Use of buying more time on charms
EaglesW
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In the SOS training it's possible to spend books on buying longer lasting time for inn and greenhouse charms. (And it is quite expensive I must say.)
But what is the use of that?!? The charms already last for so long, that you have more than enough time to collect the raised amount of resources inside the inn/greenhouse and to go outside to collect the extra dropped resources as well. (During the remaining time I see no more resources being dropped; it's all at once.)
Then there is even time left to enter the inn/greenhouse again, but that is of no use since the time elapsed is too short to use the inn/greenhouse again. It looks as if you can use it again, but trying it always results in a failure.
Or, is the extra time you buy in the training so much that the charm lasts so long to be able to use the inn/greenhouse again? I would like to know this beforehand, to prevent disappointment after spending so.many books.
Greetz,
Walter.
Comments
Yes, you can get the charms to last longer than 5 minutes, probably not to 10 minutes, but yes, you get to the point that you can "spin" the inn/greenhouse twice. Not sure why you want that though, unless you play in an area that has very few Inns/greenhouses because otherwise you can get more out of just spending the 5 minutes to walk to the next POI.
This might make sense if stuff would continously spawn during the duration, alas I have not observed that happening. So, yes, these charm improvements continue the S.O.S. tree theme of offering a mostly pointless upgrade for a lot of resources.
Also, players reported that the game would give you an error message when you try to spin again and you need to restart the game....
Personally, I decided that I'm done with the S.O.S. tree at a score of 46464 because there is nothing left that I would consider worth the books and most of the nodes left would be charm improvements (I have 11/16, 10/16 , 11/16 charm improvements).
Thanks for this confirmation. It seems I did not overlook anything as I was 'afraid' of that.
I have the same feeling about some items being a bit pointless to buy.
And I won't step into the same pitfall as last time, before the SOS training existed: in the professions I had bought all things of the Professor and after long time earning books that I couldn't spend, I spent it all on Auror and Magizoologist. When the SOS trainings were introduced I could better have saved it all and spend it there. So I won't buy anything pointless anymore!
@EaglesW I did exactly the same with my books and a few weeks later adversaries appeared and I had to grind fortresses. But I filled the entire SOS tree, anyway, to get rid of the red dot. For me, the extended greenhouse duration is useful. There is one greenhouse that is about 6 minutes round trip from another one that I visit, and if I cast the greenhouse charm (it lasts about 7 minutes maxed out) on the first one, I can get another 6 snowdrop ( if that’s what drops) on the way back.