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BB_Trafffer
03.09.21, 11:52
Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the Anniversary Event 2021.
The original post can be found here (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/38553).
Happy commenting!
BB_Trafffer
level 16/26 ?
you can't go on missions if you're under level 26?
also, it seems that event merchant is not offering any adventures or even ventures to be bought for normal in-game resources.
for a lot of months now.
any chance i might be wrong ? do we have any available during this event?
it might help a lot of new starters and old fa rts too :)
LOl oh boy I live for events specially when the loot etc is x2/x3 and I hammer the adv out 10-20 a day but you have got to be joking you didnt listen to one bit of feedback.. its hard enough getting dough anyway but the player base is even smaller now I dont care what your numbers tell you playing the game shows the true picture... and then on top of all that and I am laughing you want us to use gems ... I used to buy a lot of gems more then i should could not resist a bundle but not this year if it was back to how it was, i would be making my shopping list now to what i would be buying
what is the point of the event if loads of us cannot play the game properly. I still have difficulty loading up gens, takes umpteen clicks to get them and explorers to do what I want, takes ages for my isle to load up the buildings, still cannot see who else is online, and the list goes on, so thank you for your thoughts of congratulating us "oldies " for sticking with you, but sadly I am fed up with BB not listening to folks and fixing what is the important parts of the game
DorotheusII
03.09.21, 15:24
Disgusted
REMINDER: During the 11th Anniversary of "The Settlers Online" a seasonal Event Bonus with 2x XP and 3x loot will be active.
Cake dough and Candles are also obtainable within Ventures!
Does this mean that there will be 2x XP , 3x LOOT and Cake dough/Candles only on Ventures, or on all kind of adventures ???
LOl oh boy I live for events specially when the loot etc is x2/x3 and I hammer the adv out 10-20 a day but you have got to be joking you didnt listen to one bit of feedback.. its hard enough getting dough anyway but the player base is even smaller now I dont care what your numbers tell you playing the game shows the true picture... and then on top of all that and I am laughing you want us to use gems ... I used to buy a lot of gems more then i should could not resist a bundle but not this year if it was back to how it was, i would be making my shopping list now to what i would be buying
I am like you, live for events with x2 an x3, and gem packages but wont be trying so hard this time as adventures are hard enough as it is.
some BIG problems with this event:
getting enough dough
is there gonna be enough level 57 and lower players around
is there gonna be enough player around to hit the community target which has been halved this year so you already know player based has dropped alot
will people be bothered to do much this event
only 2 weeks to do the x10 rounds of celebration with explorers going on long journeys, players with fewer explorers wont have a chance to do that.
Then there is the usual generals swapping in adv, the zone refreshed issue and , well, the bugs list is massive.
How can you go with new event, when so much is still not working properly.
You state you are proud of how many of us is still hanging on, but we are only hanging on with our nails if at all...
Description: Gaze in astonishment on the content of this time-limited package:
The only gazing i did, was the sheer amount of gem items in this event and the incredible lack of info on non gem rewards.
If you really expect people to fork over that much cash for this shit-show called unity, then you truely have lost your marbles
General_hux
03.09.21, 18:38
Lets all be honest, does anyone really think that the event is going to work? I for one full expect that as soon as we start doing adventures the double XP will actually reduce the cumulative tally and we will end up at a lower game level after the event. Also there is probably an error message in there that will pop up stating that all balloons have burst (with no one actually knowing that it is there). Nothing will surprise me nowadays. Due to the foul ups made of this whole thing, please ensure that the owners know that I will not be purchasing gems, the cost of my lost custom and the responsibility therefore rests solely with the devs and management who failed to make the unity transfer happen correctly.
I have fired people for less and would expect to be fired for less.
SirAndrew80
03.09.21, 18:44
BB_Trafffer I think this event is just one big joke. But it's not 1st April! On my very powerful Mac it takes 10 minutes to load some buildings. There is such lag and it seems it's Unity / whatever you use. I thought it's my Mac , fine ,but it turns our ppl with Windows have issues too.
