If @TomatoeHu drops out, the game might as well be over for me. At this stage of addiction, I couldn't bring myself to play without their combined work.
Beautiful...just - beautiful.So sets the sun on the great kingdom that Soggy Shorts made. The residents looked upon the setting sun with tired, but happy, smiles. Finally the fighting was over. The struggle, the worry. Now they can enjoy the peace they struggled so hard to obtain and preserve. The sun continued to set upon the beautiful city and the residents cheered on the streets. The soldiers put away their weapons and hung up their armor. For the need for them had passed. In the empty throne room of the magnificent palace one could have seen a regal king sitting on his throne looking at the sun set and his cheering people. He gave a slight smile. Content is all one could say to describe him. Yes the sun set on Soggy Short's city but his legacy would live on.
As some of you may have noticed I took a 2-week break to see how I felt about leaving Elvenar. After 3 years and 10,000 forum posts (7 here, 3 on Beta/EN) I think my time here is over.
I'll certainly miss the forums, but I don't think I'll actually miss playing...at least not the game I've had the past ~15 months. @Tedious perfectly summed up the biggest late-game issues in his farewell thread:
This is exactly how I have felt for quite some time, and I think I've waited as long as I could for Inno to add end-game content.
Best of luck to all of you, perhaps we'll meet again someday.
Cheers,
Soggy
If you need to reach me, I'll keep PM notifications turned on for a while.
IMO you really need to prioritize improving some features like Browser visits and the FA. It doesn't matter how, just do it.
To quote a Valve review: Sometimes changing full diapers IMMEDIATELY is the best cause of action before the stink starts ruining every pleasantness around you; not thinking about why, when or the optimal way of changing it for a long time before you do, looking like 40 road workers looking bewildered at each other while tossing one spade between them.
This is great. @Fairy Dust, or @Xelenia , would ya'll pass this to the devs?
Some might take a little effort to implement, but really there are a few major Quality of Life changes that could be implemented during someone's lunch breakHowever some are not as easy to implement, and it seems that this is seen as if it means that the work is not being done, or even planned.
Consider this my parting gift to the players:They have been mentioned in different places at different times, like on the Facebook live Q&As
just change the diaper already!
This is my new War Cry... I will try and figure out how to add the text under my Sig
Thank you, everyone, for the well wishes! I'll miss you too! I think I replied to all of the private messages, if not please send another!
Some might take a little effort to implement, but really there are a few major Quality of Life changes that could be implemented during someone's lunch break
Hey, Dave, can you do this while you have your coffee?
And others that would take some time but it would be measured in hours, not months and should certainly not still be an issue years later.
- Add the scout icon to the main bar so players can see if it is available.
- Make the start of the chapter more obvious by having the advanced scouts tech to the left of the dividing line.
- Implement hotkeys on the fight page for selecting troops.
- Change event quests from "produce boosted T1" to "produce any T1" to make it fair for players with larger level 1 factories.
- Add blueprints to the inventory so players can see how many they have.
- Replace every "Awesome" pop-up with just a floating text.
These are all universally desired features with no drawbacks (since they don't affect game balance) A company that pulls in over $200,000,000 per year with over 400 employees should be able to handle something that an indie company does in some guy's basement.
- Replace the FA quests with the Crafting Challenge system so that collecting 1 beverage automatically gives 1 Dwarven Badge and 1 toolbox automatically gives 1 Blacksmith Badge.
- Implement the mobile features on the browser and vice-versa- there should never be such a massive imbalance between features that players are sitting in front of their PC doing visits on their phone.
- Fast visits, "auto next tournament spot", and "set all" workshops on browser like on mobile.
- Donate KP and have messages on mobile like on browser.
- Messages upgrade: autocomplete names, Sticky threads, "select all mages" add fonts/bold etc.
- Notification overhaul:split trades, visits, and other into different tabs.
- When a wonder that we donated to completes, tell us who's wonder it was.
- Chat upgrade: Add more channels such as Mages, Whisper, Gobal 1-10, Trade, Event, and Help.
- Trader upgrade: Add a cross-tier filter, allow partial trade purchases, and move trades with the best ratio to the top.
- Matchmaking: Add some basic features that allow FS and players to find each other like letting FS set recruiting status and minimum requirements while letting players filter fellowship lists by the same.
Consider this my parting gift to the players:
Use the above lists to hammer at the devs during every Live Q&A. Drown out the players constantly asking for building rotation and praising the art of some new unicorn. Don't let the Devs off with their usual "We have something in the works" the answers are all there, the solutions exist- just change the diaper already!
I so agree with this. I was highly bothered when I saw Tedious was leaving. Then your post came and I almost hyperventilated, lol! I will miss you.It was a real treat to see you in the forum today Soggy