Really? You think that we just need to "catch up" to somehow not be so destroyed/annoyed by spire every time it comes? HOW, Sherlock? YOU guys all got your Supply and Coin windfalls and crafted boosts of population/culture! YOU guys got all sorts of special buildings that came up a 3rd and 10th and 20th time so you could finally craft them and add them to your city. The Chess Set? It's a JOKE to even possibly CONSIDER adding it to your city unless you're a hell of a lot stronger than I am at 80k and trust me, I am one hell of a crafty chick which it comes to saving and planning and using my resources to the maximum. IF I'm wasting their absolute potential by even 5% including logging in 4, sometimes 5 times a day for a 3hr refil on my goods...I would be STUNNED.
I'm sure Spire sounds FANTASTIC to people who can trade 100k of goods at will but there are a bunch of us who are not and WILL NOT be making that any time soon because they've effectively DISCONNECTED a gigantic boost...the crafting system...from our games. Oh, we get bits here and there but it sure as hell isn't much.
I frigging hate it when games get like this. The top players completely lose touch with what it was like as a new player, the game makers adjust a system that obviously the high-level players were somehow abusing the FRIG out of OR they decided they needed to shake things up with a small bit of code...BUT nobody views how much it screws new/newer players by tossing an important part of the game out the window. Can *I* craft a 33% coin or supplies rains at 750 spell shards with the 1500-2000 spell shards I can make per Spire without eviscerating my character/making it impossible to do my F/S's Tournament every week? But wait, it gets BETTER! I'd be trying to finish the first set of quests as part of this event if I hadn't squirrelled away 80 of every Enchantment. Damn good thing too because I sure as hell could never craft them. Timeskips and buildings are just a joke now. And oh yes, it's now asking me for 20 vision vapour, WHAT vision vapour? The ones I can't afford because even though I save every last frigging thing in this game, I can't blow 2500 Shards I don't have because the game doesn't provide it to me? Oh wait, or is it supposed to be a diamond/cash dump game now? Trust me when I say I'm not spending 1 hot dollar bill on this hot mess game now. I was buying things before but screw that. At this rate, I won't be playing this game in three weeks if things don't somehow get better.
Right so 20 Vision Vapour is now asked for after...was it 18 and 15 and 12 and 10 and 8? So, yesterday I looked at the event, sighed, today, I'm looking at the event, sighing, tomorrow I'll be looking at the event and sighing because the game literally can't provide me what I need(It did for you guys now cruising in your 150-400k toons though! Was juuuust fine for you guys)...You need to look at this from OUR position maybe? I add the Spire Joke/this Event together and I don't see balancing, I see a line. I see people who are above it who can weather it/throw themselves at the crafting system/throw their crafted enchantments into the event. Then there are people who are below the line. They're not being fairly represented by this game now because I know most don't have the things I've saved and are throwing middle fingers at both the crafting/"Christmas" event because they quite literally CAN'T play. All this does is increase the distance between older players and newer ones. Trust me when I say that a two plus year old game doesn't need to slow me down. It's already hard enough to catch the higher levels.
I think you get the point. The game, that was nicely balanced BEFORE Spire is no longer balanced for a bunch of us. This event? Don't even get me started on having to barf supplies into the game 5 times out of 8 quests. It just keeps coming and coming and coming. Without timeskips from TWO previous events of 14/8hr (remember I told you I was a resourceful little squirrel?), I'd be DEAD in this event LONG before now. Didn't really matter because I'm dead now no matter HOW HARD I work.
So I guess events are a high-level player deal too on top of crafting now?