Can you tell us what BB developers / QA use and how it's possible it works fast for them ? Maybe there is some config change needed to play it normally ;)
Cheetah2_777
03.09.21, 19:10
I Cant login: I can't complete opening all doors and send out explorers.
Event failed. Sorry, I tried.
Al_The_Mighty
03.09.21, 20:22
So, 28 years of The Settlers (Amiga), 27 years of The Settlers (PC), 11 Years of "The Settlers Online", 1 year of a clunky client, and 1 month of the complete disaster that is Unity! Could have been so much better had you actually bothered to fix the problems that were reported on the Test server - all that testing by your customers was a complete waste of time, as you just ignored the feedback.
I think I'm just going to do what I've been doing for the last month - and that is leaving my island mostly sleeping, and very slowly (because that is the only way to do it!) sending out exp's and geo's. No adv's, no trade, and now no event play for me as Guilds are now nearly extinct!
I could not believe my eyes when I read this in DD: :)
It's been wonderful 27 years on PC, a long, meaningful and nice journey which we'd like to celebrate with a special.
Till the last moment I thought that BB is gonna scrap the celebration. :) :)
Now we all have to use Flash Client workaround ........... lol
My goodness .............. this is sooooooooo surreal .............
The only gazing i did, was the sheer amount of gem items in this event and the incredible lack of info on non gem rewards.
If you really expect people to fork over that much cash for this shit-show called unity, then you truely have lost your marbles
That was what I thought as I read how we can acquire most of rewards in this event. Doubt we'll get to community totals. Only a handful of our guild is even back after the month long log in failure. Just doesn't sit right.
Well things for me have improved a little this week on unity ... But only enough to do routine island maintenance. Going off island ... don't be silly!
Will it have improved by Monday for the `non event' ? No, it will be worse as all of us that are left strain the servers even more to at least try to get some game out of it. Even in this state there will be players wanting those new shiny items on offer, and as there will be little chance of getting them through game play ( on unity ) what option are they left with? Yep paying for them. BB know this and whilst it may seem morally wrong to most of us, morals have little place in business any more and BB is a business, and as we have seen a pretty incompetent one at that, so taking a moral stance is not in the option sheet.
I for one will try to do the event from my island, I do not know how far I'll get ( Till complete a mission Lol) with quests etc, But here's the thing, I often poor scorn on the donation figures that BB produce, and think the amounts are pre-made to fit the timetable. I noted that the second figure is not announced ( as it has had to be changed down on previous events to reflect some reality) so no surprise there. Whilst I will make balloons as per quest line and donate those required to proceed. I will not be donating any to the server in protest to the state of the game. I will not be `paying to play' and will not be using the work around client, it's just my way of telling BB what the state of play is with their game, and not to give them any way of saying ` We fixed it' from any extrapolated event figures. ;)
What is the celebration about?
The dying process of this game isnt something people should celebrate.
lordloocan
04.09.21, 11:55
Well, they asked for feedback and got plenty and then ignored it, why am I not surprised
Maybe I would have cared about the anniversary if I could enjoy playing the game. As it is now the game is unplayable for me.
Cheetah2_777
04.09.21, 14:25
I logged in today after quite a few attempts. Not having this patience (time for this) all the time.
Gotta go, real life is calling.
xx
OK so, event:
Start: 06. September 2021 - 10:00 CEST
Removal: 20. September 2021 - 10:00 CEST
That is 14 day's.
14 days times 60 minutes, times 24 hours per day is 20160 minutes of event time
61 minutes to produce 8 balloons from water is 2640 balloons made from resources.
20160 Minutes divided by 61 (minutes to produce 8 balloons from 26.800 water for 8 balloons so 3350 water per balloon.)
As above, I can make 2640 balloons, it would cost me 8.844.000 water. It is no problem for me.
