KarlD
Well-Known Member
I'm at endgame and I am honestly wondering where to go next. Yes, I will do chapter 17 because it's the things to do, but the point of "advancing" is to actually be stronger and more capable. I had reached a point where I could do 50-60 provinces in the tournament and complete the Spire. I had more goods than I knew what to do with. I could get more ranking points, but ranking points just by themselves are pointless if I'm not more capable. With the new system I feel less capable. I can do fewer provinces than before and it feels like advancing will just make me less capable still. If advancing doesn't allow me to do more than I could before then what's the point? I mostly fight through Spire and Tournaments so more advanced workshops, houses, and factories will get me more ranking points, but if I can't tourney farther or Spire higher (I already reach the top each week) there seems little point in advancing. For example, it used to be that in the Spire I could kill one dog with two hits of my frogs without using a Fire Phoenix. I upgraded some AWs and now it takes 3 hits. Because it takes more hits the remaining dogs do more damage to my mages and light-ranged units and because it takes more hits it actually takes longer to fight. I feel like I'm moving backwards as a result of my upgrades. I sincerely doubt that whatever upgrades I did will actually make up for the increased losses I'm now incurring.
As for this last tournament, I reached province 38 and basically ran into a brick wall. Even with a DA, ELR, and MMM it was a hard fight to win even with manual fighting. I actually never won it, but felt I could have with heavy losses. From the marked increase in difficulty I was experiencing it seemed like a waste to bother going further. Based on the difficulty of provinces 37 and 38 I really can't imagine doing more than a handful of additional provinces and maybe not even that many. When the tourney squad sizes are approaching 10 of my world map squad sizes and I'm losing 3 or 4 tourney squads in a fight that adds up really fast and of course the fights are getting both bigger and more difficult. I really can't even imagine what gains I could possibly get from AWs and other upgrades that will appreciably increase my capability so that I could do significantly more tourney provinces. Still, this is just the first tournament under the new system and I'll wait and see how the next one goes.
The prizes for the added chests are okay. We got 17 chests so that's an extra 70 AWKP and 7 RR spells, which is better than nothing, but doesn't make up for the loss of 150 to over 200 real KP I experienced because of doing fewer provinces. Of course, there are many in my fs that were not going nearly so far in the tournament and have experienced a net gain in KP. I'm sure those RR spells will add up over time as well.
As for this last tournament, I reached province 38 and basically ran into a brick wall. Even with a DA, ELR, and MMM it was a hard fight to win even with manual fighting. I actually never won it, but felt I could have with heavy losses. From the marked increase in difficulty I was experiencing it seemed like a waste to bother going further. Based on the difficulty of provinces 37 and 38 I really can't imagine doing more than a handful of additional provinces and maybe not even that many. When the tourney squad sizes are approaching 10 of my world map squad sizes and I'm losing 3 or 4 tourney squads in a fight that adds up really fast and of course the fights are getting both bigger and more difficult. I really can't even imagine what gains I could possibly get from AWs and other upgrades that will appreciably increase my capability so that I could do significantly more tourney provinces. Still, this is just the first tournament under the new system and I'll wait and see how the next one goes.
The prizes for the added chests are okay. We got 17 chests so that's an extra 70 AWKP and 7 RR spells, which is better than nothing, but doesn't make up for the loss of 150 to over 200 real KP I experienced because of doing fewer provinces. Of course, there are many in my fs that were not going nearly so far in the tournament and have experienced a net gain in KP. I'm sure those RR spells will add up over time as well.
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