Originally posted by Environmental_Nerve2

will the desert bus sader will have ep and if yes how much?

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

Hey Erika, first thanks for the weekend buff, really got me further in game, wish it lasted longer!

1. If someone had 50.000 rubies would you say they are under prepared, or over prepared for the new upcoming new feature?
2. And if someone had 500.000 Jeweled Chests, would you say they are under or over prepared for the new feature?
3. Would it be bad to assume to season 2 of dungeons will be sometime after Carnival of Sorrows ends, but before Emos New Moon Begins? Asking for a friend

Originally posted by Dennis_Bruce

Thank you.

Originally posted by rjakubec

Hi Erika!

Quick trivia: Ready Player Two (the book) is coming out in November. Will you change the campaign's name to Ready Player Three? ;)

Also, thank you for the break between the dungeons. The last few weeks were quite hectic to get Li'l Reaper and all the 10k achievements, but I managed to do it just in time. I literally got the Sunday Stroll 10k on my last run, after the Crypt was finished! The sprint runs since then are quite stressless and even relaxing so again, much obliged for that. Even if my idols grow only thanks to missions, I don't mind it at all.

That said, when is the Clocktower getting here already? ;)

Originally posted by billyjoe99

Hi Eriak,

Thanks for the codes.

Without giving away what they are for please can you let us have a reasonable figure for the number of rubies and JCs we should keep back.

Originally posted by IBCitizen

Hey Erika,

I've been playing LostIdols through Firefox and with the newest update, i can no longer access the game. The game loads, but the opening screen is so zoomed in that I can't see/reach the 'start' button so I'm just stuck at the landing page. I'd like to transfer my account to steam, but since I can't access my old game, I cannot even reach the 'link account' option to copy it. Is there a fix for this?

Originally posted by Sylexy

Hey Erika, thanks for the code. I'll have to check out the book, I loved the Eragon series and was not aware Christopher Paolini had written sci-fi. I have one question this week. When Dungeons re-open are they going to be the same general format? 15 runs a week, resetting Thursdays? or is that changing too? It was nice to be able to have the challenge at the end of the dungeon week so we could decide if we wanted to spend a lot of time on the challenge or not depending on how many dungeon runs we had left.

Originally posted by Didz999

I was wondering would we see in futur a crusader with a new ability (like stormrider or firestorm) ? I was thinking maybe one that upgrade the chance of quest item

Originally posted by Croq360

Hi Erika,

Thanks as always for the code! I'm really excited for Carnival of Sorrows and the new Tier 6 crusaders. Tier 5 had some amazing crusaders, looking forward to playing around with the Tier 6 gang.

Originally posted by dimitrius5naj

Erica, you are one of the best CMs you can meet (compared to some Russian MMOs)!

So just one question - will we continue to meet crusaders who gradually build up their strength, going through campaigns (like the Evil Dentist)?

Mercy for the chests!)

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

I would love for the crusaders team to take a look at the talent for increasing the odds of getting short duration missions. I have not been leveling this talent because I actually like getting the longer missions, because they reward more EP per mission and I don't really want to micromanage doing the 10 minute missions all day.

If I have misunderstood how the talent works, then I would suggest changing the text on the talent so that it makes its effect more clear(because it currently reads like a negative effect to me).

Originally posted by Legitimate-Guitar786

so to be clear, we can open Jeweled Chests, just dont use the cats for crafting or buying skins, until the new feature? also will 100 catalysts be enough to get us started on what ever it is we are now saving them for?

Originally posted by PushPresto

Hi Erika,

I'd be interested in a setting option that allowed us to use the saved formations for our legendary equipment levels too (or a separate set of presets). Any thoughts?

Originally posted by kurvazje

Dear CNE, looking forward to your downloadable launcher, It should fit into a windowed section on my new 35" Ultrawide.

Originally posted by Tikikala

dumb idea for future T7? events.

skins for the original 24 crusaders but this time there's design and tag difference.

(+ maybe the event crusaders round 2)

and yay for desert bus. im still missing soem crusaders there lol

Originally posted by Cotlathi

Hello Erika,

So, for a good while, I’ve been trying to keep your attention at dungeon idol gains, which are less than ideal. I also have a few other ideas that I’d like to share. Of course, right when you asked for suggestions for next season of dungeons, I lacked the time to write down my ideas. My apologies for this late addition.

Let’s get idols gains out of the way first. What I’ve seen in most multiplayer games is that progress is fast for new players, but slower for advanced players. This way, newer players can catch up. Crusaders also seemed to follow this philosophy. Still does, mostly, except for one thing: high-endgame players can gather idols much faster than low-endgame players. This was the case since dungeons were introduced, since high-endgame players could get better results in the same amount of time.

However, the problem was greatly exacerbated when idol gains for sprinting were shot: low-endgame players like me were happy to rake up one percent of current idols on the best maps, while high-endgame players could get full or near-full rewards on almost all maps. For me, it means that since a while, my best idol gains have been from missions. Still, dungeons give me more than FPs.

