The Anti-quest event

[Sir Derf]

How about an event where the majority of quest stages are written in terms of spending things instead of gaining them?

Spend a sackful of coins. Trade away x amount of goods. Produce using y amount of supplies. Win a battle losing at least 80% of your troops. Cast 10 enchantments of your choice. Reduce your Main Hall to under 5% of storage for Gold. Have a negative culture balance. Have at least 5 disconnected buildings.

 

[DeletedUser6967]

these would make for a funny event, but quite a good one
you would have to put your city back together afterward however, it might be a bit shattered and stripped of supplies

 

[DeletedUser5976]

Have a negative culture balance.

Most of my culture comes from event buildings. I wouldn't be very happy if I had to delete them. Of course they do go after some time, but that's a time of my choosing

 

[Pauly7]

Have a negative culture balance

If this means what I think it does then this would mean that I would never play one of these events from the off, as I'm not going to knock my city down for a prize, but otherwise I do like the idea of a different style of quest and I'd be on board with the "spending" style of task - though we do have some of them anyway, such as spending knowledge points. Has "cast enchantments" come up before too, or am I imagining that?

 

[Sir Derf]

I've got more...

• Delay collecting Beverages for 20 hours. (20 x 1 hour, 1 x 20 hour, whatever, just don't collect finished beverages)
• Collect Neighborly Help with a near-full Main Hall such that you don't gain the full amount of Gold
• Sell 30 Roads
• Break a Building Set
• Disenchant 6 Enchantments
• Use up 10 Relics
• Craft an item that finishes in one Crafting period and collect it in another one, thus missing a change of Crafting Recipe change.
• Accept 5 0-star trades
• Turn down a fellowship request.
• Cancel an upgrade to Level x or better.
• Have a trade unlist itself (7 days without being accepted)
• Use a 1-hour or greater time boost instant on a production with 5 minutes or less to go.

Okay, some of these are simple reversed descriptions of normal goals. Some of them are trivial. And some of them would hurt.

 

[Pauly7]

Hmm, no the majority of the new list I could think of good reasons to say why they wouldn't be good ideas, like the negative culture one... I was up for a lot of your first ones though.

 

[Sir Derf]

I'm not serious in advocating for them all.

 

[DeletedUser6967]

some are good some are bad, I am okay with the spending part though

 

[LazyTony]

Well, we already have "click until it hurts" for FAs, so this masochistic quest style is certainly in keeping with Inno's practice.

However, I play games to have fun, and I believe there are several specialist websites and clubs for those who like to suffer.

 

[m4rt1n]

Some of those quest idea's look great, but others that would include destroying possibly premium or event buildings I'm not so keen on.