[SPOILER] Survey to those who have beaten several Ruins

1. How many ruins have you completed, state their names.
   - 2 Completed, Ruins of Better Moscow and Ruins of Shin Tokyo.  I have perhaps 2 uncompleted ones due to hitting a puzzle i could not solve.
2. What have you found inside of them? Enemies, digging piles, traps, rooms with buttons, puzzles, etc.
   - Enemies, Digging Piles, Buttons, Holograms, Rock Puzzles, Mine Cart Puzzles, Special Locations
3. How big/long did you felt the ruins were? Too big, too short, just
   right, etc. Different ruins have different size so state which one
   you are talking about.
   - The size of both is good, but due to the puzzle complexity, they can be very long.
4. What kind of items have you found inside?
   - Not including secrets, the regular consumables including a figurine or 2 and  BP in chests
5. Have you found secrets in the ruins? If so, how many of them? The secret is indicated by special sound and message in the log - "secret found"
   - Yes, found a number.  Perhaps 8 or so in all the ruins I have starated.
6. If you have found a secret, what do you think about them - is it a good addition or too much of a gimmick?
   - The secrets are the main reason i revisit these locations due to the reward size.  Large manuals, arithmometer, etc.
7. What about gems? Have you found them all? How hard were they?
   - I have not found them all, but I do not look too hard given the small reward.  Perhaps this is somethiing you might reconsider :)  Tend to just get low level items, crystal, speaker horn, hor's hoe etc.
8. Hidden consumable items - were they useful? How many of them have you found? How many blueprints/figurines?
   - I did not find too many of these, but the ones I did are always usefull, perhaps 1 or 2 Fig and BP.
9. How hard were the enemies in your dungeons?
   - The Ancient monsters were very challenging, and I appreciated the addition.  Otherwise the monsters were all of same as before and of normal challenge.
10. How hard were the digging sequences?
    - The digging sequence areas were hard for the larger ones, I had to resort to screenshots to remember where each switch was.
11. How hard were the hidden buttons?
    - The hidden buttons were no harder then those in the Dungeons.
12. How hard were the puzzles?
    - The moving Mine Cart and Rock Puzzles varied from easy to extremely difficult.  I have managed to complete all I have found so far, but some took a lot of revisiting.
13. How hard were the holograms?
    - Again, ranged from Easy to Very Hard.  I had one with i think 13 peices, and this is one that i gave up on.
14. Did you get the unique sections in ruins with a small story? Which ones? What do you think about those?
    - I had the School and also I think it was a factory.  I thought they were great.  Engaging messages, hidden doors etc.  
15. What was the overall feel of the ruins? How do they fit with the rest of
    the game? What was you first impression when you explored them? Did
    they felt like TT1 adventures? How do they compate to dungeons and mines?
    - I think they fit well with the game.  I love the way they integrate via chests in anomolies, and look forward to seeing how all they codes come together and what they do.
16. What do you think about the conclusion of the ruins quest? Did you learn anything interesting in the end?
    - Not there yet!  look forward to it.
17. How do you like the final reward? What did you get?
    - Not there yet!  look forward to it.
    
18. State any other things you have found interesting in the ruins, not mentioned specifically above.
    - I would just like to suggest perhaps a way to bypass some puzzles as you can in the Caves by finding the hidden passageway..

1. How
   many ruins have you completed, state their names.
   
   - 7 completed:  Madrid, Moscow, Lincoln, Toronto,
   Boryspil, Tokyo and Rogoziv


2. What
   have you found inside of them? Enemies, digging piles, traps, rooms with
   buttons, puzzles, etc.
   
   - Enemies, Digging Piles, Mines and
   Dungeons with buttons, Holograms, Rock and Cart Puzzles, Special Locations


3. How
   big/long did you felt the ruins were? Too big, too short, just
   
   right, etc. Different ruins have different size so state which one
   
   you are talking about.
   
