Disney Magic Kingdoms

[empresslilly]

Now that I can welcome Flynn, I have the option to purchase Maximus. Should I do it?

I really like Maximus and I think he's worthwhile. That said, he's always going to be available (he's not limited time like some of the special event characters), so you don't have to rush to get him. If you think there's any chance that there will be Beauty and the Beast characters that you're going to really want, than I'd hold off for now.

 

[lmmatooki]

I really wish there was a different way to click on characters to send them on quests, I don't like only having the options to either click through them at the top or to look through the park for the character. There needs to be a better layout when you have all of the characters.

 

[Acer]

Well, I had just about decided to halt progress when I got the quests to welcome Flynn and Randall. So now I have to worry about collecting all of their tokens before the announcement... along with 5 or 6 other characters that aren't ready to level up. I guess I will just get as much done as I can in the next 9 days.

Now that I can welcome Flynn, I have the option to purchase Maximus. Should I do it? I don't really want to spend 475 gems (I have saved 763), but I do love him. Is he good to have? Do you think he will go on sale or come with some kind of special offer? I don't mind spending a little money on good characters...

Im a little further then you as I can welcome rapunzel, but yes, there was a 9.99 deal for maximus and gems.

 

[Arpo Z]

I've been playing since nearly the beginning and not once has my lifetime visitor come into play. I don't believe it much matters.

Agree that the total is not particularly meaningful. However, I think the rate of increase corresponds to the rate at which happiness declines. (That is, more visitors coming in correlates with happiness dropping more slowly.)

My best guess of the chain of causation is something like park "activity" (including number of attractions and decorations out) slower decline in happiness increased rate of visits. So the running total is ultimately a reflection of the sustained level of activity in the park - an effect rather than a cause.

I don't have any hard evidence of this - just my impressions from observations over time. Once I have my second game fully leveled up I have some experiments in mind to confirm though. Would love to hear if anyone else has any more concrete info already, though!

 

[jamieonthefly]

I don't remember if I received a special offer or used gems to get Maximus, but he has been really helpful. You will eventually battle Mother Gothel which takes 27 times - 4 hours? each. If you have Maximus, you will be able to send 3 characters to battle at a time.

He also has shorter tasks for collecting items for this group of characters. I think he is worth adding to your game.

Thank you! I just saw that I have a special offer. He is worth $9.99 I think!

 

[Pheran]

There will be a livestream on Facebook tomorrow at noon EST discussing update 9. So maybe the countdown (7 days left) is to the event, not the announcement.

 

[jamieonthefly]

I really wish there was a different way to click on characters to send them on quests, I don't like only having the options to either click through them at the top or to look through the park for the character. There needs to be a better layout when you have all of the characters.

I agree. I don't even have everyone yet and I get tired of having to scroll through. I really wish there was one page where you could see all the characters and what tasks they are on, and especially how much time is left on their task. It would be easier to plan tasks that require two characters.

 

[supernova]

Agree that the total is not particularly meaningful. However, I think the rate of increase corresponds to the rate at which happiness declines. (That is, more visitors coming in correlates with happiness dropping more slowly.)

My best guess of the chain of causation is something like park "activity" (including number of attractions and decorations out) slower decline in happiness increased rate of visits. So the running total is ultimately a reflection of the sustained level of activity in the park - an effect rather than a cause.

I don't have any hard evidence of this - just my impressions from observations over time. Once I have my second game fully leveled up I have some experiments in mind to confirm though. Would love to hear if anyone else has any more concrete info already, though!

The lowest my happiness has ever dropped to was maybe 53% or so, maybe even lower when I didn't get a chance to check it for a while. But it always quickly builds back up, so I don't pay that part much mind, either. You might be right, though. But once it reaches a million or so visitors, will it matter for happiness? I mean, the count of visitors can't ever decrease.

 

[bluekirty]

There will be a livestream on Facebook tomorrow at noon EST discussing update 9. So maybe the countdown (7 days left) is to the event, not the announcement.

Except their tease of it says, "A huge announcement is coming soon... 10 days left" (posted on the 27th). So I guess tomorrow could be the announcement - which would be soon, and the event starting 10 days from the 27th (so 7 days from now), but that's a weird way to phrase it.

