[Feedback] Dev Diary: Easter Event 2022

the event was ok despite the bugs with the candy house. Why do you have to keep introducing new gens when so many havent got some of the old and better gens like nusala, anslem and vargus? The only choice is to buy with gems or put up with the new rubbish gens that wouldn't stand up to high level advs.
Whats the point of a daily guild quest when we have a broken guild market? Why not open a new tab in the merchant and put more items in there we can buy with guild coins?
The excelsior needs to be fixed and just about everything else so can we get some real effort focused on fixing the game and forget about events until some progress is made? The sooner you get it fixed the sooner players will return and maybe vist the gem shop (which has had all the prices hiked!!!!)

A bit boring. Your new buildings are not generally economic. I don't want more geologists & generals as I do well enough with the ones I have had & skilled for years. I know they are useful to newer players but I do wish - and you have been asked this over & over again - that we could retire specialists with we don't use to the tavern & clear them out of the Star menu. Surely that wouldn't be such a difficult change? Also the bundles are no longer attractive or particularly good value.
Re guild quest I dutifully do it almost every day & I no longer know why.

Tried to run some bonaberti business advs during the event but they are so bugged it was a joke! You send an attack which goes on and on and on without ending so you try leaving the island and coming back to find the gen you sent is back where it originally landed and the troops you loaded are no longer there but instead travelling back with a claus that was sent home 15 mins before the attack. I've got to hand it to you its so messed up it must have taken a lot of effort to get it so bugged!
Then you try a misty island and if you dare leave the island the next zone won't allow your troops to be moved into it from the 1st zone. If I included all the bugs across the game I would be listing them for the next week! When can we expect some proper determined efforts to improve the game? At least tell us what you are fixing next rather than be surprised when you get told the game is broken and then ask for all the information as if you didnt know. (then ignore them and leave them broken!)

i got plenty of eggs... no complaints there. The generals that fight endlessly, so that you have to switch back too-and-fro the adventure and the general landing-shuffle are annoying as heck. Also because i try to get some adventures down to zerro losses :-) No need here for newer types of generals

My deco collection grew, need more space !

I forgot to mention the university that was a reward in a recent event calandar (not easter) that required 375 achievement points from easter 2017 to update. I did 12 out of 12 achievements back in easter 2017 but they only add up to a max of 220 so who's brilliant idea was that to programme that requirement in? I know of other players who have the same requirement to upgrade who only joined the game in the the last 2 years well after Easter 2017!! Seriously is there any proper testing and competence with your programmers because from what i see it seems a very small pool of incompetents!
btw BB Traffer said in jan 2022 that is was being investigated. lol how long does it take to spot an issue and fix it?

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Originally Posted by Wotaplonker

the event was ok despite the bugs with the candy house. Why do you have to keep introducing new gens when so many havent got some of the old and better gens like nusala, anslem and vargus? The only choice is to buy with gems or put up with the new rubbish gens that wouldn't stand up to high level advs.
Whats the point of a daily guild quest when we have a broken guild market? Why not open a new tab in the merchant and put more items in there we can buy with guild coins?
The excelsior needs to be fixed and just about everything else so can we get some real effort focused on fixing the game and forget about events until some progress is made? The sooner you get it fixed the sooner players will return and maybe vist the gem shop (which has had all the prices hiked!!!!)

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Why would you raise the prices for gems at a time when you need to keep players sweet and on board? is it an madhouse run by the insane? :)

probably : )

Got good amount of eggs, never enough. Did miss out on wanted Items but overall did ok.
Adventures took much longer to do than should (freezes, hammerman, out of memory crashes, mail delay etc.) Island load up now quite long with blue screen and part graphic appearance until full screen. Lots of time lost. Not quite helpfully helping when Real Life time is tight. A few Guildies having quite a bit of trouble logging in.

