Poll: What Season Length Do You Prefer?
CATANdominik
Administrator, Community Manager Posts: 144 Community Manager, Global
Greetings Explorers,
We’d love to hear your thoughts on your preferred season length in CATAN – World Explorers. Recently, we had our very first 3 week season, but a majority of our seasons have either been 4 weeks or 2 weeks.
Please vote in the poll below, and share your thoughts in the comments!
Yours
Dominik and the CATAN – World Explorers Team
Post edited by CATANFiona on
Poll: What Season Length Do You Prefer? 37 votes
2 weeks
5%
2 votes
3 weeks
45%
17 votes
4 weeks
27%
10 votes
Other (please leave comment)
21%
8 votes
9
Comments
3 weeks seems to be the perfect balance on most cases
....as long as the harvest boost weekend is on again.
3 weeks is not long enough to fully max out a number of settlements with level 10 buildings and 99 level monuments
I would still flag for variable season length.
Very fast sprint seasons sometimes. Sometimes very long seasons. That would keep it interesting.
3 weeks is just right
3 best
some variation of 3 and 4 weeks also very good
4 good
Seems to me, that 3 weeks is fine, most settlements nearby is only visited by me, so with a long season, things get trivial.
Also, if settlements needs to be maxed, team up with friends, to help each other :)
Variable. I have found the strategy changes depending on the length of the season. For freshness and variety from season to season I would vary the length as part of the plan to affect strategies. I would however not change it every season as it is good to settle into a length and refine a strategy for a few seasons.
3 or 4 weeks seems good.
I like it mixed up. I would even like to see a 1 week sprint and a 5 week marathon. Sprints could have the bigger radius of reach and marathons could have a smaller area of reach.
@ChopStiR a 1 week sprint!!!! That's evil lol but sounds like fun.
Variable seasons is critical to varied gameplay = more fun.
For example - if we have a quick 2 weeker - many players are going to go straight into VP buildings, whereas a 4 weeker will result in our focusing on mass resource settlements first. The longer the season - (and the more built up the local settlements) the more I focus on building up my Catanian friendships by trading mass resources.
Different lengths means that players can adjust their gameplay to whatever you put out - which adds an additional layer of strategy (thus fun) to the game!
Like @WadicalWabbit ’s idea but think 4 days off season is too long. Perhaps a 48 hours off season between Tues and Thurs would be good as you gotta factor in different timezones since you want most of the world to start the new season on a Thursday
Why do you want that long off-season? 🙈 What would you be doing during that 48 hours for example? 🤔
I prefer a 4 week season.
Where i live, I've only just come across some competition from the blue team... 1st time in so long and right when the season is ending. Need more time so I can be mayor of their settlements 😂 but seriously, it's great to finally see someone else playing local to me.
I like the 4 week season. More time to harvest your Tier 3 Resource buildings so you can fill up more Settlements.
I like what @WadicalWabbit said about 4 day cool down. With the Development team to use that time for upgrades and bug fixes.
Maybe we could get a Mini event with just basic tasks to do over this time to keep us busy. Or we could just play our other game (Ingress for me)
Keep mixing it up. That way we don't have to do the same strategy season after season but have to try different things each season to reach our goals.
:-)
Same as @WadicalWabbit , with some possible variation on the number of weeks.