UlyssesBlue
Well-Known Member
Summary
A 'skip quest' button that would show up on any event quest that you've had longer than a certain amount of time (e.g. 24 hours).
Description
In events we often see that certain quests are extremely hard or unreasonably time consuming, or even outright impossible for some cities. To address this, while still recognising that what one city will find hard, another might find easy, I'd like to propose a 'skip quest' button that would show up on any quest that you've had longer than a certain amount of time (e.g. 24 hours).
Using it would have no cost, except for the countdown time, and you'd still get the prize. It would just ensure that no quest would take an unreasonable length of time to complete, and all quests would (eventually) be doable for all cities. The time restraint would ensure that your best option is always to complete the quest if it's reasonably doable, but for the occasions where a quest is asking you to complete a 7 day scout, or research that doesn't exist, or productions with manufactories that are much higher in level than what you're able to get, you will always have an option that doesn't involve dropping out of the event and not doing anything further.
Before the skip quest button is available it could perhaps appear as a greyed out button that shows how much time is left before it becomes active.
The countdown time could perhaps be different for some quests. For example, if one task is asking for 2 day productions, then the countdown timer could be something like 60 hours. For quests asking for 1 day productions it could be something like a 36 hour countdown. For everything else 24 hours would probably be fine (we don't want to make it too easy).
Motivation
This would ensure no one would have to spend ridiculous amounts of time or effort on a single event quest, or get completely stuck on a quest with no way to proceed further. It would work for literally every city, even the really bizarre 'edge case' cities. It provides a more universal fix than giving lots of types of quests multiple options, while also recognising that what one city finds extremely hard or time consuming, another might find quick and easy. It doesn't make things too quick or easy though, ensuring that in all but the most extreme cases the best option will always be to complete what the quest is asking you to do rather than wait for it to time out.
Possible downsides
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A 'skip quest' button that would show up on any event quest that you've had longer than a certain amount of time (e.g. 24 hours).
Description
In events we often see that certain quests are extremely hard or unreasonably time consuming, or even outright impossible for some cities. To address this, while still recognising that what one city will find hard, another might find easy, I'd like to propose a 'skip quest' button that would show up on any quest that you've had longer than a certain amount of time (e.g. 24 hours).
Using it would have no cost, except for the countdown time, and you'd still get the prize. It would just ensure that no quest would take an unreasonable length of time to complete, and all quests would (eventually) be doable for all cities. The time restraint would ensure that your best option is always to complete the quest if it's reasonably doable, but for the occasions where a quest is asking you to complete a 7 day scout, or research that doesn't exist, or productions with manufactories that are much higher in level than what you're able to get, you will always have an option that doesn't involve dropping out of the event and not doing anything further.
Before the skip quest button is available it could perhaps appear as a greyed out button that shows how much time is left before it becomes active.
The countdown time could perhaps be different for some quests. For example, if one task is asking for 2 day productions, then the countdown timer could be something like 60 hours. For quests asking for 1 day productions it could be something like a 36 hour countdown. For everything else 24 hours would probably be fine (we don't want to make it too easy).
Motivation
This would ensure no one would have to spend ridiculous amounts of time or effort on a single event quest, or get completely stuck on a quest with no way to proceed further. It would work for literally every city, even the really bizarre 'edge case' cities. It provides a more universal fix than giving lots of types of quests multiple options, while also recognising that what one city finds extremely hard or time consuming, another might find quick and easy. It doesn't make things too quick or easy though, ensuring that in all but the most extreme cases the best option will always be to complete what the quest is asking you to do rather than wait for it to time out.
Possible downsides
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