Anyone else feel like the change to how long the Elder Gods stay is just too strong? They're supposed to stay for 50 years but I've had mine for around 150, because by the time the 50 years are up a new set comes. They're basically constantly there and getting time crystals and relics becomes beyond trivial (and makes alicorns even more useless than they already are).
Posted Dec 11, 2015, 6:59 PM UTC
Pretty sure it's reduced to 10 as of Version 1.1.7.7.
Personally I think that's still to high. Once you have 3 Black Pyramids, the average duration between the Elders appearing will be less than the length of their stay, and once you have 4, it'll be back to them never leaving. This makes sacrificing necrocorns pointless still.
If i recall correctly, the change was motivated by active vs afk play, and issues of savescumming. If you go afk for 10 hours, odds are that elders showed up and left a couple times before you came back and you just happened not to be babysitting the keyboard when they were present. So rather than sit at the keyboard for 3-4 hours at a time just waiting to get lucky, it was much easier to save before the end of winter and restore if you didn't get them.
I think what was supposed to happen was that the duration was to be lengthened, but once you trad with them they go away after a year. The duration was lengthened, but I think the "them going away" party never made it in, resulting in unreasonably long stays.
Yep, precisely.
That would make sense, and answer my question (complaint?) over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kittensgame/comments/3wrdqb/have_time_crystals_become_too_easy_to_get/ If one can't trade with them constantly, then time crystals would (again) be reasonably difficult to get.
That's also on a radar, yes.
Ehhhh. It's not like you need hundreds of relics.