Excelsior and colonies

The excelsior will by the looks of it give me many things to divert myself with for quite a while but why no colony content? I know colonies are not widely loved but here we have another opportunity missed to make them more attractive, and once again those that do enjoy playing them are overlooked, (as they are at most events - easter excepted).. There could easily be a pvp related chain or somesuch in there somewhere, those that do not want to take part in colonies need not invest their jewels, those that are could... buffs etc to make colonies more attractive might help.... and why do zone wide buffs not cover armories and academies? Many adventures cost a lot of resources to do but at least we have 2 3 4 and even 5x buffs to help produce weapons etc, in colonies all we get are a couple of expensive double speed buffs so we can use up our resources even faster.

The Excelsior "slot machine " is great (apart from the graphic blighting my already distopian island) but as far as colonies are concerned it is yet another opportunity missed.

the barracks zone buff doesnt work on academies? seems like a bug..

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Originally Posted by stonewaller

The excelsior will by the looks of it give me many things to divert myself with for quite a while but why no colony content? I know colonies are not widely loved but here we have another opportunity missed to make them more attractive, and once again those that do enjoy playing them are overlooked, (as they are at most events - easter excepted).. There could easily be a pvp related chain or somesuch in there somewhere, those that do not want to take part in colonies need not invest their jewels, those that are could... buffs etc to make colonies more attractive might help.... and why do zone wide buffs not cover armories and academies? Many adventures cost a lot of resources to do but at least we have 2 3 4 and even 5x buffs to help produce weapons etc, in colonies all we get are a couple of expensive double speed buffs so we can use up our resources even faster.

The Excelsior "slot machine " is great (apart from the graphic blighting my already distopian island) but as far as colonies are concerned it is yet another opportunity missed.

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Originally Posted by topgearfan

the barracks zone buff doesn't work on academies? seems like a bug..

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Hint in the names
academy different name to barracks maybe that's why they don't work on that

The name is Recruitment Guide. Guess it shouldnt work on Barracks either..

it says on buff its for barracks the academy is not titled barracks so that's why it wont work

Like the OP already mentioned, Excelsior is not for the colonies. And no I do not support your suggestion for PvP related Excelsior stuff, would prefer BB to spend time on the improvement of Co-Op adventures first, and for that I think they only need to improve the loot

Maybe they could improve Colonies AND CO-op adventures content, so that all could be happy?

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Originally Posted by lulu10093

it says on buff its for barracks the academy is not titled barracks so that's why it wont work

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yea looked it up on test.
still seems weird that academy is excluded, other buffs work on a lot of different buildings..

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Originally Posted by Kaiser-1

Like the OP already mentioned, Excelsior is not for the colonies. And no I do not support your suggestion for PvP related Excelsior stuff, would prefer BB to spend time on the improvement of Co-Op adventures first, and for that I think they only need to improve the loot

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100% agree. Not even crystals would force me to play pvp.
I'd much prefer to see devs time spent fixing longstanding glitches in the game, addressing things like co-op adventures and further developing the main game.
The amazing stuff that has been rolled out over the last 12 months is exactly the direction i'd like to see the game move in.

I like expeditions and do my bit of colonies nearly every week but I don't think there's any need to connect them with Excelsior. Excelsior is briliant as it is. :) But, if there was a colony yielding moderate amount of crystals, that's something I could deal with and would certainly go for it. :) I guess that would have to be no more then 1 or 2 crystal per 6 hours to keep the balance. :) Maybe 3 or 4 if the colony was somehow super restricted, difficult, rare or whatever.

Insuffient troops and not enough time for completion of colony acquitition. How do you bring up the colonies for the quest after you've tried to conquer 1 and lost?

wait for the explorer to rest then search for another expedition