A lot of waiting

I started this game yesterday (thank you Enkord for the invitation). I am at the stage where I have to upgrade all production buildings to level 3. This takes 8 to 9 minutes per building. It takes a lot of time to upgrade all 14 buildings. Also, travelling to Herald's Home and Opposition Hideout takes time. In the mean time, I search for food, wood and stone but there is not much else to do. For now, I think this game is a little boring.

As I am not good at waiting, does this get any better?

also build up the houses so that your build time is 50% green, that means it cuts the construction time in half. You need to build a lot of houses to get to this point, but is worth it. Took me only a year of playing this game to figure that one out, thanks Berserker and Tuey for pointing it out to me. 

It also helps if you try and makes friends with people, they can help reduce the build time of stuff (the ability is on a cooldown though) and send you a bit of extra resources if you ask nicely.

Which can help speed things up at times.

I started this game yesterday (thank you Enkord for the invitation). I am at the stage where I have to upgrade all production buildings to level 3. This takes 8 to 9 minutes per building. It takes a lot of time to upgrade all 14 buildings. Also, travelling to Herald's Home and Opposition Hideout takes time. In the mean time, I search for food, wood and stone but there is not much else to do. For now, I think this game is a little boring.

As I am not good at waiting, does this get any better?

i'm glad you asked this question.  i too started playing yesterday and wondered if i was missing something cause i am running out of things to do...  i explore the world but am at a standstill with quests.  for example, i can't even find the pieces for the fishing pole... still trying to fill up the wade... makes me think that i'm not a very smart player? 

Yes in the very beginning it can drag a bit, but gosh now I have 2 Hero's and combined 8 towns, it takes me all day long just to build stuff, fight monsters, train guys that died, and everything else. Love this game. The fishing pole you need to go to Herolds 2 times, and get across the wade at the Opposition hide out. Plus you find one item in your main town. 

Yes in the very beginning it can drag a bit, but gosh now I have 2 Hero's and combined 8 towns, it takes me all day long just to build stuff, fight monsters, train guys that died, and everything else. Love this game. The fishing pole you need to go to Herolds 2 times, and get across the wade at the Opposition hide out. Plus you find one item in your main town. 

i've been to Herolds about 10 times and across the wade at OH and still have only 3 pieces.  so i've been trying to find the pole for days.  also have been reading on the forum about other players' major difficulties (at OH with the cavemen and meat and that stuff about power-ups being used to break things?  come on.... who could've known?) i'm almost afraid to read these threads as they almost scare me. is this game just too tough for me?  as a new player, it's hard to stay motivated if these quests are this difficult in the very beginning. i personally need to be able to accomplish quests more easily and then "learn" more as i go along.  just let me build my town, play puzzles, fight critters (that i can actually kill) and find items to solve quests.  THEN throw in the more difficult stuff once i get comfortable and learn the lingo.  Please?   i'm still playing the game and am slowly getting hooked cause i'm stubborn that way.  can't wait until i start having some actual fun. :)    PS  don't kick me out cause i shared my brutal thoughts.

I must say, I agree with BABSKSIB a bit. I don't mind that building your city, researching and exploring are going slow. It does give everybody a fair chance and not only the die-hard players. But some puzzles and quests are very frustrating. Sometimes you just don't know what to look for, not even a clue in what direction to look, or that you just have to wait several levels. I am looking for 10 days now, for a larger chisel or stone scythe... almost starting to believe I will never find it.

Maybe it will be nice if you sometimes get the remark from the game; " that a certain entrance of unit is not going to be available for you for quit sometime". Then you know you better put your time and energy in just growing, researching etc. The point is that you just don't know if you are supposed to find something, or not. That causes frustration. Not too much for me, to stop playing, by the way!

I also found things a bit grindy after finishing the tutorial, at the stage where there was a lot of lengthy upgrading to do.  I think it has balanced out now, or I am getting more used to the style, or some of each.  After I found out how to get into opposition hideout it seemed more engaging. 

As a suggestion, maybe a couple more easy puzzles early on to give something to do while doing all that building would make it a bit easier to get through that part... 

Also I thought that it might make resource foraging more fun if you had a chance of finding little magical things, like say a scroll that gives a minute off building time for the current build or 500 science points.  Not enough to mess up the balance, but enough to be motivating.

I think this game is growing on me...

The game is still in Alpha stage. I am sure some of these things will be implemented later on in development. At this stage the team is working on other priorities. :)

The game is still in Alpha stage. I am sure some of these things will be implemented later on in development. At this stage the team is working on other priorities. :)

Just suggestions, sorry if they are over the top!

Well that  is incentive to keep looking!  Thanks

I'm also feeling I've hit a wall at the stage when you're upgrading resource areas from 2 to 3, where I'm not occupied all the time but have to visit every 10 minutes to keep things progressing.  What usually happens is that i start a building going, go off and do something else, and by the time I remember to come back it's half an hour or an hour later.

Or maybe I'm spending some time with my wife or going out and don't do anything to the game for a few hours, and all that time is wasted in terms of game progress.

othe similar games have allowed several build tasks to be queued up.  In this game I can only do that by buying items with real money.  I thought the game wasn't supposed to be play to win?  That's the early impression I get.

If nothing changes a lot of players will be lost to the game at this stage, before they've met any other players.

This game does not seem to be about 'balance' or about ensuring that advanced players do not have advantage, it just seems to be totally about 'pay to win'. Everyone who has complained about the frustration and time-wasting aspects of the game is quite right to do so - the game does seem to be very prolonged for no reason that I can see except to 'encourage' people to spend (sorry - donate) actual money in order to obtain enkord cash so that they can buy items to speed up the game! That does not create balance or even give advanced players advantage - it just means that those who have more money to waste than time to waste can make faster progress. I cannot see any technical reason for the length of time it takes to upgrade buildings/transport items/carryout research (1million + research points needed and weeks to 'learn' something??? I'm trying to progress in a game - not study for a doctorate!!!!).

I know you say that progress can be made by forming alliances etc but there are players (I'm one of them) who play games because they want to enjoy beating the game/escaping from the real world/being on their own and doing their own thing and it should not be essential for them to actively interact with other players in order to succeed - or just to survive.

This game has stunning graphics, good storyline and really good puzzles and the makers have done a brilliant job - but all of that is seriously diminished by the endless time it takes to build/research/move around.

Maybe a way forward for the future is for the completed game to be expensive to buy and for progress in the game to be made by earning points (through clearing fog/completing puzzles etc) and then using those points to purchase power-ups/speed-ups etc.

Something has to be done to reduce this endless/pointless/boring/time-wasting/mind-numbing waiting for buildings/research etc etc etc etc!

Otherwise people will abandon the stunning graphics/great storyline/interesting puzzles in favour of a game where there is actually something to do and where progress can be made by playing and not just by paying.

wow! What a response! I thought I was being constructive and supporting the other players comments and I did make some suggestions as to how the game could be developed to reduce the waiting times etc. Perhaps you missed those bits. As for the lack of evidence in my post - you actually rank players according to how much they have 'donated' and those high donors are some of the most prolific and advanced players in the game. In your reply you do imply that the 'pay to win' business model is the one you are using because you have found it to work well for you as a developer. I was not just 'letting off steam', I was trying to support the other players whilst complementing you on the sheer brilliance of the work done thus far and offering ideas as to how the game could be altered/improved so as to keep players interested and playing. Perhaps you didn't read the other players comments. Sorry if you feel offended - that wasn't my intention. I guess I just touched a nerve.