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Post by Theron of Acragas on Dec 15, 2023 11:51:34 GMT
Not sure I agree that it's an inaccuracy to spend broken blades on equipment. We can purchase magatama for Ban-kin which we can reliably farm. We don't have a way to farm BB (at least not until level 6 generals, and then slowly), so it seems obvious to spend it on the things only BB can be used for. I believe it heavily depends on the timetable of their updates. We can purchase Magatama once per week. On the other hand legendary equipment won't go anywhere. Let's assume I bought the most expensive item and don't have any BB... Then I have lost an opportunity to buy Magatama previous week, this week, next week and we are still not sure when the next update is out, end of December, January??? So, I missed at least 30 additional fragments. Maybe more. Let's assume the opposite. I don't spend my BB on equipment and buy Magatama each week. When the next update is out I just purchase the pice of equipment I want without losing anything. I have plenty of legendary items but most of them are lvl 1-2. Since it isn't easy to upgrade them, I think that the best order of things is to purchase Magatama first, and equipment second. I personally have chosen the third path. I bought a cheap legendary item and still have some BB left for Magatama. But these are running out next week, so I desperately need new conquests  While that's a kind of valid response, it raises the question - what's the rush? We get enough magatama to easily beat the game so far even without any purchases and only average draws. With updates we'll get harder chapters but also more chances to earn rewards, plus what we can farm between updates. Is getting magatama slightly faster (one roll per week) really worth exchanging limited resources for renewable ones? |
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Post by stoic on Dec 15, 2023 12:30:43 GMT
I believe it heavily depends on the timetable of their updates. We can purchase Magatama once per week. On the other hand legendary equipment won't go anywhere. Let's assume I bought the most expensive item and don't have any BB... Then I have lost an opportunity to buy Magatama previous week, this week, next week and we are still not sure when the next update is out, end of December, January??? So, I missed at least 30 additional fragments. Maybe more. Let's assume the opposite. I don't spend my BB on equipment and buy Magatama each week. When the next update is out I just purchase the pice of equipment I want without losing anything. I have plenty of legendary items but most of them are lvl 1-2. Since it isn't easy to upgrade them, I think that the best order of things is to purchase Magatama first, and equipment second. I personally have chosen the third path. I bought a cheap legendary item and still have some BB left for Magatama. But these are running out next week, so I desperately need new conquests While that's a kind of valid response, it raises the question - what's the rush? We get enough magatama to easily beat the game so far even without any purchases and only average draws. With updates we'll get harder chapters but also more chances to earn rewards, plus what we can farm between updates. Is getting magatama slightly faster (one roll per week) really worth exchanging limited resources for renewable ones? That question I don't have an answer to I can't say I understand the logic behind some of ET's decisions. Sometimes they abandon projects after only a couple of updates (EW6 1914), sometimes they continue to update their old games more often than their newest titles (EW5). And I don't have a slightest idea where the place of GCS between these two extremes is located. So far it is indeed quite an easy game without any necessity for desperate measures or even grinding. But I still have suspicions it may change eventually  Though they are running out of content already. We have conquered Japan already in Tenkabito. In Campaigns we are about to unify Japan under Tokugawa's rule. Sengoku Jidai period is almost over. I am really curious about the prospects of GCS after the next update. |
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Post by Theron of Acragas on Dec 15, 2023 18:49:06 GMT
While that's a kind of valid response, it raises the question - what's the rush? We get enough magatama to easily beat the game so far even without any purchases and only average draws. With updates we'll get harder chapters but also more chances to earn rewards, plus what we can farm between updates. Is getting magatama slightly faster (one roll per week) really worth exchanging limited resources for renewable ones? That question I don't have an answer to I can't say I understand the logic behind some of ET's decisions. Sometimes they abandon projects after only a couple of updates (EW6 1914), sometimes they continue to update their old games more often than their newest titles (EW5). And I don't have a slightest idea where the place of GCS between these two extremes is located. So far it is indeed quite an easy game without any necessity for desperate measures or even grinding. But I still have suspicions it may change eventually Though they are running out of content already. We have conquered Japan already in Tenkabito. In Campaigns we are about to unify Japan under Tokugawa's rule. Sengoku Jidai period is almost over. I am really curious about the prospects of GCS after the next update. Well, we know what to expect in the next update(s) - another eight chapters and two more conquests. That already brings the main campaign up to a similar size to other ET games - GCR also had eventually 16 chapters. Tenkabito seems to have reached its logical conclusion, but there may be room for another game mode along the lines of Epic War in GCR? |
