Feedback: Explorer Week - Gold Ore

Dear Settlers,

Please feel free to leave your feedback about the new explorer week bonus, Treasure Boost: Gold Ore in this thread.

Happy Settling,

BB_Sarrunah

Can we get the option to send all exp or geos out at the same time? At least let us pin the star menu open.

It is nice that we are given bonuses for different things. However, it seems that each of the weeks we have had tends to focus on one group of players. For example, the current bonus is to gold ore, which is only found on long and very long treasure searches. Generally, this means that player whose levels are too low to do those searches are excluded from the bonus completely and players with higher levels would have to do lower level searches to benefit. An alternate would be to simply boost the gold chain elements at once, providing extra coins on the lower searches, ore on the middle grade, and bars on the prolonged search. Then the week would potentially benefit all players.

This could similarly be done with woods, minerals, or any other general group, making the bonus phases give something too all players.

I was hoping that by now if I could send 20 generals all to one place just by checking them, I could also do treasure search > long > check to send 15 explorers or treasure search > long > send more explorers button > check which ones. And then when they get done with their 15 searches, I could get a summary e-mail of all 15 results instead of having to open up each one and send to storage. Save me from several dozen unnecessary clicks every time please.

I'm ending up not taking part in the bonus because most of my explorers go out on artifact searches. The ones not booked up yet for artifact searches go out on medium searches, which gets me good granite returns. Aurboth's suggestion to boost the gold type reward in all searches would be a good way to include more people in the bonus. I could still do my medium searches for granite, but get some bonus gold coins. On the other hand, the gold bonus doesn't matter much to me, it's my choice to not participate and I did get some great granite bonuses with a recent bonus period. But for people who maybe can't make the choice because of level, something more inclusive would be good.

I like that the bonus week exists, in theory. I think it's a good engagement tool.

However, I add my voice to those who say it's not very effective.

There has to be something between 'event level excitement' and 'meh'. This leans hard to the 'meh' side of things.

Keep trying new stuff, though!

Well, in this matter, I think that since it is just a 'Free' gimmick that it is all good. For those who run the particular searches and hit the respective resource, bingo! Everyone else is still getting their share. Though, it is not compelling enough to switch explorers tasked elsewhere to try for it. I'll take it - for the 2 of my explorers that run these searches. Next time, perhaps it will be something other players may treasure! (Pun intended) :p