Skiriki
New Member
Hey hey, this is from the point of view of someone who started playing at the end of July, 2020, and is currently the highest level player (midway in Research 6) and archmage of their fellowship, which is full of first-time players. Seriously: we have had only two members with prior playing experience, and one of them had to drop out because of Real Life things. We're right now 24 newbies in a fellowship, from all around the world, different timezones and all.
My fellowship has played thru 2 FAs, this being third of ours. Our first one was a bit of a meh since nobody knew what we were doing and the wiki wasn't extra helpful; our second one was going better, and we almost got second award, which felt pretty good and victorious. Maybe next time we might get our second loot chest!? We were very optimistic about this event.
Current mood about this FA is "this is a disaster". Part of the reason is unexpected changes: Golden Bracelet has hit us the worst, Arcane Residue has bitten our butts badly (multiple reasons: we're not made out of money to use diamonds to improve our Magic Academy, bad luck with craft items providing excessively little Vision Vapor per expense of the items, Spell Fragment gain hasn't been even, etc), etc. Another thing is unexpected Real Life things: people moving, couple of badly timed storms taking out electricity for a couple of days and so on.
Sure. We got the first chest (and I told my Fellowship that it is OK, we got at least the first one, this is good). But the absolutely painful gain of needed items has sunken the mood a lot, which may result couple of people stopping playing altogether, in a worst-case scenario. Which would be a huge shame! They're so much fun!
So in "our" (and I'm saying 'our', because I was asked to post about this) opinion, this really could use some fine-tuning for space-starved newbies; we simply don't have resources to put all factories needed to churn enough things for Golden Bracelets and some other items.
Second: I would like to stress that some things, like automatical badge collection once you've plucked up X amount/number of items is not about "oh just be more careful and make it slow". No. It is an issue with accessibility. I am right-handed, but I have suffered a stroke in 2017, which has partially disabled my dominant hand. It is not 100% in my control all of the time. I cannot control the sudden jerk it might do, while I'm poking around on my densely populated city. It is like I'm Ash from Evil Dead II and trying to control something that can't be controlled, when the signals between my brain and hand misfire.
I am 150% delighted that this game has "confirm diamond use" feature; it has saved my butt more than once. This is good. Could we please get this automated badge-pickup, too?
My fellowship has played thru 2 FAs, this being third of ours. Our first one was a bit of a meh since nobody knew what we were doing and the wiki wasn't extra helpful; our second one was going better, and we almost got second award, which felt pretty good and victorious. Maybe next time we might get our second loot chest!? We were very optimistic about this event.
Current mood about this FA is "this is a disaster". Part of the reason is unexpected changes: Golden Bracelet has hit us the worst, Arcane Residue has bitten our butts badly (multiple reasons: we're not made out of money to use diamonds to improve our Magic Academy, bad luck with craft items providing excessively little Vision Vapor per expense of the items, Spell Fragment gain hasn't been even, etc), etc. Another thing is unexpected Real Life things: people moving, couple of badly timed storms taking out electricity for a couple of days and so on.
Sure. We got the first chest (and I told my Fellowship that it is OK, we got at least the first one, this is good). But the absolutely painful gain of needed items has sunken the mood a lot, which may result couple of people stopping playing altogether, in a worst-case scenario. Which would be a huge shame! They're so much fun!
So in "our" (and I'm saying 'our', because I was asked to post about this) opinion, this really could use some fine-tuning for space-starved newbies; we simply don't have resources to put all factories needed to churn enough things for Golden Bracelets and some other items.
Second: I would like to stress that some things, like automatical badge collection once you've plucked up X amount/number of items is not about "oh just be more careful and make it slow". No. It is an issue with accessibility. I am right-handed, but I have suffered a stroke in 2017, which has partially disabled my dominant hand. It is not 100% in my control all of the time. I cannot control the sudden jerk it might do, while I'm poking around on my densely populated city. It is like I'm Ash from Evil Dead II and trying to control something that can't be controlled, when the signals between my brain and hand misfire.
I am 150% delighted that this game has "confirm diamond use" feature; it has saved my butt more than once. This is good. Could we please get this automated badge-pickup, too?