Just to be clear: I, and I think everyone I’ve spoken with, agree that sprinting gave crazy idols (although I admit I happily accepted them!). Fixing that was the right thing to do. The problem was *how* it was fixed.

If I understood things well, there were several things the fix tried to achieve:

• No more crazy idol gains from dungeon sprints
• Less focus on dungeon idols, more focus on dungeon points and dungeon coins
• Planning for the future: if more sprint talent levels are added, there still shouldn’t be crazy idols gains from sprinting.

Am I missing anything? All of these sound agreeable. However, the fix solved as many problems as it created.

First of all, idol gains from dungeon sprints were greatly reduced. This was good.

On the other hand, dungeon points and dungeon coins remained about as uninteresting as they were before. There isn’t yet much of interest you can buy with coins. As for points… there were barely any interesting rewards for reaching higher dungeon levels. The TM is good of course. I was also hoping to reach the challenge tokens, but I fell several levels short. Other than that, it was mostly buffs and cats. If you’re advanced enough to play Dungeons at all, you probably have enough of both. There were also some mats, but it really wasn’t that much. So, why collect dungeon points?

Moreover, since the map bonuses for points and coins were low (10%), there really wasn’t much point in doing dungeon levels with these bonuses. Even if idol gains from the idol map were shitty, doing the idol map over and over was still the best long-term plan. So here, the fix didn’t really change much.

As for planning for the future… this is where the problems came from. Post-fix, the biggest issue for low-endgame players was to get through the 3500-7000 zone. Between area 3500 and 5500, the increase in idol gains was as poor as during the sprint section, but with far slower progress. This problem continued between area 5500 and 6500: even if gains started crawling out of the pit, they still wouldn’t be out of it yet. Only if players could reach area 7000, pushing deep gave better idol gains than simply sprinting. To put it like this: if scrubbing floors gives you three dollars an hour and writing music gives you ten dollars a day, you best scrub a lot of floors.

Now, the problem for low-endgame players is that reaching area 7000 is hard. They can make it on some maps, but definitely not all. 6000 is fine on most maps. 6500 is well possible on several. But all of that is still well in the pit. So, they’re kinda stuck. FPs give poor gains, because of the DPS cap. Dungeons give poor gains because they can’t reach the juicy levels yet. They’re in a chasm. It’s a ‘not a girl, not yet a woman’ kind of situation.

If the plan is to add more sprint levels and plan dungeon rewards accordingly, I get that. However, the dungeon season has ended without any new talents. There was no sprinting to 5500. You’ve solved a problem that doesn’t yet exist, while players like me felt the downside of that solution every single dungeons run. It’s like a bus that drives people to an empty field, waits for ten minutes while the passengers grit their teeth, then continues to its destination. Why? Because there’s going to be an airport there, some day. And someone decided to update the time tables well in time.

So, suggestions. I think I’ve made all of these before, but I’ll reiterate them.

1. A different distribution of dungeon idol gains until more sprint levels are added. The goal here is to fill the pit between sprinting and high areas, to get more even (yet increasing) rewards. Suggestions were made by better players than me; I’ll just link this: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/i2w5bh/this_better_shows_the_issues_with_the_old_and_new/.
2. A new talent that improves normal idol gains. Not bonus idols, not dungeon idols, but the idols you get from purchasing levels. My idea is to link this to dungeon levels: increase idols earned by %% for each dungeon level unlocked. Maybe the first level could cost about 3.7e13 idols (roughly 10x the BIs of an average FP to area 5760), pushing normal idol gains to the e12 region. With maxed talent levels and dungeons level 25 unlocked, normal idol gains could be in the e14-e15 area: very useful for low endgame players, virtually useless to high endgame players. If the highest talent levels are expensive enough (e17?), the last levels could even push normal endgame levels further.

This achieves several things:

• Each dungeon level is worth it, because each level increases idol gains. This, in turn, increases the value of dungeon points.
• Pushing deep is more worth it, because on top of dungeon idols/coins/points, it rewards a relevant amount of normal idols.
• Low endgame players can catch up with high endgame players.

3a. Higher rewards for bonus dungeon coins/points. I suggest 100% instead of 10%.

3b. A talent that increases aforementioned bonus. At max level, the bonus could be 400%.

These make the dungeon maps with bonus dungeon points/coins more interesting. Of course, these points/coins should have enough value as well.

On top on these suggestions, I have a couple of other ideas:

1. Extra dungeon levels after level 25. Imho, 25 should still be the milestone to aim for. That’s where the big reward is, that’s what the whole thing is building up to. However, those players who manage to reach level 25 relatively early probably want to get something extra out of it. So, my suggestion is to add extra levels past 25, with huge costs. Really, each of those levels would be a milestone in itself. Each level would reward a substantial amount of mats… not 10,000 common mats, but more like 100,000 or even 1,000,000. A big heap of mats that high endgame players are eager to claim.

