Ah I loved cycling as a new player. it was unnatural but very convinient.Finally I'm able to play tournament. it took me a month!
and still no spire, and still no cycling quests!
not a lot of fun, if you ask me
There is no "option" to become either a fighter or a caterer. you are always both. in the past in the present and in the future.The problem is, as Kayelessa pointed out, before you had a choice to decline to build the Barracks quest, Now you don't have that option until you complete the chapter.
It would be nice to give the players an option at the beginning to select one of to quest lines.
line 1: you build all military buildings and become a fighter.
line 2: there is more focus on making and trading goods and you become a pacifist.
With both lines you get some advice to build the right wonders for your kind of game and you get an explenation WHY you need to build the armory (ch8 orcs)
If you opt for one or the other, you learn the hard way (like I did). Being the pacifist as I am, I started playing Elvenar because I thought I would manage without ever having the need to fight... boy was I wrong! Goods can't be made fast enough to cope with the need and catching up with the necessary Ancient wonders (Needles, Monestary etc.) took ages... now found the balance!The game assumes you do both, not 1.
If you opt for one or the other, you learn the hard way (like I did). Being the pacifist as I am, I started playing Elvenar because I thought I would manage without ever having the need to fight... boy was I wrong! Goods can't be made fast enough to cope with the need and catching up with the necessary Ancient wonders (Needles, Monestary etc.) took ages... now found the balance!
I really would like to know how they manage to do it...There are some 100% caterers on the US servers who complete the Spire and get around 8k points in the tournament every week without ever fighting.
There are some 100% caterers on the US servers who complete the Spire and get around 8k points in the tournament every week without ever fighting.
Low level accounts exploit the broken formula.I really would like to know how they manage to do it...
At this point any advice would be welcomed (except the typical "sell all that and go 120% military"...)
Sorry, I do not know to whom I should address this.I really would like to know how they manage to do it...
At this point any advice would be welcomed (except the typical "sell all that and go 120% military"...)
Low level accounts exploit the broken formula.
Thats the only way to do it.
City with few expansions? ain't the city "feeded" by another city?Some of them, yes, but one player I am thinking of is well into the guest race chapters and still doing that well.
Unless the Spire/Tournament Formula is revised into something which [in reality, not just in PR announcements] always rewards rather than deters City progress of several types, asking players to place ANY Expansions via an in-game Quest - a device which most players will expect to teach them the wisest way to play under all circumstances - is not good, in my opinion - and only more so because (unless at least some indication of how the Formula works has now been included in the Tutorial and/or early Chapters?) very few new players, and few enough existing ones too, would ever expect that increasing one's building space in a game which markets itself as a City-Building Game could have ANY detrimental effects at all.[...] making players go beyond chapter 5 requirements to complete a chapter 5 quest is still not good.