[SPOILER] Survey to those who have beaten several Ruins

1. How many ruins have you completed, state their names.
   - 2 Completed, Ruins of Better Moscow and Ruins of Shin Tokyo.  I have perhaps 2 uncompleted ones due to hitting a puzzle i could not solve.
2. What have you found inside of them? Enemies, digging piles, traps, rooms with buttons, puzzles, etc.
   - Enemies, Digging Piles, Buttons, Holograms, Rock Puzzles, Mine Cart Puzzles, Special Locations
3. How big/long did you felt the ruins were? Too big, too short, just
   right, etc. Different ruins have different size so state which one
   you are talking about.
   - The size of both is good, but due to the puzzle complexity, they can be very long.
4. What kind of items have you found inside?
   - Not including secrets, the regular consumables including a figurine or 2 and  BP in chests
5. Have you found secrets in the ruins? If so, how many of them? The secret is indicated by special sound and message in the log - "secret found"
   - Yes, found a number.  Perhaps 8 or so in all the ruins I have starated.
6. If you have found a secret, what do you think about them - is it a good addition or too much of a gimmick?
   - The secrets are the main reason i revisit these locations due to the reward size.  Large manuals, arithmometer, etc.
7. What about gems? Have you found them all? How hard were they?
   - I have not found them all, but I do not look too hard given the small reward.  Perhaps this is somethiing you might reconsider :)  Tend to just get low level items, crystal, speaker horn, hor's hoe etc.
8. Hidden consumable items - were they useful? How many of them have you found? How many blueprints/figurines?
   - I did not find too many of these, but the ones I did are always usefull, perhaps 1 or 2 Fig and BP.
9. How hard were the enemies in your dungeons?
   - The Ancient monsters were very challenging, and I appreciated the addition.  Otherwise the monsters were all of same as before and of normal challenge.
10. How hard were the digging sequences?
    - The digging sequence areas were hard for the larger ones, I had to resort to screenshots to remember where each switch was.
11. How hard were the hidden buttons?
    - The hidden buttons were no harder then those in the Dungeons.
12. How hard were the puzzles?
    - The moving Mine Cart and Rock Puzzles varied from easy to extremely difficult.  I have managed to complete all I have found so far, but some took a lot of revisiting.
13. How hard were the holograms?
    - Again, ranged from Easy to Very Hard.  I had one with i think 13 peices, and this is one that i gave up on.
14. Did you get the unique sections in ruins with a small story? Which ones? What do you think about those?
    - I had the School and also I think it was a factory.  I thought they were great.  Engaging messages, hidden doors etc.  
15. What was the overall feel of the ruins? How do they fit with the rest of
    the game? What was you first impression when you explored them? Did
    they felt like TT1 adventures? How do they compate to dungeons and mines?
    - I think they fit well with the game.  I love the way they integrate via chests in anomolies, and look forward to seeing how all they codes come together and what they do.
16. What do you think about the conclusion of the ruins quest? Did you learn anything interesting in the end?
    - Not there yet!  look forward to it.
17. How do you like the final reward? What did you get?
    - Not there yet!  look forward to it.
    
18. State any other things you have found interesting in the ruins, not mentioned specifically above.
    - I would just like to suggest perhaps a way to bypass some puzzles as you can in the Caves by finding the hidden passageway..