Much harder to amass vast amounts of eggs needed to buy higher amount Items. Harder for newer Players.
Maybe reduce amount of Items on offer so everyone can get everything on offer. Bigger Players will help newer Players get these items. More like this Community Game should run. Trade Office would be better trades for all rather than for the elite. Newer Players can't trade for eggs because the amounts get too greedy large.

All Easter Quests done including bugged one that worked for me.

Players offering and helping in co-op adventures very good this year. Thank you.

Did not bother to play it.

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Originally Posted by GrumbleKing57

Not understanding why there would be a limit on any specialists

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You get the limit on specialists because they dont have a process for creating content, they simply copy paste the same event from last year and either change things (which usually means introducing bugs that werent there before) or not. So essentially you cant buy the explorer this year, because its not a new instance of same explorer, its literally the same explorer you bought a year ago.

If it wasnt absurd enough they even had event descriptions copied word for word from last year in some previous event, without even changing the year.

Im surprised some people still live under a delusion that someone is actually putting in effort in development of this game, when in reality what theyre doing (copypasting with mistakes, and introducing new generals and houses that are functionally the same as the old ones minus changed numbers) can hardly be estimated to take more than few hourss every 3-4 months from an intern (let alone a qualified developer).

Theyre blowing smoke up your faces and you still love it and ask for more, for some reason.

event went ok -- got alot of the stuff i wanted

calendar is appart from a few doors a waste of clicks

with ~130 explorers i would apprecheate a faster way to sent out explorers faster than one by one

don't add anymore different explorers and generals to the mix - it is hard to keep track on them as is
add all 3 types of books for event resouces as well as oil mills/refineries and adv. bookbinders

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Originally Posted by Anorexia

I forgot to mention the university that was a reward in a recent event calandar (not easter) that required 375 achievement points from easter 2017 to update. I did 12 out of 12 achievements back in easter 2017 but they only add up to a max of 220 so who's brilliant idea was that to programme that requirement in? I know of other players who have the same requirement to upgrade who only joined the game in the the last 2 years well after Easter 2017!! Seriously is there any proper testing and competence with your programmers because from what i see it seems a very small pool of incompetents!
btw BB Traffer said in jan 2022 that is was being investigated. lol how long does it take to spot an issue and fix it?

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I checked my achievements and I got 33 for easter 2017 for a total of 1070 points. The achievements you failed to get in an event get removed once the event is over so that's why its showing 12/12 for you, it shows 33/33 for me.

The real bug here is why some people got an extra 2017 university and nothing was done about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some future calendar starts rewarding random people extra barracks or prov houses, the developers really do not care about this game.

had to add something to the topic of "Limit of princess zoe"
if i have reached the limit, why can i spent gems to buy her from the black market???????????????????????????????????

get facts straight

Ok, on a positive note, as usual the event gave me the option to collect lots more stuff that in the long run is very useful - Thank you.
And, back to the pain points.....
The misery of sending explorers out remains, and means I still only ever use prolonged search unless their speciality is otherwise.
Like others I chose to spread eggs around rather then get the candy factory with its 300% consumption string, and Miraculous general with no real benefit.
Please Please Please get your QA department ( say you have someone who actually checks stuff before production deployment ) to recheck all the text descriptions on new items. 1 Per Player limit from Easter Events, 6 hrs and 300% production speed and 300% resources. I don't care that the dev diary got it right as its the in game text we use.
The event itself for a player perspective - pretty good, and for me nothing was fundamentally broken.
The event from a BB/UBI perspective - lack of care and attention to detail. We don't expect translated text to be wrong, and the 4 hour outage in the middle of the event again went without any comments on the main page.

