Guurt The Destroyer
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You can join and search for a Fellowship almost instantly. It unlocks in less than 30 minutes. As far as I can tell it is impossible to get to Chapter 2 without unlocking Fellowships.
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Questions about joining a FS
- Thread starter ElviWi
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You can join and search for a Fellowship almost instantly. It unlocks in less than 30 minutes. As far as I can tell it is impossible to get to Chapter 2 without unlocking Fellowships.
ElviWi
Member
Crackie I have no mention of Fellowship in my tree. I checked through chapter 10 (or so) and there is nothing there. Maybe it's mobile vs PC?
NightshadeCS
Well-Known Member
My brain is telling me perhaps you have to get through the tutorial on your first city before you can join a Fellowship?
MagicPagan
Well-Known Member
I'm on PC and it was one of my quests in early Chapter 2 by the quest slave drivers on the left side of the screen.
Guurt The Destroyer
Well-Known Member
Just so you know this still works. The Quest line described is different now, but you can still get 100 gems per city very easily. I did it today.
Guurt The Destroyer
Well-Known Member
I found answer on EN forum. It seems arbitrary people have to unlock it and others do not?
That is odd. I started 7 new cities on the US server today. All 3 cities unlocked Fellowship in like the first 10 minutes or less. I think the second or third technology unlocked it.
Gkyr
Chef
crackie
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Guurt The Destroyer
Well-Known Member
I am not going to keep the cities. I just ran them for a half hour or so each, and by switching back and forth I spent maybe 2 or 3 hours at most in total. I am done now, and will just focus on my main city. I got 700 gems and I can move on. Upgraded my Magic Academy. Mission accomplished.
Iyapo1
Well-Known Member
Just out of curiosity, do you recall how many of the 7 ended up scroll boosted?
Guurt The Destroyer
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Henroo
Oh Wise One
I do not see that tech in my research trees for any of my cities. I have never heard of it either. There *IS* a time limit to how quickly you can join and leave fellowships. If you join a fellowship and then leave it the same day, there is a wait period before you can join a 2nd fellowship. Could this be why your person can't join?
samidodamage
Buddy Fan Club member
@helya
Could we get some clarification on this issue please? I know something has been mentioned about new cities now needing to unlock a research tech to get access to Fellowships (and I'm pretty sure it was a Ch2 research that was mentioned). Anectdotal evidence supports the idea that not all new cities get this tech and are able to join an FS much earlier. Is the feature undergoing live server testing and thus not available to all users yet?
Thanks for all you do to get answers for us!
Could we get some clarification on this issue please? I know something has been mentioned about new cities now needing to unlock a research tech to get access to Fellowships (and I'm pretty sure it was a Ch2 research that was mentioned). Anectdotal evidence supports the idea that not all new cities get this tech and are able to join an FS much earlier. Is the feature undergoing live server testing and thus not available to all users yet?
Thanks for all you do to get answers for us!
Guurt The Destroyer
Well-Known Member
It is a chapter 1 tech. It is like the 2nd tech. I ran 7 cities today. All brand new. The Fellowship opened up for all 7 of them on same tech. It was either Workshop or Glorious Statue. I did them at exact same time so not sure which one triggered the Fellowship. This was on US server.
You can test it yourself with an alt account. It takes like 5 minutes to test.
It would be interesting if it worked different for you or for anyone else.
I just went and checked all those cities to make sure I have access to Fellowship. I do.
I have not researched anything beyond Trader and Armory in any of those 7 cities.
helya
Beloved Ex-Team Member
Similar to the way the daily gift is happening (slow roll out to test functionality blah, blah, blah) There is an updated research tree that includes research requirements for different things such an visits and Fellowships. Players with these researches also have different quests, some designed to make them more successful and less frustrated in the early chapters.
helya
Beloved Ex-Team Member
It's it taking longer to get through chapter 1? Most players are through that in a day or 2 and the Fellowship research is the second one in chapter 2.
We've found that players that join a Fellowship right away (not players making a second account, but actual new players) do better if they wait until they've figured out a little bit more of the game before founding or joining a Fellowship. The goal, obviously, is player retention.
Gladiola
Well-Known Member
@helya I am probably not a typical player. For example, I try to complete province encounters only when the bossy event lady tells me to or I need them for a tournament, which means I progress more slowly than other people, building up a vast stockpile of tradable goods along the way. I'm sure other players will be more useful than I am in evaluating this new mechanic.
Edit: I do think that telling people they should only build boosted manufactories and then leaving them without an effective way to trade their goods is problematic. A new player without a fellowship basically has nothing but trades with fees, most of which are way too big.
Have you thought about putting the Fellowships research directly after Trader and/or just combining it into one Trader/Fellowships research? Or make unlocking fellowships contingent on completing the "Have a Trader" quest? Completing that quest could generate a window with fellowship recommendations, even. My experience is that the vast majority of trades are undertaken with fellows, and it might help to set that tone from the beginning. There's a reason "have a trader" is often seen as a basic requirement for fellowships that accept new players.
Edit: I do think that telling people they should only build boosted manufactories and then leaving them without an effective way to trade their goods is problematic. A new player without a fellowship basically has nothing but trades with fees, most of which are way too big.
Have you thought about putting the Fellowships research directly after Trader and/or just combining it into one Trader/Fellowships research? Or make unlocking fellowships contingent on completing the "Have a Trader" quest? Completing that quest could generate a window with fellowship recommendations, even. My experience is that the vast majority of trades are undertaken with fellows, and it might help to set that tone from the beginning. There's a reason "have a trader" is often seen as a basic requirement for fellowships that accept new players.
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