My experience with Settler mechanic

MY Experience with league mechanic:

I am at L4-L6 at Kingsmarch.

My Miner is L75 and at end of act 10.

This shows I spent some extra time for league events in areas.


a) Concept of smelting / bars

I read that bars are 5x worth the ore in the net,
that should have be found ingame!

I don't like that ore can be and should be smelted.

You need ore for upgrading (only at lower and medium levels?) and for nothing else??
I had it some times I had smelted the ore to bars already and so could not pay the upgrades.
At the moment I can't pay 2 upgrades because of missing Bismuth ore,
I have enough Bismuth bars ...
I don't like the on/off for my smelters.

So league would be better without bars and smelting.


b) Low Gold

Gold is low - too low for my taste. Just started disenchanting.
Play 3-4h per day. With that gold I can pay 1 upgrade and 3-8h my workers.

Have sent only 2 or 3 times my 1 ship.
Because infos at forum showed me the rewards would be better later by adding dust.

But now after 3.25.1 this was maybe a mistake ...

So don't have met pirates yet.


c) Not enough ore

There should have been more ore during the campaign.

As other players wrote in forum it's still low in maps.


d) Conclusion

Can't say if I like the league concept at the moment.
At this point I had too many "questionmarks" and work with my village.

There are only 3-4 different extra mini events in areas.
At lower levels I need a few times 4-6 min to kill all mobs.
This was some fun but still a little annoying.

I am a fan of Civilization and 4X games, so I expected I would like the league.