The Distance - Yay or Nay

RoadRash · November 2017

I was like many folks excited when the distance came out.

But after seeing the rewards for normal mode and the difficulty for hard mode, I'm thinking it's better just to do raids and get crates or work on the

challenge as it seems like a waste of gas at this point.

Has anyone else gone from excited about this feature to feeling like I am at this point?

jimmorrison369 · November 2017

They should remove gas cost from the distance. It is ridiculous, the distance is one long "distance", no car needed. Cal to life "energy" only for the distance.

I'd like the distance if it doesn't interfere with my challenge gas. Especially now they ruined the advantage of challlenge passes by starting way to soon in the challenge.

JayZ · November 2017

Yay on Tuesday.

Nay on Saturday (I stop much earlier than I am capable of and don't replay hard levels multiple times) unless I have a gas booster.

ADPaq · November 2017

I do however many missions it takes to get to the 3 star badge fragments then quit and even then I'm barely interested in it.

Governator · November 2017

I’m only interested in the Legendary Gear in Hard mode. I may push for the second set of Aaron tokens, but not too much if I’m still going for Challenge Stars.

Jaden · November 2017

I play hard mode on Tuesdays but can barely make it to the first 10 Aaron tokens - and hate it. Will probably stop doing it after getting the final 10 tokens this week.

After the Wrestler nerf and with the damage to high-level walkers not carrying over, I can hardly be bothered. I would rather raid (and I don't like raiding much) to get the TG to buy the legendary gear.

Normal mode is fine. I still need XP and tomatoes and with the ridiculous costs for scavenging (6 gas, come on!) I am more inclined to play The Distance in normal mode.

But it interferes with my challenge play on Saturdays so it's meh at best on Saturday.

Would like it better if we had a Distance on Monday and Tuesday with one free reset (so we have 2 like now) and 2 paid resets.

Monday is not very busy for me with, season missions only take long because of the timer, and I am sick of scavenging.

Sunday and Monday would also be okay since on Sunday my challenge play comes to a halt when waiting for folks to heal.

Governator · November 2017

Yeah, it really comes down to where we want to spend our limited gas. If you need tomatoes, Normal mode is best with Glenn in the lead for farming. If you need gear or hard-to-get tokens, Hard mode is better. But when it comes to gear, OP raiding is still the best value for TG Shop Tuesday.

If NG wants us to play The Distance more (and end up spending more gold for healing), then we need more gas. I hope they eventually give us a permanent option for trading supplies for gas in the TG Shop.

And if I’m going to buy a tank of gas with gold, I’m just doing OP raiding.

JayZ · November 2017

Jaden said:
Sunday and Monday would also be okay since on Sunday my challenge play comes to a halt when waiting for folks to heal.

Agree 100%. My preference would be Sunday and Tuesday, but I suspect they can better monetize Saturday because it forces people to buy gas boosters if they want to do both Distance and Challenge, so it probably wouldn't change.

Jaden · November 2017

People not inclined to buy boosters will probably not do so because there's Distance clashing with challenges - that's my guess at least. They will decide on what to do with their Saturday and will play either mode.

And people who spend on the game will likely get a booster anyway, Distance on Saturday or not.

I might be wrong, of course...

TransmuteJun · November 2017

I agree that the gas cost of The Distance (especially if you go all of the way to the end) makes it difficult to play, especially on Saturdays, when you want to play the challenge. OTOH, having The Distance on Saturdays means that the weekend event (such as events with reduced gas refill times) may apply, which is a plus.

A lot of problems would be solved if they reduced the gas cost of The Distance to 1 (instead of 4). People could play The Distance, maybe even play it twice by resetting, and still have the ability to do scavenge missions or pay challenges if they wish.

It would also be nice to be able to preview the rewards in advance, so people could better decide if they want to do normal or hard distance.

I do enjoy playing The Distance, especially the normal version, since it gives extra food and XP (which I have needed since the update). But the gas cost makes it difficult to complete, even more so because there are no crates after the missions, which means no chance of earning gas. The gas cost needs to come down a LOT.

