about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Hail and well met!

Before we begin: I hope you're all staying safe and being kind.

 

For those of you who are joining us for the first time, I'm Erika, the Live Services Manager for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and I will do my best to answer your Crusaders questions. This Q&A is so you know where to find one of the team to chat Crusaders weekly.

I will be answering questions live for the first hour and then checking back throughout the week.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 273!

Community Activity!

Stay tuned for a new sheet, coming soon!

Updates:

  • We're currently working on the mega chest opening.

  • The Tier 7 version of Merci's Mix Up event will debut today, Thursday, February 10th, 2022, featuring a new Dwarf/Elf friend!

  • The recipes for the Carnage Cup crusaders will be available Tuesday, February, 22nd, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The mega chest opening feature will debut around Thursday, February 24th, 2022.

  • The Tier 7 version of Hermit's Premature Party will debut around Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

  • The recipes for the Merci's Mix Up crusaders will be available Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The winning skins for the skin store are currently penciled in for a Thursday, March 17th, 2022 release.

  • The Tier 7 version of Nate's Candy Conundrum will debut around Thursday, April 7th, 2022.

  • We're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last, and will no longer be posted to Youtube.

  • Monday, February 21st, 2022 is a holiday in Canada, so the office will be closed and will be open again on Tuesday, February 22nd.

  • Thank you to those of you who participated in the skin store and more survey!

 

Please put in a support ticket if you've found a bug with the game. You can submit a ticket using the "Contact Support" button from the Guidebook/Support menu in the game. It will open a new window or a new tab in your browser and you do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! PRIM-VINE-POET-NOON awards 1 Epic Trinket chest. Expires Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Edit: Thank you for the questions during the live hour!

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about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Hail and well met!

Before we begin: I hope you're all staying safe and being kind.

 

For those of you who are joining us for the first time, I'm Erika, the Live Services Manager for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and I will do my best to answer your Crusaders questions. This Q&A is so you know where to find one of the team to chat Crusaders weekly.

I will be answering questions live for the first hour and then checking back throughout the week.

 

The previous Q&A: Number 273!

Community Activity!

Stay tuned for a new sheet, coming soon!

Updates:

  • We're currently working on the mega chest opening.

  • The Tier 7 version of Merci's Mix Up event will debut today, Thursday, February 10th, 2022, featuring a new Dwarf/Elf friend!

  • The recipes for the Carnage Cup crusaders will be available Tuesday, February, 22nd, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The mega chest opening feature will debut around Thursday, February 24th, 2022.

  • The Tier 7 version of Hermit's Premature Party will debut around Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

  • The recipes for the Merci's Mix Up crusaders will be available Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 after Noon Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

  • The winning skins for the skin store are currently penciled in for a Thursday, March 17th, 2022 release.

  • The Tier 7 version of Nate's Candy Conundrum will debut around Thursday, April 7th, 2022.

  • We're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last, and will no longer be posted to Youtube.

  • Monday, February 21st, 2022 is a holiday in Canada, so the office will be closed and will be open again on Tuesday, February 22nd.

  • Thank you to those of you who participated in the skin store and more survey!

 

Please put in a support ticket if you've found a bug with the game. You can submit a ticket using the "Contact Support" button from the Guidebook/Support menu in the game. It will open a new window or a new tab in your browser and you do need to have cookies enabled.

 

Have a treat! PRIM-VINE-POET-NOON awards 1 Epic Trinket chest. Expires Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8.)

 

Edit: Thank you for the questions during the live hour!

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about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Brianp45344

mega chest opening... interesting somewhat...

Should be helpful. :)

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Goldchains74

Please....no trinket chests. I get PLENTY of trinkets through jeweled chests, and they are useless anyways. We need RUNIC chests, tyvm. Those have use.

The Epic trinkets are pretty rare for some players, which helps with the Trinket Hoarder talent.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Global-Quantity3849

Dungeons are great this time thanks, far better than the last one. Thanks for the chest :)

Nice, glad you're enjoying the dungeons. I'll pass it along to the team. :)

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by billyjoe99

Hi Erika,

Many thanks for the code.

One of the things mentioned in the survey was being able to delete saved forms, what would really be nice would be a pop out windows like for managing runes, that would enable you to edit and create and delete saved forms rather than having to get them in place in the running game and then click on save

Hi billyjoe99,

You're welcome for the code.

A whole pop-out dialog for saved formations isn't something we're planning on doing with the limited tech resources we have, but I'll note down it was requested.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Nerdz

Hey Erika,

Is there any plan to provide challenges with the "blue star bonus" that we have for FP? Even with the bonus idol, it could be a good reason why you'd like to go way past your initial objective.

