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Post by dozvati on Aug 15, 2014 10:46:32 GMT
I have to say I do like the little ring of smoke the appears just after they are ignited. Sacrifice an Astari and boost him right before he gets to the front of the line. It's adorable. |
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Post by Danjal on Aug 15, 2014 13:44:17 GMT
ok im officially loving the pit of doom. Why would you not kill your followers? Yesss.... yesss!!! Welcome to the darkside.... Oh, I'm sorry we lied about the cookies. (no I'm not...) |
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Post by hardly on Aug 15, 2014 20:12:55 GMT
Just a couple of updates on my situation.
Last night before I logged off I'd meteored the astari three times during their festival and I'd placed two swamps in their base. All their trees were burnt down and their temple is all spotty as a result. Last night when I went to sleep their unhappiness was a rock bottom.
Now you'd think after this they'd be pretty unhappy and sure they were at rock bottom when I went to bed. When I got up this morning their happiness was at full. I guess they forgot about the swamps and the meteors. Mine of course was still at rock bottom.
The thing that really annoys me about the astari mechanics is what happens when you lose people. So I lost 56 people to the astari overnight. Now I have grass lodges. My grass lodge will take 4 hours to refill and to speed it up costs 35 gems. Seriously? There will be another two astari festivals before then.
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Post by hardly on Aug 15, 2014 20:16:25 GMT
btw their happiness has dropped down to almost zero now im in the game since you know they have a swamp in their base.
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Post by 13thGeneral on Aug 16, 2014 1:25:30 GMT
So, I've meteor'd their settlement about 6 times now, aiming directly for the houses. So far it keeps missing two houses, and the settlement doesn't seem to get destroyed. Also, I squashed all the ones taunting my people, as well as the defectors in my village... and yet they continue to be extremely happy despite being nearly obliterated. I'm a bit puzzled.  |
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Post by Danjal on Aug 16, 2014 1:38:14 GMT
Its seems that the less of them there are, the higher their happiness fills up as there is less innate 'unhappiness' being produced.
Making it real hard to kill off the last few (or so it was for me).
Keep trying!
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Post by hardly on Aug 16, 2014 1:51:46 GMT
Yeah I fingered the last four or so to death. Still it shows it would be hard to win this confrontation without killing them.
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Post by dozvati on Aug 16, 2014 6:32:44 GMT
My recommendation: When starting a new game, focus your efforts on sacrifice. Make massive slums full of followers and march them to their death ad nauseum. If you're running out of faith to leash, spend 5 gems. 1000 belief gets you 10 followers into the PoD. Once you have 40 gems, you can get 10k. 10k can easily get you 125 gems, to get you 50k. Use your newfound riches to swamp/meteor the Astari all at once during a festival. You won't kill all of them. Spend the next several hours keeping your happiness up with expensive trees and fountains, use meteors to knock Astari happiness down (seems to be on a cooldown, wait for the settlement to stop being on fire), and win over the rest of the Astari with attrition.
Also, sacrifice the Astari for further gems.
$$$
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Aug 16, 2014 9:02:27 GMT
Every time I read PoD I think Pick of Destiny.
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Post by jpw on Aug 16, 2014 10:09:16 GMT
Also the conversion rates are seriously unbalanced. At the moment I seem to be alternating between them gaining 60+ of my followers and then me gaining 8 of theirs.
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Post by morsealworth on Aug 16, 2014 10:57:30 GMT
Every time I read PoD I think Pick of Destiny. Well, it is, in a sense. |
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Post by 13thGeneral on Aug 16, 2014 15:49:32 GMT
My recommendation: When starting a new game, focus your efforts on sacrifice. Make massive slums full of followers and march them to their death ad nauseum. If you're running out of faith to leash, spend 5 gems. 1000 belief gets you 10 followers into the PoD. Once you have 40 gems, you can get 10k. 10k can easily get you 125 gems, to get you 50k. Use your newfound riches to swamp/meteor the Astari all at once during a festival. You won't kill all of them. Spend the next several hours keeping your happiness up with expensive trees and fountains, use meteors to knock Astari happiness down (seems to be on a cooldown, wait for the settlement to stop being on fire), and win over the rest of the Astari with attrition. Also, sacrifice the Astari for further gems. $$$ There are no Astari actually out during the festival, it's like a ghost town; singing voices without physical manifestation. Can't FoG what I can't see. I'm starting to think it's glitched, but I'll try the whole gem exchange exploit thing until I have enough for 3-4 meteors, and see if that does it. The fact that an obvious exploitable work around exists is a very big sign of how terribly broken this game really is at this point - especially when you realize trying to play the game fairly gets you nowhere fast. UPDATE: Nope. I threw six direct meteors at their settlement (all the abodes are already gone), and they actually got happier. The settlement still stands, and I lost 24 followers immediately after.  |
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Post by engarde on Aug 16, 2014 15:54:01 GMT
As their number decrease there is noticeably fewer of them boogie around the temple, for me the last few were the mockers. Killing their trees, swamping the temple was all I needed though I did swamp the settlement too since they (pre-2.2) kept appearing from a zero population.
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Post by dirtyclare on Aug 16, 2014 21:50:59 GMT
I was really frustrated by the low happiness issue but found using the 'beautify' power bumped it right to the max - much more effective than trees!
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Post by jpw on Aug 16, 2014 23:54:06 GMT
I was really frustrated by the low happiness issue but found using the 'beautify' power bumped it right to the max - much more effective than trees! True but the more I play the more I realise the whole thing is simply broken. And I am now getting really angry. |
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Post by Danjal on Aug 17, 2014 0:04:53 GMT
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Post by jpw on Aug 17, 2014 0:08:42 GMT
To be honest I think over the last two years I have been through those 5 stages several times. We are living in a cyclical universe aren't we?
If not, we are certainty living in one that is getting flatter.
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Post by Danjal on Aug 17, 2014 0:12:53 GMT
Haha, you don't have to tell me. I've gone from bargaining to acceptance (and back) multiple times. I don't even bother with anger anymore.
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Post by 13thGeneral on Aug 17, 2014 3:58:22 GMT
Yup, same here. Welcome to the club.
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Post by muumipeikko on Aug 17, 2014 8:10:21 GMT
The pit of doom does seem to be a bit unbalanced in terms of happiness. Drag 40 guys to their death, get ~40 gems buy a fountain and every 10 minutes you have a happiness boost. I'm guessing this has already been "balanced" on the mobile game as the idea of being able to get unlimited gems without paying money would make DeNA executives puke.
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