 

[Mattimation]

Except their tease of it says, "A huge announcement is coming soon... 10 days left" (posted on the 27th). So I guess tomorrow could be the announcement - which would be soon, and the even starting 10 days from the 27th (so 7 days from now), but that's a weird way to phrase it.

yeah, I'm a little confused by their timeline now. Usually the livestreams introduce new concepts for events, like the Snowgie thing in Frozen, so maybe tomorrow will introduce some new things for the Beauty and the Beast event, and then they'll reveal something more in a week - like the Beauty and the Beast Event and a big expansion, or some other thing that warrants being a big announcement, instead of just an event like the two we've already had this year.

 

[Pheran]

Beauty and the Beast is confirmed to be a timed event, but new permanent (not time-limited) content will include Merlin and Chip & Dale.

One new land space will be unlocked.

 

[Pheran]

Premium characters - Mrs. Potts (180 gems), Chip (250 gems).

 

[Pheran]

Bags and strings again for vine cages - ARGH.

 

[Mattimation]

One new land space seems ridiculous for everything they're promising - four new attractions for the Beauty and the Beast event, and I'm assuming at least one to go along with Chip & Dale since they said they weren't showing us everything today. I know if you really squeeze everything together you can fit it all in, at least with everything out now, but I hate how that looks - I'm putting at least the Aladdin rides, ToT, and Haunted Mansion in storage for this event. What really drives me nuts is how they basically said they can't optimize the game to be as large as it promises, which I took to mean we'll probably never get pass Fantasyland. I'm excited to play Beauty and the Beast, but that just made me feel like time is ticking on DMK. I HATE that we have another Snowgie event, especially since it makes no sense for the movie. When were birds ever trapped in vine cages? Maybe if this were Sleeping Beauty, but really it just seems unnecessary.

I am very excited that we'll get to welcome Merlin, and that he casts spells to help the kingdom - that's awesome, especially the "collect all" spell. The BatB stuff looks cool, especially the Be Our Guest restaurant and the float (though I was hoping for something like the Paint the Night float), and I'm glad to see that Belle and Beast both have changeable costumes, though I'm surprised the Beast doesn't get his Prince form. I'll be interested to see how Chip and Dale progress the story along, especially considering how at this point all we need the story to do is unlock the Adventureland gate and that surely isn't happening.

 

[whitney250]

One new land space seems ridiculous for everything they're promising - four new attractions for the Beauty and the Beast event, and I'm assuming at least one to go along with Chip & Dale since they said they weren't showing us everything today. I know if you really squeeze everything together you can fit it all in, at least with everything out now, but I hate how that looks - I'm thinking Pirates will have to go into storage for my kingdom. What really drives me nuts is how they basically said they can't optimize the game to be as large as it promises, which I took to mean we'll probably never get pass Fantasyland. I'm excited to play Beauty and the Beast, but that just made me feel like time is ticking on DMK. I HATE that we have another Snowgie event, especially since it makes no sense for the movie. When were birds ever trapped in vine cages? Maybe if this were Sleeping Beauty, but really it just seems unnecessary.

I am very excited that we'll get to welcome Merlin, and that he casts spells to help the kingdom - that's awesome, especially the "collect all" spell. The BatB stuff looks cool, especially the Be Our Guest restaurant and the float (though I was hoping for something like the Paint the Night float), and I'm glad to see that Belle and Beast both have changeable costumes, though I'm surprised the Beast doesn't get his Prince form. I'll be interested to see how Chip and Dale progress the story along, especially considering how at this point all we need the story to do is unlock the Adventureland gate and that surely isn't happening.

I honestly can't understand why they even introduced Pirates if they weren't going to open Adventureland with it... super frustrating. We can only hope they will open it when the new Pirates movie comes out.

 

[Mattimation]

I honestly can't understand why they even introduced Pirates if they weren't going to open Adventureland with it... super frustrating. We can only hope they will open it when the new Pirates movie comes out.

