Free to Complete time

[jaunty pollen]

Hi there,

I am suggesting a free to compete time. I found myself spending all my coins on 15-20 minute speed ups just because I didn’t want to wait.

I suggest a time based on nexus level that would be free to complete any task. For example at level one nexus you get a 1 minute complete time. Majority of buildings were less then 1 minute to build so you would go through the steps of building then be able to “speed up” but it be free since your within the minute. Say level 2 nexus would get 5 minutes level 3-10 minutes so on so forth.

You could adjust times accordingly to ensure nobody keeps a building low level just to free farm elements or anything. Or even if they kept an extractor at level 3 while nexus is 6 they could “free farm” but would get such a low amount of resources it wouldn’t make sense to do it.

The amount of times I’ve logged into the game and had 5 minutes or 10 minutes left on something but haven’t been able to wait and had to come back one or two hours later and lose out on the efficiency, something like this would help.

[jagged locust]

We want you to spend $$ so I think its working :p

[weak plover]

I have played similar city building games that start at Free if less than 30 seconds and gradually move up to 5 minutes. As a gamer I enjoy being able to take advantage of a mechanic like this. As an investor I’m sure this sort of mechanic would encourage the same behaviour as spending credits, so could actually increase credit purchases if set up well. Overall though I don’t think it’s something we need.

As a separate thought, if this wasn’t tied to Nexus but was tied to having multiple of other buildings then it might make sense. Eg building a second quantum fabricator.

[jaunty pollen]

I agree 100% I want people to spend money. But with free tokens right now I don’t mind spending them for 5 minute speed ups. But when those tokens cost me money I will not be using them loosely anymore. Maybe instead of using tokens we use time speed ups (ie. 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes… 1 hour…) this way I could choose on my 8 hour and 47 minute build to use an 8 hour, 15 minute, 30 minute, this would leave me with 3 minutes which depending on my level could be “free” but I still purchased speed ups and customer used them to my advantage as seeing fit: maybe I know I’ll be back in 4 hours so don’t want to waste my 8 hour speed up so I’ll buy 4x 1 hour get it to the range I know I’ll return at and still spent money. I just feel like you can’t approach this looking to gouge people constantly for money because they people playing the game are the people looking to make money from it so why would you spend. The people I want to spend money are the people on the F2P lands

And on the other hand of that if I’m trying to speed up say 50 minutes I may use a 1 hour since I don’t have smaller ones wasting 10 minutes worth of boost. You sell these in packages or individually, individually obviously has a higher cost then a bundle price per speed up is to incentivize bundle purchases. And then in your level up system throw some free speed ups at milestone levels so people are more willing to grind to a level in turn spending more money. I feel like saying to upgrade to nexus 7 will cost $20 isn’t very attractive where saying you can spend $30 to get 30 hours worth of speed ups split in different time boost is a little more appealing. Then you add the 24 hour builder that you can pirchase. Or a monthly subscription that gives you a builder, x amount of resources, x amount of speed ups per day. And that subscription could have tiers higher tiers more resources and speed ups. Basically you might as well hire me cause I’m full of ideas 🤣

[jagged locust]

I allrdy dont use them losely. because using them for anything below 1 hour to me is inefficient.

[jaunty pollen]

But if we want people to spend money I want you to use them with 10 seconds left… my opinion isn’t that we need to save tokens or be frugal with them it’s I want to incentive using them.. so if I have a build that’s 8 hours and 25 minutes.. but if nexus is level 6 I get 10 miinutes off or if it’s lvl 7 I get 15 minutes I’ll get my nexus to 7 so I can get my build to 8 hours and 10 minutes and then boost. Really only saved 15 minutes but makes me feel a little better when spending. Give a little as an incentive to try and get a higher return