@ Erich: Yes, sorry about that. Bush Whacker and RoboRabbit should count as Clickers. We'll fix that once we're back in the office.


@ Azamagon: I don't know yet what will happen with old events. If we follow all our other games, we might end up running them again, with additions for veteran players. But I haven't been part of those discussions at this point in time.

If you want Pete and Mister before then, I would suggest trying the mission. 50% can be a success.


@ Josh: When you unlock an event Crusader, they end up with the base 30% (or more if you have the talent) of EP shared on the slot. If they don't have any disenchanted gear, then they don't have any EP of their own.

Or are you saying that EP gained from the missions isn't counting as EP?


@ Seofirsou: Thank you for the feedback. That's why we put a maximum of 50% of your Crusaders to send out on missions, so that new players can still earn some Idols.

Part of the strategy with missions is to plan who you can do without and if you need the reward of the missions you currently have available.


@ MisterSemptember: Thank you for the report. If you put in a help request using the "Help and Support" link in the footer of the game (white text, beside copyright Codename), then we can look at your account.

@ Erica Oh, that was my mistake, I didn't know the newly unlocked event characters always shared EP with the other crusader in their slot. I thought they just got some automatically so they could keep pace with the crusaders we already had. Thanks for clarifying that!

@ Raymond: Interesting. Looks like Alan and Broot are injured. If you refresh does that show up in game?

@ Josh: Good to know.

@ Erich: You're welcome. :)

@ Everyone: My understanding of the gear missions was a bit cloudy. The gear will update in order (Empty -> Common-> Uncommon-> Rare ->Epic), but you don't need the common-common-common, or rare-rare-rare, etc. for that to happen.

The gear missions will randomly upgrade one slot each completion, so you could have common-common-rare and get upgraded to common-common-epic.

As a newer player (around 5000 idols), I love the Mission update! I look forward to slowly catching up on the Event characters I've missed. I'm not sure how useful they'll be without any gear, but I guess in the long (long, long, long) run that will happen too. :)

But I'll second that sending characters on missions really shouldn't harm your idol rate. It's a non-obvious newbie trap. And even knowing about it, it's a real pain trying to calculate which characters are "safe" to send on a long mission without impacting my idol counts. (It's a lot more natural to say "hmm, I'll need this Crusader's abilities on this run, better not send him.") Also, if you mess up you're screwed for a few days.

I thought the idea was to have your benched Crusaders work for you; "working" for you by sitting on the bench to be upgraded isn't exactly satisfying, is it?

@Erika: May I ask for a favour? I'm not asking for a freebie, so no worries. The mission for me to unlock Robo Turkey takes a clicker, and like you acknowledged, Robo Rabbit and Bush Whacker don't count (though they should). So I have a 73% chance to complete this mission. It's not as high as it should be because of the bug, but because the mission is going to expire I started it as soon as I could. Screenshot:

http://imgur.com/42V4UDr

So here is the favour I'm asking:

If I fail this mission, may I get a chance to try it again? Like I said, I'm not asking for a freebie; I just want a fair chance to complete it. But because I need to get it started due to the expiration time, and it's a 3 day investment, and the bug isn't fixed yet (as of Tuesday, May 31th, 12:25am EST), I would like to request a retry if this mission isn't a win.

Does that sound fair? 8^)

@ traigo: Thank you for the feedback. We are looking into a fix for that with the missions fix update we are putting out.

thedude -

Eroka said, if i understood it correctly, in the recent AMA (#8), that this issue will be solved with the next update. They are moving the "on a mission" sign to the portrait rather than the upgrade button - so crusaders on missions, though not able to be put in your campaign formation, WILL be able to be leveled up and contribute to idol-gain.

After that, there already is a warning (unless you turned it off) that warns if you are about to start a mission with a crusader who is actually in your formation.

I am personally VERY much looking forward to this update. It being the one thing about missions that i disliked upon trying them out.

The fix patch is out. :)

If you successfully earn a reward like a gold or DPS buff, I assume you can choose Skip to keep it in your queue instead of using it right away. But if you do that, will it stay there indefinitely, or will it expire at some point? If it expires, is there a set amount of time, or does it vary by reward type/size? I have a mission for a day-long DPS buff, but I'd like to save it for the weekend when I can actually use it.

Thanks! I guess I should've said "If you complete a mission", but since I would only do it with 100%, in this case it's the same thing. :o)