I'm working on a 100% route and was hoping to get some clarification from the community on what should be required for that category. The rules state you must "complete all jobs", which is a bit unclear in practice.
I've identified 3 basic types of "jobs":
- Primary - these show up in your to-do list automatically (scan animals, repair signs, cleanup the island)
- Secondary - these only show up in your to-do list if you start them (ice cream, lost dog, oil spill)
- Unrecorded - these never show up in your to-do list (fix birdhouses, fill bird feeders, cleanup trash cans, open shortcuts)
Obviously primary jobs should be completed for 100%. I could see a case for ignoring secondary jobs, but they also seem fair to include. The unrecorded tasks seem harder to track and maybe make verification trickier.
Curious what others think about this before I finalize a route and start some runs. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
I tend to agree that primary jobs should be sufficient. I personally think the more interesting part of 100% is the wildlife guide completion. The main case I see for secondary jobs is that they are technically "real" quests that tend to result in petition signatures. However they don't really feed into a meaningful completion tracking outside of that.
I'll start by routing primaries only, but if folks feel strongly about it can work in the additional jobs.
Since @JetpackAwaaay seems to be incredibly inactive, I'm pretty much the only moderator, but I don't run 100%, therefore I'm not sure what would be the best fit. I'm kinda leaning on @redmars here to make the best decision. I'm perfectly willing to go with primary jobs only.
It's more important to me that the categories reflect what people want to run. There's sort of 2 different runs here, and we're really just deciding what the current 100% label means. I'm personally more interested in the "All Wildlife" version (primary only), but if anyone wants to run the "All Jobs" version (primary & secondary?), then we should absolutely have room for both. Alba is a small board, so we shouldn't need to overthink it too much.
Either way, I think the category rules should be updated to clarify what is expected. Here are my suggestions for those additions, but feel free to edit if they're not clear.
"All Wildlife" should have something like:
- must complete the wildlife guide.
- must complete all assigned to-do list tasks.
"All Jobs" would have something like:
- must complete the wildlife guide.
- must complete all possible to-do list tasks including side jobs.
If we're okay with the "All Wildlife" version of 100% for now, we can start there, and we always have the option to spin off a category later if there's demand for the "All Jobs" version.
