Remove Kingsmarch as a core mechanic

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VoidWhisperer42#5989 wrote:

Kingsmarch actually brings quite a lot to the table.

+1 i agree with all you have to say on the matter as i do like settlers.

but that said, it really isnt balanced for more casual players. the gold consumption for the basic stuff (non maprunner) is simply too high for casuals.

as for metamorph i actually liked it back in the day, as back then, players tend to abuse league mechanics by running small maps and just quickly get in and out asap. metamorph encouraged players to full clear maps. picking up organs tho...damn i dont like it. i do appreciate how ggg gave us qol where monster parts were auto picked in maps. the whole build your monster is interesting but i wont miss it. the monster morphs too fast and i have no idea what skill theyre about to perform.

as for perandus. i like to imagine hes been replaced by expedition. talking of expedition, i wouldnt mind if expedition content is reworked into settlers and to simply remove all the bombing. also not a fan of their made up currency.

prophecy is something i kinda resent ggg for removing. i had literal thousands of silver coins on std and its all wasted as they got poofed.

it also reminds me how ggg doesnt really care about std so much which makes me sad. i was primarily a std player. i want to go back to std. but who knows. ggg might poof something i worked my ass off for. (looks at div/exalt switch, cluster gem rework and alt quality gems getting poofed)

I really wanna see Settlers mechanic (mappers and the ships) go away. Please.

I don't really want them to remove it but they should get rid of all the passive earners, streamline the ores into armour (port defines attribute type) weapons (same), glyphs/tats, currency, misc get rid of farming, get rid of mapping put the mapping boss as a boat encounter and just make it free if you have a shipment to send out.

Buttttttttt it took them this long to get rid of leveling from Heist rogues and i'd have removed that the very next league after heist so i'm not really holding my breath :p

I do think most of the problems with kingsmarch are in players heads but at the end of the day those are still problems.

Kingsmarch is doing very well right now, fully integrated into the system. You complain about nerfs, but ask for them on your end.

Im not a fan of kingsmarch because it introduced the worst "dark pattern" as so they are called into poe. Even chris wilson himself has a video that goes into detain about it. Watch that and then tell me kingsmarch is good for the game or not. The game is playing us now

If you can get over the FOMO of skipping it then the problem disappears. A lot of leagues I don't bother with delve, heist or sanctum. To me kingsmarch is just another mechanic like that. It offers game play to those that enjoy that style and is 100% skippable. I would like for more things to be added like that. They should make sure new players know it is optional though. Like a message first time entering sanctum, heist, delve or kingsmarch stating that it is optional content and skippable if you are just playing for the first time.

+1, Kingsmarch not fit to PoE at all.

The biggest reason for me to remove Kingsmarch is that it's one of the mechanics like the current tree which removes map loot. Due to the amount of currency which can be gotten from Mappers, shipments and the tree I am pretty sure they had to nerf map loot to balance the game.

It exists to give meaning to gold outside of trade.

Also you can skip it.

I personally don't bother with mappers most of times.

Inb4 "you lose currency", if you don't farm currency 20 hours a day, you lose it. You can buy mirror for 300d, now it's 600d. Didn't farm a mirror? Lost 300d.

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cynic1984#0395 wrote:

Im not a fan of kingsmarch because it introduced the worst "dark pattern" as so they are called into poe. Even chris wilson himself has a video that goes into detain about it. Watch that and then tell me kingsmarch is good for the game or not. The game is playing us now

Chris Wilson just made a bad PR video to be fair.

A game being addictive is GOOD. That's why I love poe, and I would choose such game over a game which you would uninstall in a week.

But again, "people" complained about lootboxes in poe when you can wait 3 months and buy everything in shop since the first lootbox.