Dear Settlers,
Please feel free to share your feedback&impressions for the recently published Dev Diary: Excelsior Feature Pack.
Have fun,
BB_Aeyline
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Dear Settlers,
Please feel free to share your feedback&impressions for the recently published Dev Diary: Excelsior Feature Pack.
Have fun,
BB_Aeyline
Looking forward to this expansion/feature set.
Did notice in the summary that listed as possible rewards there is a Dark Castle in one place (The Dragon's Roost) and Black Castle (Venture - Red Riding Hood) in another.... are they different, or is it a typo?
Also, any information on the Harbor Tower?
Im interested in the info on harbor Tower as well
Praise Odin, a new feature. Looking forward to it. I just hate the size of these epic buildings. Does this mean we no longer get the 100 gems for the 7 day login bonus?
It says in the Dev Diary: "Crystals replace the daily login bonus (except for the gem rewards)." So we will still get the gems once a week; every other day it will be crystals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ornias
The big question: What kind of experience points do you get from the various Ventures?
I am glad there is new content too, but that ship... are we stuck with it forever?
http://settlersonlinewiki.eu/en/adventures/ventures/Quote:
Originally Posted by Koshko
A question on lv 58 ventures.. Can one take the new troops on them?
Or despite being lv 58+, one has to use old troops? Which will be sad :(
The Evil Queen ventures you have to use the elite troops. Yes, you can use the regular ones, but you will be losing so many of them and sacrificing so many mmas to even defeat one regular camp that you'll end up timing out the adventure before you can finish it.
The smaller venture ones you can run with MMAs and recruits and have few losses. Adding an elite or two in the mix and you'll be close to zero losses. The Dragon's Roost final camp does require some cannons. These are all pretty easy to sim.
I see now that it is live on the French server the ship is still not moveable. How disappointing.
If no more gem pits, what about new Crystal pits ?
Hello
When does this all start?
Would be good if you could type in the amount of crystals you wish to use instead of using the up and down arrows.
September 20th
two questions
Where do i get a concert stage?
Why does the excelsior window get stuck open with the X greyed out and i have to reload to close it?
...update, found the stage in the provision house
When crystals run out, there's a sound and we're automatically switched to using 29 gems per turn.
It would be a nice feature if a warning came up, exactly like the one that comes up asking if we want to spend the resources for an upgrade, so we're aware that we're making a clear and conscious choice to use 29 gems per turn.
I heard the sound and stopped, so didn't spend any gems. But I imagine there's going to be a goodly number of people who keep on playing and then realize too late what's happened. Get ready for the angry cards and letters coming in.
Yes, this is really a bad design and needs to be fixed ASAP. I don't play with sound on. It should never be easy to accidentally spend gems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perwyn
I play with the sound off as well. Looks like the new slot machine feature is for the spenders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eriond
to me the balance for letters and travel guides is decent
but for the FT chain....60 parts takes 2-3 weeks to gather, need to run the chain 35 times to get the farmyard and all the unlocks, we're looking at 1.5-2 years of running the full chain to get everything from it...nope nope nope
also the switching from crystals to gems without a pop-up warning is bad, very bad, we didnt notice it on test server because they gave us 300k crystals lol
Hello,Quote:
Originally Posted by Perwyn
Your suggestion has been forwarded as a feature-request.
A special thanks to all players who are taking the time to register their feedback. Have fun in-game!
BB_Aeyline
I totally agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil_J
There's no way to tell without actually risking it, and considering how many ways there are to spend gems without meaning to and with no confirmation button it makes sense that that's the standard expectation, but this is one of very few cases where there is a confirmation pop-up:
http://thesettlersonlinewiki.com/upl...Gems_PopUp.PNG
Well done there BB, now you just need to sort out all the spots where the game runs off into the night with people's gems without warning. :D (Then we'll be less leery.)
My first set of daily quests allowed me to get 2 pages out of 60. I take it I won't be doing these ventures very often. At least I have a reason to do daily quests and not dismiss 95% of them any more, though.
