# Why Explore is So Boring and How to Fix It **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback\ **Created:** [December 4, 2019, 4:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/why-explore-is-so-boring-and-how-to-fix-it/59758 "2019-12-04T04:04:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![Mana\_Surgeon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mana_surgeon/32/55678_2.png) [@Mana\_Surgeon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mana_Surgeon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/why-explore-is-so-boring-and-how-to-fix-it/59758/18 "2019-12-04T23:06:27Z")
I have to disagree with some things here… As a mid-gamer, I think the new explore is a significant improvement. I hated the randomness and mindlessness of the old explore with a passion, and appreciate the sense of progression, and the guaranteed arcane reward. I do think the new explore has problems due to it being yoked with the new token/elite level system, and that most people (rightfully) are disappointed with the implementation of this new time/resource sink. To improve explore, I agree with: - shortening the cycle; 4 battles before getting to the good stuff is just excess content padding, it should really be half as long before getting to a mini-boss. It’s also dumb to see the computer pick essentially the same troops in each explore round, make them choose different teams. - give more ways of receiving tokens (enter epic tasks): it was expressed that while it wouldn’t be reasonable for players to expect to epic level their entire collection, upgrading your favorite and most-used troops was supposed to be a reasonable goal. That’s laughable, under current conditions. Most players’ favorite troops are of legendary rarity or higher, and it could be months before they get a single medal of Anu (forget about Nysha), let alone six. If this is an attempt to encourage gambling with lower-rarity medals, it’s a failure - the soul costs are too high. - increasing gnome rate to compensate for players playing less games disagree with: - muddying the system with any further upgrade tiers: three tiers is too convoluted as it is, they should have just released it with badges and medals, and made the cost for medals higher - forcing players to choose between rewards: this would require non-endgamers to increase their explore-grinding time, as they will want both arcanes and tokens (unless you double the rewards for each path, in which case, sure that works). --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/why-explore-is-so-boring-and-how-to-fix-it/59758)._