Jenng · November 2017

I literally have like 5 survivors I like to use and only a hard 2 that are “ distance” worthy and even with the separate play modes it still breaks my heart a little to even think of them being injured much less dead........ so The distance doesn’t exist in my camp. I have zero willpower to even try.

Bryan18 · November 2017

Also if there was more of a strategy component to the distance like being able to use melee teams but really it's just hordes and high-level Walker's that are impossible to kill.

StHall · November 2017

I seem to be in the minority, but I really enjoy the distance. I have only played the hard mode. I haven't beaten it since the wrestler nerf, but I got to the last level on Nov 11th. I think the epic fragments are worth it. To me, it's more fun than grinding the same 6 missions from the challenge, or outpost missions over and over.

avelardez · November 2017

Here is my progress from this Saturday’s Distance. When they have walkers in the last mission it’s more beatable. Great source of gear and tokens.

Troublemaker · November 2017

The grind is killing me.

The Distance twice a week plus 50+ rounds of Challenge is more demanding than most jobs I know.

Ok, it’s fun to play, but there has to be a balance. And NG has worked towards that balance then suddenly turned the opposite direction.

RealClareB · November 2017

Stopped playing it. I'm F2P and on a Tuesday I don't have enough gas to get to the end as I like to start saving it up for the challenge on a Wednesday. Don't play Saturday as I again use the gas on the challenge. It might be different if I bought gas boosters, but as it is, the current gas cost to play is too high and so isn't worth it.

MadPuppy · November 2017

Before I only really played Challenges (scavenge on the rare occation I had gas to spare).
The distance changed that for me, I like it that much.

So it's a big YAY!

But, as most people above, without booster, I run short on gas.
And most weeks, with or without booster, I run out of time anyhow due to a lack of spare time IRL. But this is mostly due to the huge amount of rounds I can play in challenges now. The distance is tiny by comparison.

When I run out of gas or time, I have to choose.
* On the one hand that's a good thing: it means I can play as much as I like and am able to. Basically limitless play with options to spare. That is VERY rare in mobile gaming. Another big YAY.
* On the other hand that's a shame, since I cannot get to my absolute maximum score in challenges. That's a smaller nay.

TransmuteJun · November 2017

I had no idea yesterday when I wrote my post suggesting that the Distance gas cost go down to 1 that NG would actually do it!!!!!!

Thank you, NG! I am having a blast playing this morning! I already reset and I am about to do it for the second time! @Teeceezy @Shteevie

DLich · November 2017

This is a nice change. On TG tuesday players often farm outposts but can't because they dedicate their gas to the distance. Having it at 1 gas each allows someone to play with 1 full tank (minimum 21 gas needed) and a player can use the rest of the days gas to play other parts of the game.

Great change if even only temporary!!

ADPaq · November 2017

Good job NG. Contrary to my earlier post I'm now pushing further into the distance as a direct result of the reduced gas cost.

RoadRash · November 2017

Yeah I played today only because of the 1 gas.

That brings the rewards to gas ratio inline to what I feel it should be.

Edd8 · November 2017

I didn't reset the distance after 2.8, the 1 gas cost is so tempting though. Nice one NG

MrsScattercushion · November 2017

Cheers NG for the decreased gas cost on the Distance. Normal mode done, will reset for the hard mode.

Mais88 · November 2017

Loved the 1 gas. Nice gesture. Just wished it was on Saturday so I can play both that and the Challenge. But not complaining.

Jaden · November 2017

I had a blast.

Did hard mode once and made it to the second set of Aaron tokens - better than I ever did after the Wrestler nerf.

Did a reset and played normal mode which was fun - easy and good rewards.

If we had the same (or a gas event) on Saturday, I would reset again.

Conan1976 · November 2017

YAY

1. Hard mode if I wanna get frustrated at round 18/21
2. Normal mode if I want a walk in the park

Think NG made some goor balancing changes in the hard modus the last few weeks. Keep up the good work

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