Originally posted by Embarrassed-Doubt-61

Can I vote Playing It Old School? I understand the quirk of not having any good Mindy spots and think it’s a refreshing challenge, but combining that formation hurdle with it only being 14 slots makes it feel like the weakest formation by a decent margin. Making it one of the 15-slot forms, while keeping that structural quirk, would make it feel like a more balanced experience…

Originally posted by Marena84

Hi Erica!
As always, thank you for the code and all the hard work!

I posted this to the subreddit today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/r759qn/missed_opportunity/

Maybe something to consider? :D

Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

With the 11ths actually dropping today, do you feel like the rewards would be something that the people who are just getting to them will actually want the rewards that are being offered? I am not talking about end game players, I am talking about those who just beat Evil Scheme, do you think they will want to do them or even go through beating Evil Scheme to get them? I know that there have been some in the past that did not feel like it was worth the effort, like the second 10% more rubies 11th.

Originally posted by GeorgeSmith50

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the code. Quick question. Will Wilson be making another contribution to the Twitch stream in the near future?

Originally posted by Azar-yah

Hey there! Thanks for all the codes - and the upcoming 11ths, I'm sure there will be some interesting rewards behind those as well!

Know this has been mentioned numerous times by others, but i would like to vote again for the ruby store to be updated to allow for three rune chest purchases a week like the other two stores. Dunno about mentioned exploits, but i'm still years away from that rune level 15 achievement (and i have tons and tons of rubies just sitting useless).

Thanks!

Originally posted by godsolrank

Reminder of my suggestion about double or triple reward that can proc in one of 3 random dungeon maps, I suggested it 2 or 3 dungeon seasons ago, you said it was a good idea, just not time to implement it, maybe in future. Will that future ever come?

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Erica, hello!
I remember you said that all prices are adapted for different countries / categories of countries. Did this concern only DLC with taskmasters and crusaders, or all purchases in general? It seems to me that all other prices (battle pass, flash sales, that charity event with "bus" crusaders) are not adapted at all. You don’t live in America / don’t get thousands or millions in your country - you’re nobody here, and there’s no name for you?
Thanks for the code!

Originally posted by padlock14

hey erica what the chance of having the sprint word animation moved a little to the left so its not interfering with trying to place or move a char while sprinting Thank you

Originally posted by Chunkeekong

Hello CNE! My one and only question is: When are we going to get an update to opening chests?! T.T

I know it has been mentioned before and brought up, but honestly we are at the point for a large portion of the playerbase that we get SO MANY CHESTS, The ability to open more would be amazing. A open x1000 would go a long way.

Also throwing a vote in for Playing It Old School. Hope you guys are all having a lovely year!

Originally posted by Darkliandra

Hi Erika,

Thanks for the code!

• How much time do you plan to have between the current season and the next (if you know already)?
• Will the RP2 5th work in dungeons?
• Can I add my vote to anything you might add that makes opening 1000s of chests more bearable? Like opening 1k at once :D.

Originally posted by LC125

Hi Erika,

I vote Playing It Old School gets an extra spot.

Thanks and hope you have a wonderful holiday season!!

Originally posted by 100beep

What player level will the new T5 11ths be aimed at? Will people able to complete them benefit from them?

Also, my vote for maps to change goes to either Making Waves or Dungeon Crawl.

Originally posted by DragonFuhrer

My vote is to once again tweak Fun and Games. This formation still seems to have a steep curve of difficulty compared to others.

Also, would you consider adding and idol buff you can purchase with rubies? Thank you.

Originally posted by arcaine666

Looking forward to try t5 11ths! This kind of challenges are what makes this game great

Originally posted by ryan92084

Hi Erika At the beginning of the season you mentioned you'd look into getting the new dungeon achievements (difficulty 2-4 area 20k etc) changed to season agnostic. Is there a verdict on this? IIRC you said this was the intention to begin with but Wilson went a bit rogue.

No dungeon objective request for me.

If i remember correctly you said this round of 11ths was at least partially aimed at giving the pre dungeon crowd a boost. IMO this was achieved.

Originally posted by OwnedByACrazyCat

Hi,

Thanks for the codes.

I know we have just got the 11th objectives but could we have another way to boost our idols, either with a mission that increases idol drop rate for a set time or the ability to run more than one idol mission at once? Or a permanent idol buff like we got a permanent gold and dps from completing the 11th objectives?

I know this might have to wait for tier 6 but I just thought I would ask.

Originally posted by antebus

I contributed to desert bus and did not receive a code.Lost cause?

Originally posted by Daurakin

Hey Erika!

Sorry for joining in late. My season 6 map change vote goes to PiOS.

Originally posted by FrequentWay

Hey Erika.

Is there going to be chest drop for Matt Spacewalker gear like they did for Torakichi last season?

