Thank you BB for a really good Christmas event

[unicornlinzy1]

Hi, it is not often BB get any praise for anything, but you deserve it for the Christmas Event.

I have really enjoyed it and got everything I wanted from the merchant with a few presents to spare, so a big thank you from me for all my freebies :)

[MikeLido]

Disappointing rewards, I felt. A slightly higher population from the Frozen Manor and an iron mine you have to pay to refill or it's a 12 hour flash in the pan.

I found it easy to get presents, more so than in previous events, but then hit the maximum number of Deerstalkers and Recycling Doodahs quite early. I bought lots of grout I'll never use.

Good to get the rarity provision house, I guess. The 24 hr Aunt Irma and the Employee of the month buffs are nice and help a bit. Most of the rest are an ill-thought through bunch of nonsense (you need FIVE bronze cauldrons to make one buff to get 20% time of the bookbinders for 12 hours! Wow, I'm really going to make that EVERY day!) that will hardly help a soul, surely (I guess the PvP buffs are okay bit I don't really have intention of doing it.).

Underwhelmed.

(Oh, and the buffing "adventures" were the same 3, twice each! That was poor I thought. Unless it was a bug. In which case it's still poor)

[Thejollyone]

I can't moan about the Xmas event; after all, it was a gift and a pleasant diversion.

Thank you also from me BB :)

[fishybreath]

I agree too, very happy with the Xmas Event. Good job BB

[LordBosse]

I agree, x-mad event was very good as usual, although pressies might have been a bit too abundant (not complaining) :)

[Ozzymandeus]

(you need FIVE bronze cauldrons to make one buff to get 20% time of the bookbinders for 12 hours! Wow, I'm really going to make that EVERY day!)Every day use... no.. not really worth it... using it to make sure a book finishes in plenty of time to start a new one before maintenance/bedtime/whatever.... WIN!

But yes, on the whole, I need to agree with the OP. Christmas is a time to spend with friends and family, not glued to a computer game. So, I must give credit where it is due, for a well constructed event that allowed everyone to fully participate by just logging in regularly... if only for a little while.

[matie2506]

very nice well done BB and Dev's ! :)

[Dorotheus]

Still disappointed by the lack of FM's in the boxes, apart from that a well balanced event.

[LordBosse]

Oh yeah, I forgot, a bit disapointed about not being able to buy RttBN for pressies, but still as usual x-mad event is the best :)

[Nogbad]

Yes, wasn't too happy to be asked to do 5 Epic advs, but luckily explorers more than covered me not doing them.

[Rapidblaze]

yeah thanks for the event

[Bigbelly]

I disagree. This is why.

The balance was all wrong. High level players got loads of presents (because they have loads of explorers) and had nothing to spend it on.
I personally I had purchased both Coal Factories, both Deer Factories and all of the recipes by the end of the first week. (started with 0 presents in the bank)
When you are just 1 week in to the event and you have already got everything out of it that you wanted it kind of ruins the rest of it for you.

What I ended up doing then was spending presents on Grout. I now have over 20k which I will never get enough granite to actually use.
Creating this glut has in effect ruined future events for me as well since I wont be interested in getting any more of it.

All of this could have been avoided had they added in some high level items for players to spend their presents on.
For example a gold tower for 6k presents.

The other thing that annoyed me during the event was seeing that the devs had done some great work that is in effect wasted because of bad implementation.
Here are two examples.
1) I did all of the "adventures" only producing two types of "present" buffs. What was the point in that? Why waste all that time in making a dozen or so buffs if we only have to use two of them.
2) The newly introduced recipes could be a great addition to the game. Obviously someone out there is working hard when they thought these up. Unfortunately the cost to make some of these items is so extreme that they wont ever be created.

Finally, I spent lots of gems on the random box and only got rubbish back. I had assumed this was just bad luck but given previous posts I thought I would add it to the list.

I am not making this post to run down BB. I am making it so that they have some user feedback to fine tune their efforts and make improvements for next time.

Thanks.

[Baggis]

I disagree. This is why.

The balance was all wrong. High level players got loads of presents (because they have loads of explorers) and had nothing to spend it on.
I personally I had purchased both Coal Factories, both Deer Factories and all of the recipes by the end of the first week. (started with 0 presents in the bank)
When you are just 1 week in to the event and you have already got everything out of it that you wanted it kind of ruins the rest of it for you.

What I ended up doing then was spending presents on Grout. I now have over 20k which I will never get enough granite to actually use.
Creating this glut has in effect ruined future events for me as well since I wont be interested in getting any more of it.

All of this could have been avoided had they added in some high level items for players to spend their presents on.
For example a gold tower for 6k presents.

