Make Event Buildings Upgradeable

Please make it possible to upgrade special event buildings after the event ends.

Many of the Special buildings gained during events are not upgradeable once the event ends.
Over time as players lvl up they are stuck with partialy upgraded buildings they gained from past events.

My Easter Residence from 2015 event will forever be at lvl5 (unless this suggestion is implemented)
A guildie friend has a lv2 Spacious Warehouse capacity at this lvl is just 3k, a lvl 6 one would be 48k
At the time of the event he was a new player under lvl 20, now he's already at lvl 54 but stuck with a build that potentially could be so much better that it is now + forever locked at 3k with no way to unlock it's 48k potential. (unless this suggestion is implemented)
Many other examples available.

Maybe,
Upgrades could be locked for 12 mths following events finish date.
Upgrades would only be possible during similar future events.
or whatever other restriction BB can come up with.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

Upgrades would only be possible during similar future events.

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That would be the most logical way of doing it, but considering the upgrades were gained through achievement points it would probably mean having to earn "bonus" achievement points in addition to the points needed for the current event.

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The event buildings reflect where you were as a player, when that particular event was on. Please let's not get rid of every single "souvenir/trophy" aspect of the game by extending outside events, or making tradeable.

You do realise this suggestion would demand players do PvP during events no less.

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Originally Posted by Dorotheus

You do realise this suggestion would demand players do PvP during events no less.

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Not at the moment Doro, have mine fully upgraded without doing any PvP, and I'll fight to keep it that way :D

However I do agree with Ynita, I think there does need to be some aspects of the game that reflect individual participation and `achievement'. Whether a level of a building is the right thing to show the achievement is another discussion, but I would hate to see everything available to everyone regardless of effort/ economic planning/ strategy within the event.

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Originally Posted by Larili

However I do agree with Ynita, I think there does need to be some aspects of the game that reflect individual participation and `achievement'. Whether a level of a building is the right thing to show the achievement is another discussion, but I would hate to see everything available to everyone regardless of effort/ economic planning/ strategy within the event.

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Agreed

The achievements of a player is recorded but buildings on a players island should NOT be 'Locked' forever at the lvl achieved in a particular event.
PVP has absolutley NOTHING to do with this sugesstion.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

The achievements of a player is recorded but buildings on a players island should NOT be 'Locked' forever at the lvl achieved in a particular event.
PVP has absolutley NOTHING to do with this sugesstion.

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Maybe they could add an option to upgrade with gems, that way players past achievements still mean something and BB gets a financial revenue stream

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

The achievements of a player is recorded but buildings on a players island should NOT be 'Locked' forever at the lvl achieved in a particular event.
PVP has absolutley NOTHING to do with this sugesstion.

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May I remind you that PvP was one of the ways to level up one of the buildings, so it does have something to do with this suggestion.

There is also the chance of a flaw in the original suggestion, as presented it assumes a event with no event building otherwise it would mean an additional workload to level up old buildings on top of the workload for the building of a future event.

Non of the previous events relied on PVP to reach max upgrade .
Easter 2015 cut it fine but it was possible to reach lvl6 without PVP. A friend did it np.
I reached lvl5 during that event and was short by just a few points due to a glitch related to explorer searches (I Didn't find enough eggs).
I have since increased the number of explorers I have to prevent a similar situation in future.

My suggestion is to make past event buildings upgradeable, how that is implemented (if at all) would be up to BB to work out details of timing/fairness etc, that's why I offered a few possible restrictions.
Side quests for old upgrades during events would perhaps be another possibility.

The problem as I see it is only created by using buildings as event rewards with upgrades 'locked' to that specific event.

During the last Olympics did any country ask to work on increasing on their medal tally for the 2012 Olympics. In the last election did any party ask for votes in the election before. What you are asking here amounts to exactly the same thing.

As these are old buildings it's likely that any who have them are now a high level player, does somebody with 1/2 million or more storage see any point doing stuff to gain a few k more, will somebody with population measured in the 10's of K do the same to gain less than 100 more.

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Originally Posted by Dorotheus

During the last Olympics did any country ask to work on increasing on their medal tally for the 2012 Olympics. In the last election did any party ask for votes in the election before. What you are asking here amounts to exactly the same thing.

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^^ That is arguing for the sake of arguing.^^
No valid point there at all. Utter nonsense

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Originally Posted by Dorotheus

As these are old buildings it's likely that any who have them are now a high level player, does somebody with 1/2 million or more storage see any point doing stuff to gain a few k more, will somebody with population measured in the 10's of K do the same to gain less than 100 more.

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These 'OLD' buildings take up the same space as a new one but cannot be used to full potential.
3k capacity locked from a potential 48k capacity on a single build plot is not just 'a few k'
Not that hard to understand surely.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

These 'OLD' buildings take up the same space as a new one but cannot be used to full potential.
3k capacity locked from a potential 48k capacity on a single build plot is not just 'a few k'
Not that hard to understand surely.

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If it's that much a issue for you, why have you not put a storage in its place which allows you to have more than 3k storage at that location?

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

^^ That is arguing for the sake of arguing.^^
No valid point there at all. Utter nonsense

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Actually, it's directly analagous. If I entered, say, a gymnastics competition two years ago and got a bronze medal, i am not going to be able to go back and change it to a gold medal because i am now more skilled and able to perform better. The level of the event building reflects your capability at the time of that specific event and should remain that way, in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Ynita

The level of the event building reflects your capability at the time of that specific event and should remain that way, in my opinion.