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Post by nikomachos on Dec 15, 2023 19:02:44 GMT
That question I don't have an answer to I can't say I understand the logic behind some of ET's decisions. Sometimes they abandon projects after only a couple of updates (EW6 1914), sometimes they continue to update their old games more often than their newest titles (EW5). And I don't have a slightest idea where the place of GCS between these two extremes is located. So far it is indeed quite an easy game without any necessity for desperate measures or even grinding. But I still have suspicions it may change eventually Though they are running out of content already. We have conquered Japan already in Tenkabito. In Campaigns we are about to unify Japan under Tokugawa's rule. Sengoku Jidai period is almost over. I am really curious about the prospects of GCS after the next update. Well, we know what to expect in the next update(s) - another eight chapters and two more conquests. That already brings the main campaign up to a similar size to other ET games - GCR also had eventually 16 chapters. Tenkabito seems to have reached its logical conclusion, but there may be room for another game mode along the lines of Epic War in GCR? well gcr had 16 times 2, both sides. Edit: forgot about hard mode so again similar amount of content but less fun than other faction I agree that it looks like 2 releases, second half camapign, another 2 conquest. But since we know ET slows down in content size after the initial release i dont think it will be a done deal. They did say in the beginning GCS was gonna be a small game. And that it is in content, but not in grind. If they were to release the "2nd half of the game and finish" we would have to play it with lvl 1-2 equipment, not a single rank 6 gen etc. And since they love having us grind and login daily and make purchases... i dont think thats gonna happen even though they said in the beginning "gcs will be a shorter and different game than our usual games." So the content will be drawn out, even though we would probably all love a full release instead of small sized ever-grind-updates |
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Post by Theron of Acragas on Dec 15, 2023 19:49:08 GMT
well gcr had 16 times 2, both sides. Strictly speaking, 14 x 2 plus 2, but point taken. But the chapters in GCS are also longer, the first 8 chapters have 50 battles while the first eight in GCR had 61 counting both sides (and the second half in fact also has 50). And hard mode counts for *something* even it isn't exactly new content. |
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Post by stoic on Dec 16, 2023 2:27:20 GMT
That question I don't have an answer to I can't say I understand the logic behind some of ET's decisions. Sometimes they abandon projects after only a couple of updates (EW6 1914), sometimes they continue to update their old games more often than their newest titles (EW5). And I don't have a slightest idea where the place of GCS between these two extremes is located. So far it is indeed quite an easy game without any necessity for desperate measures or even grinding. But I still have suspicions it may change eventually Though they are running out of content already. We have conquered Japan already in Tenkabito. In Campaigns we are about to unify Japan under Tokugawa's rule. Sengoku Jidai period is almost over. I am really curious about the prospects of GCS after the next update. Well, we know what to expect in the next update(s) - another eight chapters and two more conquests. That already brings the main campaign up to a similar size to other ET games - GCR also had eventually 16 chapters. Tenkabito seems to have reached its logical conclusion, but there may be room for another game mode along the lines of Epic War in GCR? I would hope so. I think there are several ways they can increase its length and difficulty. I see they like to add Nightmare difficulty to other games lately (WC4, EW7). (Interesting that GCR doesn't have a hard mode yet ). So, it is one of the ways. The second one is to add more chapters to the library. And, finally, creating something completely new, something similar to Epic war... |
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Though they are running out of content already. We have conquered Japan already in Tenkabito. In Campaigns we are about to unify Japan under Tokugawa's rule. Sengoku Jidai period is almost over. I am really curious about the prospects of GCS after the next update.
