Hey Leroy!, pls explain why the weekly challenge has fixed loot again!

[Kane2]

Another weekly challenge giving gold and stone which are absolutely useless to me- an underworld only player.
Maybe you developers can tell us why we are NOT able to choose which resources we want?

[War Hammer]

Another weekly challenge giving gold and stone which are absolutely useless to me- an underworld only player.
Maybe you developers can tell us why we are NOT able to choose which resources we want?

Because that would make to much sense brother. 🤷♂️

Chris

[Seaweed]

But I want Olympus loot only.

[CASTIEL]

Challenges do not give the option to select desired resources because challenges were not designed for players to choose desired resources.
Challenges are added content, meant for players to enjoy their time spent playing the challenge. A large amount of work goes into creating diverse content to be released regularly through the challenges. Players do not have to play each challenge or every level of a challenge if they do not like said challenge, or the resources offered, but the resources offered are always great ways for players to progress their accounts.

[leroy]

I don't really have any objection to allowing players to choose resources in this case. I'll talk to the team and we will discuss.

leroy

[Goob]

While it would be nice to be able to choose, at least things are consistent. Last week was UW, this week was Olympus. There are probably other hills worth fighting for.

[leroy]

Note that we can't just magically 'make this happen' of course, it would be a bunch of new code that would require being part of a new release.

leroy

[Kane2]

Challenges do not give the option to select desired resources because challenges were not designed for players to choose desired resources.
Challenges are added content, meant for players to enjoy their time spent playing the challenge. A large amount of work goes into creating diverse content to be released regularly through the challenges. Players do not have to play each challenge or every level of a challenge if they do not like said challenge, or the resources offered, but the resources offered are always great ways for players to progress their accounts.

Let’s be real honest here, challenges exist solely to make players spend large amounts of gems on it. Up to a thousand gems can be used up each week if you make it into the last round,.
And since this week it’s stone and gold I saved all those gems. Question is, is that really in your best interest?

[Fritz]

Why not half the resources but give both types? Not my druthers, but it makes sense, especially for challenges where you have a mix of Olympus and Underworld gods, or you have one world's gods attacking the other world's bases.

[JKs]

I don't agree with that. Some players are only interested in one realm and looking to push that one realm only.

[Sticksman]

I don't agree with that. Some players are only interested in one realm and looking to push that one realm only.

We are actually playing two separate games, there is no benefit in one world from attacks made in the other and we cannot mix the gods for new squad formations. Gems are spent in both worlds of course. For those who want to progress in Olympus the update has been a distraction rather than a benefit. Waiting two weeks between events has slowed down progress in either world and many have lost motivation and just do their daily quota of attacks and play other games. The ability to choose which currency to win from events would restore some incentive to play. I fear that otherwise, players are beginning to drift away.

[Mario]

I already asked if we can choose OW or UW resources and Leroy replied it’s not easy to make that happen. Hope it’s not too long to wait.

[Crazy Uncle Oceanus]

We are actually playing two separate games, there is no benefit in one world from attacks made in the other and we cannot mix the gods for new squad formations. Gems are spent in both worlds of course. For those who want to progress in Olympus the update has been a distraction rather than a benefit. Waiting two weeks between events has slowed down progress in either world and many have lost motivation and just do their daily quota of attacks and play other games. The ability to choose which currency to win from events would restore some incentive to play. I fear that otherwise, players are beginning to drift away.

We also recieve Ambrosia as well from every UW attack which is of course vital to both realms. And while i certainly cant say for sure, i would be willing to wager that ambrosia will be needed in future releases.

This is all very new, its essentially adding on an entire half of the game. If they allow to much interaction or crazy mergers between the two realms, it will throw the balance of the overall METAgame into complete chaos. While the UW pantheon isnt as developed as the OL for obvious reasons, its still very robust and powerful, and will require lots of balancing and input from the entire community that will have to be weighed extremely carefully.

I happen to enjoy the UW greatly, its recharge rate differs from Olympus and is more frequent, so you have lots of chances to run UW in between your Olympus runs. Quite clever if you think about it. The existence of two pantheons provides twice as many chances to make gold for whichever city is attacked - not to mention breaks up the monotony. In fact, my experience so far has been that it provided more overall chances for victory! Whenever my City hits stages where it struggles with olympian gods - or at least certain configurations - Underworld attacks can provide a reprieve for my cities defences.

The ultimate verdict on UW defenses still remains to be determined IMO, its still rare that i see anyone do anything very original or creative. Things are too new, not enough of the defense options have been explored thoroughly enough bu the playerbase. Seems people still mostly go Alecto or Tisiphone’s domains, which is great and all, but i doubt its the truly deadliest strategy - just the most obvious for now.

Ultimately, no matter which world you prefer, UW provides more opportunities for both resources and gameplay.

[Goob]

I'm guessing since it's the Furies this week that means the loot will be Underworld. If you're keeping track at home that's 2 weeks in a row of UW.

[Sticksman]

Underworld loot in the event this week! Why are they giving the finger to their paying customers? I’m taking a break, progress is too slow now in Olympus. It is pointless having GoO as your main game if you aren’t going to make any progress on your goals for weeks on end, I will play another game until it gets sorted. I never thought an intensive update of the game would lead to this, they have really messed up. Of course the UW lovers will think it’s great until they have to wait weeks for events to benefit their world. It just doesn’t make any sense. See you later maybe. (Or perhaps the UW event will pay out Olympus loot, nothing is too crazy in this game anymore)