Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

Originally Posted by Hentaika

This is certainly not mononofu where you need to play 24/7 since release while spending $$$ each month to be able to do anything competitive.

Mononofu is pretty heavy on playing time, but it's been quite a while since spending money beyond the $5/month monthly pass made much of a difference. Most of the obvious whales haven't been competitive in PVP in a long time.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

By the time gets released it will be at least twice as easy to get the same stuff old players got, so I wouldn't be too discouraged.

A lot of what you just said means one should in fact get discouraged, albeit for entirely different reasons.

All I heard was 'They have done absolutely fuckall with the extra time they've taken, and this game never should've passed beyond internal alpha testing in this state."

Originally Posted by Semaphore

Mononofu is pretty heavy on playing time, but it's been quite a while since spending money beyond the $5/month monthly pass made much of a difference. Most of the obvious whales haven't been competitive in PVP in a long time.

Mostly because it can't exactly be pure whaled, you still have to spend time on it albeit slightly less if you whale. And only very rare kinds of leviathans can actually afford to both 24/7 the game and spend 1000$+ monthly on it.

Add up to that fact the reason of game simply lacking any kind of meaningful content and overall low quality of like absolutely everything from art to gameplay to balance to timed events, you name anything and it's guaranteed to be a low quality copy of already low quality games wartune'sque(albeit much less relying on money to min max everything, I must admit that). And you can find a reason people are quitting it and the ones sticking to it are just those who love the competitive feeling it gives(just like those people still playing wartune after there are only like 1 guild worth of active players on the server remaining - makes only easier to feel that number 1 spot in rankings) and can afford to spend enough time on it to remain competitive... since it's another of those games where you don't ever catch up with others.. you either start near the very start or you are forever behind until the person who played longer decides to leave or dedicate less time. You might get incredibly lucky obviously, but I don't count that as a reliable solution.

But it's really not the best place to discuss mononofu, anyway.

I would certainly give crystal maidens a try if you want a more forgiving game in terms of need to spend time, unlocking scenes, less of a competitive game overall and instead a game that tests your actual skill - it's a really good test for reflexes/timing, just how a game is supposed to be. But if you just want to compete for numbers, certainly avoid it, since as it is right now, the multiplayer part is really lacking in the game and the arena won't be something as main goal in the game for certain.

The game won't be something you will spend your full day schedule on, that's why there is lack of discussion here - currently there is lack of content, since they plan to release all content they were working on for 2 month in official launch only and have enough events to keep going from for the launch for some time, so we only get to see a small part of what's to come. Same for the events - people have just nothing to do right now with no events, so most aren't even playing actively anymore with occasional login for bonus and maybe aiming to get an extra girl with daily login if you still don't have her.

And even when more stuff gets released, I would rather compare this game to Aigis - approximately the same kind of thing of logging in for 10-15 minutes is enough to beat the stages you need for at least next 10 hours if you want to. Just login, take rewards, play your energy bar and no need to worry about the timers.
Also same as aigis in the matter of game focusing on the single player, although arena and coop plays are in the plan according to devs.

The scenes are really beautiful and every girl feels this custom made feeling instead of heavy copy pasting and recoloring loads of other arts on nutaku give.
I wouldn't say the game is great, but it's certainly worth a try. Can easily play both this and aigis at the same time and still have a load of your free time IRL.

Originally Posted by Keyen

Made a spreadsheet about stuff:

Contain information about characters (and an easy to use calculator if you want to mess with stuff) and also a database about equipment drop: location, stamina spending, droprate, and enough filters to compare lot of stuff.

Feedbacks appreciated

hey, seems the file was removed. Can you put it somewhere again, please?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All I heard was 'They have done absolutely fuckall with the extra time they've taken, and this game never should've passed beyond internal alpha testing in this state."

Exactly my thoughts. If they're having this much trouble, then they should've put this game in closed beta, and disabled purchasing with real money. This whole thing just stinks and I don't doubt it won't get released to the general public (or they will re-release it in a different form, disallowing those who are already progressed from participating in that release)

If it ever comes out I'll try it

For what it's worth, max level for 'element buildings' is level 10. There's a bit of a jump between 9 and 10 too.

Level 9:
- +125% element damage
- 125k gold to upgrade
- 7 days build time to upgrade

Level 10:
- +200% element damage
- 250k gold to upgrade
- 14 days build time to upgrade

I'm a F2P player and bought the multiple upgrade thing from the gem store for 1200, running the Hard boss zones 1/day and doing Quests for gems (still over 1300 left) will generally be enough to pay for the upgrades. I've got three different ones upgrading to 10 right now, one's still on 9 and the last one finished upgrading already. Once that's done all that's left is item storage and such so i guess that's the end of silver as a useful resource aside from Skill upgrades. Hard to beat a +75% damage boost though, and it should affect their attack skills as well.

Something to keep in mind if anyone else is considering buying the Multiple Upgrades thing. I can't be arsed to wait two weeks for a building to upgrade so i picked it up, but YMMV.

Have the devs said anything in-game as to the status of this game?

Pre-registration page is still there, and appears to be working (though you have to know the link), but there has been no update on what I believe is their facebook page since like July.

The way some people are still hard for this game after all the fucking over the devs have done to us makes it more appropriate to call it 'Crystal Methdens.'