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Well Disappoint, I have to admit that I like the way you explained your ideas and that you have a point. But I do have something to add here and there and maybe it helps.
You said you are a dueler, well so am I. Until I reached level 99 I dueled for experience mostly (with only few occasions, like a war between my town and another, when I hit anybody I could hit). My average exp per duel is still over 100, even though after level 99 I didn't care about the exp factor in duels anymore, meaning "If I can hit, then I hit, no matter if he gives me 400 or 5". This is good for me, because I now duel more and am working for my medals.
I didn't play for 2 years yet (since october 2008) and reached level 99 a while ago (before the daily log in bonus was introduced), which means I did care a lot about exp. But since I don't get any exp anymore, I changed my way a bit. I can waste energy and time working for fort products, I can sped time traveling around the map for duel targets and so on. And since you mentioned riding a donkey for the medal, well, you don't have to. Let's say you need to get to a certain town to duel or to a fort battle or a quest giver further away. You schedule the walk with best horse and outfit, then you just change the horse with the donkey. The walk will be fast and the distance will count for the medal (since you will have the donkey on when you reach the destination - walking medals take in consideration what you have on at destination, not when you schedule).
You talked about quests saying "there is nothing to gain". What about quests that offer AP and SP? This is something to gain, or unique items like secret weapons and holiday set items. As for quests with exp reward only and no time limit, well, you can just do them after the cap is removed. As easy as that.
About daily log in, yes you will not get the bonus, but does that mean you can't log in and work to get items? A high level dueler can do high luck jobs. I still have to get more items from the sleepyhead set and that darn choker for the dancer's set, so this encourages me to work.
As for the on topic part, fort stores, well the devs did think at first what they could sell, guns. But forts came out and the stores were not ready yet to be put in the game. They tried the stores on beta and they took them out, obviously because they needed to work on them more. So they had no choice but to put the guns in stores and now they need to figure out what fort stores will sell.
Hope this helps you find some more meaning in what you can still do at level 99. I talk from my own experience, is not all that bad.
You said you are a dueler, well so am I. Until I reached level 99 I dueled for experience mostly (with only few occasions, like a war between my town and another, when I hit anybody I could hit). My average exp per duel is still over 100, even though after level 99 I didn't care about the exp factor in duels anymore, meaning "If I can hit, then I hit, no matter if he gives me 400 or 5". This is good for me, because I now duel more and am working for my medals.
I didn't play for 2 years yet (since october 2008) and reached level 99 a while ago (before the daily log in bonus was introduced), which means I did care a lot about exp. But since I don't get any exp anymore, I changed my way a bit. I can waste energy and time working for fort products, I can sped time traveling around the map for duel targets and so on. And since you mentioned riding a donkey for the medal, well, you don't have to. Let's say you need to get to a certain town to duel or to a fort battle or a quest giver further away. You schedule the walk with best horse and outfit, then you just change the horse with the donkey. The walk will be fast and the distance will count for the medal (since you will have the donkey on when you reach the destination - walking medals take in consideration what you have on at destination, not when you schedule).
You talked about quests saying "there is nothing to gain". What about quests that offer AP and SP? This is something to gain, or unique items like secret weapons and holiday set items. As for quests with exp reward only and no time limit, well, you can just do them after the cap is removed. As easy as that.
About daily log in, yes you will not get the bonus, but does that mean you can't log in and work to get items? A high level dueler can do high luck jobs. I still have to get more items from the sleepyhead set and that darn choker for the dancer's set, so this encourages me to work.
As for the on topic part, fort stores, well the devs did think at first what they could sell, guns. But forts came out and the stores were not ready yet to be put in the game. They tried the stores on beta and they took them out, obviously because they needed to work on them more. So they had no choice but to put the guns in stores and now they need to figure out what fort stores will sell.
Hope this helps you find some more meaning in what you can still do at level 99. I talk from my own experience, is not all that bad.