very happy to see the new content that extends the Pearl’s story arc. However, I am quite confused by the new decoration system. I am not saying it’s bad or inferior to the old quest system, but it feels very disconnected and still lacks guidance.

Thanks the community for checking the code and finding out how the decoration system works. Clearly this is a completely new system, different from the old Pearl task system. Currently, the game’s text does not effectively guide players to realize this. In the task system, there’s a precedent like building a chair to unlock the sawhorse and furniture and the task system originally provided hints through Pearl’s dialogues, so players would naturally fall into a pattern of thought, believing that they need to build/give certain specific items to complete specific quests and unlock corresponding rewards.

Taking my own experience as an example, during my testing yesterday, when I saw Pearl say she wanted more drying racks, I kept building drying racks. I thought that once I built a certain number, Pearl would come over, trigger some dialogue, increase her friendship level, and give me the super drying rack as a reward. However, these did not happen. Then I thought if she needed to harvest from these drying racks. Coincidentally, this beta also updated with more dried food. So, I consecutively dried kelp, various flowers, and fish, but there was still no reaction. At this point, I could only assume I misunderstood the dialogue hints and had gone down the wrong path from the beginning. But I didn't know what else could be related to the hint besides these. I couldn't imagine that what I was doing was basically correct, because this wasn't the task system I was familiar with, but an invisible decoration score. I didn’t even know if what I was doing was right or if I was off track directionally, which is the worst part. I'm very glad this is improved in today's hotfix, but I'm afraid if it is enough when the decoration score are not enough to unlock further interaction with Pearl. After all decoration score is not as obvious as friendship level. 

All in all, I believe that there is a need for more dialogue hints to let players realize this is a new system, they should rebuild Pearl’s Place little by little now. And let players know more clearly what they should do and whether what they do is effective or not.