I thought about the accidental spending of gems being too easy as well, but the confirmation seems like a fair resolution.
With the previous changes, I stopped spending my star coins because there wasn't a good way to replenish them. It's nice to see that I can reliably get more again.
I have no room for another epic workyard anywhere, even on the archipelago. Need to find something to tear down.
OK.... I need to correct myself here. A pop-up comes up and asks for confirmation every time. Earlier today, I heard the sound, saw the switch-over to gems and stopped before clicking the purple button. After seeing the screenshot above I tried clicking the button with gems on the line and the pop-up came up. Sorry for the miscommunication. That's what I get for being a tightwad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perwyn
And thank you Thambetochen.
I am fairly certain that the new zone-wide buffs (such as the Recruitment Guide) do not take into account a player's PREMIUM status if placed by another player ... not sure if this is an oversight or working as designed, but it doesn't seem to be consistent with how other buffs that can be applied by another player work. I suggest that the PREMIUM bonus should apply.
+ 1Quote:
Originally Posted by Perwyn
agreed, been using some recruitment guides and was very disappointed to not get those extra 36minsQuote:
Originally Posted by Eriond
My screen keeps freezing when trying to use crystals, anyone else having that issue?
I have to reload the game every time
Hello Artemis,Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis69
Please check your private messages. Thank you!
Aeyline
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eriond
+1
The Premium Time Bonus doe NOT happen with these buffs currently. I administered and received one each of these new buffs and noted that in both cases, the Premium 10% did not happen.
What gives?
I don't like the fact that the Excelsior is setup in such a confusing way that you could accidently waste Gems on that purple button.
The gear up and down and the GEM and crystals indicator is very subtle and not obvious. It needs a ARE YOU SURE confirmation button saying you're spending gems.
I'd rather not even be able to accidentally make the mistake at all, but there is an are you sure button. There is also a sound.
my sounds are off. and I must have missed the are you sure popup. I guess I just have a habit of clicking okay to quickly. but yea, the gems use is just way too close to the crystals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwalben
maybe they need a separate interface for convert your gems to crystals. make that be a separate process somewhere in another menu. then go back to the button to use crystals only. each time you're out of crystals it can take you to the buy crystals.
OR maybe in the gems shop allow you to BUY crystals with gems. That makes more sense to me. Go buy the crystals in a gems shop.
ah like it. ah like it a lot.
well, theres is a popup when you go to spend gems, but i believe this should just be eliminated from excelsior interface, and place the crystals in the shop in small packs
At this point I have to believe the current setup is deliberate. Gem sales trump all. On the plus side, I am running premium so I get 2 dailies now, so only 30 days or so to get the Evil Queen quest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evil_J
And then you only have to do it 34 more times!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ornias
Want a way to flush the excesses out of the economy? How about letting us convert materials to crystals. 1000 gc per crystal, 25k bz swords, 5000 maho logs/planks etc.
I thought basically the same thing, that we were gonna get hosed on gems. I heard the sound and saw the switch over, got irritated and blasted out a post here without actually trying it to see what would happen. As it turns out there is a pop-up, so there's no way to accidentally spend gems. I sac'd 29 gems to see if it would come up after the 1st time and yes, it does every time. I even click on it random times throughout the day to see if it works every time and it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by RonEmpire
I'm sorry I made that post in haste, but can't do much about it except be embarrassed for it. I've had a chip on my shoulder ever since the improved farms came out, weren't working right, and I took grief for reporting it here. I need to stop expecting something to be horribly wrong every time BB releases something new. Things have been slowly getting better overall since BB_Alex came on board.
As far as Ornias idea.... maybe we could get recipes for the RPH dropped from ventures for the conversions :p
All in all I really like the Excelsior, it adds a lot to the game for everybody along the spectrum of levels. It's very well done.
I love the content so far and got Annoholics on my first run so Excelsior definitely got off on the right foot with me in terms of rewards.
Other suggestions here seem pretty decent.
Only one thing I don't like about the Excelsior - where it's placed. It's a ship - seems like it would have some mobility so that I can get it off that corner of my island and put it somewhere I want it.