Originally posted by Legitimate-Guitar786

Is there a reason you seem to be avoiding dungeon related questions?

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

Hey Erika

When the new “features to get more rubies” come next year, will we be able to earn 600 a week?

Originally posted by Environmental_Nerve2

Hey Erika

Sooooooo will the new PPP T6 be another game changer? Like Bruno and Jiao were?

Originally posted by Agile-Bother-1207

what is the possibility to get a button\switch to toggle between buying amount?

Originally posted by 109fullchain

SEWN-NEVE-RHEA-UPDO

..ok this is an anagram of what, it's driving me nuts....

Originally posted by mistwhisper118

Thanks for the chests!

Is there a way to buy Crooked Crow if we missed unlocking them through the event?

Originally posted by Cassius335

Hey Erika.

How are you finding Oona in terms of balancing? Blueshift seems to make her scary useful compared to literally everyone else.

Originally posted by Azar-yah

Hey there,

I'm curious about these Epic recipe crafting things i received from the dungeons. When and how will i be able to use them?
The moment recipes from the previous event go live - thus making epic recipes from the latest crusader available - i assume they will be usable in some way (though it's also likely that one or more of the recipe missions that spawn immediately will be for epic recipes - thus making the voucher or the mission redundant)...
But where will those vouchers actually show up? I don't see them anywhere in game other than the dungeon rewards bar.

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Just wanted to say thank you for the code & for opening these Q&A sessions all the time. Having communicative devs is a blessing.

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

could you please clarify? I already used the rubies i had to buy rune chests, and ive completed all the objectives available so far, the only thing I can use to get rubies are those daily quests and those give very little

Originally posted by Fastnatalie1

Hope you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! No questions, just wanted to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving.

Originally posted by Agile-Bother-1207

The Crusader levels

Originally posted by nova37hukka

Thank you for making the game available for linux! Will give it a try after I upgrade my OS in a couple of weeks. This is a great game, and I have feared losing it since the death of flash was announced. Oh and thank you for the chests. I hope you stay well & safe.

Originally posted by AerichV

Hi Erika,

Any ETA on the sprint talent update? And possibly on the 5th power runes?

Originally posted by Frankcilantro17

Hey Erika,

Is there a way that I can save the link to sync accounts until I can download the launcher? I'm using shared computer and would like to wait until I get my own before downloading the launcher.

Thanks for the chests.

Originally posted by Idlers1

I want to draw attention to the fact that Scientific Tinkering is just a flat 125% dps boost. It is currently not dependent on rune level or anything, so it is right now almost 10 time weaker than the 1000% dps ability. Being the last ability, I expected that you may have wanted this to be the strongest ability, but it is in fact the weakest ability by a huge margin. Changing this to also work with max level rune and increasing the base to 150% bonus would still be weaker than jiao, but at least it would get it into a top 5 DPS as right now it is not even in the top 5.

Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine

Hi, Erika. Thanks for the chests!

I know I'm looking a bit forward but I'm curious about the Christmas event's crusader. Any hints about them that you'd be willing to divulge?

I think it'd be cool down the line to see one based on one of the more sinister bits of Christmas folklore (e.g. Krampus) or some other bizarre traditions (e.g. Mari Lwyd).

EDIT: Oh, another question/suggestion, a little more meaty. This has to do with the Blast To The Past challenge. It currently only allows T1 crusaders. While not an inherently bad idea for a challenge, it has the distinction of being the only challenge where progression is nigh impossible if you've unlocked everyone. We're never getting another T1 crusader, and unless Runes turn out to be absolutely ridiculous, it's going to lag further and further behind the other challenges. Have you considered the possibility of adding tiers to this? Say, keeping it 3 or 4 tiers behind the current one, but slowly allowing more Crusaders in so that it can be possible to mix things up?

Originally posted by sqrzwol

Hi Erika,

Just a question on talent update: I'm guessing it's going to be a lateral update, rather than a whole new tier?

Thanks.

Originally posted by Porphyre1

Howdy - I know we've made a number of suggestions and requests for search/filter updates on the Mission screen. Runes came along and added a bunch of new requests. Is there a timeline for a revamp of the Mission screen?

Also, regarding Momma's Monster, if y'all do decide to revamp him, would it be possible to get a heads up? Like "We've decided to revamp MM and will be releasing it around XX/XX/XX"

Thanks.

Originally posted by bippyarg

the ENDEAVOUR NEPHEWS would beg to differ.

and I suppose if you've been conversing with farm animals lately and they made you a promise you don't deserve, UNEARNED SHEEP VOW!

Originally posted by sincrow97

It would be better if you added them as a weekly reward in all fp objectives. Weekly meaning you get a ruby reward only once from each fp obj after reset, where a 7day timer resets at a specific time (ie at 1pm PST every Monday) allowing rubies to be claimed again. With 9 fp objectives a fair value of 30 rubies per obj would give everyone 270 extra rubies each week. Your still short 30 rubies but hey, its a rune chest so working to get at least 1 is all but mandatory. :D

ps Thanks for the chest.

Originally posted by gragatrim

Thanks for the chests as always.

I wrote up some feedback on Momma's Monster here

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/jyknvg/mommas_monster_feedback/

Have you gotten any other feedback about them, if so, anything to share? Now that they've been out for a few days I would love to hear your thoughts on if they accomplished what you wanted from them.

Edit: One of the more in depth comments on that thread that should also be checked is by the user u/AllShallBeWell

Originally posted by BladeGrip

Hi there.

