God dammit I can't believe this BS...

[riggen]

So, that one night that I go drinking too much and pass out, thus not getting to do jack with my gladiators turns out to be the blood games invites day. .
Now I'll have to wait another god damned month to retire my final non hol, this is FRUSTRATING

[Narol]

Blame yourself, blame the alcohol, don't blame the game. Over-drinking kills the mind and PoW is a mind game.

[JerimyA5]

I feel you. The same happened to me for my first retiree. It would be nice to have a window of, well anything more than just one day.

[Narol]

Technically, I don't see any reasons why gladiators couldn't abandon the Blood Games in the middle of them and indeed that would solve the problem for all in that situation.

However that would mean some developpement work from Nate to modify the way the Blood Games work to make it possible so I doubt that change may occur soon as he is currently very busy building conquests. We need to keep in mind that he is a one-man-team and that his time is precious !

Overall, PoW is designed to be played on a daily basis and not very suited for random casual play. It requires focus, organisation and self-discipline to be successful in it and logging in at least once a day is one key part. It's tough and demanding, but that's what makes it such and addictive challenge !

[riggen]

Not that I'm blaming the game, I'm just venting and ranting like a whiney little bitch, lol.

Would be nice to have a window of more than 1 day..or rather make all blood games invites cost 1k gold, so that you have to opt-in rather than opt-out during the 1 day window.

[Lunarion199]

Overall, PoW is designed to be played on a daily basis and not very suited for random casual play. It requires focus, organisation and self-discipline to be successful in it and logging in at least once a day is one key part.

That is true indeed; but missing one day out of thirty should not be so much punishing. Indeed it's the player's mistake to be ignorant/ unavailable on the very day; but it would really be great if the invitation system could possibly be improved further, if there is any way.

[CryBabyBedWetters]

Overall, PoW is designed to be played on a daily basis and not very suited for random casual play. It requires focus, organisation and self-discipline to be successful in it and logging in at least once a day is one key part. It's tough and demanding, but that's what makes it such and addictive challenge !

I can't believe I'm falling into this gig, it feels so retarded to tell my friends about this game I play online that reminds me of diablo II because I get to build these characters picking their skill points and slowly making them stronger, trying to bring them up the ladder, and if i do all this other crap I can get a better gladiator to do it with all over again.

About that point the friend goes, "Are the graphics pretty cool?" ........... Well.... ugh.... there's some pictures.....

And there is no way I'll tell my friends how much money I've spent on this game, it still shocks me in the small ammount of time I've been playing. :/ And everytime I spend money on this game I think in my head, I'll make these trophies last, I'll makem last, but I don't makem last.

[Prinny]

No offense but you kinda knew when the bloodgames were over and a new one would start so you should've made sure somehow to pull your glads out. That said maybe making it a 2 day thing would work like the last day and the first day of the new bloodgames or the last 2 days and so on.

[Alba Kebab]

I can't believe I'm falling into this gig, it feels so retarded to tell my friends about this game I play online that reminds me of diablo II because I get to build these characters picking their skill points and slowly making them stronger, trying to bring them up the ladder, and if i do all this other crap I can get a better gladiator to do it with all over again.

About that point the friend goes, "Are the graphics pretty cool?" ........... Well.... ugh.... there's some pictures.....

And there is no way I'll tell my friends how much money I've spent on this game, it still shocks me in the small ammount of time I've been playing. :/ And everytime I spend money on this game I think in my head, I'll make these trophies last, I'll makem last, but I don't makem last.

If you are uncomfortable with the spending maybe try not to spend so much at first? this game has a big learning curve, and trying to get there fast by spending might be good for supporting the game(which I won't argue against), but if you are not learning the ropes properly due to your 'fastfood style' urges, then you are not really improving your strategy, and this is a strategy game.
None of the top managers are there because they simply threw trophies at the game without needing to understand strategy, and if you are not picking up or paying attention to the strategy part of the game, you will get frustrated and start thinking it's all about the trophies - it's not.

[CryBabyBedWetters]

If you are uncomfortable with the spending maybe try not to spend so much at first? this game has a big learning curve, and trying to get there fast by spending might be good for supporting the game(which I won't argue against), but if you are not learning the ropes properly due to your 'fastfood style' urges, then you are not really improving your strategy, and this is a strategy game.
None of the top managers are there because they simply threw trophies at the game without needing to understand strategy, and if you are not picking up or paying attention to the strategy part of the game, you will get frustrated and start thinking it's all about the trophies - it's not.

I spent the trophies because I wanted to get a champ to the point where I could get an HOL glad, and I wanted it fast, as far as strategy making, I'm doing much better figuring out what strategy to use on my champs taking into effect of skills/attributes, encumbrance, how much armor they have, plus making better decisions on what skills to take considering attributes first.

The only part I was getting at is I'm getting into a game online that my I cannot get my friends interested in. As far as the trophy thing goes, I would just be embarrassed to tell them I've spent money on this game.

I'm a very impatient person and waiting for the next day just to get more points to put into skills/attributes makes me wanna keep spending trophies so I can get more skill points for the day.

Yea, strategy game, but trying to describe the fun in it to friends is about impossible.

And one other thing that I end up spending trophies for is equipment, keep trying different things, dont wanna take the time to save gold for all of it, lol. I've finally got a good set up on all my characters, what I think is a good set up anyways, but since they aren't level fifty there will still be better equipment for them later.

I got one to level fifty, but she's retired so I could get that HOL finally.

Oh yea, also spent trophies on all the stable upgrades, like doc and being able to have five glads and some extra vault slots, and undertaker and such.

And without spending trophies at all, just to get 1 character to level fifty with over 1k fights would take roughly 8.5 months, that's too long.