Blocking progress with 4 hour timers or crafting timers just sucks. I get why this is a thing in mobile games that want you to buy your way past this but I don’t see the point in bringing the absolute worst element of free to play mobile games to this otherwise great game.
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It is not a mobile game thing. It’s a survival/crafting thing.
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Gotcha, for you it’s a survival game thing. For me it is a mobile game thing.
That’s what I associate it to and what it feels like to me, and likely many others as well.
The core here is that it feels like a detriment to the game and just feels bad to not be able to progress till the day after.
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building your city is meant to be a long term progression, removing the timer would be too overpowered since you can max upgrade the smithy and buy every material you want instantly instead of gathering em yourself and making the ingots yourself.
yes you will say silver ore is hard to get but that is because the area with silver ain’t available yet.
the crucible (only reason to upgrade your gear to max) exists as a example of what they wnna do for endgame and not the ACTUALL endgame so it got released earlier than the upgrades allow, so obviously players rely on leveling the smithy or other merchants to upgrade.
in short: let em cook
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Would feel better with more steps to gather for and go through instead and more things to upgrade than the long timers.
I totally understand your reasoning… I believe that there are better ways to go about it that don’t feel as bad.
- More steps, or mor granular upgrades… such as anvil, vendor, housing, etc. more separated… being able to upgrade the anvil in your house as well etc.
Or other contributions in the process of upgrading as well so you could boost the timers or such… the waiting feels bad.
Other ideas would be to also require to use and craft things to level the professions or such.
It doesn’t feel like a detriment to me at all. You just start the process and keep playing the game like normal or just log out. Then when you come back later it is done.
I wouldn’t mind it being changed that much but the devs has a vision and it includes timers when upgrading the city.
I am pro creative vision and the indented experience when playing a game. So I would like to see it unchanged. They can always change how long it takes ofc.
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May I remind you that this game is going to have some sort of multiplayer element soon? Accordingly to their roadmap, it’s supposed to be the next update. A lot of the system in place right now are already aiming at the multiplayer experience.
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I completely agree with that, but I don’t understand why so many people have a hard time with it.
As you say, make your improvements and continue playing, it’s no big deal, especially since other games use this kind of system, like Animal Crossing, for example. But many people want everything right away; for me, it’s neither a problem nor a debatable issue. It’s a choice of gameplay, and it either appeals or doesn’t, but that part is personal.
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