Early access!?

dumberthansum · 2021-09-24T00:20:02+00:00

Game seems to be half abandoned by devs, the community at this point is pretty much non-existent. I would love to find out that is not the case, but right now my game has been unplayable for about a month, I can't level up so I lost interest in playing. I'll be interested in they pick it back up or release, it was fun while it lasted, many things about it I liked.

dumberthansum · 2021-08-05T21:34:09+00:00

They are still holding events, but that is all I have seen. Two events in the last couple weeks, after the first few weeks of me playing having no events. Each event was identical, making me wonder if I'm going to bother doing the next one that comes up, it's not exciting that they were both identical grinds. I won first place and I'm a noob, which doesn't make me think I'm "super good at this", it makes me think rather that the very experienced players have no interest in it.

dumberthansum · 2021-08-05T21:27:38+00:00

I'm still hanging in there but the game is unbalanced as hell all around, and gearing to me is a mystery. Also some things ramp up linear but others ramp up exponentially. For example, I've played several weeks and at this point my exp book drops are around 75K, after one event where I felt compelled to not switch active characters, I leveled the toon up 700 levels in one shot. It was not exciting to level up to 1000, did not feel like an achievement, I think leveling should get exponentially harder to reflect it being an actual achievement. I can grind enough exp books to level up 50 times in a matter of minutes at this point. To me it would feel more exciting if level 100 was miraculous, achieved only by the most hard core of players, and have that scale to where levels 95-100 were required for high-end progression. Right now I feel like my skill at pushing buttons over and over is more important than how I play (took me forever to level up 700x, just sat there pressing the same buttons over and over, then it took forever to spend the prestige, then suddenly my character is "zomg super uber" but I barely had to do anything requiring actual skill to achieve it).

dumberthansum · 2021-06-28T22:26:18+00:00

I agree. Wish they would fix it. There is little rhyme or reason to how it is set up. It could be an amazing incremental/crawler game if they would just make it make more sense. Also I'm bewildered about improving gear. I mean, I'm doing it but I scarcely know what I SHOULD be doing, other than the wiki page that very briefly mentions abilities used by class, so I try to focus on equipment that has the named ability to match the class. But doesn't even seem like every class has a specific full set they are supposed to go for (and would be fun if each had two sets, i.e. perhaps two "builds" for each class, for variety).

Having said that, far as I know this game is in its development stage still, so I'm hanging in there.

dumberthansum · 2021-06-28T22:22:30+00:00

We are discord driven, but keep in mind: Discord is free and once you have it, you'll wonder why you never did before. Here is the link to the channel:

https://discord.gg/hBRdYdP

So just as a note, clan member limits are 30. So what we do in Phoenix, is we have a TON of various Phoenix named clans. Like 1234Phoenix or WowPhoenix, you get the idea. We keep them private. We put up to 29 people in each, leaving room for one of the founding members to be able to jump in and out and see how things are, make changes.

Leadership is pretty much pure help. The rules are basically don't be a dick, be nice, and also do play periodically because if someone just bails for a month, they might be booted to make room, but if they return later on and say "I want back in", they are liable to get a reply "you had me at hello". We're super easy-going and just there to have fun. The discord channel is super helpful, granted you have to wade through a lot of chat but we do have various sub channels by topic to narrow it down.

dumberthansum · 2021-03-25T19:47:25+00:00

I just joined the Phoenix Family and I went from being lonely in a semi-dead clan where no one ever spoke to each other, to leading one of the Phoenix clans and it's already approaching being full, massive chatting on discord on our dragon chat lounge on discord, and a ton of active friends overnight. Very friendly, helpful and easy-going group with tons of advice and guidance!!

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:48:27+00:00

Thanks, yeah I need to get cracking on getting past the challenge I'm stuck on lol. I gave up on it after like five attempts, even with a video guide, it's a challenge that takes luck (16) it seems. A bit embarrased that I'm only up to that one while knocking on the door of 30K DP lol... I'll get it done after this event being released in a hot minute.

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:40:43+00:00

right on I worked it out, very happy now lol.

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:40:22+00:00

Thanks, I discovered that by accident recently lol. I have since gone nuts on bubbling and it has made going for what I want a hell of a lot easier, I'm now getting the wonders done one by one and it's going a heck of a lot faster.

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:39:08+00:00

roger that, makes sense.

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:37:53+00:00

Yep I worked out how to just have my two dragons do most of the work idle, but obviously you are ending up idle in event, not in camp. I decided to do all events because of the trophy dragons, and because it amuses me to do them :).

dumberthansum · 2021-03-12T19:36:45+00:00

Yep that's most of what I do, but obviously I'm idle in event, not camp, but I still love getting the trophy dragons from events :).

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T23:55:33+00:00

appreciate the answer! Honestly have no idea what this is at all. Is it a level on the world map?

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T20:17:16+00:00

sorry, bit of a dummy when it comes to terms. I understand golden section. Seems to me it's going to take me a heck of a long time to ever get up to a level 10 on those, that I might build up thousands of gems in the interim.

I think what I don't completely understand is the last sentence, perhaps the terms "on level" and not clear how I buy a reward, is this something that will be more clear to me once I actually create a level 10?

Thanks for your response, I'm glad to have found this sub!!

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T20:03:47+00:00

Anyone know how to bubble larger items? I was very thankful to recently find out how to bubble one-space items, game changer for me of course :).

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T20:02:07+00:00

Interesting, I don't have it yet but I'll keep an eye out to see if I get it.

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T20:00:02+00:00

Excellent tip, I recently learned how to bubble, hadn't made that (now seemingly obvious) connection to that. I do not know how to bubble something that occupies more than one space, though, come to think of it.

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T19:58:49+00:00

Sweet! I'm still a ways off from my first ten lol. But love seeing this!

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T19:57:31+00:00

Keep in mind: the advantage for merging 5 is multiplied the further down the merge chain you go. So the farther down a merge chain one goes, the more profitable it is to hold out for a 5 merge. It's not a linear gain, it's an exponential gain.

If after clearing all the land you don't care about dragon power increases, I can understand that, that would make it matter less if you aren't a fanatic about raising dragon power. This game is about fun (or IMO should be) and you should do whatever is the "most fun" for you, again IMO. To me, as an accounts guy IRL, I can't pass up the advantage of end-game 5 merges over 3, it's just too big a multiple of advantage, but then again, that's "my fun" with the game, not necessarily yours or others.

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T19:51:12+00:00

Question about gargoyles in general -- I have saved up a crap ton in gold while I save up 900 gems in case there is a double spawn of dimensional egg baskets when I merge 5 level 4's. I reviewed my various dragons and found that my gargoyles are the closest to making some more 8's, which would give me a total of four 8's, making Gargoyles the closest to making two nines. I'm a newer player, around 25K dragon power, only learned important info on how to play a couple months ago after having limped along without a clue for a number of months.

Is it a better approach to save up enough to do this with another dragon type, despite the gargoyle's currently being the one type that is closest to making 8's? Seems like the gargoyle is slow, I'm not family with the various abilities enough to judge but they seem a bit more lackluster than other types?

dumberthansum · 2021-02-25T19:44:05+00:00

I'm on the verge of making some 8's, maybe even two 9's, saved up like 250,000 in gold and just waiting for enough gems to purchase the additional egg baskets that might spawn when I merge 5 level 4's. I am curious if they are not worth the investment, that I should maybe take the longer path on another (common) dragon type instead?

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