How do MS shards work? While it's possible to receive up to 25 shards a day, it doesn't seem like there is a lot of information on how they function. I noticed that I was going "dry" for shards after rollover every day, and when I brought it up another user mentioned their theory that MS shards roll over on a 24 hour timer since the last time you received "that" shard.

I tested this idea a bit yesterday and ALSO found that if you drop a MS shard from your mine cart, it seems to count as one of your 25 shards anyway! I dropped 10+ shards from my mine cart to test if I could get them to drop in fishing instead, and I only ended up with 12 shards gained yesterday.

Does this mean that if you lose a Gauntlet attempt with shards in your rewards, it counts against your daily limit, too?

If we are fishing and miss a ripple that would be a shard, does that count against the limit?

Clarification would be great! Otherwise, I would like to suggest an overhaul of the shard system -- please let the opportunity to nab all 25 shards happen at rollover. Maybe make them less common as drops, but at least give us the chance to start earning them at midnight.

Either get rid of the limit or at least double it but make shards a little less likely to get. Barely anyone buys ms anyway, the amount you can buy is a pittance for an awful expense.

These are all very good points that have been brought up; some of these theories aren't even things I would have considered as a possibility until now.

@Gaia

Oh lord, I started to pay better attention to it now and I fear your theory is right. I woke up early (4am) rather than my usual 6am. Played Lorwolf, didn't get a single moonstone! Probably because that exact 24 hour timer wasn't up yet. What a horrible system! Imagine if I had woken up deliberately do play in the early morning, to get some moonstones knowing I couldn't play the rest of the day, Only for me to end up tired and still with 0 moonstones.

The system needs to be heavily improved but at the very least in the short run we need more information on how it works. To help us avoid chasing something that we simply can't get and thus wasting our time

I feel like the limit for shards is only causing a bigger hassle for people. The limit causes us to lose shards we can't get back through dropping ores, simply keeping shard ores in your minecart, lost gauntlet rewards, and now this timing thing. Even just having the information out there about what constitutes a "collected" shard for the daily limit would make this a lot better. Does me filling my cart with 25 ms ores and leaving that forever mean I can never collect any new shards? Does an uncollected smelted ms shard still count past rollover, even if you haven't collected it yet? What're the limits? Why can't we know? No limit would mean people wouldn't have to stress over what exactly constitutes a shard because moonstones are so limited and have SO many uses that missing out on even a few daily shards puts you back quite a bit.

I am a frequent player, and I still don't max out my shards every day. I really don't think it would cause the collapse of the economy to allow more shards to be gathered than the current limit. It's not like everyone is going to be farming 10 moonstones a day, if anyone will grind past the 25 it'll be those who already spend several hours on here every day and honestly deserve it.