Momma's Monster is horribly underperforming for a t6 dps. A more in-depth analysis has been made by a number of people in another thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/jyknvg/mommas_monster_feedback/

Is there a plan to readjust his values, or even tweak his mechanics to make him up to par?

Originally posted by belkak210

Hey Erika, how are you and the team doing?

Last week the new T6 was released and he was very underwhelming, I don't think he even breaks the top 5 for dps in the game.

Grag made a post with our testing and I'm interested to hear whether the new sader will recieve a buff or whether he was bugged or something? Cause right now he is totally useless.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostidols/comments/jyknvg/mommas_monster_feedback/ The post

Originally posted by AllShallBeWell

I added some feedback in another thread (piggybacking on the hard work Grag did) on the context for how DPS crusaders are used, that I hope might be useful to you.

Can you share what the formations look like that you used to test and compare MM, perhaps in the stream?

Originally posted by TylorkPlays

Wasn't there a plan to rerun objectives for maybe less rubies or did it get dropped or changed?

Originally posted by tndsd

"Mystic Paint Thinner" mission still not yet fixed, it was show nothing in "Complete now" and it also need to reload game again to see it in Runes' windows

Originally posted by PunkyKiss

Is there a level limit on runes? I don't want to obsessively keep runes, but I don't want to waste solvent taking off level fives if level twenty is a thing. Its weird but it would help me choose a stopping point if I knew there was a limit

Originally posted by N00byDoobyDoo

ok im sorry I obviously wasn't being clear, IL rephrase, will we ever get renewable rubie sources, that will allow us to get at least 300 rubies a week?

Originally posted by ProShashank

Hello Erica. Thanks for the chests.

There seem to be some error with Dr. Evil's Humane testing ability. It increases DPS by 600% with 3 infected Human Crusaders by reduces the effect by 100% per infected Animal Crusader. So when I infect 7 Animal crusaders, the effect turns negative 100% and disables all my DPS. Is it intended to work this way or is it some bug/wrong coding ??

By the way, I am using Evanascent with Euodia in the same column to infect 3 Humans & 6 Animals and passing the effect with Langley.

Originally posted by Not_Pro

Hi Erika,

Is there anything you can tease about the Talents update? Will we see anything change for the lower tier talents, or is it just an update for higher-end talents? Also, any thoughts on an earlier talent that helps improve gold find, or would that be too much of a noob trap / waste of a talent slot?

Originally posted by MuljoStpho

So annoyed with the growing number of talent tiers...

Random thought that I had earlier that could be mentioned here... What if there was a fourth category for talents (or a whole second page for talents with its own trio of categories)? I had the thought when I looked at the discussion topic that people linked to in here about analyzing Momma's Monster, specifically my thought was to kind of imagine some sort of synergy category where you could add in new bonuses for specific types of characters to supplement them beyond what certain characters and certain pieces of legendary gear (and the tier 3 talent called synergy, as well) have been able to do. Granted, a design challenge for you in this would be making the bonuses just generic and multi-purpose enough to give reason for wanting to level everything instead of just picking your favored team and sticking to it religiously. It's either that or you make free talent resets replenishable in-game somehow instead of everybody only ever getting bumped back up to a cap of 3 when major changes are made to the talents system. Then you could feel free to make a lot of overly specific bonuses. Special functions for every specific tag and special functions for every event's lineup as well. (Think of each event's list of characters as kind of being like an affiliation grouping in Idle Champions. Their synergy talent would add some sort of major team mechanic custom tailored for a formation built around that lineup. Something above and beyond what any one character in the group can do on their own.)

Originally posted by HilariousMax

a1 is silly and no one would suggest that.

Why not 3094 if you don't want to make it 5684?

Originally posted by MuljoStpho

Dungeons themselves are already questionable to begin with, from my perspective. I haven't taken a poke at season 2 yet, to be honest. But I only ever bothered with it once in season 1 because I learned from that run that a player in my position just should not even think of considering it at all. (I'm no noob, with years of play time going back to the game's launch on steam and a few billion idols collected. But I'm still far far faaaaaaaaar away from the "super ultra mega veteran" level that the content is obviously designed for. Had to get ridiculously far into the dungeon before I even started earning one single dungeon token or coin or whatever it was, and the grand total earned after I had pushed the absolute farthest I possibly could in the whole thing (using some sort of weird formation someone shared which didn't look like it should possibly be any good but somehow seemed cheaty in how good it actually turned out to be) was an extremely pitiful amount.)

However, while dungeons are being mentioned why not just come up with a system that earns rubies from the free play based on progress similar to the dungeon tokens / coins and similar to the challenge tokens? Instead of one shot at each free play for rubies each week like sincrow suggested, just say that there's a cap on how many total rubies can be earned from each free play each week. It's not "reach area X to earn 30 rubies", it's "just do what you can. if you can deep dive enough to earn all 30 in one shot, cool. if you do 30 speedruns that only earn the 1st ruby each time, that's cool too. and there's nothing wrong with landing anywhere in between those two extremes either."

Originally posted by Not_Pro

Capping the uncapped talents? What's the reasoning behind that, are uncapped talents becoming too much of an idol sink, or are there different uncapped talents incoming?

I was mostly thinking of a Gold Find talent that helps out newer players that don't have the greatest Gold Find gear / amount of chests to rely on. Maybe it could increase Gold Find when the formation is full, which is something that late-game players don't always have when speeding.

Originally posted by BenL7

"You can still purchase the Cassie the Kodama Taskmaster pack through the game, and have it count towards the donation from the Crusaders team, until today, Tuesday, November 24th at 11:59pm Pacific Time (UTC-8.)."

I just barely made it. I did it at 11:42pm (2:42 my time) yesterday.