Hi Nerdz,

We hadn't considered that, but it does make a bit of sense. I'll add it to our list of suggestions and we'll see what happens.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by barawar

Hi Erika, I love the Sprint meta these 2 seasons, super that you kept it and added and for deeper runs. The people who do deep runs say that some more tweaking is needed to make the short runs vs deep runs on par. I can say for the sprint meta that this season the idols are less than the previous which I don't like, otherwise the coins and points are better than the last season which is positive news.
1 We have a big concern. Can you change your methods with interfering with our game? No matter positive or negative the interferings are, when you access our game to add or change something you make our game to freeze so we lose A LOT of progress and rewards which CAN'T be covered with the stuff you are trying to add to our game at all. We are not at the game for minutes, hours, days... which means the game just don't work for a very long periods of time, many times every time when you change something to our game no matter in a positive or negative way... So, can you simply create codes and/or other things which you can send to us and when we redeem them we get the stuff from them instead of you freezing our game when trying to do so?
Also, In cases where you have to force reset the game or whatever is called, it is much better to make an announcement on Reddit or Twitch or... which day and time you will make it, so we can see and spread the info to as many people as possible when such occurence/s will happen so we can try to be at our game and not come to it after hours or more just to see that it got frozen/not working/progressing...

2 The recent questionary about the possible skins/tag/s changes. I saw only a few mission speed siders there and for them only added +1 tag. For many other siders there were many added tags. Is it possible to boost a bit more the tags of the speeders? There are literally many missions which can't be made 100%.

Hi barawar,

Thank you for the feedback.

1) The coupon system doesn't currently support giving out certain items, but we can look into it.

We haven't forced a game restart on the player base as whole since season 4 I think. We try not to do those very often, and usually those are just in the case of a bad bug or wanting everyone to get the new version, so there's not really something to announce in advance.

Also, not everyone who puts in a ticket has the same username on reddit, so it's not like we could reddit message them that we're about to respond to their ticket and they should check on the game to get it playing again.

2) We may review the skin choices for the Crusaders with a lower duration rune, but the community was pretty unanimous on the Crusaders they really wanted skins for.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Halaberd85

hi,

are you able to share who won the skin vote? or do you want them to be a surprise?

Hi Halaberd85,

We want them to be a surprise. It's partly why we didn't show players the survey responses when you were taking it. :)

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by navilapiano

Hi Erika! Thanks for Q&A!

Just a quick thank you. That's all. I'll bite my tongue in the corner. I know the team is trying their best.

Hi navilapiano,

You're welcome, though now I'm curious, lol.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by VioletHem

Hi Erika,

Here is a totally different suggestion. Can we get some tiers above Mission Impossible?

Hi VioletHem,

Oh wow, that's a lot of missions completed, if you need more achievements past Mission Impossible. We'll keep the idea in mind.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Croq360

I really like that it is possible to get rewarded for points/coins up to area 35,000 in dungeons.

If you decide to add achievements for getting there (and maybe some interim ones), I'd like to suggest that you only do that for difficulty 4. I'm in the process of getting my 20k runs done for difficulties 2-4 right now. Given that a 35k run takes around 1 full day to complete (sprint to 8500, Garnet warp to wherever that runs out, then much slower progress the remainder of the run), having to repeat that again for the lower difficulties would seem more punitive than rewarding (especially for those OCD people like me that really don't like having unfinished objectives).

Glad you're enjoying the depth of the points and coins.

I wasn't planning on adding achievements for going past area 20,000, though if enough players want them, I think we'd only do reach area 25,000 through 35,000 on just 1 dungeon objective per difficulty, or only for difficulty 4, given that it does take so long to get there.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by rjakubec

Hi! Thanks for the updates! 6th season Dungeon points are off the charts! :D Which is cool, because I'll be on vacation for a couple of weeks, so I won't feel like I have to play 24/7 to get to where I want to be.

Achievos for this season when? ;)

Hi rjakubec,

Glad it will help with the progress so you can enjoy your vacation. :)

If players really want cheevos for going deep, we may consider adding some.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Sirson

I hope CNE continues to support Crusaders, it's such a fun little time waster, taking down the VODs makes me a little nervous, the game already has pretty limited exposure. Anyways keep up the great work. Love the new art in the game especially the new Mycall skin.

While it would be great to support Crusaders indefinitely, there will come a time where it just won't make sense to add new content, because at the end of the day we are a business. In that event, we would keep the game servers running as long as possible.

The streams no longer being posted to Youtube is just to try and grow the Youtube channel. Videos that don't get views in the thousands or higher, along with too many videos in a day, and too many long videos in a day, limit the exposure of the channel. Plus our VODs never had the chat, which is half the fun of them, and the information in them could be outdated eventually.

