Quote Originally Posted by Tehmon View Post
The timegate/big-grind wall hits you out of nowhere. The first 5-6 sanctuary levels go by smoothly, but then at 6-7 you have very little blue cowries left so you can't expand the island willy-nilly and you need rare materials to renovate your facilities, which is another timegated effort. It caught me totally off-guard. So it becomes the waiting game, or the '' go gather materials for hours and hours in a loop in one place that is the most efficient to farm, only to spend your entire day gaining one level but you aren't really rewarded with anything so why bother '' game.

This is exactly it. And everyone who is begging to differ, kinda tells me they didn't run full speed into that wall last moment. God forbid they got excited over the outfits you could get too and spent their tokens buying that, not knowing you need 1k per expansion. I spent hours the other night leveling from one rank to the next, thinking "surely with how long it takes to level you'll get a decent handful of tokens once you rank up." Nope. You get diddly squat.

I would have rather the Island been a new form of the Diadem and something to actively help crafters/gatherers.