My thoughts and suggestions on the league

When I started this league I had my doubts as to wether an RTS game could work as part of POE and was quite dismissive about it but I have to say that since I started playing Path of Exile which was a long time ago this was the best most enjoyable league so far by far.
I have made more currency in this league than any other league and from week 3 for the first time ever completed every map in the atlas with one of my own builds which I have to admit are never that good.
All that being said there are some things that I feel needs too be rebalanced for example the wages of my employees, they are bleeding me dry. Unfortunately if you have everything set to max level and your employees are the best they can be your looking at a minimum of 25-40k a day in wages plus then there is the cost to get everything upto the maximum level. Now I may have completed all the maps but that doesnt meen I making much doing them im only making between 5-10k per map and im not the fastest at doing them.
Now to my suggestion, what would be nice is everytime I log off that all the costs pause untill I log back on again or maybe a self pause button where all operations stop so you dont run out of money every day.
Now its ok for the people who play as a group because the rewards are higher more gold but if you dont play this game for 10 hours a day and you dont play as part of a group its not easy to maintain everything at the highest level.
All this being said I love this league and hope it goes core as running your own town and sending out ships is a good adition to this game.

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Spurilious wrote:

Now to my suggestion, what would be nice is everytime I log off that all the costs pause untill I log back on again or maybe a self pause button where all operations stop so you dont run out of money every day.

Idle worker's don't cost money, the only thing that runs 24/7 is farming. All you have to do is unassign the workers from the farm and they will stop costing money.


You can also use lower level workers than the max available if your map strategy doesnt support your current gold cost.

Tips to increase your gold income:

Run more maps. Even only bringing in 10k a map, you can collect a days worth of gold in an hour or 2.

Map modifiers. Chisel and roll your maps, take map modifier atlas points. This will make your maps harder but more rewardig.

Add in more monsters to your maps. Use scarabs and atlas passives to create more monsters = more gold drops.

Item Rarity. Having IIR on your gear or in the map from shrines/scarabs = lots more gold.

Thanks for the advice, never thought about the item rarity will give that a try.

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Spurilious wrote:

Thanks for the advice, never thought about the item rarity will give that a try.

No problem, and rarity affecting gold drops is very much not intuitive. The reason it works is because they added new loot modifiers to the hidden modifiers on monsters when they added gold. Monsters can spawn with modifiers that convert drops to gold. So more rare drops = more conversion to gold on those monsters.

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Gold

Reviewing that wiki link reminded me of another tip for you. Only gold you put in the treasury will be spent by your workers. If you want to save gold for the currency exchange/recombinator, just dont put it in the treasury. Then you can let your workers run you dry at night without it affecting you next time you play.

There is no negative to them running your treasury down to 0, other than that they stop working, so letting it go to 0 is the same as hitting pause.