2640 balloons.
It is the best I can do. If I can login.
Community goal is how many balloons?
I have fired people for less and would expect to be fired for less.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/506/7c6.jpg
Salute!
usless to put new event in when game is not working properly but guess thats just another excuse to drop game off after less playing
The first donation goal is set at 200,000,000 Balloons!
So... roughly 200,000,000/2500 = 80k fulltime participants in event :P
Why you always ask to put some feedback BB, if you dont do anything with it :confused:
sk_setttler
04.09.21, 20:50
Why you always ask to put some feedback BB, if you dont do anything with it :confused:
Force of habbit I guess :)
To ask & to ignore.
DorotheusII
04.09.21, 22:56
OK so, event:
Start: 06. September 2021 - 10:00 CEST
Removal: 20. September 2021 - 10:00 CEST
That is 14 day's.
14 days times 60 minutes, times 24 hours per day is 20160 minutes of event time
61 minutes to produce 8 balloons from water is 2640 balloons made from resources.
20160 Minutes divided by 61 (minutes to produce 8 balloons from 26.800 water for 8 balloons so 3350 water per balloon.)
As above, I can make 2640 balloons, it would cost me 8.844.000 water. It is no problem for me.
2640 balloons.
It is the best I can do. If I can login.
Community goal is how many balloons?
Festival hall has 3 production lines so triple your estimates.
To achieve your personal goals you need a 12 balloon producing resource. If buffed with small cakes a 10 balloon resource. the 8 balloon resource's has to be buffed with big cakes.
DorotheusII
04.09.21, 23:01
So... roughly 200,000,000/2500 = 80k fulltime participants in event :P
We have a week for the 200m target which is enough time for each player to produce between 11k-12.5k balloons each. You do not have to be in game full time. You just need to start balloon production at the start of the week and only need to donate before the end of that 1st week.
...I have fired people for less and would expect to be fired for less.
Perhaps you have identified what our problem is!? Everyone that's been involved has been fired, and it is currently the part time janitor that is doing the "patches" and "testing" in between emptying the bins and cleaning the toilets?
Even though they are trying their best, they are obviously rattled in their usual routine and getting some things out of sequence and others out of context as they do memory dumps and flush buffers then stand blankly in the toilet and wonder what they went there for....
We have a week for the 200m target which is enough time for each player to produce between 11k-12.5k balloons each. You do not have to be in game full time. You just need to start balloon production at the start of the week and only need to donate before the end of that 1st week.
Is this right, or am I confused here....
Best possible for one week is 7 x 24 x 60 = 10080 minutes
61 minutes per production cycle = 165 cycles (Need to rely on wiki here (http://settlersonlinewiki.eu/en/buildings/other/festival-hall/) as BB have not chosen to share what we need to burn in order to make balloons)
3 production chains = 495 production cycles
Each cycle can spit out between 8 (unbuffed) and 28 (enormous cake buffs and burning mortars) balloons, so that's somewhere between 3960 and 13860 balloons per player per week isn't it?
I would guess that apart from a few diehards who will by default shoot for the MAX, most of the players capable of logging in will be running unbuffed or perhaps with a petite cake at best, so perhaps a 5k per player per week average is more realistic this year?
200000000 / 5000 = 40k players? Still far less than yours DorotheusII, but do we actually have even this many players still?
My estimate of the target we will reach is more like 4500 + 1200 + 900 currently "active" players across Newfoundland, Sandycove & Northisle.
So, 6600 x 5000 = 33 million balloons per week....
Anyone want to run a book????
Cheetah2_777
05.09.21, 07:56
We have a week for the 200m target which is enough time for each player to produce between 11k-12.5k balloons each. You do not have to be in game full time. You just need to start balloon production at the start of the week and only need to donate before the end of that 1st week.
