Major game balance changes

well i do like the faster construction times on high lvl buildings, but what is the reason to increase the times on the low lvl buildings? 

in my opinion you should have kept the low lvl building times as they were. if you make it harder for the 'noobies' to get resources they may not stick around to get to the high lvl stuff at all. it was very fun with a new character to build and build and build and watch your town grow fairly quickly. but now the times have changed and the perception of low lvl town has changed drastically.

I like the shorten time in high lvl buildings. But I think that increasing construction time in the beginning will end up with overall increasing time to build the whole stuff in your town, especially that now high lvls cost more => you will need more resources => you will spend more time on upgrading low lvls => it doesn't sound like decreasing overall time. 

I have tha ability to start one more hero and I will check out the changes with it over the weekend

I will start a new hero too.

I will start a new hero too.

I can't wait to see what name you choose :)

well, i think it's a good thing for high level ones and a bad thing for low level ones. This are the 2 faces of the coin

Maybe, as you said, its too early and we sould test it more, but for the moment: in my second and not so advanced town its fine, but in the first i cant build almost anything, for the prices( i dont have enough storage for top level upgrades) and for said storage upgrading time, that i must recognice its a lot better now, but now we have to frenetically upgrade them in order to afford other high level buildings

On the other hand, in my 2nd town i can build a lot more of things in the same time (for example: hunter's hovel lv 11 from 11 hours to 1 i think

As everything, this has detractors and people that likes it, and the truth, i still know don't what to think

I'm going to start a new one too :)

I know you will wait some days but i will post my thought for the effects right now.

When i enter the game often my store is full and i will built some upgrades to use my stuff. I won't be forced to stay at the game along the whole day, everytime in mind i could lose something important.

Till now i just thought my income is to big no need to upgrade my gardens, forestries and stone fields more than level 6. In my new towns such buildings was less than this because i could transfer needed ressources. I don't like waitingtimes of between 30min and 8h because its a boring timeframe. More than 8hours is ok so you can do something in reallife like school, work, sleeping or something else. Now it seems most of the buildingstimes exactly within this boring timeframe. Other side i really like the option to finish an upgrade less than 5min without waiting but it seems you reduce the chances to get such small possibilities because of the changes of medium level of huts and res-buildings.

Some needed res of an upgarde is and was bad balanced. Sometimes you need more food, sometimes you need much more stone, and mosttime you need large amounts of wood. Mosttime your store is empty with a ressource and other store is nearly full.

Lets talk about friends help, with timeframes now just less number of friends can help.

Lets talk about whole progress. First town will need longer to grow. You will need more time to raise your income and huts to reduce waiting, also you need larger amouts for chieftrainhut. Maybe huts lose some effect because it makes no reals difference to wait 17min, 36 sec instead of 18 min or to wait 1 hour or 80 secounds more. Sure with 10 huts if will be 20% but you need some days to built them and you also have countereffect of all other buildings because of your population. In my mind along whole playtime i had nearly same times sometimes a few percent less mosttime some percent more. Now huts seems to be less important and i will spend more time to upgrade my res-buildings.
All next towns could grow faster because you can transfer needes amouts of res from another town and invest them in your res-buildings or culture-buildings. Just chieftrain hut will brake out your progress a bit. But if you are not online every 3-4 hours you could lose something of your progress and thats a really bad point.

Lets talk about pushing, now its possbile to push an account with ressources. I know you will make it impossible to transfer res in final stage but also with trading and bad exchange you can cheat and milk some of you secondary accounts to push your main.

So i don't see the really good points in balance with your last change.

I also think you went way to far on both lowering the times and adding amount of resources :(

I don't need to start a new hero to see this. I prefer to build all of my huts before my population is too high and to see the staggering number of resources required to upgrade the chieftain hut this will no longer be possible. I also was ready to see a level 10 petroglyph and you priced me right out of it. To me it now looks like we won't be able to build anything without waiting for resources to accummulate. I have almost 300 an hour I'm not sure why you think that isn't enough. Also the main reason I haven't built my farms and stones and wood up is the need to compete for domain size. while it takes two levels of build to get one culture your neighbor can build a totem pole and earn four. Today I deleted the hero where I have spent the past week battling to keep my horses as my neighbor was able to build her second town closer to them and she kept taking them into her domain. Today prices were so high that even with a level 9 warehouse I could no longer build anything with culture to keep ahead of her. Also now when you go to bed at night you will no longer feel like your town is progressing because you started an 8 hour building. I already buy hammers to queue buildings for the 16 hours when I am at work but now that will be impossible also. So not sure about this change but I'll keep playing to see, all I can really say is I hurried home from work only to be very disappointed because I don't have enough resource to build anything but gardens and wood or upgrade all of my warehouses. 

