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Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Annoyance: the forced time outs
Favorite: nonsocial: city building/materials production -- social: ninja buffing and helping new and/or lower level players learn the game
Change: Agree with toy4x4, Mayor's upgrade ought to increase villager spawning time. Also need better graphics for L4+ buildings
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
LVL 24. Going on line and finding my mines shut down. Little fat men running around. At logon have the news list what has happened since last logoff.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change? 24 / too slow Yes I get slow is to a point what you want so as to get people to buy gems to go fast but I think it is a bit too slow. Takeing 40 horses to make 1 cav unit. Nothing but kill kill kill after what was it level 16? it'd be nice to have some different things to do to level up. / Free to play (of course) Ease of play / See my posts in General Discussion ~ Suggestions as I have a few ideas posted there.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19:
What level are you? 19
What is your biggest annoyance in the game? Not being able to clear trees out to make usable land. If you could do that then you could populate open areas with different wood types too.
What do you like the most? I love it feels so much like Settlers 2, used to play a demo of it on my mac back in the day. Played it over and over.
What would you change? Like I mentioned, I would love to clear land out so I could organize my settlement with Sim City like OCD and be able to plant forests where I want them. Roads actually helping them go a little faster. Production input/output tracking. More variety in building graphics, I know they are all the same type but make them look a little different and each upgrade too so there is some more variety. News review for when you come back from being away for a bit.
Task One 7/19- 7/21: At what level did you defeat your first bandit camp? Please report to this thread with your findings!
Level 14. Ensured I had one third more in my military then the bandit camp I was about to attack
Task Two 7/22 - 7/24: What is the overall production time on your Brewery? Please report to this thread with your findings!
Brewery full turn time is 6 min 24 secs
Task Three 7/25 - 7/27: What level are you, and how many people do you have in your army? Please report to this thread with your findings!
Currently level 16. Army has 17 Recruits and 5 Bowmen
Task Four 7/28 - 7/31: What level are you, and how many friends do you have? have you ever buffed a friends building?
Currently level 16. Have one friend.
Task Five 8/1 - 8/3: What building did you choose to upgrade first in the quest? What did you upgrade first with your own marble?
I decided to upgrade a stone mason since it consistently held up progress. Now I have plenty
Task Six 8/4 - 8/10: What level are you? How long have you been playing? How many hours a day do you spend on Castle Empire?
I am level 16. Have been playing for about 2 days.
Task Seven 8/10- 8/12: What level are you, what did you spend your Gems on?
Level 16. Still have all of my gems. Still undecided where to spend them.
Task Eight 8/13- 8/15: What level are you? How often do you send your explorers out to hunt for treasure? Do you have more than one?
I keep my explorer on the road as often as possible. Its like a daily gift.
Task Nine 8/16- 8/18: What level are you? How many Storehouses do you currently have in your Empire?
Still level 16. I have 4 storehouses
Task Ten 8/19- 8/22: What level are you? What level is your Mayor's House?
Level 16, been playing for two days. Mayor's House is level 1
Task Eleven 8/23- 8/26: What level are you? What does your current army consist of?
Level 17. Army is 160 Recruits
Task Twelve 8/27- 8/31: What level are you? Now that the shop is open...What item in the shop is the most appealing? Why?
Level 18. Building permits, building permits, gold and building permits.
Task Thirteen 9/1- 9/5: What level are you? What is your favorite part of the game?
Level 19. Managing resources as I grow. Town is self sufficient. I do not live off of buffs. Only need to rebuild mines, wells and crops as they deplete.
Task Fourteen 9/6 - 9/9: have you participated in a Closed beta Event (aside from this one) What events would you like to see in the future?
This is a first time beta event for me. Would like to see the ability to move buildings around without destroying and rebuilding them.
Task Fifteen 9/10 - 9/13: What level are you? How many Gold Coins do you have?
Level 20. Typically zero gold. As I sell resources for gold, I spend it on upgrades.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Level 21. Biggest annoyance is resources being stuck in trade when players take hours to respond. I enjoy managing my resources. Personal goal of maintaining all resources on a steady increase so I do not need to rely on buffs. What to change - Add the ability to recall a trade offer after 20 or 30 minutes if they fail to respond. Castle Empire is an awesome game, great work by all involved.
