pecelot wrote:Diarouga wrote:pecelot wrote:You can lose some VS, I'd just honestly do a small circle with my explorer around my base on GP.
I know, and that's why I say that it's a common mistake even I did for a long time.
Why is it a mistake then? It's not like on Tibet where every single second matters in terms of the treasures, on GP it's quite random, hence IMO you should search for little coin treasures near your base in case of a market start to save VS and after that go further into the unknown!
Because it actually takes a long time to pick up these small treasures in your base, especially since they often spawn on opposite sides of your base or directly behind it. You can waste like 30-40 seconds walking around your base and picking these up, whereas if you had just clicked directly into the unknown (like middle of the map for example), you're very likely to run into something like 90f or the like on the way there. That being said, if it happens to spawn in the front part of your base, where you want to go anyway, you might as well pick it up with your explorer.
Your coin treasures aren't very likely to be stolen anyway unless you delay them too long.
But you don't really lose many vill seconds to pick them up with vills, especially since at least one of them frequently spawns inbetween you and your 2nd hunt, and you want to go in that direction to herd anyway. Sometimes if they're too far you might mine coin instead (especially if it's only a 10c or 20c one, like on Baja California—I think that was the map) and wait until later to pick them up.
In general though, the extra time you get to find better treasures or contest your opponent's treasures is worth more than 70c - 90c you might pick up inside your base.