Originally posted by CotliGamer64

Hello kind reader,

I have had the idea to make a concept for a turtle in the game. The numerous ways this could be implemented are listed below together with some ability ideas. I don't really know if this is usually ignored or not considered, but I just wanted to give it a try. I just really love turtles!

Some type of turtle with a shell made of runes? would be fitting for the 'Sign of the Zodiac' ability

Turtle TM (well... yeah it's a turtle. So... slow and steady!)

Turtle Speed / Tank Crusader (Tags: Gender, Animal, Tank, Support, Event, Gold Finder, {Self-}Healer?)

Turtle Clicker (Tags: Gender, Animal, Clicker, Event)

Sharper Beak, More to eat! (CRUSADER_NAME pecks food faster by getting a trim of it's unique bone)

-> Spawnspeed increase? / Clickdamage increase? / DPS of all crusaders increase?

Sturdy Shell (CRUSADER_NAME's shell grows more robust over the years)

-> Health increase

Buried Beach Treasures (The deeper you dig the more treasures appear before you!)

-> Gold Find increases per area (additive)

Rush to Safety (Turtles can run. Help CRUSADER_NAME get back and be rewarded)

-> Drops of Items? increases per area (additive) until max area reached (buff could disappear then? balance 'The perfect nest'), 2nd Idea: Guarantees clear of area after 1st kill every X seconds (time reduced with 'Sign of the Zodiac')

Appetizers along the way (CRUSADER_NAME finds some nice watermelons to snack on every now and then)

-> Self-healing every X seconds for X%

Best menu there is (Casey provides the best meals possible to our shelled carnivorous friend!)

-> Healing of 'Appetizers along the way' and Health increases when Casey is also in the formation

The perfect nest (peaceful and nutritious)

-> At max area reached in current world/dungeon or higher than previous best, gain Gold Find increase (could be handy if gold got uncapped in dungeon)? / gain DPS bonus for all saders? / raise DPS cap by 1eX ?

Hibernation (Zzzz...)

-> Disables CRUSADER_NAME's DPS but increases Health by 10 per 1e DPS of sader? idk just thought it would be cool, can be % Health increase otherwise??

Sign of the Zodiac (Blessed by the stars around her)

-> If all rune slots are equipped, increase the effect of 'The perfect nest' and 'Rush to Safety' by 10*[Amount of lowest rune level on the sader]% ?

Runes: DPS of all saders (1st and 2nd slot), double reward chance for missions (3rd slot), increase max lvl (4th slot), increase 'Buried Beach Treasure' effect (5th slot)

https://youtu.be/9guxsIh0nXA?t=21 :> just so cute and that's proof for them liking watermelons I guess

I did some research on some features of a turtle or why they migrate etc. Hope this sparks an idea or may be considered when creating a crusader in the future! Thank you for reading this :)

Credit to matzekatze#9887 and Rotan#2674 for bringing some ideas to the table as well!

My discord: Brookz.#3035 aka. 'turtle.' on the server

Have a nice day!

Originally posted by Made_In_The_80s

hello erika, greetings from germany :)

how are you celebrating Crusaders anniversary at work? :)

dont know when we can expect new talents or when cne starts working on a new set of talents, but i would like to give suggestions for new rune related talents.

A. a talent that allows to buy more rune chests per week in the shops.

a lot of players have 100k+ Rubies and tons of JCs stacked. even with the weekly runic chests to buy... with dungeon rewards and now the code... we earn rubies faster than ever. but 100k rubies are worthless if we cant do anything useful with it. a talent that allows to buy more chests could have restrictions like "talent XY has to be maxed first" or "equip 50 saders with 5 runes each to unlock the talent" so you have to earn a lot of runes first before you can buy more per week.

having rubies to buy more than 300 rune chests but not being allowed to buy is... :( being able to buy more chests would be really good :) doesnt have to be a lot more chests per week, just so that the total rubies are slowly decreasing and not increasing any more... please let us do something useful with our rubies :)

B. a global dps boost per crusaders with all 5 rune slots equipped.

C. increase global dps, based on every level of runes equipped. A talent just like legendary hoards but related to runes instead of gear.

right now its like get a fire rune as high as possible, get an earth rune ahap, get a soul rune ahap... kind of boring... maybe cne can give us something that provides a bonus for spreading the runes on more/different saders? :) could be very interesting...

and would be nice for people who use the EP rune slots or other slots. maybe even the never used gold mission rune slots would be worth a level 1-2 rune if you have that talent high enough. this way the gold mission rune slots could finally become a little more useful.

just wanted to share the ideas, thank you. and sorry, my english is still improving :P

and 2 short questions... :D

1. any plans for a crusader ability that resets the cooldown of firestorm in the near future?