What level are you? 21
What is your biggest annoyance in the game? Most annoying is the speed of the game. Because of the slow speed you are forced to play only once daily to fill up mines, wheat fields and water, use the provision house and barracks. But that's it then for a whole day! A speed button would be nice in order to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday for a couple of hours.
Another thing is the army. It takes forever to get iron swords but then the fighters die like flies. They use up too many resources for what you get at the end. The fighters should reflect the effort that has to be put in. I am down to training only recruits because the game is so slow anyway.
What do you like the most? The graphics are nice.
What would you change? 1. Speed button (especially after level 16 your empire should be self-sufficient and without the speed button there is no need to check more than once daily).
2. The armies. The strength of each new type of fighter should be linked to the difficulty (time, resources) it takes to get him. SO far melee and cavalery are useless.
Task 15 - I am level 37 and have around 80 coins
Task 16 - 37, my biggest annoyance is the lack of original content. I could build most of the stuff in this game and things like an adventure over a weekend, so why the hell are you reusing bosses and terrain, and all the other stuff over and over again. The witch and the High priest reappear like 3 times, Stinky reappears like 8 times. Those bosses are basically little images with some stats attached. How hard is it to create a couple new bosses. A graphics artist should be able to create like 20 new bosses over a 1 week period. How lazy can you be.
What level are you? 30
What is your biggest annoyance in the game? Inability to build over cut trees
What do you like the most? Design (Look and feel)
What would you change? Cost of Gems
Level 28. Biggest annoyance is the slow pace of settlers arriving. I like managing and trading resources the most. And I would change prices on upgrades for some buildings, because I feel 5,000 coins is a bit ridiculous for some of them and that you could manage the pacing of the game in other ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Katealyst
Level 20
My biggest annoyance would have to be that it is solely in a browser(so lag is my answer).
I like that the game is fun, social and free.
I would change the game to reflect the opinions of as many of the most popular answers to the second question.
Level 31
Biggest annoyance: The fact you have to type /help to get chat commands for reporting and ignoring. These commands should come up when you click on a player's name.
Best Features: guild community, partnering in adventures, trade
Feature to change: Amount of gems needed to buy anything
Task Sixteen
Level: 27
Biggest annoyance: the frequent timeouts reaching the server.
Like the most: the free trade system
What I would change: I'd add buffing status including who buffed and time remaining
Level 31
Annoyance: Timeouts/just the same thing always...no novelty in game play as the game progresses
Like: Co-op adventure system
Change: too simplistic when it comes to units and capabilities, introducing a battle xp gain system foe generals will add novelty!
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Level 27 - I wish gems were less expensive! -- I love the buffing and adventures to interact with others online! -- Either gems are less expensive to buy, or items are cheaper so you get more for your real life money.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Level:26
Biggest annoyance: Is having to get on everyday for mines. I wish I only had to get on CEO only every two days. I have a full time job, family and go to school on top of that. I fight to stay awake, but don't want my mines to run out, because that stops almost all of my production chains. Maybe add another 100 or so to copper and iron mines, maybe 50 to gold. I love this game, but wish I wasn't chained to it. The grind is starting to get to me. Alot of people have already quit because of this and I might be one soon as well. Don't get me wrong, its a great game but the grind after 26 is slow, especially for adventures and any ore.
What do I like the most: After 2 or 3 days, seeing my resources. They finally start getting to a level that I see the fruit of all my labor. Though the labor is getting harder and harder.
What would I change: Have copper mines at 850 to 875, iron at 650 to 700 and gold at 350 to 400. The resources for gold production are astronomical at lvl 24 to 28 and they don't look to be getting any better soon. I just plain can't afford to upgrade any of my buildings. It's too hard to get any coin to upgrade anything, my explorer might (.05% chance) of getting 25 coin and I have gotten 300 coin twice since the beginning for defeating a bandit camp, but other than that I haven't gotten any coin except one or two from trading water. It's kinda getting to me now.
