Dear Playmage, Most of the people who are still playing TW have been on for forever. We do get some new players now and again, but the core that is here is probably going to keep playing as long as the server still logs in. I know I’ve already been playing over 3 years. I’m actually pretty impressed that we’ve been able to achieve some balancing among players. The top dogs who golded back in the day are still the top, but the average player is able to do pretty well now. When a largely nongolder like hatemakingnames has a near top shelf GF, you know parity has more or less arrived. Although there are many things that could still be improved in the game to enhance the user experience, please consider the following two items as a priority in future releases, if any: **1) Please include some way to quicken the hero spirit leveling process.** I would throw gold at you if you allowed us to buy hero spirit levels. You’ve already got a gold trainer set up for leveling heroes XP, just do a 1:1 mapping for gold spirits and done. You would get a lot of free revenue this way. If you really want the ability to continue to drain credits as Hero Spirits do, please, please, please allow a) the ability to buy an entire inventory (all free space, not just a free screen) with a single click and b) the ability to put an entire inventory towards leveling in a single click. Another easy thing to do would be to automatically clear the screen during hero spirit purchases so the user doesn’t have to click “clear history” button. **2) Find some way to improve build times.** When the game was first developed and the top level was lvl 30, the 2 hr max help made sense. As build times have crested over 50 days for higher end buildings, some mechanism for reducing the time would be even better. There are a lot of options out there. - New skills for builders and techs - Increasing max help up to 4, 6, or 8 hrs, depending upon same formula you use now for 2 hr max cap - Allowing buildings with a build time over \<30d?\> to get 10 helps instead of 5. - Allow buildings to get 5 helps first time around, and then 1 additional help each new day. - Don’t count galaxy members help of build times against the 5 help cap. Either don’t have a cap of build helps from within the galaxy, or have 5 within and 5 without. This option would have the side benefit of cleaning up the number of low-count galaxies out there as help with build times would drive people together in larger numbers. I hope the above two items can be accomplished in some way, so it can help those diehards who are still here chugging away three years later.

2b) “Build times” includes tech research times. 2c) Remove the non-racial weapon research penalty. There’s no reason for it.

Maybe pm can think about it for further expansion.

> *Originally posted by **[hatemakingnames](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10074776):*** > > 2b) “Build times” includes tech research times. > 2c) Remove the non-racial weapon research penalty. There’s no reason for it. Introduce some further racial diversity. What’s the point if everyone’s using carrots main with the same ships differing only by some images. Let’s have a T8 ship that varies by race. Humans seem to have finally come to terms with their lot in the game and it’s time they had something new to whine about.

Ye this true, i’ve got 70+ day builds and 40+ days tech lol. Kinda crazy, as for spiriting well…. i’m not going to comment :P

Playmage uses spirit leveling to weed out the psychopaths that play this game.

> *Originally posted by **[swcooper](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10075592):*** > > *Originally posted by **[hatemakingnames](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10074776):*** > > > > 2b) “Build times” includes tech research times. > > 2c) Remove the non-racial weapon research penalty. There’s no reason for it. > > Introduce some further racial diversity. What’s the point if everyone’s using carrots main with the same ships differing only by some images. Let’s have a T8 ship that varies by race. Humans seem to have finally come to terms with their lot in the game and it’s time they had something new to whine about. 1. You pick your race before you know anything about the game and there’s no way to change it. It shouldn’t do anything. 2. If everyone uses the same weapon, the weapons/chapters are unbalanced.

carrots are the meat and potatoes of the pvai game….lasers though…you need those to beat 17 and 18 boss

Thanks for the feedback. Please keep in mind that the top spirit levels and building levels are intended to take very very long time to reach. A gold shortcut for spirit leveling (similar to the one for hero leveling) maybe considered in the future if other players would consider using such as well.

> *Originally posted by **[playmage](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10084616):*** > > Thanks for the feedback. Please keep in mind that the top spirit levels and building levels are intended to take very very long time to reach. A gold shortcut for spirit leveling (similar to the one for hero leveling) maybe considered in the future if other players would consider using such as well. 1. The cost of a L80 gold spirit is around 1.2 billion credits…that takes a long time for the best players to amass. But even if it’s supposed to be difficult to level spirits, at least allow blue spirits to be auto-added. It’s very easy to get purple spirits…there’s no need for the protection against consuming level 1 blue spirits. 2. What about the other suggestion of speeding up techs and builds? 60-70 days per research is getting to be very long..

> *Originally posted by **[hatemakingnames](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10079385):*** > > > 1. You pick your race before you know anything about the game and there’s no way to change it. It shouldn’t do anything. You know how cute the Mu look. Why would anyone choose another race? You deserve their bad weapons

I would consider using gold to level spirits, provided it isn’t an outrageous amount. Something like 30 as a cap wouldn’t be unreasonable, considering it’s only about 80 (90?) to level my 86 gold hero to lv87. Also, will we ever get a button to assign max of ship type selected to heroes? Clicking and dragging is such a chore.

there is a huge difference between making something only for the top players vs something that is clumsy, cumbersome, and questionably designed. 1.2 billion credits …ok 1.2 billion clicks ….seriously? Maybe it was intended to pass the time as we wait for our non racial weapons to finish from their 50 day builds?

> *Originally posted by **[playmage](/forums/111/topics/588139?page=1#posts-10084616):*** > > Thanks for the feedback. Please keep in mind that the top spirit levels and building levels are intended to take very very long time to reach. A gold shortcut for spirit leveling (similar to the one for hero leveling) maybe considered in the future if other players would consider using such as well. What if you just allowed people to use credits (like gold) to directly level the hero spirits? If so, the time to get the credits is still just as high, but you don’t punish people to click 1 million times. For example, someone clicks on the hero spirit and gets a level up button, and the prompt is “spend 25 million credits to level?” Whatever the cost is, I’m sure it could be figured out. Amassing the credits still takes the same time, but I don’t have to click 25 million times to get there.

What about something to do with the shit ton of WoH crystal, which are relatively bypass their usefulness? As for Spiriting, why not add an option to “autofill” into pre-selected equipped Spirit?? God forbid, can we please have a better control on the god damn Battle instead of RNG. Especially Targeting which ship/heroes/tier/fleet/whatever get target. Nothing like all my heroes target their tank, while all my enemy hit EVERYTHING but my goddamn tank. 70% my left nut.

So what paymage so far did is considered adding yet another golding option (wow teh shokking surprize lol) and confirming that build times and such are not going to be nerfed because they are intended to take as horrendously long as they do… oh and he totally ignored any requests for usability improvements of the game, the GUI and such… just as he did the past years with those exact same and familiar suggestions. hilarious :] Considering I don’t play this game anymore and only login because I play another MMO on kong daily and even when I login to TW only do so to collect and troll bid in the auction house… I have the comfort to LMAO at all this because none of those issues affect me. xD paymage = successful troll. well played. rofl

Always fun to read self embarassing posts from people who project their own issues in life on me and others. :D