Blow-by-blow playthrough of the Settlements update

I noticed nobody here posted any quibbles about the leashing of followers costing 100 belief each, which is insane and just makes things all the harder to control, especially since it takes for ever to generate belief in the early game. This bothers me to no end.

Also, the Holy Forest power cost 200 belief to start, but only allows planting one tree (not a forest), and then frustratingly increases belief cost for each tree you plant. How is that even useful, or beneficial, or create any desire to want to use it?

Both of those issues were almost enough to make me quit and uninstall.

The timers are still horrendous, and belief generates far too slowly; I ran the game for 5 hours last night, and half of that was just leaving it running while I went shopping and had dinner.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that, at this point in the game, I had spent zero gems to speed up that game - other than buying the "Primitive Sticker Pack" simply to see what it was. So resisting spending gems is probably part of why my game is progressing so slowly.

And Voyages are still the bane of my existence - I  think they are boring and make absolutely no sense (why are they marching across the land to enter a temple instead of just landing the boat closer to the goal? Oh, because there's a pier mysteriously already there?). They're not fun at all.

I don't know how they'll fix any of this in the PC sprint, but as it stands right now, if it was a F2P game, I would be quitting and uninstalling it. I'm giving it a little more time today, because I want to try getting to some more of the content, but I am not enjoying it at all.

I may or may not post my writeup of thoughts, because why bother... I've been posting stuff for a year now and it all seems pointless.

I don't even know what that means anymore.

If I'm not mistaken, the only thing pc-exclusive in this update is the pit of doom, right ( I'm talking gameplay-wise, so, not counting the commentary)? So the timers, as they are now, are exactly as they appear in mobile (which, dear god, can't imagine playing that)?

I think, in the week to come, some press junctions out there are going to review this pc-wise (fair game IMO - they're selling the product, after all, so people are well within their rights to review it as-is and give their recommendations on whether or not it's a worthwhile purchase). I do not see these reviews going very well. Not a surprise to me that this update correlates with a recent jump in players on steam. Also not a surprise that the peak number is substantially lower than what we saw with the 2.0 update in March. To me, it's pretty clear that they've lost players, and whatever number of new customers they've picked up isn't enough to make up for the number they've turned away. On pc, that is.

As for mobile, and how well that release may or may not be doing, I think we'll be better equipped to analyze that in a month or so.

Redesigning the forum:

I think I would really like a timer on these posts. What if I had to wait 8 min for each word to load, that would really get me thinking about what else I could do on these forums, maybe I would post more and enjoy the whole experience so much more. But each post is also linked to a timer, that way I don't post too often, and have to carefully think about each post I submit, and which posts I really want to read! But wait, what if I could unlock a word by spending a gem. Gems are available from our own Lord Ba'al for a mere £5 for a starter pack. But if I want to use punctuation marks, or an emoticon in a post, well then I need some stickers.

Seriously guys - we need this mechanic if this forum is going to survive!

I love this idea, and if you get tired of waiting, I will be happy to monetize it for you for so that you can buy out it for let's say........................a new pair of shoes for Lady Quetesh.

so sad all th glory shall be spewed with bile by the P2W focus of the clueless corporation.

I have a farming settlement with 1/1 farmers and 15/15 breeders; why can't we trade breeders for farmers? And if there are 15 breeders... what are they breeding?


Also, how does one expand/grow the settlement once it's merged?
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out; and naturally you have to use the settlement power again, costing 3000 more belief.

Can't they also get plowed in the bed?