Explore charges were implemented because apparently there was a bot problem- and yes it's all fine and well that we no longer have to deal with that, but there are new problems now:

People like exploring, playing the game, trying to get wild wolves- people, who never even dreamed of using some sort of autoclicker to do it for them. Maybe they have hours that they'd love to spend hunting down crocodiles in Murkwood, or salt in Goldsea, or they just loved how it felt to click through the campaign for hours on end. It was easy, yet rewarding, and if you got bored you could turn on some music or an audiobook or a movie in the background. You... can't exactly do that anymore.

If you have 75 charges, and you use them all up, you have to wait 37.5 minutes before they're full again. That is over half an hour per 82ish explores (assuming you spend about 2.5 extra minutes waiting for the device to load or whatever), which is... a lot. I don't think anyone wants to wait that long.
I'm not saying explore charges should be removed alltogether, they can definitely help fight illegal bots, but they are a bit obnoxious right now...
Hence my suggestion: If the number of explore charges was even just doubled, or the amount of time it takes to recharge one lowered, that would make campaigning a whole lot more fun and less infuriating for everyone.

If there is a SINGLE WOLF in all of Loria who would say no to more explore charges and has a half decent reason for it, I'll give everyone on this forum a rockbreaker ox

Thank you!

Haha, this post makes me feel old. 30 minutes is barely any time to wait for charges to refill, and I've never come close to hitting the limit of explore charges as a real live dude "grinding" the campaign, even during the Holidays. I still end the Holidays with 10k+ more tickets than I had prior to the beginning of it, even after any redundant purchases. When it's not a holiday, I barely dent the explore charges at all during normal gameplay and I'm still sitting on hundreds of KBTs that I don't even care to use.

What do you grind so hard for that you run out of charges before they refill?-- not asking redundantly to be passive aggressive, it would genuinely help JJ understand where the pinch point is if he actually reads this thread. If it's because of some kind of Holiday rush, would expanding bonus charges during the Holidays suffice? Or, I could see speeding up the recovery of explore charges by playing holiday arena rounds, since that would at least encourage/reward players to interact with the site and synergize well with the extra Holiday activities we get cycling between campaign and arena.

I'm not strictly against the idea of expanding charges, but I think speeding up their recovery through something else players can do might be smarter from a game design PoV than just throwing extra charges at the "problem", something that bots can take advantage of easier than a more complex synergized system that rewards you for interacting with multiple parts of the site.

With how easy vibe-coded garbage is to produce nowadays, I'm not of the opinion that any system can realistically thwart botting 100%, so ensuring it's not much more valuable to do compared to just playing the game normally is about the best anyone can do I fear. :S It sucks.