Island Sanctuary

[Jandor]

Enjoyable so far. Still think it'd be nice if you could turn one of the building plots into a normal cottage though.

[Kaurhz]

Anybody else thinks the progression is kind of fast for this kind of content? It hasn't been even 24h and already so many buildings and upgrades. At this rate there will be nothing to develop in a week or so.

It's not really too fast, you can progress through the island pretty quickly in terms of rank, but having everything unlocked and fully upgraded is still quite an endeavour in itself, and then on top of that you have the rewards, and given they intend to expand on it in future... In all likelihood, it is something you and many players will be doing weeks, and weeks after fully upgrading.

[Glenfiddich]

So.... SE has been struggling for years with housing but they can give everyone an island...? OK...

You can't lose your Island.
You don't have to stay subbed for the Island.....
There you have it.

[Seraphor]

You can't lose your Island.
You don't have to stay subbed for the Island.....
There you have it.

The island actually functions a lot more similarly to something like the Doman restoration. It's an entirely different system and nothing like housing in It's complexity.

[HyoMinPark]

I’m really enjoying it. I stayed up way too late last night just gathering stuff and pushing towards Rank 5. I can’t wait until I get off work and can do more on it. Gonna work towards Rank 6 today.

Also can’t wait to mess around on my alts and their islands.

[Bsrking5]

Already at rank 6 and I see a problem. Mammets ventures cost seafare tokens. Seafare tokens are slowly gained by set timers. Island tokens are next to useless, make the grainery take island tokens instead of seafare tokens.

[Rayne6665]

Im still on rank 4 but i never spent so much of my time on my island xD exploring and going weeeee all the time lmao so yes, thank you Yoshi and the dev team for this!

[Raoabolic]

Indeed

Its a case of " i love this im enjoying the hell out of it " > hours later> oh no i didn't take a break now im bored > log onto forums> complain.exe

Well the thing is one giant time gate so it would be pretty bad if this game only had IS going for it. The way I see it, the carnival just opened up the island wing for the ones who paid for the ticket to enter. It is pretty cozy but if all you are banking on is spending hours on the island exclusively for 6.2 onwards then of course you will run out of things to do. That's the MO for facebook games. Personally, i'm holding my breath to see if SE can keep it in their pants and keep the inventible "skip the timer" consumable for the island OFF of the mogshop. I would be okay if it was some super crazy rare item (I loved the Rose of Renewal system in everquest!) but if they will introduce it then the realistic side of my mind just keeps repeating "it's going to be 5-10 freedom bux, it's it? :^)". lol

[LittleChickenNugget]

Already at rank 6 and I see a problem. Mammets ventures cost seafare tokens. Seafare tokens are slowly gained by set timers. Island tokens are next to useless, make the grainery take island tokens instead of seafare tokens.

Even if they raised the cost of the items, definitely. This is going to end up being a slog that people will forget about quickly once the excitement wears off and they realize it's gonna take weeks or months to even get a single hair style.

[xbahax92]

I also dont understand why we have to upgrade via seafarer tokens. So far, it's not very common to gain them? and all good rewards are tied to them.

Meanwhile Islander rewards seem kinda lackluster? Would of been a better reason to gather materials > sell them for Islander Cowrie > build/upgrade facilities + use them for ventures.