Goal is 200 000 000 balloons:
200 000 000 / 12 500 = 16 000 players.
gl hf
https://i.imgur.com/bhb1Qec.png
My starmenu:
https://i.imgur.com/RhwHRpb.png
https://i.imgur.com/2jy1MVU.png
https://i.imgur.com/GcDMwnF.png
Who else is excited about the event?
200000000 / 5000 = 40k players? Still far less than yours DorotheusII, but do we actually have even this many players still?
My estimate of the target we will reach is more like 4500 + 1200 + 900 currently "active" players across Newfoundland, Sandycove & Northisle.
So, 6600 x 5000 = 33 million balloons per week....
Anyone want to run a book????
The community goal is worldwide, not just the worlds on this server
The community goal is worldwide, not just the worlds on this server
Ah ha.... Thanks for that.... Played with Mr Google and found there are a few more (https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/22034-Server-List?p=209422&viewfull=1#post209422)! :o
Are we celebrating the unplayable year? It takes all the morning to send out explorers because i have to click 3 times on every action because you don't even consider bugs posted in correct section.
If i could vote i would vote for NO EVENT AT ALL UNTIL THE GAME IS FIXED.
But you don't understand or do not care I think, because instead of putting effort on current issues you put effort in technical implementation of the event.
Gave up and THINK bb did too there just plodding along till they switch it off this is no where near as clean and playable as it was on flash you wasted so long due to laziness or shear incompetence and you paste this junk out hoping what loyal customer you do have and I would of been one of them to part with some gems lol nah
ClarenceDuPont
06.09.21, 09:45
I tried to give it a chance, I really did.
Event went live 8:57, calendar and quests come up.
10 mins to acknowledge all the new quest messages.
Visit a friend to swap cakes, hung on return, relog
Have a quest to do a scenario, freeze coming home, relog
Get a quest for another scenario, freeze coming home, relog
Complete the quest in quest book, kicked to main screen, no error, relog
Do an easy adv with simple attacks, freeze coming home, relog.
So as well as continual zone refreshes, FIVE relogs in an hour - unplayable garbage.
BB should change the name of the game to: Show_Me_Your_Money. Everything that can be bought at the merchant for the anniversary is based on gems ..... LOL
I can only assume that the devs are on strike for not being payed (for the mess they did)
200M baloons for the first 6 days. Hopefully we will reach 50M, maybe.
The event cannot be played due to the lag and major (unfixed) bugs. At least I won't.
BB should change the name of the game to: Show_Me_Your_Money. Everything that can be bought at the merchant for the anniversary is based on gems ..... LOL
I can only assume that the devs are on strike for not being payed (for the mess they did)
200M baloons for the first 6 days. Hopefully we will reach 50M, maybe.
The event cannot be played due to the lag and major (unfixed) bugs. At least I won't.
The anniversary event is always gem based we get our rewards from the quests and the global goal the merchant was always about the money so nothing has changed there. what has changed is that ppl are not going to buy stuff unless there Idiots when the game is a fraction of what it was
ClarenceDuPont
06.09.21, 14:32
First time getting this
https://i.imgur.com/z11SomN.png
Well I started, and did go off island on a few missions ( well I had to given the questline ) I can cope with the slow response/ lag/ and constant re-checking of everything I do, but when the GAME changes which general I sent to attack, and not giving the option to retreat once I very quickly sussed what it had done. What is the point? I had to watch the wrong general set off from miles away being intercepted by all the camps on route till all the wrong and valuable troops were gone, leaving the original target yet to be destroyed. Then having to import even more troops to the adventure to finish it.
I also started to get warning pop ups from FF that `this page is slowing down the browser' LMAO Really, you think?
Cheetah2_777
06.09.21, 15:29
https://i.imgur.com/g7AGcaG.png
ok...
If you wanted to buy all the limited stuff this event, it would cost about 250,000 gems. For me that would be about £375 (who would buy gems outside of a gem sale?).
It would be nice if everyone was given a few hundred thousand gems for the sorry state the game is in. Asking for so much money at the current time is really daft.
