Deadeye Jerry — 11/21/2023 7:17 AM
Chapter 6-10 Improved Progression
We are happy that our redesign of the first chapters with better quests worked out well and was able to improve the game for new players. We also know that some find our chapter progress slow and the rewards weak.
This is why we are continuing the redesign of the other chapters to help players not get stuck or lost by:
- improving the quests to guide you better in building your settlement
- improving the quests to guide you better in building your settlement
- adjusting the costs to make your city and economy more meaningful
- increasing the rewards of the main quests to make them more worthwhile * we won’t change the story and we will add very few new quests
You can test all of this on Beta, from November 21 in the chapters from 6 to 10 included.
The new balancing will start right after the update. The improved questline will start when you enter the next chapter after the one you are now. For example, if you are in chapter 6, you will continue the old questline until chapter 7. Then you will play the new version.
Note: your quest progress may be behind your research progress, but this doesn’t matter. As a technical side effect, you may get the first quest of a redesigned chapter again when you enter a new chapter after the update.
Thanks a lot and let us know what you think about this improved progression in <following was a link to discord>Chapter 6-10 Improved Progressi…!
Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team
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Deadeye Jerry — 11/23/2023 10:38 AM
Dear Humans and Elves, You can get
- up to 3 Story Quests from old chapters: the very first from chapters 7 (Fairies), 8 (Orcs), and 9 (Woodelves) - play for the rewards, or skip them as you wish
- it depends on your current chapter and differs a bit per account, but it's only 3 quests at maximum
- 7 new Fairy-chapter related quests which are new but might feel outdated for you - play or skip as you wish
- if you have placed one of the Fairy Ancient Wonders, you are also rewarded with 5 additional quests (for each of the two AW) with strong rewards; they are also optional - play or skip
In case you wonder why you have this mix of old and new quests now, and why we couldn't avoid it.
When we made the changes to the questlines of chapters 1-5 a few months ago, you remember that we had to migrate your quests several times, and this caused unfortunate side effects, which have been rightfully criticized.
We took your feedback and searched for alternative approaches in the future to avoid the same situation again. Your quest progress has not been touched this time, and we hope you appreciate this change. These couple of quests popping up is the "trade-off" for this new approach.
Last note: the last 4 quests of the new Fairy-chapter have now alternative success conditions to make them easy (or even auto-) completable. 2 of them had a bug that they couldn't complete, which is fixed now as well.
Thanks a lot and let us know what you think about this improved progression in <following was a link to discord>Chapter 6-10 Improved Progressi…!
Kind regards,
Your Elvenar Team