Poll/Petition to lower the repair times on the new Olympus server

Alright, first off, I understand WHY the devs raised the repair times (well to a point), but I think they are off the hook ridiculous! It makes it impossible to fully equip your units without having a MASSIVE amount of equips!! It's completely untenable! 4 hrs 30 mins for a bloody uncommon!! An Hour for some commons!! Come on!! This is driving me ABSOLUTELY pants on head, start talking in the 3rd person and role playing crazy!! And I'm not the only one! I've heard a MASSIVE amount of complaints about it! Even lowering them just a little bit would make the game play smoother and funner for everyone! And I know factually the newer players are having a hard time keeping up with the new repair times and prices! So please, please, please devs! lower them!


Thanks everyone,

    Crawl



EDIT: I mean really! Come on Devs! 3 hours for a common +1 Armor Wand! Dudes! lol

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RuneSlayer wrote:

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You are the Best Rune! I knew you wouldn't let us down bro! One of the things I love about BC, the devs are actually involved with the player and communicate with us and value our opinion! You don't get that a lot in pther games! Here you can start a poll/petition and not only do the devs read it, but they actually respond and implement it! Awesome! Once again thanks dudes!

Well said Crawl, absolutely true

Devs you are awesome

I think we might need to re-look at this...seems to me like the times only went down a few minutes...Its still taking forever long to do repairs for most things....If any. It's hard to tell.

Crawl138 wrote:

I think we might need to re-look at this...seems to me like the times only went down a few minutes...Its still taking forever long to do repairs for most things....If any. It's hard to tell.

Hmmm.... well my repair times look like they were nearly halved, and are quite acceptable right now. But mine were already lower than what you mentioned (for some reason). So maybe some items just take an illogical amount of time to repair compared to other items? I know artifacts feel like they take way too long to repair...

What the hell was wrong with the old repair times?? My repair slots are ALWAYS full every time I'm playing. If the repair times went up on the old server I'd lose my shit.

What possible reason is there to increase it?? Like repairing isn't a frustrating waste of time as it is, it needs to be made worse??

Personally, my forge simply can't keep up. I have it full at all times, and a backlog that keeps getting bigger in spite of recent changes. I currently have 50 items (dead on) either being repaired, or broken and awaiting their turn.

I can't keep gear on my troops as it is right now, unless I stop fighting

My opinion is that the current reduced repair times should be kept, HOWEVER, this bonus should be added to the appropriate smith buildings:
Reduces repair times for smith_item_type by smith_level-1%
so basically, in addition to reducing crafting times by the level of the smith, it should ALSO reduce the appropriate repair time as well. It would max out at 24% just like the crafting time reduction on the building. Not only would it improve the repairing speed a bit, but it would add more progression in the game while not unbalancing things, and it would make upgrading the smiths much more satisfying. Right now I see a smith upgrading quest or a tech that requires a certain level smith and think "oh boy, time to upgrade a building I don't even care about". If it had repair improvement, I would be much more happy to upgrade them.

Then we just need market to do something useful when leveled up... right now it's just for unlocking techs and completing quests!  

Not to mention it would be extremely easy to implement (or at least, I can't possibly imagine how it could be remotely difficult).

Good suggestion, reduced repair times for upgraded smithes!

Bobba wrote:

My opinion is that the current reduced repair times should be kept, HOWEVER, this bonus should be added to the appropriate smith buildings:
Reduces repair times for smith_item_type by smith_level-1%
so basically, in addition to reducing crafting times by the level of the smith, it should ALSO reduce the appropriate repair time as well. It would max out at 24% just like the crafting time reduction on the building. Not only would it improve the repairing speed a bit, but it would add more progression in the game while not unbalancing things, and it would make upgrading the smiths much more satisfying. Right now I see a smith upgrading quest or a tech that requires a certain level smith and think "oh boy, time to upgrade a building I don't even care about". If it had repair improvement, I would be much more happy to upgrade them.

Then we just need market to do something useful when leveled up... right now it's just for unlocking techs and completing quests!  

Not to mention it would be extremely easy to implement (or at least, I can't possibly imagine how it could be remotely difficult).

+1

I'm in aggreement with all of that, though im still not sure if would be enough to alleviate the issue. All I can suggest is all stuff the devs have heard before already...so uh...

Cheers!

- Dobraine

Repair times now seem to be as expected on Olympus.

I don't think need to be adjusted further across the board.

Though the reduce repair time by level of crafting shop is a good idea +1

What I do want is the auto-repair feature, which automatically schedules items to be repaired

Pearl,

I wasn't kidding in my above post when I said I had 50 items repairing/needing repairs.

I am now currently at 51 items, still unable to make much headway in catching up.

It is definately a problem

Dobraine wrote:

Pearl,

I wasn't kidding in my above post when I said I had 50 items repairing/needing repairs.

I am now currently at 51 items, still unable to make much headway in catching up.

It is definately a problem

Dobraine,

I've¹ had way more than 51 items queued for repair on Everos many times, sometimes 100 or more (The solution when this happens is to stop using as many items on heros until repair can catch up).

So I don't see the issue.

Its annoying like its always been.

I don't agree with the whole repair concept myself; however, its part of the game, and one of the balancing mechanisms.

Making repair too fast, would cause imbalance at this point.

That is why I want auto-repair, etc.  To keep the game balanced, but less micro-management.

Pearl.

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¹Well technically Joyce not me, since was using that Avatar name then.

I'm using no gear on heroes, actually. If I tried, my situation would deteriorate MUCH more quickly than it has already. Hell, I have 5LIA which are only using 2/3 pieces each...4 LI at 3/4, and then 8HI all with 4. To my battles, I take 8/9 troops, depending.

Simply gearing troops seems to lead to this queue now, and I did not have the issue before on Erevos.

Could be that I had so much more gear over there that it eased the pain and I failed to notice. Though it has been mentioned that players hoard too much gear, it's hard on the database...perhaps making the repair process scale to be less time consuming than the battles it takes to break the item would alleviate players needing so much gear to cope?

Because it's always been a pain in the ass, doesn't make it a good way of doing it. From what I can tell, players don't mind buying gear with gems. But having to use them to also repair that gear so that it's consistantly useful? That's redundant, and a feature I have never liked nor used.

Anyways, I begin to digress as i'm fall-asleep in the chair kinda tired...

So i'll bugger off now.

Pearl wrote:

Repair times now seem to be as expected on Olympus.

I don't think need to be adjusted further across the board.

Well now I have ~100 items needing repair.   

So I'll change my mind & say, yah ... repair times are a bit much on Olympus