Cheetah2_777
06.09.21, 15:32
https://i.imgur.com/hX4e4Rr.png
Unknown ID...
White squares...
We seem to enjoy another "smart" design decision - one of the event resources is collected bellow some level, the other - above it. Now, with all troubles with the client change it seems that there are not new starters. Will you offer some cake dough in some other ways or like some of the previous events - whole branches of the quests will stay useless because of designers' overwhellming themselves?
This is the first event I have missed in years this event serves no other purpose then an attempt to line your pockets and gives no concern to you player base should of been held off until it was running smooth
could we please get a game that is working BB_trafffer
ClarenceDuPont
07.09.21, 12:26
Will there be any performance fixes during event or are we min of 3 weeks from next update?
Will there be any performance fixes during event or are we min of 3 weeks from next update?
event is only 2 weeks this time so prob be after that
Alina_Light
07.09.21, 12:42
I'd have preferred that time was spent on sorting out the game to make it actually work properly and be playable than on this event (which I've never liked anyway).
Everything is still either crawling at about the speed of plate tectonics, it still takes several clicks to do anything, and/or it's still freezing. And I have a fast computer and fast internet connection so the issues are not at my end. It's maddening, makes the game virtually unplayable, and I won't be trying much longer.
As for the event, I logged on yesterday but the event apparently hadn't started and there was no event window. I've logged on today but I would have to use gems to open door 1. Not happening. I'm not happy.
Event going fine for me so far. Not having any problems other than the minor 'Irritations' I posted a week ago & which no-one read because only the complaints about connectivity, lagging etc seem to interest anyone who uses the Forum. Why am I so different? Newish PC, broadband not especially fast but then I never had problems with Flash or the Client when they were the subject of all the complaints. ???????????????????
Please don't abuse me for this post. I doubt if I'm the only one who feels this way but it is running a risk of abuse just to say so.
TheHopefulOne
07.09.21, 19:21
Turned of my Festival Hall. This has stopped being fun and become a chore, and that is not why we play games; be they online or in real life.
There are always alternative sports/games and I already play several. I will login each day to keep my gem pits running and in the vaguest hope that the company can get the programmers off their back sides to do some work to fix this.
It is a travesty that BB/Ubisoft have been allowed to destroy a great game.
Cheetah2_777
07.09.21, 19:43
https://i.imgur.com/xPs6C1B.png
Mortallicus
08.09.21, 09:03
Yesterday a member of my guild tried to make a petite cake. No cake and lost candles and dough.
Today I lost 500 candles trading for dough in the Provision House seemed to work but then no dough and candles gone.
Yesterday I put up a trade for dough. It appeared in my history as sold but no dough. Today now also gone from my History.
Refresh did nothing :(
I have checked my star and nada.
woohoo after what seemed for ever and checking constantly dough is now in my star but dare I make a cake :D
Alina_Light
08.09.21, 11:03
Turned of my Festival Hall. This has stopped being fun and become a chore, and that is not why we play games; be they online or in real life.
Yes, I agree. I liked this game. It was quite fun, even though it's taken me a very long time to get to level 52 - and now I've stalled because I'm not risking any adventures. But now it's too much effort and it simply isn't fun any longer. It's extremely frustrating, more repetitive than it was, and has become very boring.
Because of this never-ending and disgusting lag I lost again 100 gems ... instead of selecting normal upgrade, the lag made me click on instant upgrade.
This game became a terrible disappointing joke.
Cheetah2_777
08.09.21, 16:27
If you wanted to buy all the limited stuff this event, it would cost about 250,000 gems. For me that would be about £375 (who would buy gems outside of a gem sale?).
It would be nice if everyone was given a few hundred thousand gems for the sorry state the game is in. Asking for so much money at the current time is really daft.
What do I need gems for?
just to have some more stuff :P
after x years playing, most is just fluff anyway and in the category nice to have
BB_Trafffer
09.09.21, 13:19
Please remember to donate your balloons - they don't count if you keep them in your storage. I can see enough balloons in our Settler storages to reach the goal!
