@DerpFox you don't get the shards if you don't vote though. I've missed a few votes before and haven't been able to get the shards from them

You do make a good point about grinders vs casual players though. And maybe Bone Copy is right, grinders shouldn't get a say in this. I personally am not in favour of the suggestion but I'm able to grind a bit, so I can understand why some people are in favour of it.

I feel like I am a sporadic grinder (I managed to complete the event pass), but I too am struggling with moonstones. The vast majority of my current stash is from achievements. I have 400MS and I'm saving up to get a Vespen.

My main complaint is that by now there is no way for the casual/newer player to make MS on the flea market. By this time there should be enough MS around to start to stabilize the economy, but there's no reliable way to get them even through the flea market.

In FR, a new player can grind for stuff and improve their cauldron and sell mats/items and gain gems that way. Here I struggle to keep up with my own demand for Bone Paste (wheels, picks, and MS) and Bone Paste on the flea market is dirt cheap. I have no time or mats to make anything else in the craft shop that might sell for more, and from my experience there isn't a demand for them. I got excited with the achievement silk things, but those are ALL apparently soulbound so you can't sell them.

The cooking system badly needs a revamp; it's not worth my time and effort to cook higher quality food, and a full stack of lower quality food sells for dirt cheap on the flea market.

Basically all the MS are going to float around between those who buy them and those who make custom apparel, and those of us who can't do either are stuck. There is no market for wolves, and leveling takes too long for "exalting" to be a money maker, so basically all the ways I make money on FR don't work here.

I think the Icerun event was a step in the right direction; I may be able to make some MS off those apparel items eventually. But so far I'm still pretty discouraged that even though I work hard, the MS/pebble ratio keeps going up and my dreams of a Vespen keep getting farther away, to say nothing of getting the rest of the KS companions.

@DerpFox you don't get the shards if you don't vote though. I've missed a few votes before and haven't been able to get the shards from them

Sorry, I badly expressed myself there. What I meant is they click on the vote button but don't do it to actually vote for a wolf, but just to get the shards.

no support for this. I find it easy to get shards and moonstones regularly.

Hi, somewhat new player here,

I'm still doing my achievements so maybe my mind will change when I'm done with that, but even without the achievements and without beeing all day on the game, I was able to get a lot of moonstones already. Maybe not enough to buy anything and everything in the game, but I have all the species of wolves for example, just needed to breed and count on luck, no need to pay moonstones for them, and i could buy some pretty attire.

I'm like a two week old player (kinda) and I wouldn't mind some other ways to get moonstones, but I'm somewhere in the middle at the end of the day, via achievements I've gotten a total of 70, and considering I can keep things in check through the day I've also been able to gather moonstone shards, although the ones I managed to craft are somewhere between 5 and 10 (Probably a little more but I don't remember exactly how many at this point)

I understand where the casual players or F2P players are coming from, there are players who can't keep everything in check throughout the day making the moonstone shard farming a hassle, or people who aren't able to log in at all (Myself included lol, I've missed a couple o' days there on the pageant vote due to the difference in time zones - to which I'm getting used to - skill issue XD) which only leaves 2 moonstones to be collected via moonstone shards and the ones through the pageant vote... plus, selling stuff on the flea market is not really convenient for new players and players who can't essentially complete activities and such, I was surprised an entire stack of guppies/fish/any other food was only 1 moonstone considering how much time you need/turns you need to amass such a quantity of resources, and at early game is kinda impossible - but hey, back on track, you can always exchange pebbles from the daily activities for moonstones over there, since, as many mentioned, you get quite a lot of pebbles from completing the day to day activities (or vice versa, depending on what you need, it'll only take some time...)

In conclusion, it wouldn't be bad idea in my eyes if there was another way of getting at least an entire moonstone (1), but it also wouldn't hurt If it does not happen, essentially it would only hurt those who don't have the time to stroll around the site at all, and that's what I'm trying to get at.