My Crownrend Journey and some ideas for the future of the game!

My journey so far

I started playing Crownrend the day it came out. The big reason I decide to start playing it was that I really did like the idea behind the game concept. The start was quite slow as prices were high and even when the prices would have been lower I was still really sceptical about the inflationary system of Denar and Ori from the start.

That aside I decided to grow my Kingdom manually. As I said the start was slow as heck. I was making just couple of denars per claim. Even tho I managed to claim 4-5 time out of 6 it was looking quite promising as any of us did not know how huge the ramp up of Denar production was going to be at this point.

Couple of weeks went by and I was still making only 8 Denar per claim :(( still 0 items to my name. Then the race started, couple of people started buying a large amounts of denar, ori and items and therefore started printing denar out of thin air.

A month or so from the release Hive account@yabapmatt was already printing so much he was giving away items to those who were active in Splinterlands and were not in the top10 I believe. From him I got my first 3 rares which boosted my production a lot as up to this point I was still sitting on 0 items. Much appreciation for my first items!!

Couple more days came and went till Hive account@vcelier decided to give away one legendary item to the first player who were invested into Holozing and sent him a screenshot for a proof. Even tho I was out with my friends at that time and saw the message 30min later I still managed to be a first one somehow, big thank you for that wonderful legendary :))

With these items I was able to start buying chest with my own production slowly. Right now I have opened 40 chests and only gotten one rare which is average when looking at the drop rates. After that I started to fall in the rankings hard as the price of denar was droping faster and faster so more people were passing me. But then someone was starting to send me items but as the game UI does not show you who sent them I have not been able to thank them :((

I have gotten some amazing items from that generous player huge huge thanks again for those items. I also have some others that I use in my attack preset (not displayed in this picture).

With these items I am currently sitting in rank #60 as of writing this post!! I am making around 15 Denar per hour and about 150 Denar per claim with all of my attacks. Still need to level up my vault to not waist any potential tho. Still going strong with 5 claim per day out of the max 6. I recently also had my biggest raid steal, even tho almost half was lost due my vault filling up the gamble was big and it paid off.

Now as we are finally in the present lets talk about what I have liked and what I have not liked about Crownrend so far.

Positives

Game idea itself is really interesting when you can imagine the bigger picture. Yes the gameplay right now is not really something to brag about but I have faith in the dev and the community.

Account leveling system and duration is also another thing to talk about. At first the leveling was really really slow which I really liked as that gave the perspective what the game could have felt like when the rapid inflation was not a thing. And the system itself is great, who does not like to expand there kingdom little by little with every claim

The possibility to expand on the existing game. I really to think the game still has a lot of potential when we play some things differently than we are playing them right now. With that lets move onto the things a really to not like right now.

Negatives

The biggest and most important thing first, the rapid inflation. Well no matter how fun the game is or is not the whole meaning of crypto game at least for me is that the thing I own are worth something even when I do not sell them.

How sad the UI is looking right now. Do not get me wrong the site itself is find enough but the possibilities are there and just need to be executed. Simple things like reordering the filter dropdown, Adding sort by price to market and suggested price when listing your items. Many more awesome ideas in Crownrend wishlist channel.

Negatives aside lets take about my ides how to save this amazing game as I said before I think there is still time to do so.

My ideas

The biggest problem right now is the inflation so lets start there. As far as denar goes rather than having unlimited denar printing I would love to see a fixed daily pool of denar given out where your production rate defines the amount you produce. I am not really sure if it is even doable or what the right steps are but what I know is that this can not stay like this as we can see right now and I must be the first thing to change in the game as it just keeps getting worse and worse with every passing day it is not fixed.

The second topic of the game I would like to see a change in is the Items. I really to like the items but the leveling system is I am sorry but super dog right now. I would rather see the leveling be the same as in Splinterlands where you need a fix amount of same cards not just pay ori. That way you really do need to get lucky with chest or just buy items from others. That also would make lower rarity items more usable than they are right now as they get opened many many times more than the higher rarities do you would be able to level them up more and possible make then even better than just a single copy of legendary. Would promise you that chance by itself would make all of the cheap commons in the market leave in instant and add back the value that has been going lower and lower by every single day. And to people who gonna say that way it is impossible to level any divine items or items with Mine level, my answer to this is good, plz look at the bigger picture I really hope this takes long as you can see the current system is not working as I have experienced all things that come fast go fast in crypto lets make the game last a long time rather than make people happy for a second when they get there hands on a divine item and then realize that it is worthless as all top500 players already have them maxed out.

Third topic in my book would be ori. As I explained above, lose the idea of using ori for leveling and make it a guild token or make it usable in other gamemodes like group raids or something else.

The UI needs updates for sure as well. Many things are just wrong and unfinished with the UI right now like reordering the rarity filter dropdown, Adding sort by price to market and suggested price when listing your items. There are definitely more and more to be done as far as the UI goes but the import thing is that we start from somewhere and not just leave it and say its good enough.

The lack of content. Do not get me wrong I am still enjoying the game as it is right now but I can see the bigger picture and see the game from the eyes of the top10 who just have nothing to do in the game as of right now. My recommendation would simple be to add more things to do. Quests, group raids, guild/alliance activities there are so many possibilities just need to work on the finer details.

If the dev is lacking money to fund the project I was also thinking about the possibility of chest costing hive and leave denar for only upgrading you base stats. Also that does not mean you only have to spend money to progress, you could always sell your denar you make for hive and buy chests with that money.

End Word

Sadly I am currently working 12 hour days so I do not have the time to make a super detailed post about what I really think and believe in about Crownrend but hopefully this is enough for the start. As I was saying Crownrend still has time and has a lot of potential. Hopefully the community and dev and come together to make Crownrend great again!! Would love to hear you ideas in the comments and also leave a feedback about my ides, lets brainstorm and come up with a system were everybody does not print 1mil denar per claim :))