Originally posted by rheach

Thanks Erica, would like a skin for Morrigan

Originally posted by Vingummi92

Odile is quite strong. What happens to future objectives and dungeons now?

Originally posted by NGPriest

Morrigan too!

When is the next sale?

Need to buy more TM's :p

Originally posted by joshrd

Posting on behalf of several at kongregate, It's frustrating that there is a lengthy mandatory tutorial before you have access to options to link accounts. Could you make an adjustment for accessibility/getting caught up?

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Really happy the Q&A are back: a few things on my list

1. I may just be missing something, but what did you mean by "2 prizes would you like to see awarded levels from season 3"? can you reword it a bit because I am missing what you mean.
2. Could you describe the team's considerations for how you are deciding which slots new crusaders go into? I have been feeling like certain slots are extremely popular, while others are less so.

I don't have a strong preference, but I think i would lean towards are skin for Griz or nargulg

Originally posted by tstevs

No question, but just wanted to say i really like the design of ursula

Originally posted by DragonFuhrer

Welcome back and thx as always for the chest. Hope your holiday break was just what you needed to recharge. One item I want to bring to your attention. When you made the change to "Fixed Odile's Scepter applying global effect to all Crusaders, instead of just herself." Not sure if it was intentional or un-intentional, but you nerfed her DPS power. since the change, I can do 400-700 levels "less" depending on the dungeon run. Please check into it please b/c it was really dis-heartening. Thank you.

Originally posted by Aggressive_Dingo_720

How about more chatrooms? I would prefer to use chatrooms special for language like chat room english 1, chatrom french 1, chatrom us 1, chatroom german 1 etc.

Easier for many users.

Second: it would be nice to mark friends to find them in the different chatrooms.

Originally posted by VerbingWeirdsLang

Happy New Year!

Odile has become one of my favorite Crusaders for the Snowflake Hippos alone. Although they're a bit hard to see lobbed over a white background. ^^"

Please tell Kat this player loves the design for the Snowflake Hippos. I can already imagine the skin for Odile: civilian mode, before she goes full Winx magical girl.

Would love to see more characters from Odile's world and maybe some more of her backstory!

My vote's on Griz. Maybe some kind of steampunk hybrid?

Originally posted by joshrd

my request is more along the lines of can you enable access to options before completing the tutorial, so accounts can be linked more quickly?

Originally posted by brickobat

i vote Griz skin

Originally posted by antebus

Hope everyone had great holidays! I like seeing Christmas Crusader recipes available...well as long as one isn't lutefisk,even Santa doesn't want that.

Originally posted by invento_kave

Thank you for the chest :) Happy new year to all.

Originally posted by bippyarg

SCARIER OGRE KINGS is today's chest code anagram. So scary skin for Grok or Narg then?

For the obvious question, any particular plan or goal for how long the break is between seasons this time around, or is it limited/based on development time of the 5th rune feature, and hence, not sure how many weeks it will be? Thanks!

EDIT: Also more long term question: Do you think in season 4, (or possibly season 5, the ~1 year anniversary of dungeons) you could bring back difficulty scaling for dungeons, as a speed feature?

E.g. once a player has unlocked level 20000 in a dungeon, "difficulty 1" appears as an option that changes the scaling such that it now takes the same dps as lvl20000 to beat lvl 10000. And the rewards for 10000 now also reflect what they would be if you hit 20000. So it speeds it up. You could of course scale it any way you want, and introduce multiple difficulty levels (e.g. once you reach level 20000 on diff1, you unlock diff2, so in the long run dps requirements grow exponentially). The general idea would be, once you prove you are advanced enough, you unlock and harder, but faster in real clock time, mode of the dungeon.

Cheers!

Originally posted by Croq360

Welcome back, I hope you had a great holiday!

I just wanted to find out if dungeon vouchers will carry over after the season ends or if they need to be spent before the season ends.