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Originally Posted by Max_turtle

had to add something to the topic of "Limit of princess zoe"
if i have reached the limit, why can i spent gems to buy her from the black market???????????????????????????????????

get facts straight

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because there are 2 limits, one for in game currency and one for gem bought. It has been explained by BB somewhere in the dark ages

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Originally Posted by AndyGadget

Ok, on a positive note, as usual the event gave me the option to collect lots more stuff that in the long run is very useful - Thank you.
And, back to the pain points.....
The misery of sending explorers out remains, and means I still only ever use prolonged search unless their speciality is otherwise.
Like others I chose to spread eggs around rather then get the candy factory with its 300% consumption string, and Miraculous general with no real benefit.
Please Please Please get your QA department ( say you have someone who actually checks stuff before production deployment ) to recheck all the text descriptions on new items. 1 Per Player limit from Easter Events, 6 hrs and 300% production speed and 300% resources. I don't care that the dev diary got it right as its the in game text we use.
The event itself for a player perspective - pretty good, and for me nothing was fundamentally broken.
The event from a BB/UBI perspective - lack of care and attention to detail. We don't expect translated text to be wrong, and the 4 hour outage in the middle of the event again went without any comments on the main page.

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and it is a carbon copy of last year for around 90% of the event stuff. some further changes are appreciated :p

+300% input on the sugar rush buff is a nasty surprise... that should be modified to the expected normal input. It's a short term buff and would slot neatly in between employee badge and machine oil without the input modifier.

Game is too unstable to run events in my opinion. constant freezes and chuck outs when doing SC in Fall adventures, out of memory a big issue too and relog in times cost prem time , obs time and you lose chance to squeeze more addies in under them. when will you admit Unity was a mistake!

The event went okay, but we're still struggling along with a decimated guild.

The yawning gap between newbies and those players that have been around forever is clear in the comments. Those with 150 explorers and those with just the basics. Hard to see a way forward when it's so hard to keep players that are disillusioned with the game quality.

As for eggs. I got all I needed and more. I've taken to giving resources and event stuff away to lower level players in other guilds. Just in the hope that people stick around.

I didn't buy any new generals, rather focused on an additional Sylvana and MG.

It was also hard to get through adventures with camps spinning and connections being lost. Less grace about those things with strangers than guildies which is full cycle to not having enough guildies to smash the event.

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Originally Posted by Highlande

Game is too unstable to run events in my opinion. constant freezes and chuck outs when doing SC in Fall adventures, out of memory a big issue too and relog in times cost prem time , obs time and you lose chance to squeeze more addies in under them. when will you admit Unity was a mistake!

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1) it varies a lot from player to player how stuff runs and how many errors they have
2) some avoid errors if they are plentifull in unity by using client
3) they will never admit unity was a mistake. In principle it wasn't as flash needed to be replaced but the implementation was abysmal which is why we are where we are. They wont admit making mistakes in this process either is my bet and all gets qualified as slight hiccups and glitches soon to be ironed out

I can't buy any Zoe this event, it says limit reached/same...

Easter Event was awesome as usual. Thank you very much.

Well, Not often I reply to a thread here, but I couldnt believe that BB wanted feedback to one of the worst events in the history of this game. I know, this whole post is gonna be ignored by BB, but still.

First of all, the zone refresh. How long does it take to fix that. You are killing the game for the players that have played for a long time. My guild is a very good example. We use to be a very active guild. Now, due to the zone refresh, we are 3-4 active players in total. At what point do BB realize that they are killing the game by not fixing the issues we have.

2. Zoe... Sorry but that excuse is bull.

3. When you copy/paste an event, you should have realized that since you have changed the whole game, a copy/paste doesnt work. You are just asking for trouble. But I guess it speaks volumes that you just didnt care enough, since you did this anyway.

4. There is 1 thing more I just dont understand. With all the problems of the game itself. How do you think its a good idea to implement a quest that requires co-ops and guild activity. With lack of activity, how come you think its a good idea to make quests that requires activity???

All in all, to answer your question. No, I didnt get what I wanted. I had options of useless generals or just waste eggs doing trades.

