Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

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Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby jtag » Tue Sep 16, 2025 4:31 am

TLDR: I believe the Lost and Found cooldown should be reduced from 3 hours to 1 hour.

I've noticed the Lost and Found remains open for extended periods of time, sometimes still being open when my cooldown is over.
After being open for a bit, all the good items are gone. Everything left is either free items everyone has, or tiny items like a piece of coal or an almond. When I first came back to CS I would sometimes click off of the L&F without getting anything when all of the "crumbs" were left, but now I find myself still picking up these items as they don't hurt in any capacity. If anything, picking them up helps as the L&F closes sooner and gives the opportunity for the Pound to open again.

Reducing the cooldown will allow people to pick up another harmless item and allow the L&F to close sooner. I think an hour is a reasonable cooldown period as after this time most of the more desirable items have been taken.
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby lyney » Tue Sep 16, 2025 4:36 am

support! the amount of times i've gotten something from the lost and found and came back hours later for it to still be open is crazy. i always grab the tiny item crumbs when i get the chance to get it to close faster, but i know others may just not grab anything at all- causing it to stay open longer. this is a good work-around.
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby =Kitty= » Tue Sep 16, 2025 4:39 am

Support, but maybe an hour and a half! Sometimes I can't grab items in time due to classes or being busy, so having that Xtra thirty minutes would be lenient with class times.
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Sheelah » Tue Sep 16, 2025 4:51 am

jtag wrote:TLDR: I believe the Lost and Found cooldown should be reduced from 3 hours to 1 hour.

I've noticed the Lost and Found remains open for extended periods of time, sometimes still being open when my cooldown is over.
After being open for a bit, all the good items are gone. Everything left is either free items everyone has, or tiny items like a piece of coal or an almond. When I first came back to CS I would sometimes click off of the L&F without getting anything when all of the "crumbs" were left, but now I find myself still picking up these items as they don't hurt in any capacity. If anything, picking them up helps as the L&F closes sooner and gives the opportunity for the Pound to open again.

Reducing the cooldown will allow people to pick up another harmless item and allow the L&F to close sooner. I think an hour is a reasonable cooldown period as after this time most of the more desirable items have been taken.
L& F staying open so long, theres a lot of crumbs in there. I suspect, a lot of people are looking for the more valuable items to auction off and when they don't see them, just leave. So the items just remain there unwanted. People who actually want items can't get them due to the timer. So reducing it down would definitely help. Although, I don't think staff would support an hour timer, more likely a two hour timer.
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Darni » Tue Sep 16, 2025 6:28 am

No support

My reason for not supporting this is that there is already a diminishing amount of pets/items in the Pound/LAF and when you could see the number of pets/items the pound/LAF had it was going down at a very scary rate. People do not donate to Pound/LAF enough to make this change.

If there was more incentive for people to donate or like a higher rate normally at which people donated items I would change this to support. If you guys can add a way to make more people donate to these things I would genuinely support this 1000% since I know the amount of people wanting items to use is definitely out there. :3
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Pallastronomy » Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:48 pm

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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Felicity<3 » Fri Oct 03, 2025 3:44 pm

support :3
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby CHINARIZING » Sat Oct 04, 2025 1:25 pm

Support! I love getting items, and the 3-hour cooldown is frustrating for the L&F and useless for the Pound. The shorter cooldown would at least make it workable for the L&F. I think anything between 1-2 hours is perfect, so 1.5 hour cooldown would be my bet.
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Lions! » Sun Oct 05, 2025 9:29 am

Support
But sadly it seems like CS barely takes into consideration peoples suggestions like these no matter how popular they get
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Re: Reduce Lost and Found Cooldown

Postby Felicity<3 » Mon Oct 06, 2025 1:03 am

Lions! wrote:Support
But sadly it seems like CS barely takes into consideration peoples suggestions like these no matter how popular they get


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