Oh, and thank you for the dungeon points buff over the holidays and for the extra week in dungeons!

Originally posted by Velyndin

Morrigan for me please.

For season 3 I'd say more skins like Agent 79 and Epic Recipes.

Originally posted by CommanderLuca

Hey Erica,

the first time I comment and I want to thank you all for your work. :)

I didn't have a chance yet to link my account so any kind of help there will be highly appreciated.

Originally posted by redsunstar

Morrigan

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika,

Q1) Are you happy with Bounty Of Idols in it's current state? It's quite potent (in a great way) with just one level, never mind 200...

Q2) With Kong version being fully KO'd, can we get a 1.15 or 1.20 Screen Scale on the Steam/Downloader versions? Not vital, but 1.25 is slightly too big vertically.

Q4U -1) Can we get a "Grufflock" skin for Groklok that turns him into a bearded Viking wearing a bear as a coat & hood? (-Orc, + Human and Animal)

Q4U-2) EDIT: Ah, dungeon stuff. No idea here, TBH.

Originally posted by Jothda

Hi Erica, I would like a skin for Griz. And thank you very much for the Dungeon Points buff. I hope we will see this nice buff again sometime ;-).

Originally posted by GwennieMacrae

Griz skin

Originally posted by Idolgrl81

Skin for morrigan or karl

Originally posted by sqrzwol

Hi Erika, happy new year.

I'd vote Griz personally. How about a token for a free GE from dungeons, now that would be something :) even if it was a rotating selection like the voucher chests from dungeon shop..

I'm curious if you think there is any chance cotli would ever be available through one of the flash emulators, like the one AG is working on.

Thanks!

Originally posted by Challenger885

Hi Erika!

Griz deserves a cool skin, allowing him to be human+robot at least.

And about dungeons season 3 - we will need a lot more sprint levels (at least additional 2000 areas) if new requirements will be 14k+ area (otherwise 1 trip takes like a day for people who don't keep PC turned on 24/7), and if the idols % and/or xp cap would get increased more then it will be near impossible to get level 25.

Of course those sprint talents could be added to existing level 6-7 tier so that not only super high levels could buy them in tier 8.

Just saying this early on so you will have time for analysis.

Originally posted by mystic_dragon005

skin choice:

1. morrigan 2. nargulg 3. griz

Originally posted by Azar-yah

Griz.

Originally posted by RabbiZucker

would love jjba stardust crusaders themed crusaders, or any jojo character.

Originally posted by SnowLoverTV

Hi Erika,

Two of the things that this game is missing are offline progression and automation.

Now I never understood why offline progression even if its 1 area per minute never worked, or at least doesn't work now.

Now about automation I do understand that it will be very "OP" and your sales might go down cause a lot more people will be getting enough bounties so they have no reason to buy chests using money. Now, I don't know if that is the reason for why you didn't do some kind of automation or not.

Whether it is the reason for why there is no automation, there are a few things you can do to combat that and its: 1) make the Automator reset only once a day or once a week 2) add automation chests which will contain upgrades to the Automator 3) There will be a free to play and a paid option to those chests, just like in your other game 4) You can always add additional benefits beyond the just Automator speed and quality mechanics like legendary levels of sort.

This will let some or most people to not get discouraged by the dungeons or other grinds that needed to be done. What the automation in the other game let me do is take a break or use the memory in another game or another application instead. In your other game I could be offline for 4 days and get a lot of progress done, but here I can be gone for three months and make "0" progress (now you added the very nice talent that makes up a little bit for not playing, otherwise if your idols is high enough its 0 progress) - its really depressing.

Thank you for reading this wall of text.