Hmm first meaning was a shock. Now after 14 hours online i could built more than before. But just because i was able to stay online and i was in my town every hour. In such a case the update was good. But like i said i won't be forced to stay online along whole day.

I was talking about wood in my upper posting but now i think stone is much more needed as before.

So i would say pro update:
More possibilities along a session of 6-8 hours. If you are out of res you still can built houses with small requirement like huts or gardens.

Contra update you need to rework:
- less options to help friends, you must start a building more than 30 min and with most larger upgrades just 2-3 friends can help.
- less chances to reduce building time below 5 min to use to finishing-feature.
- huts become ineffective
- some items at cashshop senseless now, for example 8 hours, 24 hours, 30% reduction
- amount between all ressources still unbalanced, now it is to much stone. Some buildings need just 1 or 2 ressources and large differences between them.
- less possibilities to stay offline for more than 8hours, then your store will be full and building task is empty so you will have a bad feeling to lose something. You are forced to log in, start a upgrade and wait 10min - 2hours and then upgrade next.

I am perfectly willing to suffer through a 100% increase in a few minutes at lower levels when my benefit may be a decrease in hours at the upper levels. At the lower levels the resources needed to increase production is minimal. It is easier and less expensive to obtain and use novice manuals that help overcome these relatively small time changes than it is to get scholar manuals to use at higher levels. This is my early (lower level) observation. Berserker suggested we wait a few days to comment on changes... so I will just continue on ...

With current new changes and building time/prices resources are way more important than they were before. Because you cannout buy resources with real money, you are unable to speed up your progress too fast and thus you are less obligated to spend real money as it gives you less advantage.

Sure ressources more important but now all things around buildingtime are less important. About buying ressources thats not true, i did and it was more expensive. You can raise your income but you need 3 items for. You can buy coins and use the wheel of fortune as much as you want. Maybe you are lucky and get some ressources, if its the wrong ressource you can change this at your market using another item. I used some of my ecash to do so to my first town. Because of the fact you can trade and so you are able to get nearly endlessly ressources there is no real brake out anymore. Time was always a fix and rare ressource, you just have influence with some items and friendshelp. Hurray to upcomming multiaccounting even with the option you can switch between your accounts. Just have 3 heros trading with your friend who have 3 heros to trade with you.

And btw i just give you my thoughts because ouf my style of playing. In past i played such kind of games with alarm clock. I wake up at night just to built the next thing, I also played at work, but i won't do such things anymore.

If im able to stay online whole day your changes great, but i won't do this because it ruins real life and i need some time without playing. In past i was happy to have a few buildings with large buildingtime because i know i can stay offline for a while. Now when i come online sure i can built something but with less time and because my store will be full with some other ressources i need to be there when the task ends. So im forced to be online in 30min up to 2hours along whole day. If you want play this game in session of 1-2 hours, 2-3 times a day your chances less now.

. Also now when you go to bed at night you will no longer feel like your town is progressing because you started an 8 hour building. I already buy hammers to queue buildings for the 16 hours when I am at work but now that will be impossible also. So not sure about this change but I'll keep playing to see, all I can really say is I hurried home from work only to be very disappointed because I don't have enough resource to build anything but gardens and wood or upgrade all of my warehouses. 

I may be wrong, but I thought the point of all of this is so we will no longer need to take a long winter's nap while we wait on an 8 hour building. Upgrading different resources and production buildings both increases the amount of resources and decreases the time it takes to accumulate them. So if I concentrate more on resource building from the very beginning of my game play, they will be at higher grades than they are now in later game play, and will producing more when I need them to.