I agree with others. If you focused on fixing the game, instead of doing these useless events, than you might actually see people get more exited about this game. How long has it been since you changed from Flash? 8 months? How long is it gonna take more? My guess.... 100 years!!!

hi BB_Traffer
the easter event was great ... after all this trouble, thsis is the 1st event which did work ! but we still need to be patient to enjoy the game.
NOW that the game is working, i hope that you will find time to look at the trade options and make it easier to find the trades we want instead of inspecting all the trades ... well done and thank you to let us all enjooy the game that we love so much ...
have a wonderfull day ... see you in the game :-)
best regards
shahindk / Newfoundland

With the game in the state it is, there were fewer players than ever in my guild, and it seems the same across other guilds based on feedback on here. The event itself was ok, but the buying options were pretty limited. There was a great new bunny explorer, but we could only buy one with eggs - no matter how often we played, how many searches we did or how many collies we clicked on - but you could buy three more of them with gems.

BB was obviously expecting us to buy gems, or stop playing egg gathering advs and return to gem gathering quests. If so, what's the point of the event? Just add a new explorer occasionally and let us buy it if we want. However, no-one in their right mind is going to spend real cash on the game at the moment as it stands. The only decent way to play is via a client that has been provided by a player, not BB. Unity play has got better, but it's still slow, it still freezes, gens do their own thing, and it takes forever to send geo's, exp's etc etc.

So, how about still offering stuff in the merchant for eggs and gems, but make sure we are offered the same terms - e.g. if you are able to buy 3 new exps with gems, then you should also be able to buy 3 new exps with eggs.

What is done with this (and or other) feedback?
Just curious.

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Originally Posted by shahindk

hi BB_Traffer
the easter event was great ... after all this trouble, thsis is the 1st event which did work ! but we still need to be patient to enjoy the game.
NOW that the game is working, i hope that you will find time to look at the trade options and make it easier to find the trades we want instead of inspecting all the trades ... well done and thank you to let us all enjooy the game that we love so much ...
have a wonderfull day ... see you in the game :-)
best regards
shahindk / Newfoundland

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and hello 2 you

Biggest issue is inability to use blocks during adventures without the HAMMERMAN appearing so during events when time is of the essence I play events without blocks to increase the number of adventures played and get most XP points but even then I had to wait for as much as 2 nights resets before I received the adventure rewards
I usually get most event rewards from treasure searches by many explorers but this took for ages to start searches and later receive rewards in mail window which could take an hour or more to display properly. This was so bad that on some days the only part of the game I could play was to send out explorers and receive the results of earlier searches!!!
Suggest you stop organising events and spend more IT time 0n getting game back to playability as in days of Adobe Flash Player.

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Originally Posted by Al_The_Mighty

With the game in the state it is, there were fewer players than ever in my guild, and it seems the same across other guilds based on feedback on here. The event itself was ok, but the buying options were pretty limited. There was a great new bunny explorer, but we could only buy one with eggs - no matter how often we played, how many searches we did or how many collies we clicked on - but you could buy three more of them with gems.

BB was obviously expecting us to buy gems, or stop playing egg gathering advs and return to gem gathering quests. If so, what's the point of the event? Just add a new explorer occasionally and let us buy it if we want. However, no-one in their right mind is going to spend real cash on the game at the moment as it stands. The only decent way to play is via a client that has been provided by a player, not BB. Unity play has got better, but it's still slow, it still freezes, gens do their own thing, and it takes forever to send geo's, exp's etc etc.

So, how about still offering stuff in the merchant for eggs and gems, but make sure we are offered the same terms - e.g. if you are able to buy 3 new exps with gems, then you should also be able to buy 3 new exps with eggs.

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Here Here Here just too trrue

https://i.imgur.com/9hM8Zna.png

How exactly is this "default" layout and everything messed up my fault, what am I doing wrong?

Nothing?

Then don't blame the messenger.

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Originally Posted by Cheetah2_777

https://i.imgur.com/9hM8Zna.png

How exactly is this "default" layout and everything messed up my fault, what am I doing wrong?

Nothing?

Then don't blame the messenger.

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Cool !! sooooo many explorers, did u win the lottery?

