šŸ•µ Act Casual ā€“ How do you go from being a very active player to somewhat casual?

I took a small step today and decided Iā€™ll no longer do the Taverns quest. I already donā€™t buy the offer, or use gems to pull, and my free coins donā€™t give me anything but feeder 3 stars.

When I was doing the quest today I realized that the first time was a novelty but this time it felt like I was just wasting my time. Yes, I know the game is supposed to be a time waster but I could have simply filled that time by auto-farming while I worked on other stuff around the house.

Itā€™s a baby step but itā€™s the first crack!

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Another serious method is to

  1. Announce you are quitting the game

  2. Break away and make a chillout retiree alliance, preferably with inactive players or only yourself in it

  3. Only log on when you want to, no obligations - once a day for 5-10 mins (to wean off the addiction)

Ask: How do you feel?

3a) If you are unhappy about this, you know you can ā€œup itā€ a bit and play more casually.

3b) If you are very happy with this, congrats, you are well on your way to quitting and eventually the 5-10 minutes might become zilch.

3c) If you are undecided you can keep logging in randomly with no obligations and just relaxā€¦

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Bought VIP again. Not ready to detach. :grin:

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Well, that was predictable.


I think @princess1 has this one right:

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I feel tired and jaded too. I reach my 2 year anniversary of playing this week!
Agonised about leaving the alliance that I have been in for 676 days and love so much. I guess I am the ā€œde factoā€ leader. I mentioned last night I was thinking of leaving after the war and before PoV. I promised to mull it overnight.

Now its morning, I canā€™t quite hit the leave button, but this morning I posted the following to them:

Hi all. Decided to stay a while with some changes. Not going to pay for or stress about PoV. Will opt out of next 2 wars and see how I feel. Will continue to hit Titans to help the team. Will not post so much in the alliance banners. Will probably not continue my record keeping of War and Titan results. Will only do events where there is a guaranteed 4 star mat at the end. You folks are just too great to abandon! If, on that basis, you would prefer me to leave - Iā€™ll hop over to Jax/Sarah before the next war :heart:"

Lets see where it leads me! (Jax/Sarah are in our newly formed ā€œchillā€ alliance ā€¦ the only 2 members for now)

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IMHO, itā€™s definitely the friends you meet along the way that encourages active daily play. 676 days in the same alliance is a huge commitment - GL in your decision makingā€¦ Tough call :hugs:.

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Iā€™m looking forward to a 1v1 war with @zephyr1

I heard from a birdie that you are bullying people in a certain pirate parking lotā€¦as am I in empire retirees

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Indeed, I very badly bullied a poor matchup (final score was 9000 to 2196), and opted back out after that.

That was the only War Iā€™ve fought in since the beginning of June when I opted out initially.

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I did a big big bully match up too but I was just too sheepish to admit it here

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Iā€™ve decided to cut down on one thing which was really eating up my time: Placing in my chosen tiers in Challenge Events.

I used to aim for Rare-Top 10000, Epic-Top 5000, and Legendary-Top 10000. And I can place in those, but it just takes too many retries and flasks; and I especially hated having to check in throughout the whole challenge event just to see if I still stayed in.

Itā€™s especially annoying getting to like Rank 2000 in Epic, only to watch myself sink to Rank 5700 after 24 hours, and struggling to get back on the ladder again. I was aiming for higher yesterday, but realized I had spent 3 hours replaying only to get to Rank 3711ā€¦ then falling back down again in the evening. Well, no more. Now Iā€™ll just play for completion. Sure, Iā€™ll end up one tier lower in rank, with worse rewards, but the time sink is NOT worth it anymore.

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@FrenziedEye. Didnā€™t you feel the slightest bit sorry for them? :rofl:

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Losing my regular status on the forum is a positive first step!

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the forum CAN take a lot of time :wink:

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It does, but itā€™s a nice distraction while waiting on flags to recharge.

Plus there are some good friendly funny people here to keep you entertained in the meantime.

And lots of knowledge to be learned as well, once youā€™re able to discern the difference between actual advice versus fake news / unrealistic bragging (Iā€™m F2P and I gets all da best 5* heroes every time!) / unrealistic complaining (I havenā€™t gotten a decent board in 6 months!) etc.

I redused my game play cos of game. In a last month i deraw 30 heroes on tc, token or events, and got 27 heroes with 3* one 4* and two 5*.is that fer draw? And i play 3 year and draw the same heroes all the time. 3 years i canā€™t get Kolen, Magni, Vivicaā€¦ So tell mi what is the point of playing all Day? Lot od my friends leave game cos of that,and all say that this game is the same like casino. You need a mount of luck to get smonthing.

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I have 50 summons in 2 months with not a single 5* while I had 3 5* from the Training Camps, all at 2 days distance from each other.

I think you should be happy with the 2 5*. Not to mention if theyā€™re not duplicates.

That is the point. Chance for Jackpot is higher then geting the 5* hero :slight_smile:

Thought of this thread as Iā€™ve recently soft core retired from E and P. Not going cold turkey but Iā€™m instead slowly fizzling out. Iā€™m letting flags sit idle, no more autofarming, and only doing events I still find fun. Probably going to quit fully once my VIP runs out. Nothing dramatic but simply getting bored and if Iā€™m gonna waste time on a game it better be nothing but fun and entertaining. Was still fun while it lasted. Gotta give a shout out to all the amazing alliance mates Iā€™ve had the pleasure to game with over the past year and a half! Was half of what made the game as fun as it was. :slight_smile:

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I consider myself casual competitive. I have only done ā€œwhat I likeā€ for a very long time. That said, I renewed my VIP this morning. :grin:

Must. Get. More. Loot tickets! :joy:

P.S. Iā€™m 4 years old and change in E&P. Must be a record for me.

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congrats @Rook , quite a milestone! I and many others are happy you are still around :slight_smile:

PS I lost access to my old LINE so have been unable to say HI to you and Mothra there :frowning:

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