I enjoy Elvenar but I’m starting to believe all the changes to this game have been for the sole purpose of slowing us down and getting us to spend money. When I first started playing Elvenar, it was so much fun. There were hardly any events so you had time to work on having fun building your city. You actually got to fight in the provinces on the World Map and gain land expansions UNTIL Inno changed the battle system, and introduced Orcs as a commodity needed to negotiate. Those of us who over scouted were in for a big surprise. We couldn’t fight anymore because of all the Very Hard provinces that appeared on the World map nor could we negotiate until we reached the Orcs and Goblins chapter.
Starting in 2015, I can remember playing in the Snow Flurry Event. Really cool buildings were released that helped give a boost to your city’s resources. I thought to myself if this is a sign of things to come, bring on the events! But I’ve changed my mind since then. Events are arriving too frequently, don’t allow many of us to recoup our losses from the previous event, and are becoming very costly. Since land expansions are few and far between, and expensive to buy, many of the beautiful buildings won in these events are stored away in our inventories. If we need to complete a quest, we can always turn them into spell fragments.
Then April 2016 an update brought us Tournaments. You had to be in a fellowship or create one to participate. Many players did not want to join a fellowship but found it was fun to be part of a team. At first, competing in the tournaments was time consuming but the game devs listened to our complaints and Tournaments I no longer hate because we now have 4 encounters/province, instead of 8.
In 2017 (some players say 2018) Fellowship Adventures arrived. Heard there were many fellowships that never made it to the Bottomless Pit and many players started developing pains in their wrists from the repetitious clicking. The game devs again listened to our complaints and improved this feature but some of us still find it time consuming.
So many new features have been added to Elvenar that it’s hard to keep count. I’ve asked Elvenar players which features they enjoy the most and some said they want to be able to fight on the World Map again instead of giving away all their goods. Many players enjoy the events, or used to. They want to see the end to unending events that are random.
Please give us events that are not a grind to play and give a boost to our cities, not deplete them of resources so we end up spending diamonds, or worse, become so frustrated that we don’t want to login as much to play the game.
P.S. For some players who are keeping track of how many years I have been playing in Elvenar, if you must know, I joined Elvenar’s Live Worlds in 2015 and joined Beta in 2018.