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By Limited-Edition gear, does that mean there is a time limit on completely the global, and after a certain date it will no longer be available?

 

This sounds all as GREAT changes. You guys rock! Ty for all your amazing work \o/

 

To have it as a one time deal sounds wise - was thinkin about what it would mean when we could get alot of them. Perhaps some kinds of items could be more, but some should probably be limited to one.

 

Oh, looks like Moes is trying very hard to be as generous as Bahram!

 

Thanks to improve the durability of our mices

 

BTW - felt a bit weird that you didn't make "play 5-10 games of PVP in Sparta" also to the Golden Gorget quest. Perhaps that would kick-start the PVP community to a new era?

 

Issue is that if it's just "play X number of PvP games", you'll have players who quit as soon as they can just to get it out of the way, so a bunch of matches that's over right at the 5 minute mark instead of an actual influx of PvP players.

 

Okay, so now Elite Meet in Crete is impossible... any plans to reduce the difficulty?

 

The new quest will be very hard? Like a 3 stars one or more?

 

emic didn't get changed iirc
Edit : difficulty wise it's the same amount of units, same unit stats etc... it's just the time between waves, if you have troubles maybe use more static defense or tanky units mixed in to ensure a target for the ai

 

Amazing addition, looking for that gorget so bad! time to spam!!!

 

The Elite Meet in Crete: The interval between each spawn wave has been slightly reduced so that the quest takes around 15 minutes less than before to complete.

Patch notes. Basically waves come out 20% faster then before. Both kog and psychosaurus seemed to have difficulties with EMIC, and if two of the top players in the game have difficulty with it, well it's likely downright impossible for almost all of the playerbase.

It's definetly no longer "The Elite AFK in Crete"

 

First off - ofc it's not very hard for KOG and other with alot of routine and amazing gear when you get the hang of this map, even if first tries goes south. But I think as frogs says that it might be close to impossible some, and I think that is for a large portion of the playerbase, and that can not been the intention. So I suggest as sollution a tweak like following...

I think the intervall between spawns should change so the longer into the map you get, the closer they come - instead of a similar change from the first spawns.

The struggle is to make this map "going", like get your economy up and military out - and it takes a while for all, especially less skilled ones. So the map shouldn't be equally much harder in the beginning as in the end - but instead be harder and harder closer to the end. So the spawns should come about same rate in first waves but get shorter and shorter intervall closer to end. That should be the sollution to this. And also with a twist as follows...

One could also add more elite units closer to the end - perhaps the last one should be only that? To keep you on the toes for that one

This suggestions would make EMIC less "impossible" early, but even a bit more challenge in the final moments of it. But all of us who played this 1000 times know that there is no challenge in the end if you play it right - hence it's been called "AFK-EMIC" by many.

 

Good point. But easy solve. Then "Play X minutes of PVP" should be the factor instead. I don't think "win a match" should be there" (since some will have extreme problem doing it), but there could also be a play X games factor, though it's not needed.

Ofc you can to some degree cheat with any thing when it comes to PVP (like in last suggestion, start a game with a friend and just wait out time), but if many are doing it then it will be harder to match up with a choosen opponent.

But even if some do - at least most will at least test PVP, and for sure some should like it since in general PVP is more fun in RTS (as long as you meet opponents on similar level).

 

Other than the time i meant, units are the same in numbers ane stats. And i agree it's not elite sleep in crete anymore.
I got some comment on it, i did it with egyptians yesterday solo it was as easy as before. I need to try other civs. But for me it was already hard on greek and persians solo.
I did around 350 emics total so i guess i am used to it tho

 

I have not tried it solo yet, but in coop I noticed we had the first catapult wave come out right before we had placed our units on the spawns. I can imagine that being a make or break situation for many players. Getting there just a little slower can change everything, but after making it to the spawn points there's not much difference from before.

Edit: Same thing solo, the first catapults wave was the part that needed the most attention.

 

Not sure where else to make suggestions, so I figured I'd try here. I appreciated the survey as an opportunity to give feedback. Glad y'all as developers are open to it.

I did forget to mention a few things in the survey, but inventory management is top priority for me. More space (e.g. in warehouses, vault, GM slots) would be especially lovely!

It would also be wonderful to have an option to automatically sort gear in the vault (e.g. alphabetically, by type, by stats, by date item added). Individualized sub-categorical tabs for gear (e.g. by gear type) would be awesome, especially. The built-in search feature is nice, but it is limited. Also, it is goofy that items recently added do not stay on the last page of the vault after adding them and then logging out. A complete overhaul of the vault, honestly.

Additionally, it would be nice to be able to sort advisors by type in addition to Age (e.g. economic advisors, ranged advisors, cavalry advisors, siege advisors).