Forum:Gripes about Echo Bazaar

Alright... It's a hot, sticky evening and I am stuck without air conditioning, which means I don't dare to do anything CPU intensive on my computer to avoid it shutting down from overheating. This means, I have to sit on my hands while I wait for the actions on EB to refresh. So I'll be spending this time griping about the game... >:D

Which brings me to my first point: I understand their logic of limiting total actions per day due to not wanting people to go through all the story content in the game faster than they can write--BUT, is it necessary to stretch out the time in between those already daily limited actions too?? They really think everyone has all the time in the world to wait for at least 2 and a half hours everyday just for those 20 actions to refresh? (And for people paying to get double the actions, probably twice as long.)

Normally I only have time to relax in the evenings and often not daily, so I try to fill the time in between by only playing EB on the side, while I'm playing games like Dragon Age which are my true passion or doing something else like watching movies online. Still, it's not like I can always remember to interrupt those things every hour or so when the actions finally fill up, so often I either end up not spending all actions or stretching out the total time I finish using all actions to very long... I'm guessing other people might play during the day when they are at a desk job that's none demanding enough to get distracted every hour to play the game, or perhaps while sitting in classes pretending to listen to lectures. Either way, how many people can actually do that?

OK... second gripe. None existant social interaction methods in game. They market the game exclusively on social networks as a "social game" of sorts, and make many rather important things reliant on having friends to play with you in game. Yet there's not even a way to directly send messages to other players in game. About this I've already shared some chats with Neonix so I won't complain further.

Last one, just a minor gripe regarding the limited and unimaginative pictures they have accompanying the stories.... Such as the supposedly "strikingly handsome curate" and his "equally handsome" sister, whom you're suppose to delve into for secrets / profit / er...carnal/emotional gratification? Now it's really, really hard to get into the story when you're only told in very brief sentences how "easy on the eyes" these two are, and all you get visually is this: http://images.wikia.com/fallenlondon/images/7/70/Saturninegent.png

I mean... I tried. I really did. For the sake of the story. At least on the sister's "handsomeness", I can use my imagination since there isn't even a picture of her, but it's still really difficult since there is that picture of her "oh so handsome" brother who's supposed to be "EQUALLY handsome" as her. (In case you're wondering which story I'm talking about, check out Intrigue: The curate and his sister.)

Anyway... these are my gripes about the game so far. I understand the game is still considered to be in "beta", so hopefully they'll improve some of these things, and frankly, I'm just too hot and annoyed right now, so griping is my way of venting. My point is to share with fellow editors/players here on the wiki and get things out of my system. And I'm too lazy to go sign up for an account on EB's forums to send these gripes directly. :P So, fellow players, feel free to join in with your thoughts or perhaps other gripes.

--by Wanderer (someone too lazy to sign up for accounts and loves wikis for that exact reason)