about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Welcome Crusaders!

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 258!

Community Activity!

This week is all about Spaaaaaace with colouring sheets featuring the season 5 Crusader! There's a couple more days to get your sheets in to unlock the buff!

Updates:

  • Season 5 drops later today, featuring Matt Spacewalker as a reward, along with the Black Hole taskmaster as requested by players.

  • Crusaders is about to have its first DLC Retirement Sale! Check out the blog for more details. It starts next week!

  • The recipes for the Schoolhouse Scourge Crusaders will be Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, October 12th, 2021.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

Question For You

We're thinking about moving the stream again. Which time works best for you to come by and watch?

  • Current time, 4pm Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday afternoons

  • Slightly earlier, 3pm Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday afternoons

  • Back to the mornings, with a 11am Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday start

  • And we can go Wednesdays at 12pm Pacific Time (UTC-7), but that slot will be cancelled more often for Idle Champions Days of Streaming.

End of Life for Flash in Browsers

Crusaders is available to play through the version on Steam, and through a downloadable launcher on our Codename Games website.

Note: The launcher will work with Wine to run the .exe on Linux. Otherwise, you can try using the Steam version.

 

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! APPS-GLIA-COLL-JIVE awards 1 Runic chest. Expires Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

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

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about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Welcome Crusaders!

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 258!

Community Activity!

This week is all about Spaaaaaace with colouring sheets featuring the season 5 Crusader! There's a couple more days to get your sheets in to unlock the buff!

Updates:

  • Season 5 drops later today, featuring Matt Spacewalker as a reward, along with the Black Hole taskmaster as requested by players.

  • Crusaders is about to have its first DLC Retirement Sale! Check out the blog for more details. It starts next week!

  • The recipes for the Schoolhouse Scourge Crusaders will be Noon Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday, October 12th, 2021.

  • In case you missed it, we're doing Q&A streams for Crusaders on the CNE Games twitch channel now! VODs are available on Twitch while they last and we also post the stream to our Codename youtube playlist.

Question For You

We're thinking about moving the stream again. Which time works best for you to come by and watch?

  • Current time, 4pm Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday afternoons

  • Slightly earlier, 3pm Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday afternoons

  • Back to the mornings, with a 11am Pacific Time (UTC-7) on Tuesday start

  • And we can go Wednesdays at 12pm Pacific Time (UTC-7), but that slot will be cancelled more often for Idle Champions Days of Streaming.

End of Life for Flash in Browsers

Crusaders is available to play through the version on Steam, and through a downloadable launcher on our Codename Games website.

Note: The launcher will work with Wine to run the .exe on Linux. Otherwise, you can try using the Steam version.

 

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! APPS-GLIA-COLL-JIVE awards 1 Runic chest. Expires Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 9:59 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

Next Q&A: The next Crusaders Q&A will be on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 10 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7.)

 

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

External link →
about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Global-Quantity3849

Hi Erika

Looking forward to Dungeons Season 5 and thanks for the chest.

Best time for me in the UK is 11am Pacific Time.

Thanks

Hi Global-Quantity3849,

Yeah, it will be nice to get Season 5 live for players.

You're welcome for the chest and thank you for the note on the stream time.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Darkliandra

Earlier is better for us in Europe :D.

Is there something you could implement for more rune solvents? Maybe buy them with dungeon coins, it would make those more useful.

Hi Darkliandra,

Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on stream last night, that we've got a large European group of viewers.

We're not planning on giving out more rune solvent than we currently do, but it a request that comes up from time to time, so I'll add your vote to that item. :)

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Stormcrow-69

Thanks for the code,

Please go back to the 11am slot, as that works really nicely for the UK (dinner time).

Hi Stormcrow-69,

You're welcome for the code.

Back to 11am vote, thank you for that. :)

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by tstevs

Hope you're all well

11 am was best time for me here in the UK

Hi tstevs,

We're doing well. We hope you are too.

Another vote for back to earlier, got it! :D

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Due-Satisfaction3141

can you please also think of the players un europe,the time slot before was pretty good .so around that time would be great give or take 2 hours.if thats a possibility.and again thanks for the code :}

That would be the move back to our mornings, with the 11am Pacific slot.

Thank you for the vote. :)

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by sayoki

When can I buy my first Tier 9 talent?

Probably next year at some point.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Croq360

Good morning, and thanks as always for the code!

Regarding the livestream poll, please add my vote for 11am Pacific Time on Tuesdays.

Looking forward to dungeon season 5 later today!

