Back door to Barracks

[Autumn Goldleaf]

It would be absolutely AWESOME, if a shortcut or back door could be created to the Barracks, similar to the Magic Academy... So we can create more troops without picking up others.... Please, please, pretty please, Elvenar Gurus?! ♡

 

[Timneh]

Why do you want to train troops without picking up the ones that are ready ?

 

[Herodite]

Hi @Autumn Goldleaf, You'll be pleased to know we'll be introducing separate Training Queues for each Training Camp allowing you to train more Troops. It will be available on the Live Servers very soon!

 

[Pauly7]

Why do you want to train troops without picking up the ones that are ready ?

So that more can be picked up with time instants.

I don't think it will happen because it will effectively mean that all of the troops you ever collect could be boosted by the brown bear.

 

[Silmaril]

Yep exactly Pauly, you hit the nail on the head.

 

[RodgerR]

Well lets hope this happens, that would bee great when we use the Brown Bear.
But know doubt there will be a catch, but one can dream of something positive happening in Elvenar for a change,

 

[anonglitch]

It will create a huge disbalance in the game, remember not all players have a brown bear. If we enabled this "back door", a host of complaints would arise, and with a reason. Many players don't have, a brown bear and some players have more than one. However, with the possibility to queue all three training queues you will get a lot more out of your brown bear. This one I don't think it will happen.

 

[Hekata]

An option I'd like to have is a button that would allow me to see my troops without picking them up. Basically I'd like to access the Army Camp tab without having to click on the barrack (or the other buildings) to check on my troop and sometimes their stats. We couldn't start troops production form there, just check what we currently have. Do you think that could be done? It wouldn't affect troop production in any way and it wouldn't cause any disbalance.

 

[Gargon667]

An option I'd like to have is a button that would allow me to see my troops without picking them up. Basically I'd like to access the Army Camp tab without having to click on the barrack (or the other buildings) to check on my troop and sometimes their stats. We couldn't start troops production form there, just check what we currently have. Do you think that could be done? It wouldn't affect troop production in any way and it wouldn't cause any disbalance.

Doesn´t work either, in the browser you actually can start producing troops directly from the army camp using hotkeys.

All I would really need would be to change the time displayed when hovering over the merc camp from time to next stack finishing to time until the end of the training queue. But I guess I can live without it...

 

[m4rt1n]

I see this as thinking we can build up a huge amount of troops then feed the Bear, for that reason it cannot happen as @anonglitch explains.

However for other reasons like quests in events, try crafting some free troop buildings like the Grounds of the Orc Strategist and Vallorian Valor. They are great troops in early chapters to have, and help in later chapters to keep numbers up.

Leave them full and with a few of those buildings troop quests can be passed instantly in events if that is what you are looking for.

 

[Gargon667]

If quests are the problem, just time boost your barracks a couple hours? But I doubt anyone has trouble with those quests unless they play pacifist without barracks...

 

[Autumn Goldleaf]

So that more can be picked up with time instants.

I don't think it will happen because it will effectively mean that all of the troops you ever collect could be boosted by the brown bear.

Haha! You figured out my evil plan, Pauly!

To go back to Brown Bear usage tho, does it also boost troops from Vallorian Valors and Orc Strategists?

 

[m4rt1n]

Haha! You figured out my evil plan, Pauly!

To go back to Brown Bear usage tho, does it also boost troops from Vallorian Valors and Orc Strategists?

No, only the ones you train in the Barracks, Training Grounds and Mercenary Camp.

 

[Autumn Goldleaf]

No, only the ones you train in the Barracks, Training Grounds and Mercenary Camp.

Thankyou Can't blame an Elf for trying....

 

[Sir Derf]

I'm going to put it in the suggestions thread, but thought I'd mention it here first.

How about adding an icon to the upper panel next to those for Inventory and Other Resources, the provides a popup list of your current troop levels?

 

[C-Nymph]

However, with the possibility to queue all three training queues you will get a lot more out of your brown bear.

This is simply not true. You can’t get more out of your brown bear with the three separate training queues, as you could already collect all three training facilities at once after feeding the brown bear, you just had to train one facility after another and not collect in between, before feeding the bear. All you needed was some patience and careful manoeuvring across your city.
There is absolutely no brown bear advantage from the separate training queues.
Especially not since the time instants work on only one training queue at a time. Were the time instants working on all three queues at the same time, then yes it would be an advantage. But it’s not, so really nothing has changed for people with brown bears.

Only thing the separate training queues has done is (relatively speaking) devaluate the AWs that give free troops, as those troops can now easily be made in the training facilities, since you don’t have to choose between which troops to prioritise, because you can train three kinds at the same time now.

 

[anonglitch]

On a small note, @C-Nymph don't forget that the feeding effect sticks for several hours.

True, for initial pickup collection it does not make a difference if you play it smart, as we all did when it was a shared queue. However, you have several hours worth of feeding effect, and all three buildings generating troops. So, you do get more out from your Brown Bear during the feeding effect time just by keeping all three buildings active.

If you boost your barracks, you obviously only boost your barracks, but the timers in your mercenary camp and training ground will keep going down one second at a time. You will be able to collect a few times from each of all three buildings with a single feeding effect, getting the bonus on all these pick ups.

 

[Killiak]

@anonglitch

From another post by the same user.

As always, first something big is taken away, then something small is given, which is then being advertised as Inno caring about their community.

 

[DeletedUser8409]

An option I'd like to have is a button that would allow me to see my troops without picking them up. Basically I'd like to access the Army Camp tab without having to click on the barrack (or the other buildings) to check on my troop and sometimes their stats. We couldn't start troops production form there, just check what we currently have. Do you think that could be done? It wouldn't affect troop production in any way and it wouldn't cause any disbalance.

+1 for this.

A button for the Army Camp without collecting would be nice to have. It would not be exploitable.

 

[C-Nymph]

On a small note, @C-Nymph don't forget that the feeding effect sticks for several hours. (...) So, you do get more out from your Brown Bear during the feeding effect time just by keeping all three buildings active.

I think we can all agree that using pet food only to sit back and collect when the queue finishes on its own is a waste of pet food. Especially as pet food is getting increasingly rare to get your hands on. Everyone uses their fed brown bears with time instants + supplies (or supply instants). The 'advantage' you get from just sitting back and waiting for the queues to be done is hardly worth mentioning, especially not if you compare it to the big disadvantage we got before. As Killiak already quoted me from another thread, that is exactly what I mean.