The other thing that annoyed me during the event was seeing that the devs had done some great work that is in effect wasted because of bad implementation.
Here are two examples.
1) I did all of the "adventures" only producing two types of "present" buffs. What was the point in that? Why waste all that time in making a dozen or so buffs if we only have to use two of them.
2) The newly introduced recipes could be a great addition to the game. Obviously someone out there is working hard when they thought these up. Unfortunately the cost to make some of these items is so extreme that they wont ever be created.

Finally, I spent lots of gems on the random box and only got rubbish back. I had assumed this was just bad luck but given previous posts I thought I would add it to the list.

I am not making this post to run down BB. I am making it so that they have some user feedback to fine tune their efforts and make improvements for next time.

Thanks.

+1 to everything said. It was not a bad event otherwise but not much new stuff.

[Astraldimension]

The christmas event was ok,thx devs.

[Bluesavanah]

I disagree. This is why.

The balance was all wrong. High level players got loads of presents (because they have loads of explorers) and had nothing to spend it on.
I personally I had purchased both Coal Factories, both Deer Factories and all of the recipes by the end of the first week. (started with 0 presents in the bank)
When you are just 1 week in to the event and you have already got everything out of it that you wanted it kind of ruins the rest of it for you.

What I ended up doing then was spending presents on Grout. I now have over 20k which I will never get enough granite to actually use.
Creating this glut has in effect ruined future events for me as well since I wont be interested in getting any more of it.

All of this could have been avoided had they added in some high level items for players to spend their presents on.
For example a gold tower for 6k presents.

The other thing that annoyed me during the event was seeing that the devs had done some great work that is in effect wasted because of bad implementation.
Here are two examples.
1) I did all of the "adventures" only producing two types of "present" buffs. What was the point in that? Why waste all that time in making a dozen or so buffs if we only have to use two of them.
2) The newly introduced recipes could be a great addition to the game. Obviously someone out there is working hard when they thought these up. Unfortunately the cost to make some of these items is so extreme that they wont ever be created.

Finally, I spent lots of gems on the random box and only got rubbish back. I had assumed this was just bad luck but given previous posts I thought I would add it to the list.

I am not making this post to run down BB. I am making it so that they have some user feedback to fine tune their efforts and make improvements for next time.

Thanks.

Pretty much sums up event, it was ok but rather dull, think the biggest mistake was removing RtBN and MSE that were in last year, established players would of had plenty to buy. It's nice newer players should of got most if not all the stuff from merchant given prices dropped so low. Developers might have to think long and hard about next year because if over half the Christmas content is already owned (RPH and recipes) that event is going to be dire.

[hades8840]

pretty much as others have said without even trying that hard i managed to get everything within days and then the thousands of present gained for the other 3 1/2 weeks went into the only thing i could buy grout now sitting with 150k or so grout not exactly rare now is it

[pauantbro]

curious why high lvl players..never used the pressies to trade....unless they have all that they need already
nice event....but more thought should have been given to the high level players :-)

[Dorotheus]

High level players were trading presents, admittedly most trades were for high level items.

[evilgreenie]

Finally, I spent lots of gems on the random box and only got rubbish back.
You must have been unlucky. I got several improved storehouses & a silo straight off. Sold a storehouse for cash when meant I could use presents (which I'd normally sell) for a rarity provision house, recycling & deerstalker. Then I got a christmas tree which is when I figured it was time to stop gambling..

[Sharpielein]

High level players were trading presents, admittedly most trades were for high level items.

I gave 1200 presents away, simply because I could. I guess that's called "Christmas Spirit".
Other than that, yea, I would there had been more to do with presents. :)

[Sharpielein]

You must have been unlucky. I got several improved storehouses & a silo straight off. Sold a storehouse for cash when meant I could use presents (which I'd normally sell) for a rarity provision house, recycling & deerstalker. Then I got a christmas tree which is when I figured it was time to stop gambling..

Luck is relative.
On Test, I opened around 200 Boxes and figured very quickly there was nothing in them that would justify me spending gems on them.

[Dragon-Lord79]

i hated it way to easy and not much good stuff to buy mse and rbn adv should have been left in for presents week 1 had the 2 recyclers 2 deerstalker huts and all blueprints and load of grout then was bored for the last 3 weeks it needed more good stuff that was unlimited and at good price like last year when we had mse and rbn adv for presents it gave me something i wanted to keep getting

[Sharpielein]

Xmas event was a major drain on my economy.
I bought 10 Improved Silos, upgraded them (along with 30+ farms, 16 Mills and 8 Bakeries plus a handful of masons na my existing Imp Silos) to level 6. I'm still down 50k Granite since pre-event: Chances are that i'll have recuperated by Easter.

The grout quantity was great to remove tons of granite from high level players in a positive fashion.