What level are you? 24
What is your biggest annoyance in the game? time all the time
What do you like the most? idk it's all good
What would you change? nothing
Task 16- I'm at lvl 30 and my biggest annoyance is the upgrade cost of all the buildings after lvl 3
what I like the most reading the chat very funny:)
9/1 to 9/5 Level 21. I love the graphics!
9/6 to 9/9 I've participated in many close beta events. Interaction with the Devs is always a moral booster :)
9/10 to 9/13 Level 24, Gold somewhere around 0 (Just bought a 2nd explorer and a 3rd general)
9/15 to 9/19 Level 24. Annoyance: Not having a resource summary / building summary / buff timer / reporting function. Love the graphics. I'd love it if the General could be named, and upgraded.
Task 16: I am level 22, close to level 23. I really like watching my busy city, the animations are interesting and the graphics quality is very good for a browser game. Watching what goes on in chat is often very entertaining. I also like building my city and watching my resources grow.
I have several annoyances: 1) When my geologist fails to find anything after a 4+ hour search; 2) When my explorer finds hardwood planks 8 searches in a row (a waste of 4 days); 3) The amount of resources needed to build higher level buildings (especially mines which I will be forced to tear down in a day or two unless I spend precious gems); 4) The level grind (build troops for over a week, send them to their deaths, repeat).
What I would change: 1) At higher levels adding different quests besides "kill bandits". Maybe "Level your Mayor's House to x" or "Accumulate x amount of y resource"; 2) Add a menu that shows your buildings with the ability to cycle through all the buildings of each production type and a building count so you can see what you have (total, working, shut down); 3) Have the geologist tell you at the beginning of a search that you already have too many resources of a particular type so he can be sent to look for something else instead of wasting half a day searching for something he won't find, or have him find the resource in the same spot as a mine that is about to deplete so it simply replenishes, either way the time spent searching isn't wasted; 4) Have mines only require fir planks and stones since they are not permanent buildings (they will be torn down and moved once they are depleted and who builds a mine with marble anyway?); 5) Adjust the gem/resource cost of upgrades/purchases so everyone can enjoy the game to its fullest, although I have the ability to purchase gems, I will not at this point as the cost of what I would want to buy with those gems is too high; 6) Allow 'purchase' of gems with in-game generated gold...gold is a precious resource in-game, gems are precious too and most people feel their time is precious, therefore an exchange of a person's time spent building enough gold for gems seems a fair trade - a lower exchange rate for gems purchased with in-game gold could be offered so those who buy gems with real world money are also exchanging their money for less time spent in-game, but those who don't have a lot of real-world money to spend can still enjoy the game and not be punished for their lack of real world resources.
Task Sixteen: I am at level 26.
The biggest annoyance is the amount of time you must wait for new settlers. Building armies, then rebuilding, then rebuilding, requiring days until you can attack with any degree of success is extremely frustrating and destroys your enthusiasm. At this point, I am barely doing it because I want to, not because I enjoy it. But that will not last if there isn't some form of moderation. The gem cost for settlers or the resource cost are prohibitive on a repetitive basis. It just won't fly. This is what I would change.
I do so much want to regain my early enthusiasm. Thanks.
Task Thirteen 9/1- 9/5: What level are you? What is your favorite part of the game?
Level 31. PVE (hopefully PVP)
Task Fourteen 9/6 - 9/9: have you participated in a Closed beta Event (aside from this one) What events would you like to see in the future?
Yes. Holiday events.
Task Fifteen 9/10 - 9/13: What level are you? How many Gold Coins do you have?
Level 31 with 131 gold coins.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Level 31. I find the small build queue irritating at times. Especially when I'm trying to set up a bunch of wheat fields and wells. I'd like to see a much larger build queue with a scroll bar.
Task Sixteen 9/15 - 9/19: What level are you? What is your biggest annoyance in the game? What do you like the most? What would you change?
Level 22.
