Why do you play?

[Gryphonknight]

Fun Game Mechanics

@VeryQuietly

I level and play with heroes that are fun to play with, even if they aren’t necessarily the “best” for my lineup. I’d rather have a maxed hero with a different special skill, fun animation, and cool art than a strong but boring sniper

I agree

The game is the most fun from Stronghold Lv1 to Lv12 ( core 3* heroes )

Slightly less fun from Stronghold Lv13 to Lv20 ( core 4* heroes )

Click for Stronghold Lv20, and higher

More like an after school job for pocket money at Stronghold Lv20 to Lv21 ( first rainbow 5* 3.70 team )

[Consider switching from Empires and Puzzles to Puzzle Combat once you have a good rainbow 5* 3.70 team ]

An actual job at Stronghold Lv22 to Lv23 ( core 5* heroes )

Community service at Stronghold Lv24+ ( looking at you Alchemy Lab v2.0 and Hero Academy Lv10 )

Families

If you like progressing in the game, finding a good alliance family is highly recommended ( see notes )

Notes

Click for notes

Stronghold 24+

([Rant] An unhealthy obsession with Stronghold 25)

Alliance Family

@From another discussion

Families

In my years of playing online games, the most effective model appears to be alliance families

New players can join low level alliances and work their way up the alliance family to high level alliances

I would actually like to see more development cycles spent on developing the family alliance model instead of alliance search

This could revolutionize the industry as a whole and could potentially be spun off as a consulting subsidiary depending on the base mechanism

Instead of games adding more and more members to alliances, making the leaders job harder and harder, alliances could be smaller in new games with the smaller alliances connected to families or mega alliances

Empires and Spreadsheets

Camps

([Repost, Training Camps] Recruit training - common training ( RT01 ) to Legendary training ( RT20 ) - Advice, Stats, and Math)

Food / Iron Hoard

(What are the best Alchemy Lab levels to hoard food/ iron?)

FIN