Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




13 Jan

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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 redu...
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Hi towerarmor12,

Sounds like you need to open more Jeweled chests to get more Epic trinkets, lol.

1) A mission that awards trinkets or possibly upgrades a trinket could be fun.

2) As players do get a lot of Silver chests, yeah, a trinket crafting system would have to be tightly gated. We'll keep the ideas in mind.

Thanks for the skin votes: Griz and Groklok noted.

A lower level and clearer claiming instructions could work for the Epic recipes. We'll keep that in mind.

You're welcome for Bounty of Idols! :)


12 Jan

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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!

Hi rjakubec,

Happy New Year to you too. I'll pass it along to them. :)

Congrats on the progress in the Dungeons. That's awesome. :)

Yeah, Griz is the most used out of the Carnage Cup ones still, but there have been requests for not-Griz skins. We'll see who takes the win.

Have a good week! :)

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Originally posted by -Kuja-

Hi Erika :)

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

Best regards

Hi Kuja,

You're welcome for the chests.

Thank you for the Griz skin vote. :)

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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

Curious indeed. Noted!

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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!

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Hi AMQ_,

Yup, good breaks were had by all. I hope you had a good holiday season as well.

The dungeon points buff can make a return for sure, now that it exists. :)

Yeah, once we have some free cycles, we'll be making some chat improvements to the launcher.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by Tikikala

Voting morrigan

Noted!

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Originally posted by LC125

Hi Erika! Hope you had a wonderful break!!

My vote is Nargulg

2nd is Karl.

Thanks

Hi LC125,

It was a pretty good break. I hope you managed to have a break too.

Thank you for the skin votes!

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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.

She's got a lot of unique tags already, so we chose not to give her the Support tag.

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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...).

Morrigan, got it! :)

Oh nice, glad you're liking the launcher version.

Yeah, the complete all or complete batches button for missions is something that's hanging around in my brain for when we have a moment.

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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.

You're welcome for the chest.

Hmm, Groklok skin, interesting.

Good to know skins as season rewards are cool. We'll try to do more of those.

If we did a GE, it would likely be random or a voucher of some sort, but it's sounding like that should be a reward we give out.

Thanks for input. :)

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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?

Serpent King Draco and Montana James were pitched by a fan, and included in the game with some tweaks.

We ran the community contest to name Penny and Beary.

We haven't had a formal contest to submit Crusader ideas, though it does come up on occasion.

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Originally posted by Daurakin

Hey Erika!

I vote for Griz :)

Griz skin, got it! :)

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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...

The complete the Crypt achievement should be hidden if you didn't complete it during season 1. It's just fallen down the to-do list a bit.

Season 5 will see the Crypt return, but it will have a new complete the season achievement with it.

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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...

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We may do more with taskmasters, but it's not currently on the radar.

1) We'll keep that in mind.

2) Not a use we're planning for taskmasters.

3) We won't be adding offline progress to the game.

4) Interesting idea.

5) That one seems a bit out there, but we'll note it down.

6) We don't plan on allowing taskmasters to open chests.

Morrigan skin, noted!

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Congratulations!

You can redeem RATT-LESN-OWYS-CENE for a 3 day long 25% Idol buff! Code expires Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 at Noon Pacific Time!

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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 leve...

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Hi SnowLoverTV,

We only had a very limited offline progress for mobile devices, since they can't be on as long as computers, but players were using that to cheese objectives they didn't want to do.

The game is too old at this point to consider adding offline progress, and with only one developer on it, that would be the only update players would receive after months of not much content. Idle Champions' offline progress took multiple developers multiple months to get set up, and it still doesn't work great.

Idle Champions automation system also took multiple months and developers to set up, which again, with one developer, Crusaders doesn't have time to implement at this point in its life cycle.

I'll note down the ideas were requested though, as a matter of record.

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Originally posted by RabbiZucker

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

We'll add it to our list of potential Crusaders to consider. :)

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Originally posted by Azar-yah

Griz.

Griz, noted!

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Originally posted by mystic_dragon005

skin choice:

  1. morrigan 2. nargulg 3. griz

Thanks for sharing!

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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.

Hi Challenger885,

Human-robot Griz skin noted.

We'll keep the more sprint or rebalance progress idea in mind, if we ever do approach area 20,000 for dungeons.

Cheers!