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Hasn't anyone thought long term? May be the effects of praying may not be visible immediately, but over time, after a certain number of prayers have been done.
A dev posted on the German forum that prayer does have a random effect, but he wouldn't say the effect ... and given other randomness that already exists on jobs it is impossible to figure out what the effect is...
Personally I only pray when doing high danger jobs with less then 10 labor points.
To be completely honest, I have no idea.
I used to pray all the time 1month+ ago, but I do not notice any diffrence now that I have stopped. I still find items, make money, win duels, etc.
I have also heard some say it boosts finding chance on your NEXT job assignment, then drastically lowers it for x period of time. However, I have no idea.
Then there are those whom say it helps winning that difficult duel, finding that low percentage product, boosting general finding rate of items, securing sharp/precise/fancy items in the shops.
I do not have much experience with builders, but out of the buildings I've built thus far (gunsmith from lvl 7 to lvl 8), we ended up with getting a precise weapon, and no prayer done.
I can't say I have noticed anything after I stopped praying, but I could start praying again to see if I can percieve a change.
Honestly though; I belive most of the reports made on what praying does are a false positive derived from our tendency to see patterns where none are.
To sum it up: I honestly have no idea, and I don't think we have any conclusive date either way.
lets face it you may as well ask how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop.