Seems that the more this game changes the fewer attainable objectives exist.
For instance, the current maze, unlocking monsters seems impossible.
Anyone feel the same?

@Donna-Signorile For mazes I always check out the wiki and try to plan whom I am going to get, because I refuse to spend money on maze coins. However that means to do much of anything in the maze you need to be playing every day. For example, early on in the maze I was not doing the Thunder Eagle breeding to get Maze coins. I had other things going on. Lately my Breedting Tree has been dormant, because I have been clearing out my storage of all of the Epics in there. All that to say that this is a sim-game. Someone recently called it a clicker-game. All I know is that for me to keep enjoying the game I have to focus on what I do well and what I enjoy. If you can't find something you like in the game and remember how much fun or cool that it, then the farming aspect of the game can wear you down. Also remember that it is just a game. If it gets to be too stressful, then we all need to find something better to do.

@Kaiju no stress been playing a long time. Just don't understand how making achievements exponentially more difficult makes the game fun?
Like new monsters every week, I have over 1200 breedings and 199 monsters? Just don't find the logic.

@Donna-Signorile If everyone can be the best of the best, then how good are they really? The challenges have to go up as we go up. When I first started playing, I couldn't finish ANY of the dungeons for a long time. Maybe I just had a bad mix of monsters? It took me a while to get ANY legendaries. Now I can autoplay every dungeon, except for the survival dungeon and occasionally the other dungeons on the end nodes. Also they don't want everyone to have EVERY monster. They know that they have a space issue. If more people had close the max in monsters, there would be a lot more screaming. Actually I don't understand why there isn't more screaming now? But that's off-topic.

Regarding breedings are you wondering why you have so few monsters?

I agree completely. They also have stopped the 20 and 30% discounts on the maze they used to have. I dont mind them making the game harder, but they still need to set hard but attainable goals. I am pretty sure I will struggle to get more than 2 legends on this maze, where it wasnt that long back where I would get through the whole maze (and I was a much weaker player then too)

Still remember the first ever maze, got the whole island for free and no effort needed XD

@Donna-Signorile said in Game changes = less fun?:

Seems that the more this game changes the fewer attainable objectives exist.
For instance, the current maze, unlocking monsters seems impossible.
Anyone feel the same?

Winning an entire event hasnt been doable for over a year.

Talking of game changes, can someone tell me the schedule of 'games' in ML?

We have Gold Rush, Rune Lords, and Growth Spurt, right?

Nowadays I plan my week around those minigames, to maximise the rewards. I.E. no need to craft runes any time of the week until Rune Lords is on.

I do think whom ever is in charge of game play should look at how the game was played 1 year ago.

Another example the current maze I have claimed the first three monsters which did not unlock another monster. So what now?
How do
I continue?

If you claimed the first 3 monsters (sludger, postiguraf, invidia) then you opened the path (3 keys) of Ophiuchus with him you can reach Yilitre

@Clackers Gold Fever is Monday - Wednesday, Rune Lords is Wednesday to Friday and Growth Spurt (hoping for a Harvester Fest at some stage, sitting on 3 B gold!) is over the weekend Friday to Monday ;)

Love Season and Food Harvest are still active/used challenges. I think only Fight Kings and Food Steal have gone the way of the Doo-Doo since the 'New Great Super Awesome Get Me Some of That' PvP was released.

@Keith-Romberg said in Game changes = less fun?:

Love Season and Food Harvest are still active/used challenges. I think only Fight Kings and Food Steal have gone the way of the Doo-Doo since the 'New Great Super Awesome Get Me Some of That' PvP was released.

Given what I perceive as a REALLY dry sense of humor, I assume that is pun on Dodo. Do you not like the new PVP? I love it. I am looking forward to getting a least Gold 1 and possibly Legendary 4. Voltaik is pushing me to get Legendary 4.

@Kaiju said in Game changes = less fun?:

Do you not like the new PVP?

No, it is complete c***. The shield feature is just broken. You can not get two consecutive attacks in. Trophies are out of wack. You loose more on defense than you gain on attacks. All defending teams are now in two flavors: Krampas with 6 X t teams speeds or Hackster with 6x team speeds. Specials run rampant if you use Thetys. Defensive AI is just plain terrible. Artificial restriction of monster use: team wars, attack PvP team, defending PvP, team, etc. And on and on. There is nothing fun or worth while in the new system. Many players have this same opinion.

The one thing that disappoints me with this PVP is that SP said there would be three options:

• Hard Opponent

• Medium Opponent

• Easy Opponent

When in fact, it is clear that SP do not have the relevant algorithms in place to make this possible for ALL players. If I am getting 3 options of all level 100s, then I do not consider that an easy/medium/hard choice.

@Clackers LOL I have 3 choices, hard, harder and impossible

@Suzznee said in Game changes = less fun?:

@Clackers LOL I have 3 choices, hard, harder and impossible

You mistyped that: all missess, all enemy specials, and all misses and enemy specials.

I like this maze ONLY in the sense there is no guessing. I know that I have to do each path of open monsters to unlock the next monster. No need to remember a path or keys. What I DON'T like is that you don't get the keys until you have almost claimed the monster. On the flip side I KNOW I have no chance of getting the monster I really want so I don't have to be vested in the game that much anymore. I also never liked with a week left they never offered maze coin dungeon and make it harder to collect coins.

As for the PvP I don't think anyone has a chance of moving up after the 1st season. Defense losses make it near impossible to get ahead so I will stay at Gold 2 for the foreseeable future.

@tosha There was a maze coin dungeon last week and several of the mazes including the gold one offered maze coins, as well as there was quite a few coins offered through Monsterwood. So not sure why you didn't get a maze coin dungeon last week.

The maze started off rough this time as we weren't getting all the coins we should have on breeding and hatching and food, but that was fixed the first week.

IDK if I would say the changes are making the game less fun but they certainly are making it more frustrating. What with the broken AI gaining more rewards than a player in arena, the player continuously being removed from gameplay (items/autoplay). Cheaters getting away with cheating while non cheaters get nothing, wish I got a loan on War Coins to have lvl 130 generals while I paid back the coins later. But alas I wouldn't allow our team to take advantage of the bug. Add in paying $$ for monster eggs to hatch/rank & the runes to equip them just to have the rules changed 2 weeks later and your entire purchase may as well be flushed down the toilet. Frustrated, incensed, triggered sure but those are beyond less fun!