Quote Originally Posted by Airget View Post
Like looking at it like this one could say, no one will want to gather on Monday/Tuesday cause the battle is on a Wednesday, but Thursday Friday is better since it's on a Saturday. With such a short duration to the battle, to gather items to reach the Top 20 just to be able to make use of it for 3-4hrs just isn't worth it. In the concept that say you did gather on MT to get Top 20 then on Wednesday you get home at 6 and maybe get a party going on at 7, then you only have 5hrs to make use of it, if you have til 12am to do it lol.

The standby phase is just way to long compared to the battle phase and the fact that you lose everything that's gained is just a real kick to the nads lol. It should be more dynamic. Rather then a straight up 50/25. Have the supplies determine how long the fight goes on for starting at a base of 24hrs.

So say the cap was 2mil for rank 2. For every 1mil gathered the forces can fight on for another 12hrs. So not only does 2mil grant you Rank 2 but it also increases the duration of the fight to a total of 48hrs (maybe a cap of 72hr aka 3 days of hamlet active). If it was done like this then I could accept it being brought back down to 0 after all is said and done but to have to have people grind like this constantly every 50hrs just to the current top rank is pretty messed up. It's like they didn't even take the time to setup some sort of system to base how much should be lost after a battle since it is pretty ridiculous to think that ALL the materials are used up once the fight is over.
Hi Airget,

Great points. Definitely agree.

Spending so much time trying to break the Top 20, only to then have to spend the 3rd Day (if it's a weeknight), trying to reap the rewards of your hard work (and for many, they only get ~3 - 5 hours if they're lucky on a weeknight), is too punitive.

One way is as you mentioned, having the amount of contribution extend the Defense (Battle) Period more than 24 hours. (To get more time to try and win items.)

Or, another way might be to increase the Drop Rate for being Top 20 (or reaching a Max Threshold as the OP suggests), so that even though you can only invest 3 - 5 hours, at least, you have a better chance than what we have now.