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This doesn’t happen though because the game’s FS suggestion mechanism is borked. Since anyone can start a FS too, if you don’t know what you are doing, as is the case of a new player, then it’s almost analysis paralysis with too many choices trying to find a FS on your own.
They are optional and there are many ways to play the game. However, having embedded myself with a bunch of newbies for a few months to observe what they do, I feel like most chose to ignore both even after they have unlocked them. After all, they played 4 chapters without doing either just fine so why pay attention to it. That AM doesn’t know better what those are for to encourage it. And then it makes me wonder if you look at most of the newbie fellowships, if they didn’t already stall out to black triangles before chapter 5, I wonder if this is a big reason you rarely see anyone past chapter 8 in these newbie FS. Suddenly you hit Orc chapter and you could spend weeks progressing nowhere on the tech tree while just shrooming and shoveling poop. If you were used to feeling like “progress” is moving through the tech tree, then this is a rude awakening to understand the really slow nature of the game. Most of the production times in Orcs is 12hrs+. The game suddenly becomes a whole lot of nothing going on if you don’t have Spire or tourney to do in between.
Based off of your forum posts, you dont seem to care for wonders and you really seem to enjoy buying KP. I am guessing your speed through the chapters has a lot to do with you dumping most of your kp into your tech tree. Just guessing.
Welcome to the game and the forum!
Please don’t ever have the idea that your opinions are less valuable here than those of more established players. You’re especially qualified to comment on this thread. We older players can talk it over and make suppositions about the impact until we are blue in the face but we are just guessing at what a new player is actually experiencing. Even if we start a new city, we have preconceived strategies and expectations and won’t actually be able to replicate a new player’s experiences. Hearing directly from a new player (and one who has obviously done his research!) about this is great. My sincerest sympathies. This is so different from my early game experience. The only thing I can offer is that the game will become much more fun and less frustrating once you have all that stuff unlocked (if you can stomach it long enough to get there). Once you get to chapter 5 or 6, you also won’t need the rewards from the quests so desperately, so you will be able to start ignoring them if they are not convenient for you to complete (like your current quest for more residences). That will free you up to be able to develop your city the way you want, and focus on what you actually need at any given time.
I only have 2 things to say because without seeing your city it is hard to give specific advice.
Welcome to the forum!!! You are perfectly qualified to comment on the new cities struggle thread! You are living it!
This is exactly correct, spending diamonds will save you a bit of time. That is it.
This is not completely true in chapters 1-3 any more. The free troops that they give you are the only thing that get you through, you will run out of everything if you try to negotiate the first 3 chapters. You can't replace the troops but you definitely have to fight because you can't make enough goods to negotiate.
In the early chapters 1-3 you do not have enough Coins to buy KP like this event requires. It will completely stall your city.
The buy KP quests don’t go away, but even so, the increase from each successive buy don’t increase so much that they become unmanageable, even after playing for years. There is a coin crunch early game since you don’t get much out of residents so you will struggle with it, but eventually, coin becomes the “cheapest” commodity to come by bc it is easiest to acquire.
Know that there will always be new events and at some point, you will run out of room to put all the event buildings out. Therefore, you can somewhat ignore them if the main building doesn’t appeal to you. However, you should still try your best at the events because the side prizes are still something. Even if your “best”only gets you halfway through the quest line, you will still win some troops, some goods, some spells, and culture buildings. Also, the culture buildings from the build menu are subpar. The ones from events give much better yield. You’ll always want to rotate out stuff you win from events because buildings have chapters too. As you progress, you will want culture buildings from latest chapter to provide highest yield.
The good news is if you have time to collect coins, you can fly through early chapters fairly quickly in the new tech tree. However, there are some advantages and disadvantages to flying through chapters. Slow poking and playing like a turtle is not necessarily bad either. It’s an open ended game. There really isn’t a finish line, except for where you want to define it. You put the checkered flag wherever you want. Some put it at chap 21. Some put it at Spire. Other think it’s tourney. Chap 5 is good enough for some. They are all right answers.
I don't think the revamp of chap 1-5 comes from Devs though, even if I agree they prob play the game only super casually. It prob comes from the brass, who are probably even more removed from the game, but looking very hard and closely at some number from a report somewhere. Cause if I were a dev, I would take the "If it ain't broke, don't mess with it" approach to my code. I certainly wouldn't take the "Let's dig up the water main and break it on purpose for half the players first, and then everyone else later" approach. If I got those marching orders as a dev, I would hear a record scratch and probably have a heart attack.
Right now you're hurting for Coins, but once you have a lot of neighbors and a lot of houses you'll be swimming in Coins; the COST of buying KPs only increases linearly, while the Coin sources increase exponentially. To the point, if you look at the Chapter 21 threads, the developers just introduced an ALTERNATE to Coin production, because TOO MANY Coins was forcing folks to buy KPs that could only be dumped into their Ancient Wonders. Endgame players spend a million Coins per KP and don't even blink.
It's called Fighting on Crack: Mastering the Art of Pew Pew. It doesn't go into detail after the first round because getting the right screenshots takes forever and a half. Unless you're doing a ton of tourney and hitting higher provinces, most encounters don't really last more than 2 or 3 rounds anyway, unless you're dragging it out and playing ring around the rosie trying to kill a heavy melee with a heavy range while doing laps around an obstacle to play keep-away. Understanding the setup and 1st round also apply to autofighters, whereas going into detail about what to do after the initial round would only help manual fighters. Not messing up the initial round is most critical and maximizes your advantage so that's what I focused on.
