Im still not sure what im going to do because of the aw upgrade cost change...
My cities have 9 aw currently placed. Soon, 8 of them will be either full of kp or shards and ready for upgrade. Leaving only 1 left for kp to be put in. So its only a short time until they are all full. That will be a problem. What do I do with my kp? What do i do with my aw instants? What do i do on event quests for donate/use kp to your own aw? How should I proceed? or rather.. Should I bother proceeding if a whole section of the game has basically been locked out of? Whats the point?
The upgrade change/costs are absurd and idiotic. To just upgrade what i have ready, 8 aws one single time, would take from 75-100% of my multi year stockpile of catalysts and spell fragments... So moving forward, knowing 8 single aw upgrades would take many years to get resources to accomplish... is beyond crazy. If i zero out my resources trying to do it, then im screwed out of everything else that takes them. Cauldron (partially), crafting, everything that takes either catalysts or frag.
And even if i did the upgrades anyway, its only a short extension on the issue. Once the aw's are full again, i would be unable to upgrade at all. So id be locked out of my aw's progression. Zero catalyst/frag would hinder the cauldron. It would lock me out of crafting completely. No crafting means no more pet foods, military buildings, for me. Soon as that supply is depleted, no more evolving buildings. No more military, or very limited military that cant do much. Which means no more tourney or spire. No spire means no more of its extremely limited frags and catalysts. Now im in a circular path of not having and any and cant get any resources... At this point, no resources, no aw, no military, no tourney, no spire, no petfood/evolving building.... (And they wonder why do many players are quitting over this.. gee, i wonder), Its clear that zeroing out because of these upgrades cost is not a good option. Its an option to kill your city.
So what other choice do you have? Cant upgrade aw's.. just skip em? No more aw's? Or one aw level every so many months or years? Now were back to the top of this post. Hitting that brick wall again. What to do with kp/kp instants? What to do on those 'donate kp to you aw' quests. That would instantly go form the easiest quest to the most impossible. And we know how inno seems to keep making no alternative 'or' on those quests. So what happens when you reach 'donate to your own aw' and you have no aw left and no alternative quest? Now your lock out of the event!
How far does this have to go before they realize what a horrible idea these changes to the costs are? I can deal with the changes to the aw's themselves. It might annoy some of us, but we can adjust. But the change to its upgrade costs can lock ppl out of many aspects of the game in time. Screw entire cities over. Make years of work completely useless. Thats the biggest middle finger to a player base iv seen in the last ~7 or so years here. Even just shutting the game down would have been less of a middle finger. This is just a slow death of the cities. The kind that will only anger ppl to the point where not only will so many end up leaving, but instill an anger that will make sure they never bother with an inno product again.
If inno wanted to slow down aw production/upgrades so desperately.. then they could have just expanded the cost to upgrade to use chapter goods (jsut like most other buildings already). (Or something else entirely, idc.). Might not be a 'perfect' solution.. but its infinitely better then this crap they went with....
Oh well, guess ill get a jump on things and go casket shopping now. Tho i imagine a casket big enough to fit a city would be rather costly.. Then again, if im going to have to zero out my resources anyway... mine as well use it for something worth while.'