Good morning Croq360,

You're welcome for the code.

Earlier = better, got it. :)

We're looking forward to getting season 5 out to the players. :D

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by rjakubec

I can go with 3PM on Tuesdays, that's midnight in France. Or 11AM on Tuesday (or Thursday?). But keep it going, don't cancel it and don't put it on Wednesday when it can get cancelled often.

Thx for the chests.

You're welcome for the chest.

Thanks for the stream time votes. Going back to Thursday morning would also be a time that canceled for Idle Champions streams, so we'll likely stick with Tuesdays.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by dragonslayer_96

Any future plans for geodes? Right now and for the near future, we will be using them to unlock headrunes, but will there be any use for them after we have all the headrunes unlocked or will they be more like the free craft tokens, just sitting there for a new sader to arrive?

Oh, though I voted on stream, I say 11am would be best time for the people overseas.

Yup, we do have plans for the geodes, since players only do need so many of them. So you'll want to keep collecting them.

Twitch doesn't let us see who voted for what, just which option won, so no worries about the extra vote. :D

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Jothda

Hi Erika,

thanks for the code!

Please add my vote for 11am Pacific Time on Tuesdays.

Hi Jothda,

You're welcome.

Will do! Earlier is definitely looking like the winner. :)

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Darkliandra

We're not planning on giving out more rune solvent than we currently do, but it a request that comes up from time to time, so I'll add your vote to that item. :)

It feels kind of penalizing. Another idea would be to make rune solvents only remove 1 rune and give x5 of the current amount. That way, if you only put 1 rune, you can get it out cheaper overall.

Players aren't supposed to remove runes though, which is why the solvents are so rare. But we'll keep the idea in mind.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by HexxarTek

+1 Vote for 11a

Got it! Thanks for stopping by. :)

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Embarrassed-Doubt-61

Hi Erika, thank you so much for the code!

quick question; I'm coming up on my one-year anniversary with the game, and that means I'm playing clean-up with high tier crusaders from my first few events... I know you've been focusing on Dungeons, but do you have any sense of when the carnival is coming back to town? :-D

Hi Embarrassed-Doubt-61,

You're welcome for the code.

That's awesome that your 1-year anniversary is coming up. Thank you for playing Crusaders. :D

The Carnival of Sorrows returns around October 14th, 2021.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Ezequiel1522

It's possible to add as a Tier 5 reward a "unlock Sprint Mode" in challenge? Sometimes you want to do the challenges fast to return to your Normal to-do objectives before a Event hit again.

We won't be adding Sprint mode right-out to challenges, but I do have an update planned that includes a way to get challenges to be a little faster.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by HexxarTek

Hey Erika,

It feels especially penalizing after having an event achievement that required use of runes. The most recent event really highlighted how counterintuitive the current solvent system is to your vision of the game being able to constantly try new configurations and builds. Realistically, no one is really using Mr. Boggins, and with the very real scarcity of runes, it just feels really bad to have to use a solvent to access the rune, put it on a crusader for an achievement with zero chance of long term use, and then another solvent to free up the rune again for effective use.

The event achievements can be completed at any time, unless it's one of the odd ones that require being on the event objectives themselves.

Plus, there's the talents that want runes equipped on all Crusaders now.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by HexxarTek

Players aren't supposed to remove runes though, which is why the solvents are so rare. But we'll keep the idea in mind.

So in addition to my other comment on this thread, I'm confused, because when I asked about this on stream a couple months ago regarding reconciling how static runes are vs the dynamic nature of formation building, you said that you couldn't and would look into it. Has that plan changed?

There's no plans to change it at this time, but the request is on the suggestion list to consider as a reminder.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by BazzTurd

Greetings.

Now that we have had Zucek in the game for a while, and he has a very nice ability.

(And I most likely know the answer will be a donno)

Do you log how many Delorean and other time skip buffs have been used to get his skill up?

Hi Bazzturd,

Zuczek is very impressive, yes.

No, we didn't put in any tracking for how Zuczek gets their stacks. But for every player to build up that ability, it's probably a lot of them getting used finally. :D

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by appyleaguefan

Hey Erika,

Thanks for the Runic Chest. Looking forward to Season 5 of Dungeons. Thanks to you all for all of your hard work getting it together. One question... when will Carnival of Sorrows begin? Again, my vote for the time slot is 11am Pacific. Have a great week!

Thanks

Hi appyleaguefan,

You're welcome for the chest. :D

I'll pass along the thanks to the team, and the vote for the stream time.