2. will old dungeon seasons like crypt/clocktower be repeated? (missed the achievements...)

thanks again

Originally posted by Glum-Prune-1392

Hi Erika,

Happy Anniversary to all the staff and thanks for the code and anniversary gifts. :)

Originally posted by tstevs

Just wanted to say i'm loving bert. Very cute taskmaster design

Originally posted by JuJuBee2006

Just was curious if the points bonus for this season of dungeons was purely anniversary related, or whether the crusaders team plans on this being a regular bonus at some point during future dungeon seasons (the bonus has made it so I know I can focus on idol dungeon runs for the rest of the season and reach my level goals).

I didn't get the dungeon pass because I knew I wouldn't be able to reach level 30, but if there is another season that has a week long point bonus, it might be something to consider in the future.

Originally posted by Inner_Ad_631

Hey Erika!
I was just wondering, will you ever be adding a new steam achievements for idols count ? I dont know, maybe 20 of them for each e multiplier? What are you thinking about this? This could be some motivation to play for all mid player with for example e10 idol count.
Thanks for all your hard work, stay safe and healthy!

Originally posted by bridbirdbird

Do you ever plan to take a break from events to focus on "the list"?

Maybe at the end of T6 would be a good time, I don't think many players would mind having a year long break between T6 and T7 to work on everything that must be on that list by now

Originally posted by H4ppyfunb4ll

I liked the 6x theme for the anniversary bonuses ... until the 20% idol bonus ... c'mon, make it 60% so the theme runs all the way through! Why trip right before the finish line? :)

Originally posted by xyzzex

Since we got faster rune merging (damn costy one cats wise (L10 rune 26 cats) and it could been better) so when gears lvling so gets max out of leg. hoarding?

Originally posted by CotliGamer64

while I did miss that there is apparently a turtle sader, I would still enjoy a cuter one :)

Originally posted by LC125

Thanks for all the anniversary stuff :)

Originally posted by ChakatFirepaw

Two talent thoughts and one thing for you to bug the web folks about:

The first talent would be a straightforward buff based on the number of achievements, probably multiplicative like Legendary Hoards.

The second would be an increase in the number of missions you can have running at once. So the first rank might add a gold mission, then an EP mission for rank 2, etc.

For the web folks: They need to look into the SSL certs, they're only valid for the game servers and this results in warnings if the web page is accessed with https forced.

Originally posted by Vitalii-Aliluiev

Hi Erika,

Do you have any plans for how to spend Rubies?

For me, it is only golden chests available to buy (a couple of runic chests, of course, but it's only 600) since I have all Legendaries.

My idia to have one more Idols buff which will cost 1000, for example.

Regards,

Vitalii

Originally posted by DrStrangelove142

Hi Erika, I was wondering if at some point we might have a re-run of the "search for Simon" event (or an improved version of it) so that it would be possible for those who missed it to get the "recruit/spend jaffa cakes" achievements?

Originally posted by TheKnoticalMenace

Hey, Erika!

Just want to say thank you for those awesome redemption gifts for this game's sixth anniversary and the QoL for the rune merging system!

I'm also at a point in the Dungeons where I'm heavily focusing on getting a lot of Idols, since I got all 40 levels and claimed my ten prized level 6 Fire Runes! And I'm stuck with the decision to dump them towards Tiernan and Garnet for DPS or faster progression, respectively.

Anyway, I'm a bit curious about the future of this game. Whether it's about making late-game progression easier/quicker, or something that can be mind-blowing to the community. (In a good way, of course!)

Also, thank you for the new Taskmaster! It's definitely one of the reasons why I get a lot job done when I'm AFK! <3

Originally posted by antebus

I thought the Anniversary gifts were quite generous,thanks. Also,what are the odds of me winning the raffle which I did not enter? Not very good?

Originally posted by _umdos

Would be nice to see a talent reducing cooldowns on missions, or make available more missions the same time. Got more than 100 crusaders available to send on missions, even when all missions are active

Originally posted by DrStrangelove142

Thanks for the reply!

I would also second the possibility to buy more rune chests, because, according to my calculations, at the current rhythm it is going to take several years to get a level 15 rune (right now the highest I can do is level 11, so multiply the time it has taken to get there by 16, bearing in mind I have bought all available chests in the shop every week).

Originally posted by ChakatFirepaw

No, it's the web site in general: Someone I was letting know about the newsletter ran into an "unsafe site" warning and when I tested it with https:// rather than http:// it flagged up as a bad cert domain.