crackie
Chef, Scroll-Keeper, Buddy's #1 Fan
I told my mages so long as they don't pick the NH one, they didn't pick the wrong one.I think the NH perk is poorly designed as I think it should also reduce the length of time between being able to do NH.
I think in a low activity/casual FS, the NH would be somewhat helpful in that NH is prob their goto method of acquiring perk XP as their tourney chest and Spire crystal activity would be significantly lower. The NH perk will give them a shot at earning more 20xps instead of 10xps. Other than that, it's a small boost in hammers. However, even in that scenario, idleness might be defined by days instead of hours in a casual fellowship and therefore, a 4hr extension feels moot. This feels like the least useful perk. They always have to throw a Winter Lampion into every batch of goodies they give us to make us grind down our teeth a little more.
I'm in a Gold FS too, but I would prob eventually unlock a Spire perk as a backup plan. RL is kicking a lot of people in the gut in these times. In both of my cities, we've had more people having to prioritize away from elf games due to RL issues. Recruiting is a slow, dreadful process in general. Spire perk would be handy during a personnel rotation cycle to buy more time to fill any empty slots.
Overall, the way I see it is we didn't have any of these benefits before. Therefore, even if it's the not-as-useful NH perk or the Spire Archive we can't use because we're already a Gold FS, it's still giving us more options than we had before. At the end of the day, if my FS fell short on the next tourney chest or Spire crystal, we simply didn't get it done so there's no one to blame but ourselves. If we really want that next chest or Spire crystal, the solution is to simply do more tourney or climb more Spire stairs. If you're the archmage or mage, it's your job to rally the troops or play HR to fire or hire your way to a working solution. If you're a regular player not in a leadership role, you picked the FS you're in now. If the FS is not meeting your expectations or you feel management is prioritizing the wrong perks, simply find a better fitting FS. You're not a hostage. There are more FS looking for players than there are players looking for FS. You're in the driver's seat holding the power. Those are all better routes to take fixing the problem at the root than relying on the perk system to eek out more chest or Spire rewards to a satisfactory level. The perk systems is more like things stored behind glass panels that you take out in case of emergencies, except the free KPs.