I'll let Kat know about the skin. :D

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

First I do want to say I am looking forward to the chest opening mechanic roughly at the end of this event. All those millions of mats in the chests will be free soon. I just hope if it looks like it will be pushed back for any decent amount of time we would know. It would at least lessen the headache of hearing everyone ask about it.

It was brought up on the stream Tuesday but could you give a thought to letting pre-dungeon people get point missions? Beyond the dungeon buffs, all that would be on the reward track would be useful pre-dungeon for those people too. You also have people who are actually discouraged that they could not get the dungeon sader due to beating from the ashes too late, so they have to pay 10k coins just to get them too (and even more coins on top for gear). If they had like a month of extra point missions that would let more people reach stuff on the reward track, a lot of which would help lower people and not so much higher people (like the epic mats last season, extra challenge tokens because they can't go deep, dungeon coins for runic chests so they can actually increase dps, etc). Yes, this dungeon sader is less harsh to get than the previous two, but that does not alleviate the issue of people coming up short because they did not beat from the ashes soon enough. Skins are things people want too. If you do not want someone to start a new game and get dungeon missions, have them appear after 100k idols or something like that. You have to get 229,500 points to hit runes if you are f2p, so that would be 51 of the highest dungeon mission being successful to do that at minimum (which since it can't be 100% is going to take longer due to fails). Yes, if you buy the pass you get runes sooner but if you are just doing it for runes then just getting runic chests would be better at that point. Being able to start to farm the points early is a good thing, it is not like they are going to be getting max point runs at full speed as soon as they hit dungeons. They do not have that sort of power due to low idol counts and not enough 11ths done. Also when you look at the shop and see everything would cost like 40k coins and you are only getting 50 coins at best per run it seems like you are never going to get enough coins to get anything, especially if you are trying to get runic chests each week to try to increase dps which you would need to get further. I am end game, can do dungeons really easy and not have to worry about this at all. I could also probably skip two seasons and buy out everything that appeared in the shop that I missed. I just want to help out those people who are seeing this huge backlog of things and not being able to at least make some headway before they start going into dungeons.

The chest opening shouldn't slip, but if it does, it wouldn't slip by much. We'll try to give an update if we can.

Thank you for expanding on the request for the dungeon points missions for more players. I'll share it with the team and we'll discuss.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Great survey and thanks for the code at the end! You can never not ever have too many runes. :)

It was tough to choose 5 skins. I want them all!! 1. for Challenges and 2. for increasing Mission success odds

I also liked the Taskmaster ideas. I think the Bush Whacker Doll from BW2 would make a great Taskmaster (I mean we've got Bush Whacker, the Bushmaster, a Bush-Bush Whacker...).

You're welcome for the code. :)

Yeah, it would be cool to have all the skins. These are just the ones that should show up first. :)

Ooh, the Bushbie Pet. Yeah, that would be a cute crossover.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Bcadren

I keep meaning to write a longer suggestion post and putting it off, but I'm here at actual Q&A time so I'll rush as much as I can out.

