[Feedback] Dev Diary Easter 2018

[BB_Odhran]



Dear settlers,

We're always looking for ways to improve our annual events and your feedback is often a great source of inspiration for us; take part in the poll located at the top of this thread and let us know what you feel towards the ongoing Easter Event.

If you think the questions above did not cover a specific topic, feel free to post a comment below and we will make sure to take a look at it!

We appreciate every piece of constructive criticism that is provided along with you taking time to participate.


Thank you,
BB_Odhran

[AlliNel]

Everything was good, but lets get rid of the party crashers, i don't see the connection to the Easter theme

[bgburlymn]

I think we need more variety in the double loot adv, too many single player and co-op ones. Need better items in shop not much there for the advanced players. Also spring park cool down is too long. good idea but needs some more configuring

[SneakyPete3]

I agree with Allinel, not any connection between Easter and Party Crashers, make something like an egg garden or something.

[Blyth]

well I get the idea of the crashers.. as they are crashing your easter celebration... but an invasion of bunnies that would need food offerings and cages would be more theme oriented. You could even have the same crafting requirements, just shift the bribes to large cage or something? I dont know if that would be feasible but would be more theme oriented.

As to the spring park, I would agree with most.. the buff time vs cool down is far too skewed. The buffs either need to last longer (16-24 hours) or cool down to 24 hours.

[Ceruhe]

As to the spring park, I would agree with most.. the buff time vs cool down is far too skewed. The buffs either need to last longer (16-24 hours) or cool down to 24 hours.

There will be multiple chances to get more of them which will then reduce the cooldown time. So, for this year it may be a bit of a waste, but starting next year (I suppose...) that will be workable.

[Snaketeeth01]

You poor poor people. Can't see the forest from the trees.

I'm only going to chime in about the new geo at this time. Though I have more to say, this seems to be the only thing people are fixated on. And what I am seeing over and again is that "he is not enough!" Well.. get over it. Did you consider that maybe it's not that he isn't strong enough for you, it's that you just don't understand his application?

When we look at geos alone we don't have alot of option.
I grew up in a time before facebook was even a thing. Cellphones were the size of a suitcase. And we walked to school uphill both way's in ten feet of snow.
You kids just don't know what you have because you've always had it.
What you are seeing is that "we already have way's to search out iron mines. We even have a way to find 2 deposits at once! This guy is just a jolly iron, what the actual #%$&?".
And you're kind of right.
We always have been able to search for iron. Big whoop.

But let's take a step back to when all we had was 4 jolly geos in our star and a wide open tech tree to do whatever we want with.
This leaves with with lots of possibility sure, but almost too much possibility. Can you tech a geo wrong? Technically no.. but I'm gonna argue yes.
Obviously you would not tech all 4 geos to focus on everything stone related, or everything copper/iron/gold related.
You are not adding diversity by doing this, you are taking away potential diversity. You're not gonna do that.
Like me you will likely split the specialty 2 and 2. Picking up speed, deposit size, extra deposit. To one alignment or the other.
Then the smart thing is to give them a silly name like "iron man" so you know that geo is used for.. well. not granite obviously.

If you are going to split two techs among 1 geo type. Let's extend that. To buffing all the iron possible within iron geos. And leaving those points out of our other geos.

Eventually we hit a point where we got a geo that automatically can pick up 2 iron mines. Yeehaw! let's tech them up. Them spend all this copper in the form of tools upgrading these mines. Then the benefit became being to grab 2 granites per 8 hour search. But wait! Order now and we can reduce that search time!
For those silly enough to run gold mines. We can get 2 of those now too. But most of all. That ever precious iron. Would anyone disagree this is the most valuable resource in game?
About as good as it gets is again to split tech trees among your conscious geos.

But now, at last, for the first time in my 6+ years of playing. We have a unit that not only has a tech tree available. But we are told how to tech him! God mode activated.
So here we are putting books into him. Getting 2 mines at a time with enhanced mine speed and 1500 base deposit.
And you are complaining about it.
I don't know why. Now you don't have to put those books into jolly or conscious. You can leave copper and marble to everyone else. Put granite on conscious. And iron on the iron willed.
Is this too simple to understand that you just don't understand it?
Don't feel bad. My girlfriend does the same thing all the time. I set things out nice and simple. And her head explodes trying to overcomplicate things for reasons I will never understand.

[Graywolf]

The quest for finding ore deposits is out dated and needs to be removed from the quest chains. Many established players have Industrial Mines up and the only way to fulfill such a quest is to tear down an existing Industrial Mine.

I also wonder why the highest form of Treasure Search, The Artifact Search returns nothing? A lot of people have invested a lot of time and resources building up Explorers with books and during events the Artifact search is entirely ignored?

[GSoldier]

I agree with the Party Crasher comments. If you want to do a quest chain like Snow White where the ultimate goal is to destroy the villain trying to ruin Easter, that would be good. Concerning the Spring Park, the 48 hour cool down is useless. The Iron Will is not all that impressive either. Other than those, it was a good event overall.

[Gwalben]

I got a MMA and a new useful building and some other specialists, plus it looks like there will be need for a lot of mills and silos soon so those should also come in handy. What more could I ask for? I marked the new geologist as useful, but only just. I have found a somewhat limited use for him, but he is not what I would have asked for.