Originally posted by ZellZoy

Any plans for additional uses for Taskmasters? Cuz I have 13 of them... Some ideas:
1. Have a click area for just straight up farming idols at a slow rate.
2. Complete missions. This would let us cut down on the wait time for new missions to popup as well as make it easier to complete a large number of missions without having to click through them all.
3. Another slot in the autoadvance area, if all 6 are filled enables offline progress.
4. Put one on the event ticket slot to speed up how many of them you get.
5. Crusader specific ones like putting it on the portrait rather than the level up button to increase power of an ability.
6. Put it on the chest slot to open 1 silver chest per X minutes. Some of us have built up a lot of them and even clicking to open 100 at a time would take a while. I know why you won't add an open 1000 button but doing something like this should have little server load (hopefully) and allow us to more easily open chests.

Adding vote for a skin for Morrigan

Originally posted by pandino89

Hi there! I am just wondering if "The Crypt" dungeons will ever happen again? I was too weak to get the achievement of reaching level 25, I think I'm gonna do it in Clocktower (I'm at 23 atm), but I wanted to get the Crypt achievement too...

Originally posted by Daurakin

Hey Erika!

I vote for Griz :)

Originally posted by Armyegg11

has there ever been a fanmade crusader in the game before? if not, would the developers ever consider a sort of, competition for fanmade crusaders for certain events? like, people enter ideas on reddit, then the most voted for idea is the next created crusader?

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Thanks for the chest. I suppose I'll vote for Groklok, though I'm fairly ambivalent overall.

Season 3 rewards: Skins are usually welcome, especially since they now have a talent that has them contributing to DPS. I'm pretty ambivalent on Taskmasters at the moment because I have several more than I regularly use. Golden Gear is a good reward IMO, but I can imagine you don't want everyone getting the absolute best Goldens THAT easily so maybe it could be a random GE rather than a selected one? Or maybe something like a voucher for the Challenge Shop that lets you get one of the GEs that pops up without spending tokens or something like that. I think skin + something like that would be my vote.

Originally posted by ferzed

Morigan skin +1.

I'm playing on a potato computer, the standalone launcher is a really nice upgrade from flash, thanks for that :).

Not a question, but a suggestion, is there a way to improve mission endings ? like completion in batch (all 100%, all gold, all ep, all others...).

Originally posted by Halaberd85

hi,

is there a reason Odile doesn't have the Support tag? she has several support FAs so it seems a little strange that it's missing.

Originally posted by LC125

Hi Erika! Hope you had a wonderful break!!

My vote is Nargulg

2nd is Karl.

Thanks

Originally posted by Tikikala

Voting morrigan

Originally posted by AMQ_

Hi Erika! I hope you and the team had a good break.

I'd love to see a skin for Griz. Not really a question, but some dungeon feedback. I've just gotten to level 25 and that was with the points buff getting a lot of use. I'd love to see the points buff maybe pop up in the dungeon pass with the other buffs. Gold wasn't that useful for me, but points always help. I liked the main prizes being at level 21. That was doable - I had to push hard to get to 25 though (but wanted to get all the levels for the pass).

Still asking for the room naming on the launcher - trying to find everyone. And the three rooms we have are pretty full. I'd love to see the upgrades that BW2 got in it's chat make their way over as well. I was asked to pass along that the one line of text entry at the bottom of the chat screen was a bit of a pain (it scrolls up so you can't see what you have written). Other than that, survived Nate blowing up the flash world.

Thanks!

Originally posted by jojoga

Nargulg out of curiosity what you'd do to him. One more tag would be nice, since that's his only purpose currently

Originally posted by -Kuja-

Hi Erika :)

Thx for the 2 Chests and I vote for a Griz Skin !

Best regards

Originally posted by rjakubec

Hi Erika!

First of all, Happy New Year to you and to Kat and to Kevin!

I just finished the 15k achievements today, and I think I might get to level 27 on the dungeons by next week, so Odile was great, let no one tell you otherwise! I hope the Crooked Crow nerf was forgotten by the masses. ;)

As for Carnage Cup, other than Griz, I don't use any of the crusaders, which is a pity. But I reckon I would rather see a skin for Drizzle or Nargulg maybe.