WrenchBender
09.09.21, 16:23
FFS feed the hamsters powering the server farm the lag is horrendous, zone refresh ratew makes everything so damn hard !!
Please remember to donate your balloons - they don't count if you keep them in your storage. I can see enough balloons in our Settler storages to reach the goal!
LMAO I'm having that deja vu feeling again ( Look back to the feedback in last years event ) Well I give credit where credit is due Trafffer you at least did not copy/paste.
I find it very interesting that in BB towers you can see things you want to, but can't deploy the unity version without so many bugs despite months of preparation and help from testers. I did not believe this donation bar representing anything like real life when it was first created. Last year watching you present the case with `data' was some what amusing especially when you consider if your figures were correct, with such a huge player base how could you afford to lose so many with the debacle of your switch to unity with so many bugs? Now you expect us to believe with a game in such a state there are enough players playing to reach 200 000 000 balloons after four days of struggling play. All I can say is you obviously owe a lot to the hacker of the client as in four days with unity I've not even got to my first personal target and I am seriously considering turning off the FH altogether. As that is the last thing left in the event for me as ` adventuring is no longer an option with jumping generals and no functioning retreat button'. I might just be popping balloons rather than donating them!
Hi, I produced 500 dough from 1000 candles, but I not see the dough in storage house, it's disappeared. No dough, no candles, thumb up for the game :). I refresh the game log out, log in but still nothing. Help
lordloocan
10.09.21, 11:45
Please remember to donate your balloons - they don't count if you keep them in your storage. I can see enough balloons in our Settler storages to reach the goal!
Are we genuinely being told that someone in that office took the time to check all the accounts/servers to see how many balloons are in stores? ''If'' they did then the time could have been better spent working on more important issues - there is a long list of these on the forums.
Max_turtle
10.09.21, 12:33
it is a simple script
DorotheusII
10.09.21, 13:27
Hi, I produced 500 dough from 1000 candles, but I not see the dough in storage house, it's disappeared. No dough, no candles, thumb up for the game :). I refresh the game log out, log in but still nothing. Help
look in star
Cheetah2_777
10.09.21, 15:44
04.09.20 15:40
Folks, I'm not sure if you are aware, but if you donate the balloons now, they will still count towards the 2nd and 3rd goals. I heard from some super secret source that we'll be really close if you start donating balloons from your warehouses!
Last years event after 1st round.
Of Course, everything made in provision house goes to star, my fault :)
BB you need to STOP with the hundred of quests to complete an 11+ adv!! I'm glad you decided to retire misty cake from the quest chain - that was not a great quest but neither is an 11+ adv. This event is already a struggle for lower levels (and that's without throwing Unity into the mix!). At least if the quest was to complete a lvl 9+ adv that would give everyone a fighting chance - that would add a scenario and some easier and more abundant fairytale maps with loot spots. As it is, any lower level player needs to rely on a loot spot that only a couple of advs can provide, neither of which are quick to complete and they are therefore priced out of in the trade office. Assuming they even make it in to the trade office! I know the whole point of this event is to encourage community spirit but that would more likely be achieved if lower levels at least felt they stood a chance of completing at least one of the quest chains.
Also, please stop giving useless generals as rewards - I have never once used a field medic general and I very much doubt I ever will. Even a regular geologist would have been of more use and I haven't used one of those for years! Can I suggest for the next anniversary event, BB show some community spirit and perhaps take a vote on which big ticket items they give as rewards in the quest chains before the event is implemented so that players at least have an incentive to complete the quests.
I really love this game and I play it a lot. After the change I found my large bag of positivity and another one of patience, and applyed it to this game.... however they are almost empty now. I always go all in on events and I have tried to this time too. However the game functions so badly that I just cant do what I normally would do.
