Yes, I have read the guides. They all say "adventures take two days!" (
https://forums.storm8.com/showthread...=1#post1354647) In the "discussion topic" (
https://forums.storm8.com/showthread.php?59438) people in 2013 had the same questions I have. Taking two days does not sound like an advantage, for an activity to take twice as long, so I must be missing the nuance.
Right now I have only the castle. If I send 1 adventure out with 1 feast and supplies for 1 day, I get a reward every day.
Does the two days give you a bigger reward? Do you need twice the supplies? (I think someone said they needed *four* feasts, presumably 2 for barracks and 2 for castle?) Is it just a convenience so you don't have to launch daily, just every other day? Or are you launching a separate adventure at each building, the castle and barracks, so you are getting two adventures a day?
Color me confused. I've been slacking on sending adventures at all. I was regularly doing the ones at my level, with no source of supplies and lackluster rewards:
*Explore Vaults - Simple Feast. Easy to make.
*Hunt Bandits - Hearty Feast plus 5 Longswords (when I had no iron supply)
*Explore Caves - Spicy Feast (when I had no rat tail supply to make Ivy sauce, lol)
Even if I got a "special" item it was useless. Benches, pumpkin hutch, etc. Now I have plenty of supplies to do quests but it feels useless. Meanwhile I've just unlocked Desert Sands, and I need 5 troll essence to make armor for each trip. My trolls don't seem to drop essence much - I get like 2 troll essence a week vs plenty of horns. How can I make 5 sets of armor daily when I'd need 5 troll essences? Is there an insidious plot that I'm offered a new adventure when I have no source for supplies, lol?
So my questions:
1. what is the specific advantage of barracks
2. do people get more troll essence
3. should I keep banging away at the baby quests (simple feast, hearty feast plus 5 longswords, spicy feast) while I wait weeks for 5 troll essence?
Thanks for advice.