A first tip 45 seconds in and one every six minutes after walks the
whole catalog in an hour, which is the cadence of a notification rather
than a nicety. Games get this right by being almost absent: a tip while
you settle in, then nothing for the rest of the day.
Two clocks now have to agree. A per-launch settling delay of five to ten
minutes means opening the app is never met with a bubble, and a six-hour
cooldown persisted across launches means quitting and reopening isn't a
way to farm them — the old schedule lived in the effect and re-armed on
every mount. Flipping the switch on skips the settling delay and offers
immediately, since that clock guards a launch you came into with a
purpose, not a deliberate opt-in.
An agent tip starts the cooldown too: whoever just pointed at something,
the user has had their one interruption for a while.
Brooklyn Nicholson
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