2. An alternate map. I believe you mentioned you wanted to replace two maps or so. I took inspiration from Sunday Stroll, kept it at 13 slots, but made the thing more propagation friendly: Tiernan can prop to most squares, similar to APoD. If you want to make it bigger, you could add another spot at the 'a', 'b' or 'c' location.

Best wishes and good luck preparing for season 2!

Originally posted by Cotlathi

Hey Erika,

I was thinking e12 from everything combined. Else it would get rather nuts, I fear. Various idol bonuses would indeed apply, as normally from idols gained from purchasing levels. This new bonus would apply on all objectives (ruby objectives, dungeons, FPs, challenges, etc). However, the new bonus could only be increased by buying more talent levels and gathering enough Dungeon Points to unlock more Dungeon levels.

You like it if players try to get as far as possible on a run, right? Imho, this game has a solid core mechanic if you want to reward that. Levels purchased, areas unlocked, time spent… But it’s been lying in the dust, while bonus idols and percentage-of-current-idols have taken the spotlight. Let’s dust it off, because it’s perfect if going deep is what you want to reward.

For funsies, I did a FP today. It netted me 9,253,634,727,028 idols. If we subtract 9,253,612,143,007 from Bonus Idols, we are left with 22,584,021 idols (22,671,092 if I swap in GL Roboqueen and L Morrigan). Rounding it off: 2e7. This is with a substantial time bonus, since it had been running for almost a day, but no idol bonuses from the Challenge and Dungeon shops. Of course, Dungeon runs will often go to higher areas than a FP, but only by a factor 2 tops. To increase this to e12 with one talent level purchased, you’d need something like an e5 bonus from this new talent.

So for instance, on this last FP, I got this:

2,075 base Idols (518,875 levels, 1 idol per 250 levels)
x 327.75 from Talents
x 6.64 from Time Bonus
x 2 from Completed Objectives
+ 3,701,444,857,203 from Bonus Idols
x 1,25 from Post-Ad Bonus
x 2 from Free Play Bonus
= 9,253,634,727,028 Idols

With the new talent, this could become:

2,075 base Idols (518,875 levels, 1 idol per 250 levels)
x 327.75 from Talents
x 6.64 from Time Bonus
x 100.000 from Dungeon Levels
x 2 from Completed Objectives
x 1,25 from Post-Ad Bonus
= 1,128,934,875,000 Idols

Frankly though, ‘x100.000’ looks monstrous next to the other factors. You could choose to boost other idol talents such as Efficient Crusading, Deep Idol Scavenger and Idols Over Time. In that case, the bonus from this new talent could be smaller. Either way though, I’d aim for an overall e12-ish result with 1 level purchased and 1 Dungeon level unlocked. For instance:

10,375 base Idols (518,875 levels, 1 idol per 50 levels)
x 3,277.5 from Talents
x 66.4 from Time Bonus
x 200 from Dungeon Levels
x 2 from Completed Objectives
x 1,25 from Post-Ad Bonus
= 1,128,934,875,000 Idols

Of course, there are plenty other ways you could handle this. Really, your team is probably a lot better at putting down the best numbers. And while we're on that topic: earlier, I suggested an e13 cost for the first level, but that might be a bit high. Hopefully though, my input is a useful starting point.

And that would make going deep appeal, so that you could get the season levels from the dungeon points? Or is this talent bonus somehow tied to clearing areas in the dungeon objectives?

I’m not entirely sure I get your question, but the formula for this bonus would be something like [base bonus for this talent] x [number of talent levels unlocked] x [number of dungeon levels in the current season unlocked]. So with 1 talent level unlocked and 0 dungeon levels unlocked, the bonus would be 0, or a x1 modifier. With 1 talent level unlocked and 1 dungeon levels unlocked, the bonus would be [base bonus] x 1 x 1. With 9 talent levels and 12 dungeon levels unlocked, the bonus would be [base bonus] x 9 x 12, which equals [base bonus] x 108. With 40 talent levels (for instance) and 25 dungeon levels unlocked, the bonus would be [base bonus] x 1000, which would mean e15 idols.

For reference, my total idols are currently in the e15 range and I could get nowhere near level 25. I also shouldn’t be able to purchase the max level of this talent without some serious saving-up: I’m thinking something of an e17 cost for the final level. That would put me somewhere in the middle for this talent.

The ‘go deep’ effect should be twofold. One, people trying to unlock as many dungeon levels to increase the bonus. Two, people getting more idols on their run if they go deep. Does this answer the question from your quote?

Regarding seasonal levels past 25 counting towards this talent: up to you, really. I’d say yes, but imho it doesn’t really matter: the players that can get past lvl 25 shouldn’t significantly benefit from this talent anymore.

Another wall of text. Sorry for that. I just hope it's not done in vain. If there are any more questions, I'd be happy to clarify.