Originally posted by Brianp45344

well thank you for adding new 11th objective T5...

Originally posted by Halaberd85

why did you make the decision to introduce new missions only to gate them behind T5 11th objectives?

it very much feels like you're trying to make a "reward" out of content that would normally be made available to everyone and it's really disappointing.

Originally posted by icebergak1949

When the balloon for missions ready to complete shows up, the missions do not complete in the order that they show in the stack. This is sometimes important if I wish a crusader to stay on a mission, for whatever reason. What is the rationale behind how they present to be finished? Why don't they just finish in the order they are shown? (I hope I am making sense here.)

Originally posted by AMQ_

I'd love for an update to Under Fire or Achieve Flight.

Originally posted by kittymug

Hello Erika,

This dungeon season has been a bit of a roller coaster. Nice to see that the basic structure of the season has finally stabilized in recent weeks.

With everything said and done it is a shame that the roller coaster of changes and rework has enabled some players to massively increase their rune counts beyond what was designed to be possible by now since the release of runes. I recognize that this is a single player game with no leader boards and so on, but it still sucks that this happened and certain players gained an unfair advantage over others in the same position. There will always be exploits and exploiters, but this one in particular could have easily been prevented.

With that in mind I would like to explicitly request for something to be added to 'the list'. It comes up frequently, but I suppose there is no tracking of it since it is not some form of a feature/change request. If I am assuming incorrectly, then please add my vote to the existing item.

Note that this is a request to CNE as a whole and not the CotLI DEV team specifically.

The request:

Please allocate an appropriate amount of time from 1 CNE employee to allow for keeping up with the leaks discussion in the unofficial community Discord channel.

Rationale:

All of the feedback which eventually led to you changing the non-idol rewards scaling and rewards track that inadvertently led to a 'rune duplication' bug was available for weeks leading up to the release of rewards track and scaling changes. The extra development time and headaches I am thinking the negative feedback has caused you could have been avoided if someone took a peek at the ongoing discussions and feedback on what was coming for season 5. The discussion on how severely unwanted the rewards changes which were to come with season 5 went on for multiple weeks.

This is not the only example of this type of scenario - Zucek having unlimited multiplicative stacks is another one in recent memory. I'm sure other players can recall several other cases of this.

I believe that dedicating some time to reading this part of the community discussion can save you undesirable extra development effort and negative interactions with the community at large.

A few other thoughts:

I can appreciate that there is likely not much of an appetite amongst the team to join the Discord for a few reasons. At the same time I think that the pros outweigh the cons.

• There is sometimes community oriented and off topic discussion that happens which would not directly benefit your development and design choices.
  • I believe that the community and moderators can help either by dedicating a separate and more limited channel that is meant 'for devs eyes only', creating separate threads for each batch of updates, or some other filtration method (I am not familiar with what options are available to a Discord administrator and what would make the most sense)
• There are some players who voice negative opinions about you and decisions "you" make.
  • If people knew that there were CNE eyes in there, I think that would largely solve this issue. Perhaps there is a need for discussion rules to be created in case CNE would be reading the discussion to keep things polite.
• It takes time away from the teams other duties
  • This one must be tough to weigh out. What was lost due to all of the not planned for changes which had to be a part of this season. What could have stayed on track if unexpected changes to the reward structure did not have to be developed with high priority. How much of an impact was caused by the community outburst coming out of linear reward scaling and having made the most desirable rewards nearly impossible to obtain even for closer to the top tier players?
  • I would estimate that I spend 1-1.5 hours in a week to keep up with the discussion. That involves skipping over a fair bit of the discussion but without missing the major points of feedback. This amounts to less than 10% of a standard work week and I hope it can be accommodated. I do think that having a crystal ball for looking at players feedback before changes go live is worth losing a bit of allocation on some other task.

It would be much appreciated if you started tracking votes on this one.

I have 2 more traditional requests in my mind, but this one is the most important to me. Please consider it and I'll come around with more standard requests in an upcoming Q&A.

Thanks for considering this feedback and all that you do to keep this game running.

Originally posted by antebus

I followed the link and contributed on Nov. !8 but my paypal receipt identifies the donation as going to "Childs Play Charity" so perhaps my contribution went elsewhere.I am not going to fret too much about it. Hopefully it helps the charity,my gaming will be just fine.Thanks for your attention.

Originally posted by Embarrassed-Doubt-61

Not sure if I should ask this now or leave for next week’s QA…

The last two epic recipes I’ve gotten (Pinterest and the Challenge Shop) have been for slots where I already had the epic gear; that hadn’t happened to me before, so I’d assumed there was duplicate protection built into the recipe system. Has that protection changed, or was this a glitch?

To be clear, it’s totally your/the team’s prerogative if you’ve changed the assignment system; I just don’t know if it happened in error or not, since it’s different from how things have gone in the past. Thanks!