Why I probably wont participate in the 20th Anniversary Event

Good to see BB have rethought their expectations. Still no indication of the shape and size of the race but at least being able to see the UK1 and UK2 servers are at nearly 50% and we are less than 50% of the way through the duration gives a clear understanding of expectations.

It still all feels like a glorified sink to take excessive resources out of the game for minimal effort and minimal reward with no clear explanation of how the weighting or rules will be applied. That being said I have so far done the quests asked of me and donated the balloons and I will continue to support in this limited way but I wont be asking my Provisions House to get busy converting resources to balloons at present. Maybe this will change in the next phase (should we get that far) and transform my L5 Provisions House into a balloon factory and keep it constantly buffed with chocolate rabbits - lets watch this space...

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Perhaps if more people actively participated, Slicey, instead of "taking a stand" on the forums because of the lack of personal motivation and self-gratification, we would be a little further ahead than we are right now.

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^^ Icey - If we had all bent over and did BlueBytes bidding at the drop of a proverbial gem opportunity then maybe we would still be at 4% with the same opportunity to succeed as was the case early today before the change in weightings.
Anyway, sneaking off to one of my many Witch Towers for some personal motivation and self-gratification :cool:

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Originally Posted by fishslice

^^ Icey - If we had all bent over and did BlueBytes bidding at the drop of a proverbial gem opportunity then maybe we would still be at 4% with the same opportunity to succeed as was the case early today before the change in weightings.
Anyway, sneaking off to one of my many Witch Towers for some personal motivation and self-gratification :cool:

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Slicey, I see you're happy to take full credit for the revision of the balloon numbers needed to get to 100%. Thank God we have you, the People's Hero, standing on your moral high horse {sic}, cape blowing in the wind, looking out for us all. We gravel {sic} at your feet.

I think BB could clearly see the way the Four Winds were blowing and knew they had 'misjudged' the numbers needed to reach their (admittedly invisible) targets.

I am glad to hear, however, that you are participating, albeit in your own humble, modest way. But I have to mention; this is a social game and you are a guild leader and a high level, high status player, and as such should be setting an example to the rest of us. If we all followed your example perhaps we would still be on 4%, despite the bar being lowered. I appreciate that you were disillusioned with EOTW, as were the majority of us, but this is a whole new event. Perhaps the prizes are not auspicious enough for you, and for that I hope that we, the playerbase, can join together with BB in apologising profusely for supplying gifts that do not meet with your approval, but other people might want - and be grateful - for those prizes. And if you were to turn your precious PH into a 24/7, chocolate bunny fed balloon factory and donate some of your many thousands of resources to the cause, you could be putting a smile on the face of other, less advantaged players. See how satisfying mutual gratification can be?

Finally, I am unsurprised to hear of your self-gratification. It's blatantly obvious you're not being gratified elsewhere.

Hello!

Can we keep it friendly here please!

Sinister-King

perhaps it's similar to what Winston Churchill said about USA (paraphrased), they will do the right thing when all the other alternatives do not work.

Of course I don't take full credit but I would like to think BB have actually listened to feedback from all of us in this thread and others and gone 'hey guys, we got it wrong again, do we just ignore the problem like normal or should we do something to stop this being a monumental failure' and obviously the bean counters at BB Headquarters are foaming at the mouth at the thought of the lost revenue when people realise a 20% gem bonus and purchasing of chocolate rabbits was in vain and wont be buying any more throughout July as BB want.

Re participating, I'm still not really getting involved. I see doing the quests as something new that I will support but I remain reserved in my judgement till a later date. Obviously that means my contribution during phase 1 is minimal but on the plus side I wont have wasted a shed load of resources on a fictional target. As per my recent post, maybe the balloon factory will become operational in phase 2 - I knew I was saving those chocolate rabbits for something.

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Originally Posted by Sinister-King

Hello!

Can we keep it friendly here please!

Sinister-King

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Try reading it with your tongue in your cheek. ;)

It's funny to see you criticise BB so openly, Slicey. I thought your new stance as the People's Hero had you putting your full support behind our esteemed programmers?

I can't stand to watch the video diaries, I stopped watching the muppet show at age 12.

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Originally Posted by fishslice

Of course I don't take full credit but I would like to think BB have actually listened to feedback from all of us

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Where have you seen evidence of BB listening to feedback in what they've done?

