UPDATE: blogger dropped it's poll widget and the one I used had a limit that wasn't disclosed when I created it. It won't allow more votes unless we pay and we're not doing that. Feel free to comment but it seems even from that small sample size that the people have spoken.
I don't expect a lot of interaction with this poll but please take a moment to simply vote or comment.
Now that the GB update has hit live servers and you've had a chance to see the bounty of three years of redesign what do you think of it?
two of my mates have quit the game that's what I think about it. I'm proly going to demo all GB's and peace out too
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ReplyDeleteI can't collect my city because I can't dump my FP bar
DeleteSame same, at nearly 200k a day I’m not sure what to do. And gold prints are incredibly hard to get even paying 60k+ for first position.
DeleteI was optimistic when you guys were going ape on the updates. I can admit I was wrong and you were right. This is dog shit. People in my guild are not happy. The social aspect of level threads is ruined.
ReplyDeletesecond that. I thought this site was overly negative. It wasn't negative enough.
DeleteI was also on the same train of thought. I know of TCG games where the player base were part of the bad outcomes those games face now and thought it was similar.
DeleteThe nerfing sucks. The pace of levelling in demand GBs sucks. It feels like players that built up some GBs to 201 got grandfathered in an unreachable advantage and it's not fun for everyone else. To be fair, the only thing I like so far is the amount of trading. Don't think I've traded goods more in the last few days than in years of playing. I'm in VF and still produce FE goods so everyone wants to trade :D
Unless they introduce ways to get gold blueprints and fix the nerf I'm playing less and less. I figured they want to keep gold BPs hard so put them on ascended buildings or buildings with a disabled finish timer. seems easy enough.
The massive FP and goods sink is fine, but I can't even use them if no one in my guild can unlock gold levels!
I know there will be event buildings that give gold BP packs but not when they'll come out
Deleteno need for the couldn't be happier option mate this sucks
ReplyDeleteWont let me vote but fuck this update. Please tell me they're open to changing it.
ReplyDeleteI'm hearing no change but be vocal. They have a forum and discord.
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What a let down.
Inno said that they were going to make GBs more relevant and all they did was make them inaccessible
I can’t vote, but unless they change something within the next few days, this update will seal the fate of this game. I have had 4 guild members leave the game already, and another 8 or so will wait until after GBG to see whether Inno makes a change. If not, our world will lose 5 of its top ten players.
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DeleteI like others though you were a bit negative - but you were right. It’s a lot of FPs to make safe a GB even for a city in SAD that’s in the top 50, then when players come to take a place it’s 50k or so FPs for the top spot.
ReplyDeleteThen to open a new level it’s 5k of each lower era goods which most of us gave to the treasury for GbG, plus gold prints (why 3 of each that’s just stupid).
Medals isn’t as bad as I feared though.
Now onto GbG - short of goods in lower eras so do we boot all players below FE so we don’t need these goods in GbG? Or do we keep them, do less GbG in the hope that we can tempt some of them to part with lower era goods in exchange for SAD goods (oh wait… they also need the same goods on their GBs!)
In summary - it’s 💩
You've identified all the issues. If the guild is active in GbG it can't house lower age players. They just don't produce enough guild goods.
DeleteThe other factor is lower ages produce less goods with the same event buildings so even if they didn't need their own goods there's no way to satisfy demand for goods using the market.
We proposed a revamped market that would allow trades exceeding 2:1 or would allow FP to be traded. That was shot down as it would create a lot of alt accounts designed to boost the main account. That's fair.
We also proposed a refinery system were we could put in 100 current age goods for 10 goods of a lower age. That was shot down.
We proposed changing the merchant in the market to allow higher age goods for lower age goods with a FP cost. That would prevent boosting from alt accounts and they said no to all of it.
I am viewing this as normal behavior from Inno - this is the decision point of this game for players to continue funding the downfall of FoE. The most notable was Flagship Grepolis; Inno made changes that screwed all but the Elite players as they moved on to other games. Grepolis now have only 314 players With current developer and platform costs increasing, they recently dropped a new 2.0 game. I am out of here. Thanks for all the help Addicts.. you have done a great service to all of us.
DeleteAppreciate the kind words but sad to see you and so many others leave the game.
DeleteI love it. Could not be happier.
ReplyDeleteAre we trolling or do you love it and if you love it what specifically do you love?
DeleteI have prepared for this update for over a year, so I have managed to get 12 gold GBs to level 201. I’m disappointed with the nerfs but I can live with them. I can also survive for several months slowly levelling my cosmic catalyst, stellar warship and shattered horizon. Many people who haven’t done their preparation are already suffering with arcs too low and they are running out of buildings to dump their forge points from city collections.
ReplyDeleteI don’t like the changes, but I because prepared carefully for them I’m not really affected by them in the short term.
I’m waiting to see if Inno are going to upgrade the science allies as mitigation for the goods and forge points requirements for gold GBs and Im also pleased to hear that gold blueprints will be available from future event buildings.
If both of these happen then we should be able to carry on in a relatively normal way.
That's a very healthy approach. I don't share your optimism about allies being a solution because Inno doesn't see what we see as a problem or something that needs fixing.
DeleteAs for gold BP in event buildings don't expect soon or very many of them. For example if you get a reward of 12 random copper BP and 3 random Gold it's still a pain point as getting the gold you need is still very slow.
I'm not a fan of the new refinery for gold prints. This game is already such a time suck and Inno just added another daily task that will take more time. Why can't they simplify stuff instead of making everything complicated?
ReplyDeleteIt's all about number of logins per day. Time on screen. Clicks per login. It's not about what players want or what's fun for them.
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