I have many annoyances with this game so far. My primary issue is the time investment to return ratio. I feel as though I spend a huge chunk of my time babysitting the game, making sure everything is working so none of my production chains slow down (or stop), and yet I receive very little in return. After spending two weeks building up my military to fight a boss, I essentially have to sacrifice all of them in order to actually defeat that boss, thus making all of my time investment yield very little. Especially now when it takes me a little more than one week just to fight a medium camp. Related to that, I get extremely frustrated when I have to wait for an hour, or four, for my Geologist to return empty handed. It would be SO much better if he told you right away that you have too many deposits of that type. That way your time is not wasted waiting around for something that you won't find anyway. I am also frustrated with how many resources certain things require when logically, they really shouldn't. Why does one cavalry man require 40 horses? Is he killing 39 of those horses in training?! And 30 beer? Maybe the one cavalry man should drink less beer, then he'd kill less horses and his production time would go down significantly!
As for suggestions on how to change my frustrations, that's easy. One extremely useful feature should be that your Geologist, Explorer, and General gain experience and can level up as they complete their assigned tasks. In order to keep interest in buying the nicer versions with gems, have the level cap be 5, or something low, so their skills increase and the player feels like they're accomplishing something while playing, but BB can still make money off gem sales. With that, it would also be nice to have troops that survive attacks gain experience and level. Obviously they won't be able to reach a very high level before being sacrificed, but I've had 30 bowmen consistently survive many raids just by the way I arrange my attacks. It would be nice if that meant they were more experienced or did more damage, something to reward smart planning.
As mentioned earlier, it would take a load off if the Geologist would say immediately that you have enough deposits of one type, and that he will come up empty handed. Wasting an hour, or four, or more in later levels, just to come up with nothing, is a huge disappointment and does not make me excited to play the game. At the very least tell us the maximum amount of mines we can have of one type.
Taking from Morwyn_y_Ser's post, new quests would add intrigue and fun to the game. Very few players really get in to the chat and social aspect, after all this isn't World of Warcraft. Give those of us who want to play on our own something to play for! Even easy quests like acquiring X amount of Y material, or upgrading a certain building to Z, would at least give a little variety and spice. I don't remember when the "Kill bandits" quests started, but they are getting old and fast.
Why does a traveling General move slower than the deer? Can't he step it up a notch? =)
And lastly, have the resources required/produced make just a little more sense. I mentioned earlier how silly it is that one cavalry unit takes up 40 horses, when logically he really shouldn't. It's also completely ridiculous that mines require marble. A mine is a hole in the ground, and a hole in the ground only takes planks and tools, and maybe some stone if you really have to reinforce it. Marble is absolutely an upgrade item, because it's beautiful and a relatively rare stone, but to have it required in order to dig a hole in a mountain is very silly.
While I understand that certain raw materials are silly initially in order to entice the player to upgrade, it could be just a little more reasonable. Why does one sawmill use an entire log to create one plank, when at least 4 planks would logically come from an entire tree. And why does a Bowmaker need 8 logs (which are the size of a whole tree, mind you) to create one bow? Not a long bow, just a normal bow. At least the things that require coal make sense, but when you start to think about it logically a lot of these are extremely silly.
Ultimately this game is fun, it's a good time passer, and the graphics are very good. I have no complaints there. But never underestimate the power of instant gratification for those of us not driven by the social aspects. I want to play this game with the same excitement I had when I started, but I'm finding it extremely difficult to even log in anymore, all due to the little things.
Finally reached level 16, has been a long trip, finally had the chance to attack some bandet camps, lost most battles but hace one a few. Leviling up is hard only because it takes so long to gather most resources. Other than that the game is great.
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Originally Posted by TweaktheReaper
Dude, +1.
These would be major upgrades to the game. It takes 16 hardwood logs to make a longbow XD
And I would add, even if I doubt this will ever be changed, put an (affordable) item in the gem shop which would do like the silo but for the mines i.e. replenish them.
When I can't log on, even for just 1 day, i come back to empty mines and 0 minerals, which sucks bad. Just to keep your things going with nothing exceptionnal, just the minimal effort for your town to run requires you to be an addict logging on 2 times a day minimum every single day, without ever taking a day off. This entices abusive play and awesome geekiness, which has got to be an option in a game but never a requirement.
Apart from that, thx for a great game.
BTW I'm level 32 now, 600 coins.