The Carnival of Sorrows returns around October 14th, 2021.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by GemPro

Hi Erika,

Thank you and your team for launching Dungeons 5 as scheduled. The short break in between has allowed me to complete all available base event objectives so I'm ready to go deeper.

Please add my vote to 11am Pacific Time.

Any idea of when the next T7 event will launch? Just curious.

And thanks for the code.

Cheers~!

Hi GemPro,

Congratulations on completing the objectives in the break. I know some players were worried it wouldn't be long enough to do that.

The Carnival of Sorrows returns around October 14th, 2021.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by xyzzex

wasn't gonna post (pissed on game) but gotta ask when rune merging cats cost cooldowns? atm on my 5x L10 runes have very varying cats cost so I wanna know when cats cost on upping runes goes down if it goes (atm when I'll get enuf runes to get 5x L15 runes it'll cost on most expensive mergins 100+ cats per rune and on least expensive 10-20 cats) , while I have few k cats I'm still not that willing to spend 100+ cats to make 3x L15 rune since I'm sure you have some extra use thought for cats.

There isn't a cooldown timer on rune costs.

Creating a level 6 or higher rune just costs 1 catalyst.

If you need to make more runes in order to have a level 10 to merge with another level 10 for example, to slot a level 11 rune in a slot on a Crusader, then depending on your current rune inventory, the catalyst cost displayed on the quick merge dialog will vary.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Kite-sama

Hello Erika

Have a request and question at the same time, is possible to disable TALENST like we do with UPGRADES, is something that have been asked before or first time? Will it be possible to implement?

Thanks

Hi Kite-sama,

It's come up before, especially after we introduced the Omniclick talent. I'll add your vote to the item on the suggestion list and we'll see what happens.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by iain_sam

No confirmation message

First thank you for the code

Second I would vote for an hour earlier

Third I Killed 10,000 Godos but although it shows as complete in Achievements there was no on screen message, so I probably continued to kill them for a while after I had achieved this. Similarly for 50,000,000,000 damage taken by Rosoideae had no message.

You're welcome for the code.

Noted on the new stream time. Thank you for the feedback.

Were you watching the game when you were going after the achievements or was it idling and you just came back and checked on the achievements? I believe the achievement pop-ups time out after a while.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by Brianp45344

questions:

will we have new Carnival Special Event Tier 7?

should we get new talents for increasing dungeon points for percentage?

should we get bounty idol increasing more percentage?

Yes, Carnival of Sorrows Tier 7 is coming around Oct 14th, 2021.

No talents planned for dungeon points at the moment, but I'll add your vote to the request.

No plans on increasing the idol percentage right now.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by suoxons

Hi Erika,

thanks for the chest!

Streams at 11am Pacific would be great.

Hi suoxons,

You're welcome for the chest.

The 11am stream slot seems to be the winner, so we'll be moving the stream to then.

Cheers!

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by CotliGamer64

BRUH I WROTE THIS ON THE WRONG REDDIT ACCOUNT LMAO... This was the one I messed up my name on. Anyway, after looking at it again I have seen that the point nerf isn't that bad, but the linear scaling really is. For newer players it's not as bad as endgame people since they would greatly profit from having more time irl if they could do long runs. Please just make the scaling for points higher a little bit and also change the scaling past area 10k since newer players then will have their normal runs with a little more freetime as to not have to spam 3 long runs a day to achieve their goal and endgame people can also do long runs instead of thousands of even more stressful sprints.
Also, yes I know I may be double posting both of my messages, but that is only because idk if someone from CNE would even see it at the other post.

Thank you for the feedback on the point drops for season 5.

The levels past level 25 are just how we can implement the "repeating rewards" effect that other games have for seasons. Level 40 is still the main goal for bonus levels, since after that is when the rewards go to all materials with a sprinkling of runes. We just added up to 100 levels to see how far players decide to go.

I'll discuss with the team about the points from objectives though.

about 3 years ago - /u/CNE_Erika - Direct link

Originally posted by xyzzex

so merging 2 L10s to L11 is cheaper than merging bunch of runes to get L11.

not that smart system since like I said L15 might cost 100 cats.

If you've made 2 Level 10 runes, then you've already spent all the runes and catalysts to have those level 10 runes in your inventory, to only spend the 1 catalyst to merge them to a level 11.

But yes, going from scratch of just level 1 runes in your inventory, and not accounting for any other rune rewards, you would need 1023 catalysts to make a level 15 rune.






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