Useless Dock

[Quovatis]

Who in their right mind would spend 4 workers and 3 days to get 2 diamonds and 3 trade goods? You can literally get that from one battle. Decrease expedition time by 75% and it might be used. I'm sure Nexon can look at statistics and see just how unused the dock is (especially at higher levels).

 

[worship01]

Agreed, I am at Atomic age and never use the dock now. The workers and time is WAY too high. Even with the library and wonder buffs. I used it only a couple times before upgrading it, when it only took 8 hours or so per expedition to get stuff... I could at least put some spare workers to use while I slept to get some cheap units for distraction purposes in battle

 

[rising_meatball]

the magnitude of disconnect between game design and the actual game play, and their inaction to correct after this much complaints is just mind boggling. whoever designed this dock requirement is just simply have no idea how this game was played, and IMO should be fired.

 

[Penumbra]

At level five the cost is 4 workers 2 days for an expedition. I already upgraded this too much for it to be useful.

 

[Mountainking]

Thanks for the info. I'll keep mine at level 4. Cheers

 

[Funks]

Who in their right mind would spend 4 workers and 3 days to get 2 diamonds and 3 trade goods? You can literally get that from one battle. Decrease expedition time by 75% and it might be used. I'm sure Nexon can look at statistics and see just how unused the dock is (especially at higher levels).

Utterly fully agree, it seems the dock expeditions are just silly now, too many workers and/or too long. Add to the the uni and youre getting pretty much screwed. Maybe this is why they have the luxury house always on sale (over priced too)

Oh and to add to that.. this.. srsly 21 days!! Im sure they have extended these times..Come on Nexon.

 

[helix900]

I agree, I was stupid to max out my docks. Now Im stuck with missions that requires 5-6 workers and will take 4-6 days. Most of them are completely useless. The best I´ve seen is 5 workers and 5 days for 2 S35 tanks and a wall blessing. I can get those from my allies though.

 

[_Flash_]

I'm really hoping for a balance update to make the dock usable.

It'll be really useful to have some choice of expedition duration and workers, for correspondingly scaled up or scaled down rewards.

Here's a suggestion of a possible implementation:

1. Provide the option to add or remove citizens - as you add citizens, display the expected reward - scale it up and down, as we add and remove citizens.
2. Provide the option to add or remove generals - as you add generals, again, display the expected reward.
3. Provide the option to choose the duration of the expedition - maybe, starting from 2 hours to 10 days, and, again, display the expected reward.

Once these choices are made, provide the option to send them on an expedition.

As we upgrade the dock, allow increases to the cap of citizens and generals that can be sent on the expedition.
Also, as the dock is upgraded, increase the rewards for the same number of citizens and duration (for example, an expedition of 2 workers for 4 hours from a higher level dock should offer better rewards than a similar sized expedition from a lower level dock).

This will bring in a lot of variety to the game play, as well as make the expeditions more useful.

Looking forward to using the dock more!

 

[Kaiser Shag]

I agree so much, we already have not enough workers and when Nexon is adding some more it's deep fisting style with a 50€ estate, how can they expect us to use those precious workers for such a long time with such a low reward.

 

[S_How]

I did 4 expeditions when my dock was level 1-2, when they were less than a day. Ive done 0 since upgrading it, it serves 0 purpose for me

 

[Thud_]

Same here. I upgraded looking for a difference maker to use in wars. I found nothing worth while.

 

[Brand Marrow]

Dock is not useless, it can be used to hang pink shark and provide amusement when workers walk on water to build it, no end to fun of dock!

 

[JMoney]

Make it so expeditions cost food instead of workers. There, I've just killed two birds with one stone. Now docks are actually utilized, isn't a waste of precious worker time, and people that are constantly (and I do mean constantly) at the max food cap in later ages can actually do something with all that food.

 

[Funks]

Totally agree, but no use singing to Nexon who have ear plugs in

 

[Equal]

no they did not increased this. as i remember one of my ally member told about this like a year before.

 

[Quovatis]

Make it so expeditions cost food instead of workers. There, I've just killed two birds with one stone. Now docks are actually utilized, isn't a waste of precious worker time, and people that are constantly (and I do mean constantly) at the max food cap in later ages can actually do something with all that food.

That's an excellent idea. Make it cost food instead of workers. Keep the time requirement and optional general spot. I think that would be perfect.

 

[Veldan]

Make it so expeditions cost food instead of workers. There, I've just killed two birds with one stone. Now docks are actually utilized, isn't a waste of precious worker time, and people that are constantly (and I do mean constantly) at the max food cap in later ages can actually do something with all that food.

This is a great idea

 

[British Coffee]

Make it so expeditions cost food instead of workers. There, I've just killed two birds with one stone. Now docks are actually utilized, isn't a waste of precious worker time, and people that are constantly (and I do mean constantly) at the max food cap in later ages can actually do something with all that food.

THIS. Even though I'm finding wall blessing from constantinople like one of the most OP blessings combined with Cremlin, I never got it because I mean come on 5 workers away for 2 days is ridiculous. Only reasonable reward per worker is probably Nanjing with medic blessing but it's still almost not worth it.

 

[Haokip]

Make it so expeditions cost food instead of workers. There, I've just killed two birds with one stone. Now docks are actually utilized, isn't a waste of precious worker time, and people that are constantly (and I do mean constantly) at the max food cap in later ages can actually do something with all that food.

This game would be at the top of the charts had Nexon listen to some of the brilliant ideas like this one but sadly that is not the case. Yeah, dock as of now is pretty useless, better invest in uni instead.

 

[Penumbra]

Do the dock achievement of 50 expeditions before you upgrade it. Seems like I will never get it done now at level 5.