When there is 5 or 10 mins left on a building upgrade at higher levels, allow to finish the upgrade for free. This will incentivize players to return back on time to finish plot upgrades/collection activities.
#ILV Zero - offer free speedup when 5 mins left on upgrade
cosmic vale
coarse folio
Unnecessary. Just wait the 5 or 10 minutes or spend the 1 credit to speed it up.
coral ginkgo
Unnecessary. Just wait the 5 or 10 minutes or spend the 1 credit to speed it up.
I saw this in lords mobile a lot. There are upgrades that allow you to speed up items for free more quickly that take 48 days themselves to upgrade.
I.e. you can speed up this building for free if 1 hour remains, or 1 hour and 3 minutes if you upgrade the tech. But the buildings easily take 20 days to upgrade as well. In that sense, 5 minutes or 1 hour makes no difference.
So, if we go about increasing upgrqde times for future upgrades of buildings to take closer to 300 days, we could easily implement this for sure! Yes there are plenty of 300 day + upgrades in that game. #WhalesWillPay
broken nacelle
This is mostly useful for trying to stick new players. Cause when your plot is empty and you first touch the game you wanna get those first buildings down quickly. This would let new players get their layout quickly and they could start playing the game by positioning sooner.
Not a bad idea IMO, but not sure it's necessary ATM.
opal lichen
To reiterate, it's definitely not a bad idea and it does offer a utility by catering to a particular aspect of human psychology. Is it the most important thing to worry about right now? Probably not. But the idea is sound. Many mobile games implement these features as a way to get a player to feel the progression as soon as possible, and that helps hook players in. I say keep the idea on the back burner for now.