Ancient Curse Completed, Still Getting First-World Problems

[ScientiaEtRatio]

I have finished the ancient curse quest line and destroyed the portal, so why am I still getting bombarded with first-world related problems (guile, chaos, lure, etc.)?

[CHAO$$$]

At that point in the game there is no reason to continue kingdom building. You can pretty much just go west and move on.

Lore-wise theres more than 1 portal anyway.

[ScientiaEtRatio]

So how are people supposed to get these 0% achievements like capture all regions, level up an advisor role to rank 10 or maximize all kingdom stats? At what point in the game are you given the free time between constant problems and main quest timers (like being harrassed by barbarian problems) to accomplish any of these if not after the ancient curse?

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by ScientiaEtRatio:

So how are people supposed to get these 0% achievements like capture all regions, level up an advisor role to rank 10 or maximize all kingdom stats? At what point in the game are you given the free time between constant problems and main quest timers (like being harrassed by barbarian problems) to accomplish any of these if not after the ancient curse?

the capture all regions achievement doesnt require the last 2 regions in the west. As soon as you get pitax you should be able to acquire everything. (got the achievement that way)

All advisors rankX is easy. Theres plenty of time unless you play on high difficulty and have to use long rests to clear stat penalties one point at a time (difficulty option to clear them all at once in 1 rest)
Pretty much just dont overuse resting all the time and its really easy.

Strat: always prioritize advisor upgrades, never regions. Spend BP on tier 1 towns (no upgrades) to speed up stat progression so you can constantly upgrade advisors or unlock regions.
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[Talamarie]

Originally posted by ScientiaEtRatio:

I have finished the ancient curse quest line and destroyed the portal, so why am I still getting bombarded with first-world related problems (guile, chaos, lure, etc.)?

If that curse is the thing that Tristian told you about when you just received your kingdom, did you sent someone to the kingdom event released with the warning that the time has come to go the location and investigate ?

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by Talamarie:

Originally posted by ScientiaEtRatio:

I have finished the ancient curse quest line and destroyed the portal, so why am I still getting bombarded with first-world related problems (guile, chaos, lure, etc.)?

If that curse is the thing that Tristian told you about when you just received your kingdom, did you sent someone to the kingdom event released with the warning that the time has come to go the location and investigate ?

guile curse and chaos are last chapter events.

[ScientiaEtRatio]

Indeed, they are last chapter events. Every chapter up until now you are constantly bombarded with problem events leaving little time to accomplish any upgrades--you can get 1 a month at best before getting everything thrown at you, hopefully giving you time near the end of the month to clean them up.

Capturing a region and leveling up advisors locks you up for 14 days each. There are 10 advisors with 10 ranks each, just maxing out all advisors would take 1400 days of being locked out of gameplay. Let's not forget the absurdely long curse investigations, basically none of which I have had the time to assign advisors to.

[OnlyOffensive]

do those curse investigations actually do anything? Considering they've just added missing ones.

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by OnlyOffensive:

do those curse investigations actually do anything? Considering they've just added missing ones.

The storyteller mentioned something about "blah we researched enough curses for me to help do things" in the last chapter. But i couldnt really tell what effect it actually had. I think you might require the briar research to unlock one of the special paths with nyrissa as well. Didnt try helping her tho, was kinda pissed off by all her bs at that point.

So pretty unclear what it actually does.

The time isnt all that limited tho and you can afford tanking one or the other event along the way and lategame you can use the rank X ones to push arcane and divine stats if you need them (due to the lack of bonus points from clearing events)

[OnlyOffensive]

well all points that they should do something, considering their lenght and resources required and how many of them avaible. Also devs added more of them, meaning they supposed to do something.

Although devs also fixed level 15 feat for acrane sorc last fix, but that class simply dont work from level 1. So adding more meaningless curse researches or the whole idea still not working wouldnt be beyond them

[Morgian]

Given the ancient curse timers it is pretty much impossible to get all ranks to level 10, since those 1400 days are not all you need to be locked down. And finally, the negative events can (should I say "will"?) ruin your kingdom stats, making it impossible to rank up again for a while, if at all (my spy stat dropped once below 20 and never got above it again).

[ScientiaEtRatio]

They need to remove the lockout in ranking up advisors, it is makes no sense and is just a massive, frustrating, waste of player's time.

[Knightly Knave]

This is very frustrating. You get espionage minister so late that even with the upgrade that changes your upgrades to 7 instead of 14 calendar days you'll never get the chance to get them up to rank 10.
They should have left the kingdom upgrade quests still achievable after you finish the game. Same with the Magical Prison quest. There's no time to go around the entire map killing all the enemies with them giving you constant penalties to all stats. What a disappointing way to end the game.