They responded to the fact that no server got past a few % after a day of playing the event. ie, they corrected an obvious misjudgment on their part.

They clarified their original diary about the event, which should never have gone out in its original form in the first place, but didn't actually give any new information.

None of the criticism and feedback has been responded to at all.

Of course it has.... There's a whole new Q&A thread from our Community Manager that clarifies a lot of the negative criticism and indirect questions.

I still think the whole event is a farce (hence why I haven't actively participated except the quests) but I do think BB has at least attempted to provide a better level of clarification and detail.

Maybe this was all planned Geron, maybe they adjusted just because of game numbers, maybe they read and even listened. We will have to wait for their book to be published.

Well, if they made these updates ONLY because of feedback from the player base, they are a bunch of incompetent fools.

Note, this is NOT an insult: I'm not actually saying they're incompetent fools. I'm saying that they made mistakes (but not at the level of foolish incompetence) and the results of those mistakes were so obvious that they simply acted to fix them. No feedback from us was necessary for that.

But, are you suggesting they're incompetent fools who needed feedback to recognise that reaching 1% of a target after 25% of the available time frame was something that needed fixing?

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Originally Posted by fishslice

Of course it has.... There's a whole new Q&A thread from our Community Manager that clarifies a lot of the negative criticism and indirect questions.

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If you read the original diary carefully enough, essentially all of the clarifications in the FAQ can already be gleaned from it. They've simply corrected obvious mistakes, and have not responded to any of requests for additional information.


As an example, they've done NOTHING to try to resolve the problem (which was also blatantly clear from EotW) that 10% of the playerbase doesn't know (or usually care) what server they're on.

some people put on shoes, tie them up, take a walk.
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they become untied.... sometimes they get retied because they are noticed by the wearer, sometimes someone tells them "your shoe is untied". I will wait for the paperback.

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but, are you suggesting they're incompetent fools who needed feedback to recognise that reaching 1% of a target after 25% of the available time frame was something that needed fixing?

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yes

People complained because EOTW was too hard and too time consuming, now people are complaining because this event is a resource sink, oh and the adventure is exp only in rewards which is no good for these at level 50.

IMO seeing which server can make the most balloons from resources is a great way to show economic output, and those at level 50 can surely donate larger amounts seeing as apparently a fair few of you have no building space on your island.

It seems to me t hat for some people BB will never be able to win, kudos to them for still trying to do something different even in the face of such negativity.

Oh and those who have decided to exercise their right not to participate I assume you haven't redeemed any of the many codes that are floating around? Yeah thought so.

Gytha, some servers could do eotw, get 100%. None could do this one, get 100%, until they changed it today.. So until they changed event, it was just a black hole for donating resources.

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Originally Posted by Gytha_Ogg

People complained because EOTW was too hard and too time consuming, now people are complaining because this event is a resource sink, oh and the adventure is exp only in rewards which is no good for these at level 50.

IMO seeing which server can make the most balloons from resources is a great way to show economic output, and those at level 50 can surely donate larger amounts seeing as apparently a fair few of you have no building space on your island.

It seems to me t hat for some people BB will never be able to win, kudos to them for still trying to do something different even in the face of such negativity.

Oh and those who have decided to exercise their right not to participate I assume you haven't redeemed any of the many codes that are floating around? Yeah thought so.

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Everyone complains....

Kudos to BB for a very different sort of event. We are doing a warm up at the moment, where they can work out how many people can run and how far. The rest of the three weeks will be more serious and hopefully good fun.

If people won't participate, and don't think we will win, then we won't. If people try, participate and make it work, we can win. Tbh, I think it might be worth having an event that is optional to participate in so that all the people that want to just sit and make wells, fields, mines and stockpile gold coins can ignore it and leave the rest of us to have fun with other motivated people who do want to put in the effort. We end up carrying the people that are 'above such things' and it's a bit galling if they get rewards for not helping.

BB is quite competent and very trustworthy about many game things. These special event things are not one of them though.
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That's not a complaint, just an observation. And this event was noticeably flawed from the start. Fishslice saw that, as did others. Just how it is/was.

We gotta keep complaining to keep BB on their toes. Remember they didn't do much in year, which lead many lvl50 players to leave the game.

Update.
This no longer seems like an impossible event like previous ones so I will be supporting phase 2 of the event and I am currently stockpiling resources to ensure he balloon factory is heavily utilised.