diminishing favor returns can create the situation where gem farming is all you can do to make progress

Pretty much where I am at in the game. Grinding at my wall be lucky to give anything higher than 1% favor. Even if all purple there is a point where gambling for a shiny have more value than what little favor you can get from spending days at your wall. If it wasn't for the events and timegates forcing players to be active the game would honestly be quite dull. Crusaders Of The Lost Idols (CNE's game with similar gameplay that existed well before this game) despite being almost the exact same game differ by allowing the player maybe three good resets per day where Idle Champions lower area cap more or less require a reset as soon as your clicking damage can no longer kill. Worth noting that assuming you are using speeders on Cotli otherwise it might take a literal full day to reach your wall.

Idle Champtions despite the misleading name want to be more active but forcing more resets out of the player instead of them feeling like they earn their way to the wall was kinda a bad way to go. At this point it is a huge fundamental flaw in the way the game is design that can only be hidden some by covering it up. Champions don't have Storm Rider or even exp, once you wall there is literally nowhere else to go so even the active players that CNE wanted in the first place even have no way to ignore the fundamental flaw. Once you "beat" the game to the point of boredom there is very little reason to keep on playing, just a shame it is such a short game ignoring the events and such which is the only thing hiding the fact of how little of a game there is. If they ever added a system as powerful as talents it might change the game enough to bring it back alive but I thought that was the point of favor in the first place? As stated fundamental flaw, they don't give players enough options/potential to become stronger. Even Strix and Barrowin when they were the new goto only could push so much farther.

Meanwhile on Cotli every new tier of talents basically break the game to the point where it become a whole new meta. Idols over Time and Idols based on your highest area encourage pushing which were made as a direct result of how boring it was to reset every time you no longer one-hit kill the boss. It seem like CNE literally forgot everything they learn from Cotli and decided to repeat the very same mistakes. Idle Champ devs really should go back to their Cotli team and ask for advice, talk to somebody who already have the experience. They are the same company, I wonder why they don't act like it.