# A question to Jeto about explore's animation, and gaps possibly getting a resource boost **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 14, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314 "2026-10-14T22:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Setekh79](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/setekh79/32/101761_2.png) [@Setekh79](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Setekh79)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 5:59am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/21 "2026-10-25T05:59:25Z")
I’ve not bothered to play Vault at all this weekend, E1 GaP is nothing like it used to be, too awkward and slow now. Multiple times using a controller the map animations would bug out and I couldn’t progress and had to back all the way out to the world map using my mouse. Just not interested in things that don’t work properly and seem to be actively getting made to work against the player. I’m still going to do the things for my guild and alliance, but recent changes has me thinking that I’m on the way out. ---
**Author:** ![Darkborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkborne/32/95796_2.png) [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/22 "2026-10-25T08:09:02Z")
> [@Poll: How do you feel about the new Explore Animations?](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/poll-how-do-you-feel-about-the-new-explore-animations/89978/26): > > - Just to reiterate > Animations are never added maliciously to slow anyone’s enjoyment > - They ARE added to improve stability and player experience - and they are always kept to a minimum > - Skipping is added wherever we can do so without the risk of more problems So, they think that wasting about 25% of our time and resources is not malicious and does not slow our enjoyment while searching for gnomes and using paloozas? There are now soft-lock problems, which are worse than the cliffy errors we used to get. We were skipping animations because we knew that it would be bad. And from my own experience, I confirmed it for myself. It is bad. Really, **really** bad. And nothing will be done, and they do not care. Fantastic. Yeah. They can keep dreaming. Because they have no idea of the horrible experience they created. They added more stress to the servers with animations when all they had to do was just add more difficulty options to the old version of Explore that had **No** animations. No other game mode besides Explore has animations between battles, so there are hardly any problems. Keep it simple. This is not hard. Whoever thinks that Explore is now an enjoyable experience does not take this game seriously, does not care, or does not understand the gravity of what is being wasted. Maybe they can pause the timer so that it stops in-between battles or something else, but the damage is already done. Vault weekends are completely ruined.🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Seward101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Seward101](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Seward101)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 11:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/23 "2026-10-25T11:12:56Z")
100% agree. Im usually bang on vault weekend but not playing nowhere near as much. They’ve spoiled the best mode with incompetence ---
**Author:** ![Sinnycool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sinnycool](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sinnycool)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/24 "2026-10-25T12:09:35Z")
Even if they paused it it would still be slow obtaining the gaps. Glad i always used mine instead of stacking them up. Never understood that strat ---
**Author:** ![LucianDevine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@LucianDevine](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/LucianDevine)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/25 "2026-10-26T06:32:13Z")
So…I am saying this against my better judgement…but there IS a way to skip the explore animations explore and MASSIVELY speed things up. As far as I know though, it only works on Steam. ~LD ---
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/26 "2026-10-26T13:11:40Z")
> [@LucianDevine](#): > > there IS a way to skip the explore animations explore and MASSIVELY speed things up. If this is the case, it further demonstrates that Sirrian’s ‘reasons’ for the animations are less than valid.. ..and therefore, instead of patching again so animations can no longer be skipped, we can remove them and move on? 🤷🤞🖖 ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/27 "2026-10-26T14:51:54Z")
> [@LucianDevine](#): > > So…I am saying this against my better judgement…but there IS a way to skip the explore animations explore and MASSIVELY speed things up Did you hear that??? … It was the sound of the dev team giving up on all bug fixes and focusing entirely on squashing whatever workaround you’re using to skip their AWFUL, spammy animations and having more fun. How dare you? Why won’t you just let them punish you unfairly and force you to suffer their slop? 🤪 🤣 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/28 "2026-10-26T21:06:28Z")
> [@LucianDevine](#): > > there IS a way to skip the explore animations explore Yeah, the team and I are aware of it. It is also part of the existing investigation into reports of the game soft locking between Explore between battles ---
**Author:** ![LucianDevine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@LucianDevine](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/LucianDevine)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/29 "2026-10-26T21:11:22Z")
I can see how that might be a problem on the mobile/console versions, but I haven’t had a single soft lock on Steam since the first couple of days the patch went live, and once the first skip works, there are no more animations period until you leave the explore screen. You just have to do the one thing once, and you’re good for as long as you want to farm, up to and including an hour long GaP session. ~LD ---
**Author:** ![UdonYakuza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d6d6ee/32.png) [@UdonYakuza](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UdonYakuza)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/30 "2026-10-26T22:47:42Z")
Well, at least you guys have hope. Im on console drowning in misery. Nothing we say, seems to be getting through. ---
**Author:** ![fugan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fugan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/fugan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314/31 "2026-10-27T15:31:57Z")
Change comes from incentive. Stop paying, stop playing, use your steam reviews. I stopped playing when the game speed was 1x and came back when it was 4x. This is sadly the only way we get change. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-question-to-jeto-about-explores-animation-and-gaps-possibly-getting-a-resource-boost/90314.md?page=1)