Pretty good start to the Chronos quests.
I still think the Emporium game play needs to be changed. This morning a lot of new players started hanging out on the Emporia and it was finally possible to collect small amounts of resources without immediately getting hit. More players means more targets and lower chances of getting hit.
By this afternoon the number of occupied Emporia had already dropped by 50% and I was hit a bunch of times. Never was able to complete the Drachma gathering quest. The reward for completing the 5 daily quests is worthless (+25% grain production?? come on!) The novelty will wear off quickly and the Emporia will return to their previous killing field status.
The whole Chronos quest is too time consuming. It took about 4 hours and 40 Emporia trips for me to collect 10,000 resources... way too small return on investment and not something I'll be doing after today.
I like the ability to win Cataphracts, Dominion activators and Sketches.
1. Cut down the Drachma gathering requirement to 25 or 50 - no more - or speed up the gathering process. As it is it's a useless quest.
2. Don't insult the players with bum rewards for very difficult tasks. It's almost as if you don't have anyone actually playing the game to give you feedback.
3. Don't base awards on bringing in new players. Most of the new players you get will be fake accounts and you already have a "dead" feature (Xenia) in the game created to bring in those "new players"...If I brought you ONE REAL new player I would expect 100K Drachma or more.