Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

Originally Posted by Diesirae

1 hour to upgrade a level 2 building, up from 5 minutes I believe?
That's quite a jump.. not too unreasonable though but it does make me wonder how much it'd be for higher tiers.

Was wondering why my next skill upgrade went down from 9k to 6k.. x3

I totally overlooked the discord button in game or at least just didn't take not of it.. now that I do though, clicking on it doesn't do anything; same with the Facebook icon. I would suggest on discord to have it fixed or looked at but you know.. ^^;

You are in some way blocking either Advertisements or pop ups or both - this blocks the use of the button obviously, since it opens a new window.
Both discord and facebook buttons are working just fine on chrome for sure. And I did have the same pop up blocking problem of course.

My bad, it was Lv3 to 4. Been logging on less and less for this game, not really motivated to do hard, regular at least rewarded with a random girl.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

You are in some way blocking either Advertisements or pop ups or both - this blocks the use of the button obviously, since it opens a new window.
Both discord and facebook buttons are working just fine on chrome for sure. And I did have the same pop up blocking problem of course.

Heh, thanks.
I honestly did not see the words 'Popup Blocked' in the right corner of the address bar until you mentioned that ._. Usually it would show either of my blockers lit up with the number of popups blocked but it was a different more subtle icon this time. Meh, I'm blaming it on the fact that it was close to bedtime when I posted that. (＃￣ω￣)

I can see how it can become a bit of a drag without any clear incentive(s).. not sure if they'll come up with events to keep things interesting in the future. Probably not during the soft-launch period though.

So while the rest of us wait for the global launch, would the beta players say this is the best (or "best") of Nutaku's western games thus far?

It has its flaws, it has some balance issues, but it's a nice game worthy of being played.

Originally Posted by Eab1990

So while the rest of us wait for the global launch, would the beta players say this is the best (or "best") of Nutaku's western games thus far?

I would say it's fun game, but it suffers from the same flaw the girls on tanks does - the game has limited content, and it will take more time than usual to add more.

Just like girls on tanks - you can beat everything if you no life it within 1-2 weeks. I am quite sure that at least one person aside of me already finished the last stage of hard difficulty a few days ago(earlier than I did).. not sure if more did it, but it's not that hard to do, even if you are unlucky and only have starter party maidens, which aren't that bad tbh.. so I wouldn't be surprised.
You can increase maximum energy as your player level increases, so eventually(not soon) you will reach a point where it will take like 6-8 hours to fill, which is good enough..

The gameplay is fun in the sense that skill really matters - I could easily go from failing map to beating map with half the time left just by 'doing better'...
It still has some balance issues, but it does not prevent you from progressing till the end in any way.

The maidens are few(15 of them total, 3 being legendary), and each has one scene, you get 4 starter ones, so that's over quarter done already.. but the scenes are quite nicely drawn, even though they are non animated, which is a slight downside.
There is legendary gacha for 500 gems, which only awards the best 'legendary' quality. Has nice chance for a legendary maiden(around 20%-40% chance, but don't quote me on that)..
You can get duplicate maidens, which is a downside..(gives nothing you can't grind in return)

Developers do a lot of fixes/changes daily and listen to players.. so by the time you will get the game, it will be more fleshed out, but probably won't have much more content...

I would say harem heroes will still remain the 'biggest' decent western game. Much more content there and loads of events.

This one is still above the others, but just like girls on tanks - you will slowly lose interest when you reach the end content, which can be reached quite fast.

Originally Posted by Hentaika

I would say it's fun game, but it suffers from the same flaw the girls on tanks does - the game has limited content, and it will take more time than usual to add more.

Just like girls on tanks - you can beat everything if you no life it within 1-2 weeks. I am quite sure that at least one person aside of me already finished the last stage of hard difficulty a few days ago(earlier than I did).. not sure if more did it, but it's not that hard to do, even if you are unlucky and only have starter party maidens, which aren't that bad tbh.. so I wouldn't be surprised.
You can increase maximum energy as your player level increases, so eventually(not soon) you will reach a point where it will take like 6-8 hours to fill, which is good enough..

The gameplay is fun in the sense that skill really matters - I could easily go from failing map to beating map with half the time left just by 'doing better'...
It still has some balance issues, but it does not prevent you from progressing till the end in any way.

