If you enjoy role-play game (RPG), this one may be your cup of tea. But I have to say MAYBE.
I started to play this game half a year ago, but I am still as confused how to get a upper hand against the opponents in the game as the first time I played it. I am confident to say that I am no green-hand with my ~ 20 years of game experience. Not another game has puzzled me as much.
Well, the game design is quite simple. You can choose your characters’ species from Mercenary (more gold), Barbarian (more strength), Fighter (more health) or Warrior (more stamina). You can then go into the fantasy world of the game to perform two activities: quest vs fight.
In quest, you are presented with various levels of quest challenges based on the level of your character. In addition, the quests have other prerequisites usually, including possession of certain weapons, vehicles and party size. The tougher the preconditions are, the more rewards you will get—in forms of experience scores and gold, and drops of loot items (e.g. weapons) with a certain probability.
To buy weapons, you need gold, and sometimes, even gem.
What is gem? Gem is one of the most valuable and useful items in the game. You are awarded 20 gems at the very beginning of the game. However, they can be spent in many ways and be gone within a few seconds. For example, to heal your wound or to replenish your strength so that you can fight other opponents or to gain stamina to go for a quest, you need to give the Oracle 2 gems each time, or you can use gems to obtain weapons, and the top weapons for a level can only be purchased by gems, not gold.
The only way to get more gems is to buy from the evil Oracle. Why do I say she is evil (assume it’s a she like in the Matrix)? That is because she increases the price of gems using a rate close to the power law! The price for the first gem is $1000, and the second would be $2000, and soon you will find that the 10th will cost you over a million! The money doesn’t come by so easily in the game.
That is the first puzzle I have about the game – how can we afford the gems with such a pricing! And I am sure you agree with me now She is EVIL.
Now let’s forget about gems for a second. The request for party size was another challenge for me as well (not any more as I will tell you in a moment). At the beginning of the game you have a party size of two, you and the bot the game awards you. From the help menu of the game, it’s obvious that one can buy additional party bot from the evil oracle to increase the party size. However, soon I realized that this was not going to work, as the quests that awards a couple of thousand gold would need party size more than 5. Fortunately, there is google. I found out that I can look for many other players’ id numbers online for free and add them to your party list to increase you party size at no cost. So I cut out the middle-man here and saved me some bucks.
But this is not the end of my headache. As I progress in the game, I start to notice that fighting other opponents from the game list is a shortcut to make me rich – if I win. There is a very clear explanation as to how the victory of the fight is judged. It depends on the attack and defense of your character, plus power of your weapons and vehicles, and plus that of your party member. The explanation specifically emphasizes that you should get A weapon and vehicle for each of your party member so they would count more favorably in the game.
That sounds good, so every time when I go up a level in the game, I spend most or all my awarded points to increase my attack and defense. I also try to be a good party leader. I buy the best equipment for each of my party members as well. I won a few and was quite satisfied with the looted god.
I quit the game, and went to bed. But not the game. My name is still online available to accept challenges from other players even when you are not playing. But I thought I would be invincible now.
I was wrong. The next day when I started the game, I got such notices:
“You were attacked by skywalker at 1:30 am and you lost, you lost $5,977(10% of my god every time I lose a fight)”
“You were attacked by skywalker at 1:30 am and you lost, you lost $5,524″
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“You were attacked by skywalker at 1:31 am and you died, you lost $3,764″
Thank God my health ran out before I got bankrupted.
I am puzzled again. Where is the problem?
The problem is the party member! I found that another 80 unknown IDs appeared on my party list without my knowledge in a night! This means the majortity of my partners were fighting with me NAKED in the game and they were dragging me down.
How could it happen? I only added a couple IDs and I did not publicize my ID by NO means! The worse thing is, there is no way that I could delete these unwelcome friends from my list. What made things even worse was the anonymous unwelcome friends were keeping flooding in and there was no setting in the game to deny these uninvited friends.
There is no way I would be able to afford to equip such an ever-increasing army. Somehow, I was not so worried, maybe other players also facing the same problems as I do?
I was wrong again. I found my fight loss increases day by day, and most of the time the challengers killed me with a single strike without being hurt much at all. They have to have a full-equipped army! How could they do that?
Such powerful challengers start to pay more and more visits to me as they find fighting with me is quite lucrative!
Soon I could not make my ends meet in the game and I had to have my ID suicided.
I did not give up there, and I started a new ID from level one, and changed my strategy. But the same thing happened again, and again.
And here I am, level 3, after half a year of playing the game, still confused with the underlying mechanism of the game, confused with the basic question:
Should I be a Mercenary , or a barbarian?
should I increase my attack, or defense?
should I …
Should I still play the game? or Should I recommend the game? Nobody likes to play and lose.
En, I will let you know when I conquer the game one day!
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Tip #1 – BANK your gold! According to the game, you don’t lose $$ in fights if you bank it.
Tip #2 – Goblin Orbs and such sell back to the bank for gems! That’s the only other way I’ve found to get around le Oracle de poo-poo. These items are random drops from quests (haven’t found one from a fight yet).
I am level 9 now (in a matter of days) just by questing with a smattering of fights. I’m a barbarian and win 2/3 of the fights, I haven’t been fought-at yet, and no random adds in my party? Though, I only publicize my ID to my friends.