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Originally Posted by SettlerMikey

Suggest you stop organising events and spend more IT time 0n getting game back to playability as in days of Adobe Flash Player.

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Theyre not organizing events, they're copy-pasting the old ones. By IT company standards, the amount of time they sunk into it is most likely around the same as few coffee breaks, so hardly any time that could be saved to make any meaningful progress in terms of performance improvement.

Another thing is they themselves admitted that for AIR client and Unity they delegated the work to some external companies, so chances are that they dont even have their own developers for those respective technologies, meaning that unless the contractor makes any progress you wont be seeing any improvement, certainly not because someone dedicated 1 hour every few months to copy paste the event from previous year.

https://i.imgur.com/lAyZ5oH.png

Ok.

https://i.imgur.com/YdssJFr.png

you probably had no eggs to convert )

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Originally Posted by Qualan

you probably had no eggs to convert )

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I turned em all into golden eggs via provision house.
Useful feature.

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Originally Posted by sparkz

Theyre not organizing events, they're copy-pasting the old ones. By IT company standards, the amount of time they sunk into it is most likely around the same as few coffee breaks, so hardly any time that could be saved to make any meaningful progress in terms of performance improvement.

Another thing is they themselves admitted that for AIR client and Unity they delegated the work to some external companies, so chances are that they dont even have their own developers for those respective technologies, meaning that unless the contractor makes any progress you wont be seeing any improvement, certainly not because someone dedicated 1 hour every few months to copy paste the event from previous year.

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Correct, and the copy/paste is also including all the original bugs that were never fixed at the time, so virtually every event needs an immediate "hotfix", just duplicating effort each time.
Fix the original bugs and save yourselves time and money, and as an added bonus you might see a much more stable game that's easier to translate to Unity or something that actually works.

Thank you for goodies

what goodies? did i miss out on something?

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Originally Posted by sparkz

Theyre not organizing events, they're copy-pasting the old ones. By IT company standards, the amount of time they sunk into it is most likely around the same as few coffee breaks, so hardly any time that could be saved to make any meaningful progress in terms of performance improvement.

Another thing is they themselves admitted that for AIR client and Unity they delegated the work to some external companies, so chances are that they dont even have their own developers for those respective technologies, meaning that unless the contractor makes any progress you wont be seeing any improvement, certainly not because someone dedicated 1 hour every few months to copy paste the event from previous year.

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one can but dream!

Event feedback?
As usual the event had a good mix of thinks I can use, things I want or want more of, and stuff I no longer need, but that's what I now expect.
Buildings I don't want any more of and geologists I don't need, but lower level players can use.
For me its a good event.
The negatives -
Again a whoops moment at the start of the event and another "not again" feeling.
More stupid, lack of attention to detail, or just not caring any more mistakes.
Building descriptions/functions in dev diary not the same as on release and in a couple of cases the "live" descriptions does not match what they do.
And the Crap:
Who on earth allows a building action design with 9 buttons on a single row that don't fit the display area and then has little scroll bars on each button image.
I have a 5 year old learning to program who can do better than that.
We have building designs that support multiple rows of actions and that format works - what we are now getting is the result of an intern who has no idea about UX design .

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Originally Posted by AndyGadget

Event feedback?

And the Crap:
Who on earth allows a building action design with 9 buttons on a single row that don't fit the display area and then has little scroll bars on each button image.
I have a 5 year old learning to program who can do better than that.
We have building designs that support multiple rows of actions and that format works - what we are now getting is the result of an intern who has no idea about UX design .

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Beware what you say

This only occurs in the non supported client version of the game. In unity it does show 9 buttons that fit on the line. So they did exactly what they needed to do and that is design and make it work with unity. That it doesnt fit the old flash interface is not something to put on their doorstep as they do not develop for it nor test for it. Be happy it works in flash at all- i think eventually new content won;t work in flash as it is designed for unity and gets too far away from the flash specs at which time we all have to deal with unity all the time

You are blaming an intern which might or might not exist but who did nothing wrong from BB's perspective :P