Board Thread:Camp Talk/@comment-73.185.230.119-20141017173314

So I joined a few weeks back, been learning the game and progressing, here are some thoughts/issues I decided to rant about.

Fighting - Other than matching 3 to make attack, I have noticed you can move and make combos, but when you move like that you have to get used to moving the focused piece backwards, makes it a bit difficult. I am still struggling to get better at this or learn how to get better at this. Would love any tips/pointers on how to get better with battling.

Energy - energy based games are annoying, especially for one that requires many types of moves. Being capped at 5 sucks even worse, should be 10-20 like other successful games, 5 really discourages from playing just fyi, uping this would encourage people to come and play for an hour or so VS the 20 minutes it allows now.

Quests - These are nicely laid out but there are too many choke points. Many quests you get stuck on the final part trying to get the badge, which all have been in the caves and dependant on a group to kill the mini bosses. Most of these people are in here camping the mini's but not the final boss. This may be great for them to collect pieces from attacking 1 time and waiting but it really hampers those trying to get badge to move on and continue progressing. Many quests have mobs that are very difficult for the level. I just reached level 27 with a team PR of 72k. I am up against a monster that requires 150k PR and I only have 6 turns to kill it. Which brings me to another point and perhaps this is just poor English but it doesnt make much sense. Monsters bragging how tough they are and how they can beat you in X amount of turns, I am not sure why this is turned around onto the player and we are expected to beat them within that X turns. This takes almost all the strategy out of the gameplay and focuses mainly on luck with getting very luck with extra combos from whatever falls down - think playing tetris blind folded, not very fun nor anything the player can do about it.

Your monster team progression - rares are a dime a dozen, getting supers and higher is the struggle. Even when buying gold and using spins, Ive used about 750 gold, managed to get 2 supers, everything else has been rares/pieces of rares and even commons. I am sorry, but for 50gold (5$ real dollars), commons should not even be a possible option and this happens way too often during the spins. At 5$ per spin, getting a common is beyond BS, even rares are annoying. I was really hoping to get an ultra/epic atleast from this but even wiith the 3x modifier (which doesnt seem to increase the odds at all, all my spins were done wtih this option) I still was getting commons/rares 95% of the time. Terrible functionality of this feature, huge money drain that ends up not being worth anything. After realizing this, I bought more inventory, storage and energy. That has been worth putting into which allows me to play and collect these same things.

Raids/groups - I was very excited about this until I seen how it works. Having 1 minute to attack and the clock doesnt stop as the animation is going through, you really only get about 25 seconds of actual attacking. This seems like nothing more than a energy drain with not much gameplay involved. Clock should stop at very least while animationis going on and nothing can be done to speed this up. This goes for troop battles and everything else, I am really disappointed with this feature, there is so much room for improvement here which I hope is explored in the future. The learning curve for all of this is pretty steep and confusing as well. I have been reading up on it, trying to learn but most information I have learned has been from people explaining things to me. Communication is a struggle in this game as well, lots of differnet screens to go through to find what and where.

Equipment - This is still new to me but from what I have seen, don't expect to be doing any equipment or enhancements any time soon, so much inolvolved here and many of the things I cant find. The troop shop is strange, only 1 plans wever available, which I am assuming more items will become available as the troop progresses - the troop I am in is currently level 5. I'd like to gear some of my monsters, the supers but I see no way to make that possible.

Troop wars - Seems very unbalanced between troops - Our troop is about 25 people, wide range of people from teams PR 25k - 125k. Top 10 is 10th being 75k, top couple of guys are 125k, 112k and 101k. We have been put up against teams that are made of people very high, kill our pet in couple of minutes, our pet is level 5 as well but I guess these other troops have people wtih 250k/300k PR and they just own anything they open fire on. Not sure why this was the troop we put up against but I am also still new to it and havent learned all the mechanics from it yet.

Loot - Specials/rares/etc - I am always going up against computer teams that have those special monsters that give double/triple XP on them but they very rarely drop as loot for me when I kill them. I have tried many ways to increase the chances of getting them to drop as loot but nothing seems to work. It seems this is all pre-determined before the fight takes place. Needing 4 of these for 1 monster evolve seems to be impossible. After a couple of weeks of pretty consistent play, I dont think I have managed to get 4 of the same color this entire time. It also seems red/black are the most common to drop, the greens a bit but yellows are rare, on top of how rare they actually drop to begin with. If anyone knows any ways to increase the odds of these dropping, please share.

Monster stats - Attack/Health/Recovery - I havent seen any more in depth writeups about these stats. Obviously attack = damage done, health = HP but I am not sure how recovery works or how to priortize it compared to the others. I am assuming it has to do wtih how soon their special attack becomes usable but that is about it.

Just some things on my mind, feel free to share any information you have regarding any of ths or post your thoughts/concerns/questions as well. My point of this post isnt to bitch or put down the game. I am actually enjoying it quite a bit and trying to learn more about it. I will try to keep this updated and hope it will be active amongst others who have same concerns or questions and we can help everyone out with learning more to be more successful and ultimately have more fun. 