Hiya folks!
This will be a long and annoying, so if you are not interested to see why I am leaving the game, don't bother. Go do something efficient.
Been playing TSO for a quite a while now. Haven't spend a dime for the game, and got quite far (lvl5 barracks, provision houses, myself to lvl42)...
Just realized, I've put hours and hours of my time to the game, and it has given me so little back. I see no development, other than getting few buildings upgraded a week, which just messes with my production. Tried to upgrade 5 bakeries to lvl5. That messed up my water production (don't have watermills), had to build more than 100 wells.
The bakeries require flour. Needed to build 10 more windmills too. They require wheat. Had to build 20 more farms and fields. So upgrading 5 bakeries has given me around 40 more wells to rebuild in every day and 20 more fields to rebuild every single day... twice.
This will keep on going; people will quit. All they do every day is rebuild wells/fields and send out geologists to find marble/gold/copper etc..
Even if you'd get to high levels and buy those lvl3 wells and fields, they are just not good enough, they are not endless, as they should be. They are just 800 wheat and 2000water.. that'd mean you'd have to "only" rebuild them once a day...
Realized also, that the game offers nothing enjoyable: Adventures are the same, and even new adventures would go on the same track: There are enemy camp, you calculate carefully how many recruits/soldiers/cav... etc. you need to get them efficiently. No surprises there, all is pre-calculated. It is all calculating, not fighting. There is no room for chance!
So the game offers nothing new, exciting, sudden.... once you built your island to the efficient point... then what? You just upgrade buildings to lvl5... and then what? What do you do once you have upgraded every building you got to lvl5? You do adventures... to get what? Resources, you don't need? There is no other island to conquer, no more space to get, no new buildings...
And the trade is gone berzerk! Pumpkins costs more than anyone can afford, people are only making trades like "1 fish for 100gc" and hoping someone mixes that up and accidentally buys it. Only around 10-15% of the trades are reasonable, others are there just to rip you off, at least in the sandycove, where everyone is starting to be at high levels and got loads of coins.
How about the PVP? It'll be around the same. You can't conquer other ppl land, nor lose any. So you just clash on with other players for what? XP? What do you do with XP? So it offers nothing more; just pre-calculation and no surprises. You can't choose tactics, no attack-order (who attacks first, and who they hit)... It's just dull.
Main thing: BB is stripping the game, and basicly forcing you to buy gems. If you don't want to rebuild your fields/wells, buy gem-items (watermills/silos), i'd need hundreds of them, and they'd cost me more than 20 other pc-games together. And If you don't want to wait 30minutes between sending generals to adventures, use cash.
Thought that this halloween-event would be different: You'd get grim reaper, silos etc... reward for hard working. But no, if you CONSTANTLY buff your pumpkin semataries, you'd get just enough to get the grim-general. Not the silos, schools or the buffs. BB doesn't even bother to read the "suggestions about the game", co'z i see no change in anything. Game is made dull in purpose: to get ppl to buy gems with real money. Way to go!..oh wait... no, not the way to go. You should listen to the customers, the ones that play your game. They know what they want and how to make it better.
Hope you make more "basic" settlers game, where there is clear ending (build strong society and defeat enemy -> win), not any online games. I enjoyed the settlers II with it's great idea, changing levels and enemies, the randomness of fights. If you'd be lucky, you could defeat general soldier with less advanced troops... but if you want to prevail, you'd need to be smart. Here's nothing like that. Everything is pre-calculated... the game is BORING!
Over and OUT!
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FinCameli
EDIT
Thanks for replys guys.
Forgot one important point: Once I was at average level, 28 or something, I really thought that the game has lot to offer, since there are many more buildings to make, such as titanium smelter, damascene/crossbowsmith, all the buildings you need for cannons... But once I reached level 40, I already had over 2000 damascenes and crossbows from adventures, and at 42 I started to get enough cannons too. What I am saying, that making any of those titanium smelters, expert weaponsmiths etc. is completely useless. The price of titanium, damascenes and crossbows are very low. So nobody has to build expert buildings, and if you got titanium/saltpeter as adventure reward, that was a sad moment, because they are useless and worthless. Why make such buildings, if there is no point making them? You can get 1000 crossbows from victor the vicious, not really useful to use licenses, buffs, resources and time to make them yourself. So there is nothing new you can get if you level up. You are stacked with crossbows once you reach the level where you can make them yourself. And if you don't, just buy them from trade: Once you have 200 (or 250 if you have veteran general) of crossbowmen/elites, you don't need any more, coz you calculate every attack so carefully, that none of them dies... So once you have the 200 (or 250), every single xbow/damascene/cannon you got after that, are useless to you and you just have to sell them. Once over 50% of players reach that point, no-one really needs them, and everyone has too much of them = the prices hit the bottom, they become less valuable than normal stone. Not really the idea of the game, that the best weapons are the cheapest to buy, and everyone is mass-producing the bronze-swords, coz they are cheap to make.