   - The size is right, even the big
   ones I didn’t bother, I liked them all


4. What
   kind of items have you found inside?
   
   - All kind of items, speedups, powerups,
   consumables, strategy items


5. Have
   you found secrets in the ruins? If so, how many of them? The secret is
   indicated by special sound and message in the log - "secret
   found"
   
   - According to the achievement ‘There
   and Back Again’ : 14 secrets


6. What
   about gems? Have you found them all? How hard were they?
   
   - I haven’t found them all and I
   didn’t make an effort to find them all, it has no added value at least not for
   me.


7. Hidden
   consumable items - were they useful? How many of them have you found? How
   many blueprints/figurines?
   
   - Actually I didn’t count them, but
   the overall feel was good, I found a lot of arithmometers (never got that
   many in existing locations)…very happy with it and also found some foe’s,
   BP’s and manuals.


8. How
   hard were the enemies in your dungeons?
   
   - The monsters weren’t very hard
   (just as normal),  I didn’t come across
   the ancient monsters, unlike my alliance members…


9. How
   hard were the hidden buttons?
   
   - The hidden buttons were a bit
   harder than the ones we are used to. Some were so small and I had 1 ruin which
   I revisited trice, couldn’t find the button in a mine…


10. How
    hard were the puzzles?
    
    - The Rock and Chart Puzzles were
    extremely difficult in the beginning. I even made models (of the 6-8 rock
    puzzles), pushing lego blocks as rocks… in the end, with the help of the
    leaden disks and sending hero home, it was doable.


11. How
    hard were the holograms?
    
    - some were easy others were a bit harder
    to solve, I am no fan of these puzzles, it is hard to recognize the patern.


12. Did
    you get the unique sections in ruins with a small story? Which ones? What
    do you think about those?
    
    - I had a Store (I am not sure) and
    a School.  I think they are awesome, love the action of search and
    discovery (like a classic adventure game). 


13. What
    was the overall feel of the ruins? How do they fit with the rest of
    
    the game? What was your first impression when you explored them? Did
    
    they felt like TT1 adventures? How do they compete to dungeons and mines?
    
    - The ruins fit very well into the
    game. First impression was, yes, a nice challenge to find your way through
    the ruins, looking inside for buttons, which opened doors outside, or the
    other way around… Can’t wait to restart my hero to experience how it all
    ends.


14.  What do you think about the conclusion of
    the ruins quest? Did you learn anything interesting in the end?
    
    - Can’t say anything about that yet…


15. How
    do you like the final reward? What did you get?
    
    - Can’t say anything about that
    yet...


16. State
    any other things you have found interesting in the ruins, not mentioned
    specifically above.
    
    - Although I encountered a lot of
    interesting things, unfortunately I found something very annoying, if you
    revisit a ruin then you can’t plant the flag somewhere, you have to go the
    same way through caves and tunnels (as the 1st time) to get e.g. to the
    end of that ruin…I would like to suggest to do the same here as in other
    locations with traps (once your hero solved the traps, you can plant the
    flag anywhere and your hero will automatically walk the safe route
    avoiding the spikes)

 Duplicated this page and spent a long time answering the questions fully.  Got interrupted but finished the survey - page timed out!  lost the lot!  In summary - fewer questions please.

Ruins are fantastic they vary enormously in time taken.  The hardest puzzle was the push/shove - some I solved with first attempt - others stumped me completely.

Completed 4 ruins Lincoln, Moscow, Shin Tokyo and Boryspil, and another 4 close to finishing.

Found secrets and tons of consumables,

Level 50 hero - so enemies were no problem

Especially loved the gadget - and that is could be used on other locations.

Loved the special zones - school and factory

Did not solve all the ruins, so no final ending for me for a long time as this hero dies today.

Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard on the Ruins.  Very much appreciated and lovely to be challenged again in the game that I have played for such a long time now.  Thank you :)