I'll think more about the 2 prizes for season 3 and I'll come back to you.

Have a nice week!

Originally posted by towerarmor12

Hi Erika,

I was thinking about the new "Trinket Hoarder" talent. For me personally it doesn't give much of a DPS boost because I only own one complete set of 20 Epic Trinkets. So I don't really care about it at the moment. Therefore, I was thinking that some sort of upgrade mechanism for the Trinkets would be cool!

1. One possibility could be a new mission type (similar to gear upgrade missions). That would also satisfy people who ask for more missions.
   
2. Another system could involve a similar mechanism as for the rune crafting system. But in order to avoid that everybody is converting all their trinkets to epic there either needs to be

• a hard cooldown similar to rune chest purchase via rubies/challenge tokens/dungeon coins (like only one rare->epic transformation per week for each trinket type), or
• a system like gear upgrade from epic to legendary gear with legendary catalysts. Also here increasing costs that get reduced again after some while could be helpful. Or maybe even using legendary catalysts as currency for the upgrades?
• or a general penalty to pay. Like, not two common needed to convert them to one uncommon trinket, but let's say 6 or so. Exact numbers you need to figure out.
  

Of course, it should not be too easy to gain epic trinkets using such a method, otherwise the "Trinket Hoarder" talent could become too OP in no time.

Concerning the skins, I'd vote for Groklok or Griz.

And for the dungeons I would like the epic recipes to stay as rewards but maybe at a lower level. People like me who made a long break or rather new players that gain a ton of new crusaders in every new event need many many epic recipes. However, they are unlikely to reach level 15.

And thanks for the "Bounty of Idols" talent! That gave a tremendous boost in idol gain :-)

Originally posted by Halaberd85

hi again, forgot to vote for a skin :D

has to be Griz as he's the carnage cup sader we use the most.

Originally posted by Travkeymaybe

Hi Erika, I would love a griz skin.

Originally posted by whywouldichooseaname

why doesnt bat billionaire have the gold finder tag when smart investing is a gold buff?

Originally posted by ryan92084

I'm a bit late as usual. For the skin I'd pick griz.

What are your thoughts on the current state of the game with regard to goldens? Pre Hildr the extra e20 for milgrid's golden hat was considered a very strong bonus. After Hildr a divide opened up where those with goldens moved to Bruno for massive gains and those without stayed with Evan. Now with both Hildr and Odile the whales are almost playing a different game.

The prop chain goldens effect on Odile's Hippos alone is enough to cause a rift of up to ~e1779 dps between the golden have and the havenots and that is just one ability. There are still two more goldens to be released which will only serve to widen the gap further. I realise that as a single player game with no real goal p2w doesn't really apply but this game also has a community of form building that is quickly becoming fractured.

Furthermore season goals will be severely skewed depending on which group you intend to balance for since that dps equates to up to a 9,000 area difference in power. Goldens now matter far more than materials or idols making f2p staying anywhere near on par impossible. For math behind the disparity you can use http://bit.ly/Brunodile

On a different topic we've been on a bit of a rough streak for sader releases that have left a few players a bit disgruntled:

• Hildr - buffed upgrades she shouldn't and didn't buff some she should, caused gold to go infinity, caused bruno to go infinity, resulted in bruno getting capped
• Mogra - Pretty decent but a bit disapointing as the first t6
• Crow - Was a solid and interesting sader until their "bugs" were accidently fixed 6 weeks later causing the loss of a few hundred e, rebalanced back up to Mogra status
• Monster - Initially compared unfavorably to T3 level DPS, even rebalanced they are still very weak,
• Odile - Skates erroneously buffed another piece of gear, hippos going infinity, sceptre "bug" fixes resulting in an e100+ loss
• Ursula - broken gear and very weak again, even if you meet all her tag requirements she still is still considered lower than a Drosenthes level buffer

Side note: art has been very on point