Spent a few weeks actually grinding in Pixels and the effort-to-output curve isn’t as linear as it looks on the surface. Early on, I was putting in ~2–3 hours daily and rewards felt decent, but somewhere past that, the returns flattened hard. At one point I tracked a full week — ~18 hours total playtime — and my rewards only improved by maybe 12–15% compared to the previous week where I played less.
What changed wasn’t my effort, it was how the system started pricing my behavior. Repetition gets noticed. The more predictable your loop becomes, the less it seems to reward you. Not aggressively, just enough to feel it.
It kind of forces you to either adapt constantly or accept that more time doesn’t always mean more output… and I’m still not sure which side I prefer.