Level 5 Golem a Joke

Well i have just killed the first level 5 Golem in our Guild for this Halloween event, and if this is the adjusted "less costly" version of the Golem, then sorry, BB you have failed.

60k/90k/120k...12k marble/9k wheat/48k water, and have the weapons reproduced every 48 hours if you want max pumpkins....

OH, and keep producing your fish/deer food, settlers, irma baskets etc, etc. How many chocky rabbits would you like me to buy with gems BB. I was enjoying this event until the golems stopped coming, then when they finally do, after we are behind the 8 ball, we have this to acheive, i have never seen a money grabbing scheme like it, sure we should have pre made weapons "oh,i did", and save all rabbits i could buy on TO etc, "oh, i did", but i am level 50, and have a nice highly levelled prov house, heaps of resources, and plenty of gens. Poor guild members of mine who have not got these things, i am now donating all my pumpkins to these guys, and buying more on TO to donate to them.
I am so dissappointed and feel for the folks in my guild, all they wanted was a reaper general to help level up with, as many can not afford to play with money, and many of them won't even get the Reaper.

The amount of button pushing and mouse operating required to make so many weapons, and the game is so full of lag and spinning hourglasses, not to mension refreshes......i have had my vent, sorry guys, i love this game, but events for me are fast becoming frustrating and costly.

The cost of resources for a level five golem are higher than the worth of the pumpinks in gold coins. I'd suggest to simply not do them.

The reaper is easily possible without doing the level five golem. Make sure you keep the pumpkin fields buffed when they produce, do the easy quests, collectibles, and the golem until level 4. This will get you between 1550 en 1600 pumpkins.

Originally the golem costs were about 5x higher in total. We was given 3 weeks to prepare for the event, it took me only 2. Unlike the Eotw event when we only had a couple of days to prepare, or the crisis quests when we had no time to prepare whatsoever.

Yes, 50 pumpkins are not worth the resources needed to kill lvl 5 and higher golems, but what if there is some special prize after killing e.g. 8 golems? I mean there is no such information from BB, but we can't be sure... right?

No one requires you to do the 5th+, so they are easily avoidable.

If you have a bunch of excess rope/marbles/etc. left over from the previous (for those who did not plan specifically how many they wanted), they could throw it at their 5th golem. And if they are in a guild or have friends who have extras, they could pool their left overs and throw it at the last golem and share the pumpkin rewards.

Or could just ignore it :P

Ive been ignoring mine for quite a few days now, happily it is an invisible golem so easily ignored :)

Quite what I am going to do with all this stuff in my star menu im not sure :(

This must simply be a mistake. This is the resource amounts that was on golem 5 in test. Also does anyone else have problems when zooming the game? And now I can't even log on to the server. Friday job?

Edit: Cleaned cache restarted. Zoom is just as unstable. Good news though. Things are unstable on the German servers, so then we know their going to fix it. :p

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Originally Posted by Saraptheold

This must simply be a mistake. This is the resource amounts that was on golem 5 in test. Also does anyone else have problems when zooming the game? And now I can't even log on to the server. Friday job?

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I just got thrown out because the server is busy and can't log in again either!

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Originally Posted by Urkle

I just got thrown out because the server is busy and can't log in again either!

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me and my guild friend also got kicked out because of a busy server, WTF?, can't get in either.
And what the event quests consern, twice a day searching for crap things that are not worth using.
everybody has loads of herbs and scarecrows me and my friend haven't seen a food cart in 5(!!!) days.

And i agree about the Gollems, first one was new and nice but now it's gettin' lame. Of course i do have the choice not to finish them but come on, there must be some kind of variety to build in events. Ubisoft is gonna lose players to other browser games like this.