The maidens are few(15 of them total, 3 being legendary), and each has one scene, you get 4 starter ones, so that's over quarter done already.. but the scenes are quite nicely drawn, even though they are non animated, which is a slight downside.
There is legendary gacha for 500 gems, which only awards the best 'legendary' quality. Has nice chance for a legendary maiden(around 20%-40% chance, but don't quote me on that)..
You can get duplicate maidens, which is a downside..(gives nothing you can't grind in return)

Developers do a lot of fixes/changes daily and listen to players.. so by the time you will get the game, it will be more fleshed out, but probably won't have much more content...

I would say harem heroes will still remain the 'biggest' decent western game. Much more content there and loads of events.

This one is still above the others, but just like girls on tanks - you will slowly lose interest when you reach the end content, which can be reached quite fast.

You are a bit mean to compare with Girls on tanks which is fondamentaly flawed. GoT doesn't even have good bases. The game can't progress and will stay flawed at its core.

It's completely different for CM. I mean, there is a lack in content, but that's all. The whole system is here, and it's good. No bullshit system like this faction war, no bullshit system² like this "pay to evolve da girlz".
CM just need more content, some balancing (skills especially) and it's good to go. GoT needs a complete overhaul, and since they weren't able to do a good job while stealing the whole battle system, I doubt they can do it.

Originally Posted by Keyen

You are a bit mean to compare with Girls on tanks which is fondamentaly flawed. GoT doesn't even have good bases. The game can't progress and will stay flawed at its core.

It's completely different for CM. I mean, there is a lack in content, but that's all. The whole system is here, and it's good. No bullshit system like this faction war, no bullshit system² like this "pay to evolve da girlz".
CM just need more content, some balancing (skills especially) and it's good to go. GoT needs a complete overhaul, and since they weren't able to do a good job while stealing the whole battle system, I doubt they can do it.

The faction system is actually the best part, if you think of it as daily/weekly reward instead simply... it's how you can actually get everything without paying to win.. and literally everything.. in due time... a few weeks and you won't really have money issues for main team, level 5'ing them.

I would dare say that girls on tanks is one of the friendliest games for free to players - you literally get EVERYTHING for free... and if you bother playing faction wars daily for girl exp and getting the weekly epic box - you get top tier stuff in no time.

i would say the balance there is rather okay and it's fun to complete the game if you enjoy the grid turn based tactics..
There is element of progression, there is positioning, there is everything... the only real flaw is the amount of content IMO... and you can't really design anything interesting event wise there... so yeah. It's certainly not a great game, but a very decent one, can be considered pretty much a free single player game tho.
The only potentially good change I can see on it is adding live pvp there.. but I doubt it will be done.

Getting everything for free is much easier than on crystal maidens, that's something I can guarantee(have main team and substitute team on girls on tanks leveled to max outside of the ones who are better off low level and most of the stuff 3 star'd - no payment involved, not even free sign up stuff)

But I can see how there can be much hate for the game - grid turn based strategy is one of the most unpopular genre of all... mostly favored by the older audience.

Man, you are getting everything for free because the devs are incredibly stupid and missed the "everyone on the same side" loophole. You remove this absurdity, everything else crumble. Faction war may be the key of getting everything free, but it's not an intended key, and it can't stay on the long term, because it's 100% absurd.

You can't judge how quick you can unlock content based on that. It's like saying "oh, I can open the dev console and get infinite gem, this game is pretty F2P friendly". Not at all. And just based on how slow everything is unlocked if you are not doing the faction war...

Originally Posted by Hentaika

Getting everything for free is much easier than on crystal maidens, that's something I can guarantee(have main team and substitute team on girls on tanks leveled to max outside of the ones who are better off low level and most of the stuff 3 star'd - no payment involved, not even free sign up stuff)

Honestly, that sounds like the game won't make enough money to survive if people can get absolutely everything while paying for nothing within a few weeks.

It also makes it no wonder why the game ran out of content for everyone so quickly. The whole fiasco makes me think Nutaku would have been better off releasing it as an offline buy-to-play downloadable game instead. Guess the designers didn't catch the memo that online-only games need to be designed with longer lifespans in mind or something.