The biggest problem with the game is the insane amount of time required (in before someone
hilariously points out "you don't HAVE to do anything/everything!" derp) to do just the daily tasks, battles, sign-ups and raids, etc.
2:15:33. That's 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 33 seconds today. Almost an hour of which was just the basic daily stuff.
I timed everything, and will explain what I didn't do as well (as in what wasn't available today). I also didn't account for any wait-time in-between challenges/arena/ship battles, as I either did something else in-game or shut it down to come back later. If you want to add those too I don't really math but 2-8m iirc, each, depending on which one.
Anyhoo, here's everything I did:
1. daily challenges, regular and ship.
2. used energy (ship, reg, mod, cantina) for chars/gear/mods
3. squad arena battles
4. ship arena battles
5. galactic war
6. rebel roundup
7. signed up for GA
8. signed up for Guild raid
9. collected energy bonuses, raid/arena/ship
I think that's all the regular stuff, if I am forgetting a daily thing lmk.
(Simmed everything available to sim.)
10. Played the bonus tier of Rebel Roundup (bc it's one of the fun events, if I had auto-ed like I did the other lower 2 levels shave some seconds off, maybe - AI isn't as good at getting the kill bonuses so I could have been faster playing it myself, idk. Either way the difference is negligible).
11. Tank Raid: played first stage with the finn auto team, but couldn't get it going right and died towards the end (escaped 3po and gmy, fwiw). Then did an arena battle, then got back in at end of stage 2, played for a few minutes then auto-ed the rest, then jumped back in arena battles. Did ship battles in-between arena battles, fwiw)
12. Set 1 defense in GA
13. Clicked "join" on rancor. Thanks Devs, for real, on that one!
14. Oops, forgot above in "regular stuff and now too hard to fix numbering lol: checked stores for items/mods at every store change (so like 3-4 times? not sure tbh)
What I didn't include:
15. ANY setting of GA defenses (I actually set one but I usually wait until morning, so didn't count it. Add that to tomorrow too!)
16. ANY GA attacks (rinse-repeat for 3 rounds. Obv this wouldn't be in one day but you see the point).
17. ANY hsith raid time, which is a lot. Jtr, Revan, NS, etc all take a lot of time still (having hsth on farm still takes a loooong time, plus you have to jump in at certain times with the certain teams.
18. ANY TW defense
19. ANY TW attacks (which also take longer than just the attack-time bc of waiting/clearing zones)
20. ANY TB attacks (the best guild event in the game imo)
21. anything else I'm forgetting? Like other Events that take a long time, like the NS one I [EDIT: Auto, not sim. It can't be simmed iirc] sim and it still takes forever. Idk.
I'm a 4m GP player, played since late December 2015, so I can sim almost everything and auto pretty much everything, in an active guild. Just fwiw
I understand the arena/TW/raid type stuff will take longer, but the little things themselves took 56:43.
That's almost an hour of just clicking on the basic stuff!
PLEASE DEVS, Do something about the amount of time the little things take. I don't understand why you seem to think having us click so many times makes you money. I know for one if there was one-click ability and I didn't waste an hour of my day I would be more inclined to buy crystals to do more stuff, tbh. But as it it...
*tl;dr: game takes too long. An HOUR just for the basic clicking. Please make the timesuck less, devs.
@CG_SBCrumb @Kyno (I know your not a dev, but please pass this along?
@CG_Carrie @CG_RyDiggs Hope these link right.
Replies
lol sure it did
try reading the post. unreal
lol ok
no one said anything about content. Do you have fun doing TAC battles? then great. Devs should leave the option to do everything manually. I just want the mindless clicking time to be reduced
how about 10 hours? mbn
default to max doesn't save any time, it wastes time for anyone who doesn't want to max everything. it was fine before. There are a bunch of things that could actually save time. like, what I said in my post
Seriously, if anyone wants to comment on what I actually said and not just blabber nonsense about something they didn't read, lmk please. amazing responses so far smh
I did say daily challenges except pvp dosent take long sim everything and do a few refreshes and still sim more so yes 15 min is easily possible can do it faster if i dont bounce around to do both challenges 2 or 3 times
And yes i do want way more time in game get dailies done and simming takes no time and i only do i fleet on auto so normally 3 to 4 min and 1-7 arena battles depending on how far i fall so about 5 to 1.5 hrs including the down time between matches and not doing anything
So not sure how it takes u that long to do everything unless u are doing gw manually and not simming and doing everything manually
However items 1,2,3,4 and 5 take me a few minutes at most. I usually do a squad arena match first, so by the time I do everything else it is almost ready for the next one. Items 7,8,9 and 13 are literally just clicking a button.
How can it take forever if you are simming it?
All in all, unless you spent a ton of time in the raids, I do not see how this took you over 2 hours. Items 1-9 ( the daily stuff), shouldn't take more than 20 minutes, unless you are doing waiting to do more than 2 arena matches, I usually do 2 when I first log on to do dailies and do the other three later in the day.
I know that you don't want to hear this, but from the other comments and my own play experience I don't see why this takes you 2 hours.
No wonder you're taking so long if you're playing events before they launch
Escape from battle if pressed for time and you don't care.
Squad arena, challenge, spend energy, level Ship, Ship challenge, Ship arena, ship challenge, Galactic War, challenge, store, squad arena. Be careful or you might run out of your eleventy-billion sim tickets.
Add an event and it takes another 20 if you manually fight every battle.
Now, if you timed everything including typing your really long and beautifully formatted post, 2.5 hours is about right. Learn to love typos!
You're complaining about actually having to play the game.
I mean, you've listed 14 things and if they averaged 10 minutes each then you have only just reached your total of 2h15. But claiming energy doesn't take 10 minutes. Signing up for a Raid or GA doesn't take 10 minutes. Setting a single defence in Territory War doesn't take 10 minutes. So that's 4 items right there which take a minute each or possibly two for placing the defence if you thought for a while about where to place it.
So now you're down to 10 items from your list and 130 minutes. 13 minutes on average for each of them? Really?
So as I ask, please tell us how long each individual item on your 14 point list took you. Thank you.
Thats why I said that we should have sim on auto battles on a qol changes needed thread, but after a while it just got lost and no one replied to it
However, given the average mobile device user in the US spends 5 hours a day with fingers to the screen, it's really not a significant amount of time.
Personally; I don't feel like the basic clicking stuff takes much time at all though, it's more raids, guild events and arena climbs for me and I'm not sure it's even really the time requirement that gets my goat, more the specific time to play requirement.
It used to take me longer with my old phone, especially starting up the game. It's faster on my computer.
One guy mentioned learning to love typos, but I really appreciated the detailed original post. My only suggestion would be to eliminate all acronyms to widen the reader base that can understand your message. (I am joking here.)