Exciting News! Changes Coming to Seasonal Trials!

[Jose Sarmento]

"a purchasable that sacrifices your chance to be competitive in the ANB leaderboard but gives you the rewards for making substantial progress?"

Yep, pretty much. I agree there should still be a better reward for actually playing / playing more.
In the same vein of feedback, consider to "flexibilize" the daily quests system. What you are rewarding is that I play the game; if I have to choose between doing an ANB *or* doing the same-old daily quests, the DQs are going to lose. But if playing the ANB - or pushing a Trial - would get me the credit (gems) that the DQs provide, that would be motivating.

E.g. for the same 100gems/day budget we have today:
50 gems for playing 5mins or more each day (actual in-game time in Story or Trials)
+30 gems for playing 15mins or more
+20 gems for playing 30mins or more

You could keep the DQs and have them reward a very minute amount of cosmetic points, kind of like the Arena does. Or Glory, assuming there will be something to actually do with it.

[Baleryon]

A very welcome change

[Josh (Developer)]

Players will be reset to Trial 80. If the user has not reached Trial 80, then their progress is NOT reset. For example:

if a user is on Trial 112, they would be sent back to Trial 80 when a new Season starts.

if a user is on Trail 63, they will remain on Trial 63 when a new Season starts.

[John Welch | CEO]

You have pretty much hit the nail on the head - that's what much of free-to-play design is about: you pay to play less (or to play more fun / efficiently, etc.). This allows us to make a living from people who have more money and less time. Some games really abuse that formula. With Eternium, we have always strived to keep the game very generous.

[John Welch | CEO]

70 is the new 60!

[John Welch | CEO]

Interesting... so, a purchasable that sacrifices your chance to be competitive in the ANB leaderboard but gives you the rewards for making substantial progress? We need to think of that in the context of what is coming, which includes more long-term value for having played ANB. Actually, something like this could help with that, as we have been worried about effectively "penalizing" people who don't have time for every ANB. We just need to get it right so people who DO play have a distinct advantage over people who do not, or who play vastly less.

[Swamp Donkey]

RockDoc, I can't fathom how if you have been playing for that long that it could take hours? If we use a Warrior with a full Fury set, and only a few CT'd items, you should jump from TL7 - TL125 in really quick sucession. If we take a reserved TL completion time of 1:30-140, that should skip 10 TL's at a time. So I am calculating 9 /10 minutes to TL100. Then if we say a modest completion of TL100 in 2:15-2:35, that should skip you to TL107. Same again at TL107 to TL115. At this point, I am estimating you are 14-15 min of play time into it. Then let's say you complete TL115 in just over 3 minutes. That will open TL120. So up to about 18 minutes. Even if you then take the full 10 min on each TL to 125, I can only see an estimate of 1hr 18min for completion of TL125.

Now this is by no means me being unrealistic with the timings. I'm not the best player, however my TL100 time will 100% be under 1 minute. So giving twice that for this these timings seems fair.

Could I ask why it takes you hours of play time? Have you started a new account? Or not played for many years? If it is a medical reason or age, then no need to comment here.

[RockDoc]

Swamp Donkey, I've been playing Eternium for almost 4 years and have never been able to get to TL125 in less than a couple of hours! Thanks for putting me in my place and making it obvious that I have no right to be playing this game.

[Swamp Donkey]

Playing for years and you can't break the top 1000? This I find hard to belive.

[Swamp Donkey]

To be honest, TL125+ should take many people less than about 10 minutes of play.

[David Carroll]

I'll wait for it to reset to Tin then.

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

The Platinum event is intended to be the most challenging tier of the ANB event cycle.

[David Carroll]

Ok, just noticed that I now have to get to level 100 in trials to get the first celestial transform. Which is the last straw for me. They should have made it easier, not harder. Ain't nobody got time for that. If I'm gonna work that hard I expect to be paid for it and, anyway, I already have a full time job, so congrats: I'm out.

[netonha]

Xp boost(400%) for 100 glory
Xp boost (800%) for 200 glory
?

[Shintara]

Yeah, it's frustrating mate, I agree
I hate Garm with a passion and am not a fan of TBD either! Hahaha
Come join us on Discord for some tips from the veterans of this game!
Maybe some of it can help you get that edge?

https://discord.com/invite/eternium