The only economic reasons to kill golems #5 and beyond are:

1. To get rid of some stock rather than selling on trade office
2. To show you can
3. Simple farm-ville click fest enjoyment
4. Just in-case there is a bonus for killing all ten

#1, #2 and #3 are just player dependent, #4 is governed by BB

Presuming there was an un-notified reward for killing all 10, BB would then have to resolve all the issues that anyone has with them. Any unspawned golem would effectively be a ticket after the event saying 'my golem did not spawn, hence I could not get reward'...
Ergo, one must surmise that the only reward for killing golems #5 and onwards is self-gratifying kudos and a bit more space in star/mail

btw, I have killed my 5th and do plan to kill the next 5 too.... got to get rid of that over-stock somehow :)

do the dev's get excessive pleasure from making the player do 100's upon 100's or mouse clicks ? why did the players who tested these golem quests on the test server not bother to bring up the point about the number of insane mouse clicks to 1st make the items then 2nd apply to the golems ? what was wrong with making the stack sizes large to reduce the amount of clicks ? are BB just trying to give thier players rsi ? was there a technical problem to making stack sizes 100 or 200 or 500 ?
do BB think that by making the player click so much they will spend more money on these "valuable gems"......any one from BB can answer these points for me ?
all i can see is golem quest complete waste of time and enegy done 5 wont be doing any more as i want to protect my mouse and my finger fom rsi....

Totally agree, it's BB way to get rid of richer players stock, hoping that they will buy gems.
me and my friends decided to stop with the golem quests.
it's just not worth all the marble, wheat, and water just to get a few pumpkins.

it's better to trade those goods and leave the golem.

so, 5th to 10th golems = 72k marble 54k wheat 288 water / 450 pumps;
so aprox 4k worth of resources for 3k worth of pumps. It's fine, but number of clicks is too high, cause my mouse is dying :[ (and not from shooters or League Of Legends, realy :D).
And I don't understand why people want to scavenge every bit on this game? if you feel that price is too high for something - skip it or find another way arround (have you tried adventures, that give pumps in loot)
have fun - it's a game :D

The level 5+ golems would be more enticing if the pumpkin price was more in line with last year. I'm real close to lvl 50, I could pop that in one adventure if I wanted to, and I've already got everything but the storehouses -and- I had to get the grim this year.

I think that due to a lack of imagination on the part of our hosts, because this is an open event where we could have had some quality adventures fighting everything from psychopaths to vampires in the style of the football event, we're saddled with a "non-event" where high level players have already got everything they want aside from the extra schools... I got those and I want the stores but I can get those trading out.

Golem was a relatively poor touch. If you had asked me, I could have made the event better.

Rather than killing the 5th golem, sell the resources on trade. I did exactly that today and made 160 pumpkins by trading the marble/wheat/water, instead of getting just 50 for chucking stuff at a poor graphic.

well i am only level 36 and i can not even make 10k of marble let alone waste it on a Golem !! i can barely keep up with marble /coins / hardwood to level up my buildings to level 4 to try and keep up with production. getting exotic wood and granit to level things to 4-5 is just a nightmare .
So Not a chance in hell will i be able to do a level 5 Golem...... sadly this event is tooo much cost for me :(

They should have better levels for people of lower levels......

Agree with everyone. Golem quests were a nice idea but are now a waste of time and resource....... still I have a giant sized golem statue to look at now :)

- 5th Golem should have some add. winner prize - for example XP points, coins, gems...

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Originally Posted by Diego004

- 5th Golem should have some add. winner prize - for example XP points, coins, gems...

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I agree!

I am level 43 and even I can't keep up if I use up my resources on the golem for a few lousy pumpkins my island dies, I think the Devs have totally lost the plot!

In the end they will give a reward to who've done the math and didn't waste resources on the 5th golem

http://i.imgur.com/BM3ZuxK.jpg

A golem that weakened over time would have been a solution. If its hearts reduced by 10% per day, people can choose to attack early for more golems or wait a while for less costly attacks. It also reduces the pressure on developers to calculate what is the 'right' strength to make the golem.

yup too many resources for little reward....

think i can live without killing lvl 5 golem and i still got 2 silos out of it.

guess its time to put them there leftover golem killer resources in the TO.

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oh you cant trade marbles/rope/water :/