Last year I did all the rounds and all the quests, manageing to get the scoutpost. This year, with 4 days left I am currently at round 5 and in the quest chain for the scoutpost Im not even halfway. lvl 11 adv are almost impossible to do and I got really frustratet two days ago, when I realised that finishing rounds and questchains will be impossible... (And that the few guildies that actually did finish.. did so by using the old client.)
The fact that it refreshes all the time makes something as mondaine as sending out explorers and accepting the mails they return with, a very difficult and time consuming task... and I have entirely given up on all alis.
Sorry for the ranting, Im just sooo frustrated.
Pleas please give me back my game... I really miss it.
I'm not going to comment on how impossible it is to play this event without using the old client as much has already been said about that and I'm not sure BB are taking any notice. Focusing my feedback solely on event, +1 vote (x 1,000,000 if I could) to get rid of that awful 'complete an 11+ adv' quest. I could just about understand if you absolutley had to include it just once towards the end to provide a certain level of difficulty and therefore feeling of attainment but there are so many of them that it makes that quest impossible for so many players.
Also, the sheer number of quests in the quest chain (the one that gives you a scouting post at the end) along with 10 whole rounds of the celebrathon quest - it was doable in 3 weeks last year even for those that could only play a short while per day but to do them all in 2 weeks requires a really intense level of playing. You either need to decrease the number of rounds, remove the quests that send explorers on searches or increase the length of event to 3 weeks again next year otherwise players will very quickly realise they won't get through them all and give up as the rewards generally aren't worth it until you get to the end.
You also really need to have a proper look at which players are still active and have been active for a while. There are a lot of dead accounts on the servers and a lot of new players who give up really quickly - the level you have set for players to receive dough is still too low - It should be in the 60s.
Finally, I think rewards have been mentioned above. I am grateful BB give us freebies in events but I think you need to reconsider what players actually appreciate. Field medic generals, even for low level players, are not useful but just add to the clutter of star menu. Anyone who has been playing for a couple of years will most likely have a few scouting posts - I had 3 before this event and I didnt 'buy' a single one. I could already use it once a day if I really wanted to, a 4th one is really not necessary and just takes up a lot of land to build it. However, I do want to say thanks that the most useful reward (old school barracks) was given after round 5 of celebrathon - this makes it fairly attainable for almost everyone - low levels, casual players etc.
Perhaps when designing next years anniversary event BB, look at it from the perspective of the average player - if you're not sure who that is then maybe do some sort of poll or survey to find out. My guess is it would tell you it's a player at a mid - late 60s level who has been playing for a few years and maybe spends one or 2 hours a day playing. Consider what they would find useful and where to draw the line between challenging and just plain impossible.
Before you do any of that though PLEASE FIX UNITY!!
You’ve talked a lot about the challenges, but the deep truth, it is possible, has to do with the existence of a program that has stirred a major international storm. Yes. This is the Pegasus program. Let’s play with this idea a bit. If you rule out all possibilities, no matter how depressing, you get the truth. What is the truth in this case? Money, money, money. Unfortunately, nothing else matters, so only users get annoyed.
Are we genuinely being told that someone in that office took the time to check all the accounts/servers to see how many balloons are in stores? ''If'' they did then the time could have been better spent working on more important issues - there is a long list of these on the forums.
This takes them no time at all.
They have tools and reports that tell them everything about what we players do.
I'm not going to comment on how impossible it is to play this event without using the old client as much has already been said about that and I'm not sure BB are taking any notice. Focusing my feedback solely on event, +1 vote (x 1,000,000 if I could) to get rid of that awful 'complete an 11+ adv' quest. I could just about understand if you absolutley had to include it just once towards the end to provide a certain level of difficulty and therefore feeling of attainment but there are so many of them that it makes that quest impossible for so many players.
