So this have ppl spend more time in-game may backfire at Inno. Might make more people quit the game than spend more money or diamonds. I know that if I have to spend all day in-game, I'm going to either quit or significantly reduce my time spent here. Cuz I have an effin life IRL...
I fully agree and it has made me choose to close down one long established city I spent quite a bit of money to build over the years: multiples of every event building!. A city I will not be spending more on. I do not even know if it is worth putting in the 100+ WW/FoY I have accumulated as I would still need to log in each day to collect them.
Two other cities I am retiring from top Guilds as I will not keep up with minimums on a regular basis. I am looking for casual guilds to join, ones that will accept part time players. So event spending to get multiples of each event buildings on those cities will stop. They will be down to 5 diamonds to collect and possibly 10 diamonds for extra chances at whatever. Did I finish the Daily Challenge to get those extra event items, hold on, let me check what is left to do… 89, 15-minute productions!! Let me start 12 of them and try to remember to come back and start more…
Why am I shutting cities down?
The events, and game in general, is just taking up too much time every day. And it is every day. I am an old man who does not want to have to remember all that is required now. There is simply way too much to deal with. Crud.. Did I finish GE… Hold on. Let me go check…Not only in daily activities, but to get an event building now you HAVE to log on each day, sometimes multiple times each day. Then, read up and watch outside vendor videos of the exact step by step process you need to do to get each event building. Then you have to understand how the event mechanics function. THEN you also need luck to complete them as the video states. Did I Polivate yet? Let me go check…
Like the Wildlife Rivals. You could spend all, and then more of the rewards you get if you had a streak of ‘bad luck’ getting boards with the correct colors, or enough of one color to do the quests. Hold on, let me check the Tavern, need to collect as it is full. I forgot to tavern visit after I hit the button to Polivate… Give me a couple minutes… So it was watch the videos or follow the written instructions. Keep watch on what quests were coming up. Be careful spending. Know what blocks to bust, how many tools you could use… … … And if you fire off a golden ticket then get called away, or do a few steps out of sequence… You are done. And sure. If you followed the steps exactly and devoted enough time and were lucky, there was nothing to it!!! Is that GbG sector open yet?? Darn.. Missed it. Next one opens in 47 minutes.
Ya know… That is all simply more than I want to have to deal with every day. Or make sure to be there for the two days to complete event Rivals. The castle, I forgot to collect the castle this morning… And my disclaimer: Yes, you do NOT need to complete all events nor complete all available daily activities. You only have to do the parts of the game you enjoy. But the more you leave off, or do not complete, the less of other aspects you need to do as many build on each other. So you end up logging in to collect, then logging off.
If you cannot devote enough time to get the full event building, it is not worth spending the time to do the event and be missing a few levels. Drat.. I forgot to use the tickets from overnight, I lost 8 hours on that… By the time the next event rolls around, you may be able to get those last levels, but you will also need the new gold level plus the new event building. And yes, you can gain a few trinkets that are shiny along the event path, if that makes one happy go for it.
It is all simply more than I want in a game that is supposed to be a fun activity to do in my spare time. Not making it a full time job. And there is rumor Quantum Incursions is in the pipeline. Another time sink to create a new settlement city every two weeks and produce enough to perform quests to help the guild progress is what appears to be a group GE type activity.