Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Crusaders of the Lost Idols Dev Tracker




03 Mar

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Originally posted by kittymug

Hi Erika,

Sad news, but I think in hind sight the game was actively maintained for much langer than I would have expected.

Thanks to you and the team (new and old) for keeping it going as long as you have. For 'just a small simple game' this one has brought me hours, days, maybe even months of fun over the years.

2 final questions for you then. Can you share anything about what is next for you after the sunsetting? At this time, what do you consider to be the top 5 QoL enhancements that the community is looking for? I recognize that all of this is not likely to make it into the final update, just curious about your perspective on this topic.

All the best to you and team.

Hi kittymug,

We're glad you've enjoyed the Crusaders journey. I'll pass it along to the team.

Kat and Wilson will be moving to fill in the artist and developer positions we have available on Idle Champions, though Wilson will check on the emails into crusaders@codename when he can. I'll be moving on to something else.

The requests with the highest percentage of votes from the survey are the current top priorities, along with some tweaks to the infinite rewards to make season 7 point collecting appealing.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by clear-chaos

Still super bummed to hear about the sunset :( Playing since T1 of Princess' Pool Party! It's been fun watching the art and game evolve before you.

I was curious, the Skin survey seemed to have a skin planed for every (Not Xochi??? Where's the love for my girl) unit; would it be possible to see the roughs for some ideas? They sounded genuinely cool just as character designs.

Sad to hear the Yogcast/Desert bus crew wont be available, they have some spicy tag combinations. Will you be pushing the recipes for those units just so people can complete them if they have them?

Thanks for everything to the whole team! Best of luck in all your future works.

Totally, the art and game evolution have been so neat to see, back from when there were only a handful of objectives and not even Talents, to all the systems we have today.

I think Xochi wasn't on the list because Kat felt her tags were OK, and it was more about adding tag combos we didn't have, or giving someone like Matt with limited tags a few more uses. There's no initial sketches of any of those ideas though. It was to give us direction on what skins to tackle first.

We won't be turning on the recipes for the Desert Bus Crusaders, as the gear was part of the donation.

Thank you for being on our Crusaders journey. :D

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Originally posted by Quince-5555

Excellent FAQ on the sunsetting, thank you for posting that! And thank you for all your work over the years on this terrific game!

You're welcome for the FAQ. I'll be posting it as a blog as well, once we see what other questions pop up from this Q&A.

Thank you for playing Crusaders. :)

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Originally posted by OwnedByACrazyCat

Will the events re-run just without any additional tiers?

With the removal of some achievements mean that we should be able to complete all the achievements - i.e will it be the currently impossible achievements being the ones removed)

Yes, the events will re-run without additional tiers. If you've already completed everything, then it would just be the free plays if you wanted to.

The hiding of the achievements means that players who don't have them won't be able to complete them.

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Originally posted by FateIsEscaped

Loved the game. Thanks for being here for us. I also found this. An idol. You can have this one.

We're glad to hear it. It's been a pleasure to be a part of this community.

D'aww, thanks for the Idol. :)

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Originally posted by rjakubec

Very very sad to see you go! I feel lost, kind of like when Lost ended, I remember walking through the streets, looking at other people and knowing that they don't understand me or what I feel. The Internet knows, the community knows, you know.

Happy to have shared with you all this slice of life.

Yeah, it will be weird to not be working on Crusaders after so long of having it be a part of my daily life, but there will be the memories.

Thank you for being a part of our journey. :)

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Originally posted by TylorkPlays

I think Cotli and Idle Champions are the best idle games out there. Thank you very much for that.

That's so cool. I'll pass it along to the team. Cheers!

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Originally posted by LazyBast1

thanks for the memories

Definitely a lot of memories. :)

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Originally posted by billyjoe99

Hi Erika,

Firstly thanks for 2200 days of mostly fun.

One thing I've asked for before, which should be quick and easy, is could we have the points total shown in full and not in scientific notation on reset.

Also is it still possible to get the have Sinjin kill Sjelda achivement anywhere, I think it was available but can't remember where.

Finally good luck to you and the rest of the team, wherever you next end up.

Hi billyjoe99,

You're welcome for the fun. I'll pass it along to the team.

I'll check with Wilson. I know we do force some numbers to ignore sci not, so in theory it should be doable.

You can get the Solo Kill Sjelda achievement on the Making Waves dungeon, if you want to try.

Cheers!

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Originally posted by FrequentWay

Hey Erika, what does occur when you run out of flash sales items such as golden items. Do we then get runic grab bags ?

Hi FrequentWay,

Currently the flash sales would stop showing up if you own all the Golden Epics and the taskmasters.

We can discuss adding a runic grab bag option as part of the final content updates..

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Welcome everyone,

Before we begin: I hope you're all staying safe and being kind.

As you can tell by the title of this post, this will be the final reddit Q&A for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, in the wake of our announcement of the sunsetting of the game.

For those of you who are joining us for the first time, I'm Erika, the Live Services Manager for Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and I will do my best to answer your Crusaders questions.

I will be doing my best to get to all the questions today, and within the next couple of days.

The previous Q&A: ...

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Welcome everyone to the final colouring community activity.

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated over the years. It's been awesome to see your creations every week.

 

Let's send the live services part of Crusaders off with a bang!

You can find the last colouring sheet, Thank You for Seven Years on our website.

Or, if you're feeling creative, you can submit your Crusaders fanart!

 

If we get 10 coloured sheets shared at us on our Twitter with the hash tag...

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02 Mar

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Thank you for everyone for the lovely contributions of one of Kat's favourite Crusaders, Evanescent.

You can redeem SOFT-YARN-GUAR-DIAN for a 3 day long 25% Idol buff. Expires Thursday, March 31st at Noon Pacific Time (UTC - 8.)

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Originally posted by aa201121

Oops! And I missed the last one!

So there it is. I loved watching at all our coloured sheets and also hear Kat trying to say the better she could in each of them. It was fun thinking about the color schemes, or not thinking when it came to paint using Squiggle colors. It was fun also making 7 differences sheets and over all making Copykats. I hope you liked them too.

I wish there were an ultimate colouring sheet with a bunch of crusaders running after Erika, Kat and Justin, from the left to the right of course…

We definitely loved the 7 differences in the office, so thank you for those!

I will pass it along to Kat as well. :)


01 Mar


28 Feb

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Originally posted by Witty_Newspaper_9693

Thanks for hard work. Maybe we can have the mega and ultinate event chest to buy with event currency ?

Event chests are little rarer, so they won't have large versions.

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Originally posted by navilapiano

The game tracks how many are opened for achievements.

Can you display it for us to see in Stats, outside of the achievement progress bars? It also hasn't shown in Fanta site, so it isn't public at all for us. It isn't meant to be hidden, is it?

We can look into adding those values to the Stats screen as well.


25 Feb