This is just based on one thing at the moment (I haven't completed the quest line and I don't want to spoil the plot parts for myself, but I have skimmed through some of the later objectives to see what else needs to be done).

I REALLY dislike the "visit _ dens" quests. For those not doing the quest or who haven't hit them yet, you need to visit a den + click a button on the page. Each den can only be visited once.

For this event, there are 3 (I believe; at least 3) den visiting quests, one for 250, and 2 for 500. 1250 dens to visit, 2450 buttons to click.

Quest info: https://www.lioden.com/topic.php?id=304429366760

I understand this quest is meant to be hard and long. I'm all for that! That being said, I don't think this kind of tedium makes for a good quest. It's the equivalent to video games making their bosses "harder" by just adding HP. The patterns are the same, and the boss loses its interest when you're doing the same thing forever.

Visiting dens is not part of normal play. You do it to check out kings or to message people. I probably visit 250 dens in 2 months, if not longer. I can't imagine how long visiting 1250 dens would take. Having such tedious tasks just demotivates people from wanting to complete quests. Hard is fine, but clicking two buttons isn't hard. It just takes FOREVER.

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So here's some suggestions for how to change it - perhaps not for this quest since some people have gone through it already, but for future ones.

> Instead of having to click a button in each den, visiting it is enough. The additional wait for each page to load is painful, and if you go too fast the button doesn't work.

> Have the buttons on pride members and kings instead of dens. Instead of going to a den page, you'd get to page through people's pride and maybe find some pretty lions! More engaging and still plot accurate. The button could go next to the "mood boost" button for lions that share clans.

> Have the button show up in explore on lion encounters. Battleable lions and NCL encounters could have a "warn" or whatever button. This would bring the quest into the game's world vs separating it from any kind of normal play.

> Lower the count. Slow paced questing is fine. It took me weeks to kill 50 animals because I wasn't rushing. The explore steps take a while because I've been busy. But those are things I know I can get done. This is such a sidetracked quest, totally separate from the rest of the game. It doesn't use explore, it doesn't use our items, and it doesn't encourage engagement with the site. You may see some nice kings or CSS, but with such a crazy number and the tedium of finding that many unique users, you're going to be clicking through fast instead of looking.
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I love the concept of this quest, and was really enjoying it until now. This is such a silly way to increase quest time. My suggestions wouldn't be the only way to work on this, so I'd love to hear other opinions.

If you disagree please say why - and dont just say "its supposed to be hard". I think I've made it clear enough why I don't think this qualifies as hard so much as tedious, and I agree that it should be hard.