Zyeir
I still think that leveling without cats for your first master is unreasonable. .. Bottom line is that any guild wanting to retain casual players needs a supply of cats.
I agree that first master especially in crafting is tiresome without cats. Yet the solution cannot be flooding the outposts again with. A guild serious about cat supply may organize catalyst crafting which is ways easier for a group of players than for an individual. With low effort a guild of 4-8 players may easily achieve the production level of one or two 250 outposts, of which a total of 8 is in the game.
So again: ppl are complaining about too few cats, why? For q50-100, touring the camps comes in handy (beyond it is not good due to the 2^(n-1) progression). For q200, npc marauders are a fair additional source of which I underestimated the frequency. For all the rest, op & crystal crafting do suffice.
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