Hi FMV! I have a suggestion I've been thinking about for a while: I think the energy cap should be raised from 50 to maybe 100.

Here's my thinking: energy is definitely one of the hardest required resources to get. That's not a bad thing, of course! There's gotta be SOME challenge. But it accumulates very slowly (one every 3 minutes, as opposed to the crates 5 every 5), and with the current cap, it goes from empty to full in 2.5 hours.

For players trying to maximize their energy efficiency, that's a lot of times to log in a day to make use of their energy, and quite frankly, there's probably not a lot of players that do so! I know I just can't, myself, between work and other demands, and of course the game drains my battery pretty quickly on mobile, so I have to be careful how often I log in in the first place when I'm away from desktop.

I imagine the cap is low to try and promote engagement, but I honestly think raising the cap will have the reverse effect. For example: a player is trying to clear their farm, but they're at the point where most of the tree and rock obstacles left require 40-50 energy to clear, and they only have one worker. With a cap of 50, they might log in when their energy is full, put that single worker on a task, and then log right off - because even if they wait for that 40-energy task to complete (which takes 50 minutes), they will only have accumulated 16 energy in that time. On top of the 10 they had left, that's just 26. A few etrades can fill that up, but etrades can be hard on mobile. In a lot of situations, the player will just log on, put their worker on the task, and log off for a few hours.

With a raised cap, players would have motivation to log in more frequently to use energy, and more room to fill it up with trades - and as a player who regularly buys another worker with gems, it would be great to log in and be able to put both of them to work right away on high energy tasks!

I'm curious what others think about this idea!