That would make sense, but from the sounds of it we'll be lucky to even have all the land currently locked in Tomorrowland and Fantasyland by the time Pirates 5 comes out. One chunk of land every few months, and we have at least five land spaces left "cursed" in the areas we do have. Maybe the new space they're opening in Update 9 is the first chunk of Adventureland, but I'm worried it will just be another piece of Tomorrowland. Honestly, unless they're planning on adding more futuristic or Pixar characters (since I'm basically just using Tomorrowland as Pixar land - so many of their attractions have the purple base!) Tomorrowland could be done.

ACTUALLY, now that I think about it I wonder if Pirates are done. I think their release coincided with the Shanghai Disney stuff, like the Aladdin attractions, since there's a whole Pirates Land out there. I might be remembering that all wrong, but if that's the case I have to wonder if they really will go anywhere.

 

[supernova]

That would make sense, but from the sounds of it we'll be lucky to even have all the land currently locked in Tomorrowland and Fantasyland by the time Pirates 5 comes out. One chunk of land every few months, and we have at least five land spaces left "cursed" in the areas we do have. Maybe the new space they're opening in Update 9 is the first chunk of Adventureland, but I'm worried it will just be another piece of Tomorrowland. Honestly, unless they're planning on adding more futuristic or Pixar characters (since I'm basically just using Tomorrowland as Pixar land - so many of their attractions have the purple base!) Tomorrowland could be done.

I stand by my statement from months ago now that we're not going to get a game board expansion until at least 2018. We have five areas left to unlock and we aren't going to get any new space until the second quarter of 2017.

One thing that I just realized today is related to the train. It enters into the mountain, comes out the other side as a monorail, disappears back into the mountain, and then doesn't ever come out the other side. I just suddenly appears onto the game board to pull up in the station. If the train isn't leaving the game board, then I would have to imagine that they haven't done anything towards that side of the screen. I still hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see anything expansive for at least another year.

 

[supernova]

One new land space seems ridiculous for everything they're promising - four new attractions for the Beauty and the Beast event, and I'm assuming at least one to go along with Chip & Dale since they said they weren't showing us everything today. I know if you really squeeze everything together you can fit it all in, at least with everything out now, but I hate how that looks - I'm putting at least the Aladdin rides, ToT, and Haunted Mansion in storage for this event. What really drives me nuts is how they basically said they can't optimize the game to be as large as it promises, which I took to mean we'll probably never get pass Fantasyland.

Sadly, this has been my exact point since around August. We'll see the end of this game before we see a new game board. They are counting on the original players to just go away and new players to pick up. But I can't see any new space being extended. "We can't" sounds like a BS throw-away line. Of course you can. Online games are huge as far as the space they offer. Maybe Disney shouldn't have put their interns on this project. Dopes.

 

[Mattimation]

Sadly, this has been my exact point since around August. We'll see the end of this game before we see a new game board. They are counting on the original players to just go away and new players to pick up. But I can't see any new space being extended. "We can't" sounds like a BS throw-away line. Of course you can. Online games are huge as far as the space they offer. Maybe Disney shouldn't have put their interns on this project. Dopes.

Specifically, since I was paraphrasing, they said they were having trouble optimizing the game across all devices. If this were strictly a PC game, or restricted to tablets, I'm sure it would be soaring right now, but I'd bet they're having trouble making it work on smart phones, which makes no sense to me in the first place. Yes, if a smart phone is the only device someone has available to them it'd be nice if they could play the game, but this game just doesn't make any sense on a smart phone.

And, to be fair to all parties, I don't think this is a Disney problem - I think it's Gameloft. Disney probably just commissioned the game, tells them what IPs to use, and that's likely the end of their involvement. Maybe it's Disney demanding the game be available across all smart devices, but anything beyond that is Gameloft's issue.

 

[mmmears]

I have to agree that there won't be any real expansion for a very long time (I'm actually thinking it will never happen). The land they are referring to will just be a tiny piece in Tomorrowland or Fantasyland. Frankly, I think they are focusing too much on these events and not on the actual game itself. There are many other online games with much larger "areas" and they work. It's clearly not their priority. Getting people to pay actual money for these events is the priority.