Also, the sheer number of quests in the quest chain (the one that gives you a scouting post at the end) along with 10 whole rounds of the celebrathon quest - it was doable in 3 weeks last year even for those that could only play a short while per day but to do them all in 2 weeks requires a really intense level of playing. You either need to decrease the number of rounds, remove the quests that send explorers on searches or increase the length of event to 3 weeks again next year otherwise players will very quickly realise they won't get through them all and give up as the rewards generally aren't worth it until you get to the end.
You also really need to have a proper look at which players are still active and have been active for a while. There are a lot of dead accounts on the servers and a lot of new players who give up really quickly - the level you have set for players to receive dough is still too low - It should be in the 60s.
Finally, I think rewards have been mentioned above. I am grateful BB give us freebies in events but I think you need to reconsider what players actually appreciate. Field medic generals, even for low level players, are not useful but just add to the clutter of star menu. Anyone who has been playing for a couple of years will most likely have a few scouting posts - I had 3 before this event and I didnt 'buy' a single one. I could already use it once a day if I really wanted to, a 4th one is really not necessary and just takes up a lot of land to build it. However, I do want to say thanks that the most useful reward (old school barracks) was given after round 5 of celebrathon - this makes it fairly attainable for almost everyone - low levels, casual players etc.
Perhaps when designing next years anniversary event BB, look at it from the perspective of the average player - if you're not sure who that is then maybe do some sort of poll or survey to find out. My guess is it would tell you it's a player at a mid - late 60s level who has been playing for a few years and maybe spends one or 2 hours a day playing. Consider what they would find useful and where to draw the line between challenging and just plain impossible.
Before you do any of that though PLEASE FIX UNITY!!
I don't actually mind the lv 11+ addy quests over and over but celebrathon chain and scouting post chain do start to get annoying when you need to do a venture, then a scenario, then lv11+ and so on.
Fully agree about the rewards, stop giving us field medic general????
Didn't BB say they redesigned the event calendar since it's gonna be 2 weeks only? You call this a good calendar? 50 arquebuse/500 adv tools/500 mahogany planks on a special door, this is a joke, not to mention the other doors.
The dough stuff is a non-issue since you can just convert candles into it. Any high level players will get more than enough candles from explorers to make enough cakes to last the event (If they could actually send out explorers at the moment). The scouting post is still useful for players that don't have them, but no players who still need the scouting post are going to be high level enough to actually reach that part in the questline.
The funny thing about this event is it really shows how stupid the switch to the broken unity client was, we get a nice big progress bar showing that about half the players have given up the game vs last year, this doesn't even take into account any adjustments BB made to try and make it look like more people were playing.
BB_Trafffer
20.09.21, 14:44
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Dear Settlers,
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During this Event, you made the impossible possible and displayed the perfect example of how a community can come together to achieve even the most challenging of goals.
The second week's target was, under the present conditions, perhaps aimed a little bit high - but taking into consideration the number of Balloons you all still have in the game, we are sure that this goal was doable under normal conditions; you made it up to an amazing 80% of the goal!
To reward the efforts you made to make this event a happy celebration, we decided to hand out the full "Community Goal 2" Reward to all players who were active during this event!
We also want to inform you that the Adventure Bookbinder was noted as "Can be obtained once during this event". However, this was a remnant of the Text of 2020 and he did not make it into the Event of 2021. Instead, you got one of the lovely Balloon markets for your Island!
https://ubistatic-a.akamaihd.net/0034/int/forum/pictures/b_balloonmarket.png
Graciethecat
20.09.21, 22:59
Thank you
Mindslayer
20.09.21, 23:19
Thank you. Much appreciated.
ty for the gifts. very nice :)
lordloocan
22.09.21, 19:35
How did the number contributed this year compare to the number last year? That will give an insight into the state of the game
Phase 2 last year seems to have been 1.500.000.000 balloons and if memory serves me right this was achieved
lordloocan
24.09.21, 10:51
Phase 2 last year seems to have been 1.500.000.000 balloons and if memory serves me right this was achieved
Had a look and seems stage 2 last year was 2000 000 000
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