  1. In the survey you brought up toggling off phase skip; how about toggling off Time-o-Rama (the extra duration hurts Savage Strikes count since reset for Zephoralei) and Impatience (some of us are patient and prefer the slower missions).
  2. Also on Zephoralei, it's minor, but it'd be neat if she got multiple tags when she gets multiple heads, up the synergy with Twins, etc. +Female, Animal, Dragon for each?
  3. Any ideas for other things to do with Geodes? People that bought the premium reward tracks in Dungeons the last three times should be rounding out having all 5th slots unlocked within a few months.
  4. Idea for another ability bar ability, that's a bit more unique than feathers (which is the same as Fire Storm with Euodia's Head Rune, if you didn't notice hah); Factory Reset, turns off all currently active abilities and resets all cooldowns. Just an idea.
  5. Consider reskinning the Yogscast crusaders to a different event or non-event background since the event won't repeat. Sjin in particular is a bit of an issue both because he's the most popular Yogscast crusader and because the actual person he's based on was fired for sexual harassment. I don't want them removed obviously; but made into something different for new players would be nice. (I also completely hate Game Goblin's design, but whatever).
  6. Challenges are the slowest thing right now since no sprint mode and in many of them no Garnet. Ones without Garnet can take 25h+ to complete; please consider allowing some sprint mode or something in early areas of challenges.
  7. On the mission screen, it'd help to have a sorting by rune level for the mission (so the 2x and Speed Up can show up first for Runic Chest missions without being Starred for all missions; so the highest EP bonus Rune gets suggested first for EP missions, etc.) IE default sorting (How well it fits mission parameters (Tags, EP for check, Gear for check) -> Rune boost level -> EP over the parameters, that order).
  8. On limitless upgrades: Multilevel that are a few level like Momma's Monster's Monstrous Assembly and Hildr's Shieldmaiden's Handbook aren't an issue but the ones with a really high cap or no Cap (Mitsuko's Kitsune's Favor and Pascal's Dry Clean Only) have an issue where hitting "buy all upgrades" can lock the game up for 5+ minutes. To fix this I propose reworking those upgrades to be all "Increase Gold Find, based on current gold found" instead of requiring the limitless purchases; have all gold +100 * log_10(gold_found)% bonus (I believe that's weaker than either of those is, but it's a decent starting place) IE at 1.0e5400 gold found it'd be +5.4e5% Gold Found
  9. For a bit you've been trying to decouple crusaders (make it so L effects, etc. don't refer to a specific crusader), on that front I think Paul/Petra BEFORE their head rune buffed the partnership effect is a good model, everything works without the partner, partner is +100% or so to everything. (RoboTurkey + Momma Kaine is another solid pair and that's same event). To that end I'd like to suggest the following tweaks:
  • Change Montana James' Damsel in Distress to {Female, Human} in front row. Would make Danny the Daring Damsel from the same event also qualify, etc.
  • Change Broot and Robbie Raccoon to have self Tank and self DPS formation abilities, respectively with a boost if they are adjacent to each other.
  • Make Skeletom's Third L not need Game Goblin.
  • Make Sjin's First L not need Turps.
  • Make Arachnobuddy's Middle L not need Metal Soldierette.
  • Make Griz's First L not need Cindy.
  • Make Drizzle's Third L not need Groklok and give her one more FA that's active without him (two of hers only buff him).
  • Move Paul and Petra's Head Rune to some other FA. (+100% when they are adjacent is fine; but the headrune making that +100% into +1e6% makes it overwhelmingly too important to ever seperate.

There may be more but that's it for quickly since wanted this up during the live hour.

1) If a talent can be toggled off, we might consider adding it to other talents.

2) We have some ideas, but nothing immediate.

3) Haha, neat coincidence on Ligeia. I'll add Factory Reset to the suggestion list.

5) We are planning on adding things to make challenges faster.

6) Rune level wasn't something we were considering for the filters, but I'll make a note to check if that's something that could be added.

Thank you for the suggestions. :)

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Ezequiel1522

Good afternoon from here Erika. Only some things I want to ask today.

1° Exist the chance to have like a formation preview of what formation do you have saved in a slot. Like the manager save formation option that the other idle game have. I'm not sure if I should name it or it's against some rules so better don't do it.

2° I'm currently in trillions of idols (like 200) but I'm currently stuck in my impossibility to advance beyond the Tier 4 11th objective of the time-traveler campaign. What do you recommend me to do?

3° About the making challenges go a little faster that they are now. Any news from the team? Some progress you are allowed to share?

Hi Ezequiel1522,

1) While it would be cool to do something like Idle Champions has, there's just not development resources to dedicate to such an involved project as that. It would mean stopping normal content updates for a good chunk of time.

2) More free plays for idols, maybe time to revisit some formations and Legendary Gear and runes.

3) So Sprint should be allowed on challenges starting with next week's challenge.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by ryan92084

The double maxLevel runes (with one being on slot 2) was an interesting choice for Zeph. Just making sure it is intentional before we try to have too much fun with it.

Survey was quite nice, thanks for that. All hail Lemon Elf.

Another vote for reskinning sjin if the whatever was in the promo contract allows for it. Even more has come out since he was ousted.

The two max Level runes was intended on Zeph, though given her max level can go negative, we might look at limiting the effect of buffs on her slot 2 rune.

You're welcome for the survey. :)

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Verslizzle

Hi!

The current dungeon season seems pretty good, reward wise. Also I am glad long and deep runs are viable again, especially since full time working from home seems to be on its way out again.

On another note, are there any Dark Tower fans at CNE? I remember a previous weekend buff referring to the Dark Tower and the archaisms hail and well met are often used in the books. Some content inspired by this series would be awesome, as it is my favourite.

Hi Verslizzle,

Nice, glad you're liking season 6. :)

I read Dark Tower ages ago and I keep meaning to revisit it, though last year I read the Road to the Dark Tower book, and I was surprised at how much of the books I remembered just from reading the summaries and how the books were written. We'll see where inspiration strikes.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Witty_Newspaper_9693

After the mega chest opening. I think the mega chest buying with event currency also a good option.

Buying multiple chests with event currency is on the list to look at at some point.

about 2 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by 100beep

I'd like to request that the gold cap in dungeons be removed. The whole point of dungeons is that they're uncapped, and the gold cap runs counter to this.

Thanks!

I'll add your vote to the item on the suggestion list and we'll see what happens. :)






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