Shohoku79

We often wondered if the developers even play the same game as we do with some of their decisions. It's great that the selection process (even though still from a pool of pre-diluted candidates) involved the active player community. This was still a great activity because not only do the players have to think for themselves, they also have to be forced to think for the others, and ultimately still arriving at still just picking one based on own needs/capability (or not).

Well, you got my response for this being a problem and a recurring one at that. Although I am generally a little weary of the quality of the in-game support for these mobile games. Seems like most of the time you are being as detailed as possible to try to explain the situation to them, but they just don't get it. Unless you have a good video capturing app on your phone/device that does a step by step walkthrough detailing your point that you can upload/submit, I have a feeling they just aren't trained to follow a step by step with words.

Hey Nevar old friend. Good to see you. As this forum is not really sanctioned or affiliated with E&P, but rather as a Fan-created forum, I believe the bug reports here are going to be related to the bugs in the forum features, not to the game itself. But as to the old scrolling bug when switching between Stronghold and Dragonspire, it is certainly rearing its ugly head once again, and it has been for several updates and revisions and I had no idea if it is even being checked on since I didn't go into Discord when the old forum got wiped. But yeah, every day now it is the same thing, switching between the two bases and providing roster management is kind of annoying, but I am starting to get numb from it as the way the developers treated the bug before seemed to indicate they do not know what we were talking about as they couldn't replicate the behavior (or rather, it was not on their priority list to "get it" and have it resolved).

Thank you for the feedback. To that regard, most of them likely won't, but heroes last forever (even the some of the most sought after ones did not age well and will succumb to age and being replaced). It all depends on playstyle, and when I started this game back in 2017, I've never played it to be competitive, but only the PvE parts and as a Collector of cards. I also play for free, so I won't have most and best of the heroes, I am putting my resources nowadays in fulfilling the collector's purpose in me as opposed to chasing cards (which will most likely end in disappointments from not getting him/her/it and those cards most likely end up being replaced in time).

I had been running Hero Academy 10 since obtaining it a few years ago, with a few breaks in between, it's just a weekly thing to mostly pop in, see the vanilla 5* and most likely send him/her right back in the following week. The breaks were when pick up time coincides with Soul Exchange, and I needed all the heroes (including the one being cooked) to make exchanges. Since then there had been a few changes, and up until the latest change (that I recalled, before the old forum got the axe) was that the 5* heroes there had the list expanded (to include heroes from ### days back) and will include the released costumes if the costume rolls a yes. Since that update, I haven't gotten anything new, not new non S1, and none of the S1 I got back came with any costumes. So since we can't look at the little information "I" icon whenever all the functions are being used, I also don't get to look at these very often. This past week after I picked up another costume-less S1, I decided to pause and check out the other levels and saw that the Rare and Epic trainings have also had similar (heroes from ### days back are also available at the all too familiar 5% rate). I took a break from HA10 and decided to get the ball rolling a bit see if I can pick up a few Epics I missed. Not going to hold my breath for any quick results because it's only 5% non vanilla, and the list is big. Did HA9 (the Epic Troop retrain) get any updates, to include Specialized Epics (Ninja, Magic, Cyclops) as possible re-train results? They are already in the Epic Troop portals. Maybe as I see @ PlayForFun going about his usual forum topic/guide organizations, we might start seeing a guide for this several year old feature?

Game has evolved a lot since its inception and playing for the first time, even without spending seem to have changed a lot as to what's available initially (e.g. events and contents that are available now versus years ago). 1* and 2* heroes will tie you over initially but will become feeders to better heroes that you will eventually get. Sharan the 1* healer and Sha Ji the 2* healer will be your primary source to keep you alive for the time being. Layla the purple 2* and Bane the 3* yellow would likely be your primary damage output for a while, depends on how quickly you acquire heroes of higher rarity. Focus on getting the base infrastructure (buildings and research) updated to keep the constant resources (namely food and iron) to come in, you will need these to craft battle items, upgrade heroes, etc. Even if you manage to get a 5* hero, put him/her on the side as you will not have the resource initially to fully upgrade him/her when just starting. Instead, focus on fielding a full 3* team (they can be fully upgraded with ascension material that can be farmed), followed by a full 4* team. Upgrade your troops as they are like equipped items that will keep your heroes alive. Visit the Empire and Puzzles Webstore daily as you can get free resources with the daily gifts, some of these are summon currencies that can be used in the various summoning portals, which can provide you access to heroes that are more powerful than what you initially have available. Join and alliance when you are able to and help contribute so you can earn additional resources from helping defeat titans and get help from alliance mates. Gems can be spent on a variety of areas. You would need to have some on hand to spend on roster expansion as your hero count goes up. Most importantly they could be saved up for summoning for new heroes (multi-summon helps provide some discount in total gems spent). Don't worry if you can't get very far in the campaigns or beat certain stages initially, it takes time and resources to build up. What's said here is very general and broad, but remember this game is not a sprint, but a marathon. Good luck to you.

I must say it feels familiar and weird at the same time when seeing the forum again, even if it isn't officially supported by SGG. I will most likely continue to use this forum as the bridge towards game contents and its active and vocal players and chime in occasionally as I had done when the old forum was alive. It's good to see some familiar names already here.

Didn't follow Discord when the old forum died and was just going to treat the new game contents cold turkey without any too updated information, until an alliance mate told us today about this and had to see it for myself. I missed browsing the forum (even if mostly reading and browsing) and seeing the posts of familiar names. Thank you @ AeroMatix (E&P Forums) for making this possible.