qaccy
Well-Known Member
This is the 2nd time Inno has made various changes to vikings, all of which are questline/building related. Sort of feels as if they put it live a bit sooner than they would've preferred, before spending enough time considering overall belance within the feature. Needing to ensure Settlements feature in general remained on required timeframe, perhaps.
Naw, there's also two buffs to the rewards from it as well in this batch of changes. This indicates to me that more than rushing it out, these changes make it look pretty likely that not as many players are participating in settlements as Inno would have liked/hoped. Though the changes to the final quest and shorter build times do also lead to a somewhat more 'logical' experience that consists of actually using the buildings you have rather than just building a bunch of stuff at the last minute. It does add at least 5-9 hours to the completion of a settlement, though!