Archaic book mechanics (Need more books)

[santje4ever]

Need more books!!

[Davidenco00010]

Dear fishlice,

The reason i have only 3 geos and 1 scout fully trained is that when i started the game i was training my normal geos and scouts.... and when i finally got specialised geos and scouts, i started upgrading them....

Don't know your current level, but with the introduction of new mines like gran, tit and slat, we need more geo's and jolly one's...
The search for new mines is 8Hrs normal geo and 4Hrs Jolly... s you need some geo's specially dedicate for it... (if u want a constant prod of gran)

Event wise like xmass for instance we need more explorers... and training them is kinda hard...

Am pretty sure u got loads of books doing RTTBN adv when drop rate was still good... but now on what have we got???

My current book prod is 4 Manuscript for 1 Tome an 2 Tomes for 1Codex.... so 1 Codex is 10 productions.... New buff i agree help, but it is only 20% where as long ago we used to get loads of minimum 100% bonus for 24Hrs with hide glue...

Will try to follow up with some calculations of time needed to train a geo and a scout fully from nothing should be relly fun

Think about the new players who dont even know what RTTBN adv looks like life is harsh m8

[fishslice]

I don't disagree with many of the points you make, I was demonstrating that we don't all need more books, what some of us will need is something to spend the book on such as the island skills and general skills.

[jamieoliver1976]

I have been playing for around 4 years and have been making at least 1 book everyday since the bookbinder was introduced. I have no books in stock and I still have not fully upgraded all of my explorers nevermind my geos. without any decent buffs or queueing option it is taking me 10 days to make 1 codex.... that is ridiculous if you want to maximise your explorer you need 6 codex for each one and that is after you have unlocked the top tier of upgrades. I estimate it takes approx 120 days without buffs to fully upgrade 1 explorer. This needs to be addressed asap in my opinion.
The best solution for me is to allow queueing and some better buffs, If this is introduced though then higher costs should be included to balance it off a little. Although how this would affect new players im not sure.
Maybe opening the tiers of upgrades in relation to what level player you are rather than how much time you have already invested into upgrades you dont want just to unlock the next level.
One thing is sure though it does need sorting as WE NEED MORE BOOKS !!!!

[pauantbro]

I only have about 4 units fully upgraded since the feature was released, it definitely needs looking at, something like reducing the number of manuscripts needed per tome and add a queue to the bookmaker, without a queue the glue buffs are a bit pointless unless you never sleep.

+1 for the queue,.....seems like they had/have plans to do this.....shame the ghosts of Christmas pass did not pass by BB offices :-))

[Bluesavanah]

Think the thread is getting derailed somewhat there's a difference between getting more books and making the bookbinder more functional. The bookbinder not having a queue has always been the principal problem. For those that only play 1 session per day that means 1 book of some variety, also makes any kind of buff use pretty pointless as they will gain no value from it.

Given that the Bookbinder now knows the exact cost of the next book in advance surely a simple queue could be implemented even if it was limited to 1 variety of book. It would most probably increase the likelihood of people buying book glue's from the merchant if they knew they would get at least a couple of manuscripts from it even if they only logged in once a day.

The only other solution I can see in the catch up race newer players face is to put the books in the merchant for gems and then people can choose whether to pay a cost in gems to catch up to veteran players.

[Bluesavanah]

I'm surprised at the total failure of imagination we see in this thread. It's pointless asking for more when the end result is a increase in junk in players star menus. First come up with a viable system which excludes junk and then and only then is a increase worth looking at.

except for books you get from events what exactly goes in your star menu ? books are stored in storage.

[Dorotheus]

except for books you get from events what exactly goes in your star menu ? books are stored in storage.

junk like cheese sandwichs, fish platters.

[MutantKid]

Id like to just advise ppl that if u want more books for scouts for the artefact search be aware that it seems BB may have changed the drop of the best item in that search which is the rainbow.
The increase in Cheese sarnies, fish platters, irmas and solid sandwich in the last few weeks have been noticeable by most who are doing this search at present.

I have been doing artefact search for over a year with 15 fully upgraded savages, that's 14 searches a week, the average was 15 - 20 rainbows a week, the last few weeks have been between 5 & 10.

[joshuessen]

I think we have earned more books now after so many years