1. How many ruins have you completed, state their names.
   - 7 completed:  Madrid, Moscow, Lincoln, Toronto, Boryspil, Tokyo and Rogoziv
2. What have you found inside of them? Enemies, digging piles, traps, rooms with buttons, puzzles, etc.
   - Enemies, Digging Piles, Mines and Dungeons with buttons, Holograms, Rock and Cart Puzzles, Special Locations
3. How big/long did you felt the ruins were? Too big, too short, just
   right, etc. Different ruins have different size so state which one
   you are talking about.
   - The size is right, even the big ones I didn’t bother, I liked them all
4. What kind of items have you found inside?
   - All kind of items, speedups, powerups, consumables, strategy items
5. Have you found secrets in the ruins? If so, how many of them? The secret is indicated by special sound and message in the log - "secret found"
   - According to the achievement ‘There and Back Again’ : 14 secrets
6. What about gems? Have you found them all? How hard were they?
   - I haven’t found them all and I didn’t make an effort to find them all, it has no added value at least not for me.
7. Hidden consumable items - were they useful? How many of them have you found? How many blueprints/figurines?
   - Actually I didn’t count them, but the overall feel was good, I found a lot of arithmometers (never got that many in existing locations)…very happy with it and also found some foe’s, BP’s and manuals.
8. How hard were the enemies in your dungeons?
   - The monsters weren’t very hard (just as normal),  I didn’t come across the ancient monsters, unlike my alliance members…
9. How hard were the hidden buttons?
   - The hidden buttons were a bit harder than the ones we are used to. Some were so small and I had 1 ruin which I revisited trice, couldn’t find the button in a mine…
10. How hard were the puzzles?
    - The Rock and Chart Puzzles were extremely difficult in the beginning. I even made models (of the 6-8 rock puzzles), pushing lego blocks as rocks… in the end, with the help of the leaden disks and sending hero home, it was doable.
11. How hard were the holograms?
    - some were easy others were a bit harder to solve, I am no fan of these puzzles, it is hard to recognize the patern.
12. Did you get the unique sections in ruins with a small story? Which ones? What do you think about those?
    - I had a Store (I am not sure) and a School.  I think they are awesome, love the action of search and discovery (like a classic adventure game). 
13. What was the overall feel of the ruins? How do they fit with the rest of
    the game? What was your first impression when you explored them? Did
    they felt like TT1 adventures? How do they compete to dungeons and mines?
    - The ruins fit very well into the game. First impression was, yes, a nice challenge to find your way through the ruins, looking inside for buttons, which opened doors outside, or the other way around… Can’t wait to restart my hero to experience how it all ends.
14.  What do you think about the conclusion of the ruins quest? Did you learn anything interesting in the end?
    - Can’t say anything about that yet…
15. How do you like the final reward? What did you get?
    - Can’t say anything about that yet...
16. State any other things you have found interesting in the ruins, not mentioned specifically above.
    - Although I encountered a lot of interesting things, unfortunately I found something very annoying, if you revisit a ruin then you can’t plant the flag somewhere, you have to go the same way through caves and tunnels (as the 1st time) to get e.g. to the end of that ruin…I would like to suggest to do the same here as in other locations with traps (once your hero solved the traps, you can plant the flag anywhere and your hero will automatically walk the safe route avoiding the spikes)

 Duplicated this page and spent a long time answering the questions fully.  Got interrupted but finished the survey - page timed out!  lost the lot!  In summary - fewer questions please.

Ruins are fantastic they vary enormously in time taken.  The hardest puzzle was the push/shove - some I solved with first attempt - others stumped me completely.

Completed 4 ruins Lincoln, Moscow, Shin Tokyo and Boryspil, and another 4 close to finishing.

Found secrets and tons of consumables,

Level 50 hero - so enemies were no problem

Especially loved the gadget - and that is could be used on other locations.

Loved the special zones - school and factory

Did not solve all the ruins, so no final ending for me for a long time as this hero dies today.

Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard on the Ruins.  Very much appreciated and lovely to be challenged again in the game that I have played for such a long time now.  Thank you :)

Several questions to those who have beaten at least couple of random ruins:

1. How many ruins have you completed, state their names

1. What have you found inside of them? Enemies, digging piles, traps, rooms with buttons, puzzles, etc.

1. How big/long did you felt the ruins were? Too big, too short, just right, etc. Different ruins have different size so state which one you are talking about.

1. What kind of items have you found inside?

1. Have you found secrets in the ruins? If so, how many of them? The secret is indicated by special sound and message in the log - "secret found"

1. If you have found a secret, what do you think about them - is it a good addition or too much of a gimmick?

1. What about gems? Have you found them all? How hard were they?

1. Hidden consumable items - were they useful? How many of them have you found? How many blueprints/figurines?

1. How hard were the enemies in your dungeons?

1. How hard were the digging sequences?

1. How hard were the hidden buttons?

1. How hard were the puzzles?

1. How hard were the holograms?

1. Did you get the unique sections in ruins with a small story? Which ones? What do you think about those?

1. What was the overall feel of the ruins? How do they fit with the rest of the game? What was you first impression when you explored them? Did they felt like TT1 adventures? How do they compate to dungeons and mines?

