掲示板 Forums - (June 2020) Adventure Mode survey results (so far)

Although it's only been a few days, we've received a great response from you all about the new Adventure mode. I'd like to address what came of it, and what our future plans are.

General results

• A majority of users have had more motivation to study because of their personal Kao-chan!
• About 40% of users also reported an increase in the amount of studying they get done.

We're thrilled that so many of you are enjoying it!

Potential additions to adventure mode

The titles don't appear completely in the graph, but this is the order of the sets.

• More daily challenges
• Way to share your adventure progress outside of renshuu
• Merging the hanko achievements with the adventure mode
• Getting items
• More personalization of the adventure system
• Monsters!!

There was extremely high interest in monsters, and more interest than not in personalization, hanko blending, and more daily challenges.

Requests/comments and responses:

1. I want to reset my Kao-chan

Response: This is now available! Click on your Kao-chan for more information.

2. I want to see a preview of the evolution choices/I want to redo a choice

Response: We are thinking of the best way to implement these two, but they will be available by the end of the next beta. Most likely, to redo a choice, you'll have to put in some extra studying. That's what we're all here for, right?

3. Adventure mode on dark mode is blinding me

Response: We've already adjusted the colors for dark mode. Hope you like it!

4. I get levels too quickly!

Response: please respond here if you feel this way. If the system is working correctly, you should have to do all the challenges and study A LOT more than your daily average in order to get 2 levels a day. It is possibly that there is a bug making the XP go up too quickly. Let me know!

5. I want to personalize my challenges

Response: in case you didn't know, if you go into Motivators under Settings, you can disable categories of challenges.

6. I don't know how to do/get to some of the challenges

Response: we will be adding a way to click through the challenges and get to exactly where you need to be to do it. This will be in the next beta (starting this week).

7. Most actions on mobile renshuu are too high up on the screen, and are hard to reach

Response: we'll definitely work on this in the next beta!

Feel free to add any other comments or comment on the above information!

I think I was one of the people who "complained" that Kao-chan evolves too quickly. The problem is not that I get 2 Levels easily, so I suppose the system works properly. My point is, that I easily get another level each day for just doing what I do on a daily basis anyway. That being said, there isn't much of a challenge.
I love Kao-chan, but would like for her to evolve somewhat slower. Other users may struggle with their progress, so I thought maybe of easy vs hard challange mode that is adjustable in the settings.

Adventure mode does prompt me to do other stuff on the site, such as games etc. But there are still some challenges that I practically never do, e.g. writing comments. As a personalised feature I'd like to skip and replace such a challenge.
On the other hand I have challenges that I do like, such as drag-and-drops. My kanji schedules are too small to trigger such questions often and I mostly get no more that 2 such questions. That being said I can practically never finish that challenge. So as another personalised feature I'd like to carry that challenge over when I already have some points on it, so I can finish it by and by.

Another thing I noticed is that I get similar challenges at the same time, e.g. "add 3 words to shiritori" and "add 6 words to kana shiritori" or "play 1 game". There I can finish two challenges in one go. That seems too easy for me. Others may like that, though.

Same for me. I think the evolution is a bit too fast. Maybe the levels could be adjusted so that the higher the level the more difficult it gets (more exp needed). Also: I just thought about something else: Why not use the coins as well as currency for buying cool features like this: "Spend 3 rare coins" to get double exp (and a fancy kao hat) for one day". Or something like that. That way the coins actually have another use and you won't just have all of them all the time and forever. ;)