The one thing I’m puzzled by is, what’s Strength used for? Atk/Def is for fights, and Stamina/Party#/Equipment is for quests… but Strength?
Tip #1. Wait till you buy some real estates. They will automatically generate gold for you, but these will not be directly deposited into your bank account. They remain in your “Checking ” account. If somebody challenge you and win, you will lose about 10% of your checking account every time. Since the gold will grow naturally depending on how many real estates you own, you could bank on it even you are away from your game, or, some one else will pay regular visits to you…
Buying real estates is the best way of investment, that is, if you can keep your earning.
Tip. #2. Agree. But the chance is not so high.
Strength: To challenge another fighter, you need one point of strength for each fight. Once you are strong enough or “confident” enough, you can go out and pick a fight. If you find a weak and rich boy, you can bully him again and again and again…
That is a limit set by the game: within a month, you can only bully the same poor guy (kill him) certain number of times. If you try more, the game will tell you that this poor fellow is not available for you till # Month # Date.
I guess your friends did not give your number to a third party then.
Good luck and have fun.
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I just recently installed it on my Palm Pre. I don’t see any option to equip other members of my party, according to the app itself the features vary across platforms. The gem issue appears to be a constant. There is one possibility no one else has mentioned yet: You can apparently get 20-25 gems at a pop for signing up to play their other games, like M:Vampire. I am guessing the crcuail need for gems is how they make sure all of their games are popular with those who play any of them. I haven’t tried it yet, I am too annoyed. PS. Thanks to Kelsee and imperator for the party adds.
There is no apparent administrative option to equip your weapons to your party member, it was only said in the help menus that you should buy one for each of your party member. My guess is, you just have to buy as many as your party member for defense and offensive items, and maybe vehicles, which can be very costly.
So can someone tell me if there is a “Fight” purgatory? I’m up to level 41 and now am not able to fight anyone except for the same 10 people.
I thought maybe I did something wrong and was put into “Fight” time-out, but now I’m thinking about scrapping the app. Any help?
You are right, you can only fight people at the same level with you. However, if you think you are so strong you can challenge those on the Honor Roll, namely top 10 players and top 10 fighters.
But I do not see a chance for any level 40 player.
Better choice is to invest your money in real estate, go Quest, and buy better equippment. When you uplevel to a higher stage, maybe you can do that.
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This game is like any other facebook game where your based with the same stats. DO NOT BUY ALOT OF GEAR IN THE BEGINNING. Put all your money in the bank and buy land over and over. It will not offer you the buy 10 option and etc… unless you can afford it. Wait until you have lots of Land that you have nothing to do but buy land with the income your getting. I’m not talking about making 5-10k an hour. I mean making like 100-500k an hour. Then at that point buy all the equipment you want or keep buying land. Putting all your points into attack/hp lets you be a good sniper so that you can take people out. Put some into your strength to do more fights but if you want to be a good defender and not lose your progress during the night then put your points into defense/hp. This lets people on some games that offer the bounty list attack you and you just get expereience and gold while youre sleeping. I suggest not putting to many points into stamina since working quests for gold can get quite slow unless you have gems to refill stamina your whole life. I also suggest not adding people to your party until your lvl 40 give or take. If you have party of 10 at lvl 20 then you only see people with 2-30 party members and you can pick on the low parties taking all their gold. The people you see for fight depend on how big of party you have. Since you have to equip them all this is an easy way to get the game started. I personally am always a defender. I put all points into defense until I reach 100+ defense then I put 50 points into hp and repeat process. I may put a point or two into stamina along the way but highly avoid it. Since once you’re level 50+ it gets very dependant in fights on your defense when someone attacks you and if they put all points into being a sniper and you wasted ALOT on defense you’ll be sore from defending. Good luck and any questions contact me Steel.And.Fire@hotmail.com
BTW the land(estate) goes up after you buy ANY of the same name. So wait until you can buy a large sum at once of each land. Such as buy 10 Blacksmiths instead of buying just ‘1′ after doing a couple quests. The price almost doubles and the profit from income to exponential cost is NOT WORTH IT. It gets frustrating at points but you’ll understand it soon enough.
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How to equip myself and my party members with weapons and armor. Does it mean that everytime I got new weapons they are automatically equipped and I don’t have the power to specify the equipment I need? Does the app automatically pick the strongest weapon to be equipped?
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Very simple. Always bank your gold so it is not stolen. Invest your gold into land as soon as you can afford 10 of something. If you buy one instead of ten the price goes up a LOT for each subsequent purchase. Concentrate on fighting as often as possible. On level 20 I killed a schmo with 47 million gold on him and that went a long way to get me to level 45 within 3 days of playing. I am now stuck fighting the same ten characters all the time and they never die. I’m stuck and frustrated at this point.
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Looks like you end up fighting the non-player characters if you are unlucky enough to select too many real opponents who are unable to fight (health too low, etc.). It seems the computer will then give you these same ten who don’t die and are always able to fight so that you can increase your experience. If you are not able to defeat any of these then you will have to build up your power and party until you can. You should get another try at real opponents the next day. When you do, keep trying different ones until you find one with a lot of gold. Then stick with that fight until you can’t fight anymore.
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