1. What do you think about the conclusion of the ruins quest? Did you learn anything interesting in the end?

1. How do you like the final reward? What did you get?

1. State any other things you have found interesting in the ruins, not mentioned specifically above.

Less digging sections please! And I still have some things I can't open - one wall like thing in zoo that looks like the walls that break after you finish ruin and crate doors in the 2 last ruins - with a place to put the iphone on but no terminal. If these are to be opened - great, I hope to find a way, but if these are just decoration - they are misleading.

Boston, Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo

All the above

They were just right lengths

Lots of consumables

17 secrets found

Love finding secrets

Found quite a few but have not found them all in any ruin

Several of both as secrets

Most were regular types. Some I can't do yet because hero is too young.. Don't think I will ever do the Mystic Purple Dragons though !

Most are very hard for me. Had to use my phone to take pics of where the levers were to complete

Once I figured out the triggers it was ok 

Moving the carts and rocks can be tricky. The round discs help a lot 

I like these but honestly just random click until it works

These are my favorite parts. Love finding secret passageways and reading the story line

How do you like the final reward? What did you get?

Not there yet 

1 I have completed the 12 ruins with that hero, boston paris london berlin moscow tokyo madrid lincoln toronto boryspil rogoziv tbilisi

2 I met Enemies, digging piles, rooms with buttons, puzzles but not a single trap, see my other thread (https://www.totemtribe.com/talk/questions-about-the-ruins/) to answer me about that.

3 I felt it was long enough, but monsters part are a bit long and boring (what I liked about them though is the ton of science they game me, sometime I could make a whole tech in a few hours), and there is too much walking between the buttons rooms (and in the ruins at all)

6 The secrets I found were the same as in other locations so it wasn't very interesting, and I didn't want to do twice the same secrets in different ruins.

9 Enemies weren't hard because I was prepared for them since the beginning with that hero, and in fact I'm a bit sad that I only met ancient worms and scorpions at the end, I was prepared for dragons (and I wish they were even stronger or in pack of more than 8 because right now the outcome would be usually the same as against red/green dragons. If some people disagree with me and find them too hard already, just make them optional). It would have been interesting to compensate a low amount of sulfur by, making riflemen, commandos (more than 18 if wine available), dragoons, and why not blast them with information age anti-air guns.

17 At first, I didn't expect anything good since the reward in karfaree for finishing the caves is useless (but funny at least), then I saw here about those 5% science, so I first though that it still wasn't good because by the time you finish the ruins you already have 6 science perks and other science artifacts (maybe of the same slot as the artifact you get in fact) and if you play well and/or donate you have researched most of the tech tree already anyway, but then I though, maybe it could be a very good item to keep once you reach apocalypse/victory, but unfortunately it's a level 50 artifact so you would need to get level 25 first to equip it (and I don't know if it requires ages too) so that's quite disappointing. Someone here got boots, me it's using the chest slot.

18 Something a bit weird: usually, first ruins are the easiest, with the weakest monsters and easiest sokobans (some being ridiculously easy), but in the ruin I had with ancient monsters, then I had a very easy sokoban, I expected a hard one. Other than that, I wish you made something really new: holograms are like railroad game in towns, sokoban is already available on internet, buttons are already present in dungeons etc, while you made the steam puzzle in mines and the beacon puzzle in dungeons.

Having now finished the Ruins, I wanted to add some comments:

Final Story: I really enjoyed the story line and the way the ruins ended.  Nice work team.

1. How do you like the final reward? What did you get?
   I was dissappointed with the reward given the effort.  1 godly artifact of what appears random and to me useless perks..  No Consumables or Experience.

made the ruins and now a bit dissappointed. the reward is a joke or? completely usless :(

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