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exactly ... a big -1 from me for the op's suggestion. I have not fully upgraded event buildings and I'm quite happy for them to stay that way

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Originally Posted by Ynita

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The event buildings reflect where you were as a player, when that particular event was on. Please let's not get rid of every single "souvenir/trophy" aspect of the game by extending outside events, or making tradeable.

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agree wholeheartedly with you there is no need to have them all upgraded as shows where you were in the game at that moment in time so why rewrite history just so you have max this and that like others may have, you should be proud that you got to to X level at the time as obviously you were a lower level player etc then so i would just be proud of what you achieved in the game at that set time.

massive no thank you to this idea

Very strong -1 to this idea. I earned my event buildings fairly, as did many players. Some are not at max level but that's ok as it reflects my ability/involvement at the time. I'm annoyed enough that BB chose to make the Bone Church tradable as I earned mine honestly and now anyone with a bit of coin can acquire one. They did the same for the White Castle maybe 3 years ago and that irritated me too as I had one from an ls just 3 days after that happened and I felt it took away the achievement of finally getting one.

Making it possible to upgrade event buildings is like trying to rewrite history, or worse faking an achievement you have no right to claim imo.

No gold medals for guessing that I'm still waiting for this popular suggestion to be implemented.

We now have the ability to upgrade all maner of buidings in various ways but my 2015 egg house is still stuck below it's full potential.

What are the plans for future upgrades to Christmas Market after this event?

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

No gold medals for guessing that I'm still waiting for this popular suggestion to be implemented.

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Given that the feedback on this thread to your idea is almost entirely negative, I fail to see how you can regard it as "popular". I am in the same position as you, in that my Easter 2015 house is stuck at level five, largely due to my lack of explorers, but also due to my conscious decision to avoid Colony Mode at that point in my island's development. However, I am firmly in agreement with this:

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Originally Posted by Ynita

If I entered, say, a gymnastics competition two years ago and got a bronze medal, i am not going to be able to go back and change it to a gold medal because i am now more skilled and able to perform better. The level of the event building reflects your capability at the time of that specific event and should remain that way, in my opinion.

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So it's another -1 to the idea from me to add to the tally, I'm afraid.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

No gold medals for guessing that I'm still waiting for this popular suggestion to be implemented.

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Popular with you only and I guess you've not seen the glacial speed with which BB respond to 'suggestions' in here. There are many bugs that the devs are working on as well as new content before they'd get around to this sort of trivia.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

What are the plans for future upgrades to Christmas Market after this event?

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It's in the dev diary. ;)
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So what is this Christmas Market, and how does it work? It can be placed anywhere on your island, where it can buff the output of all workyards in an area around it. The bonus it provides, as well as the area to which it covers, can be increased by upgrading & unlocking further buffs for the building. If placed correctly, the potential benefits are extremely lucrative! You also don't need to fret about fully upgrading it this year, as you'll be able to continue doing so in every future Christmas Event.

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You guys really do miss the point. > 'Popular' < was sarcasm + Olympic gold medals have nothing in common with this event scenario.

The worthless building is given FREE at the start of the event as part of the event and planning permision for upgrades are available only during the event.
Not a good idea if the event is badly run and there is no possible way to correct this.
The 2015 easter event was messed up by BB not getting their figures right at the start so they REDUCED the 'find' rate for the rest of the event.
Had they continued with a fair set of numbers for explorer finds this thread would not exist but due to devs not getting it right lots of players are stuck with a reminder of how poor events can be.
PVP was introduced not long before the event and taking part in that would have made it easier to gain full level for the building Myself and many others didn't take part in PVP and it was just about possible to gain full upgrade without PVP.
Since then ALL events are created to avoid the NEED to take part in PVP to gain full achievements.
Tokens now make it possible to upgrade all manner of residences but NOT the easter egg that is below par due to no fault of my own.

Lots more -1's no doubt from the olympic theorists LOL.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

We now have the ability to upgrade all maner of buidings in various ways but my 2015 egg house is still stuck below it's full potential.

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Surely it is at it's full potential as that is what it was given when it was introduced? If not happy with it then simply take it down if you have better use for the space.

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Originally Posted by lordloocan

Surely it is at it's full potential as that is what it was given when it was introduced? If not happy with it then simply take it down if you have better use for the space.

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No, it can go up another lvl to reach it's full potential as it was at the time, now with tokens available it could potentialy go even higher.
The Christmas Market has taken onboard the need for future upgrades of event buildings the difference is the CM was not the focus of the event rewards.

Footy events give a trophy as the main achievement reward, those are useless anyway. (more like Olympic Golds LOL, perhaps Olympics can reward contestants with a garden shed for taking part but without planning permission for a bigger shed unless they win, even if the organisers trip up most of the runners)

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

No, it can go up another lvl to reach it's full potential as it was at the time, now with tokens available it could potentialy go even higher.
The Christmas Market has taken onboard the need for future upgrades of event buildings the difference is the CM was not the focus of the event rewards.

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No it can´t.It was part of an event and it could only be upgraded during this event.As BB said at the beginning of the event. Tokens are a really bad example,you know.You can only upgrade living-room,which was not upgradeable before,with tokens.

You are right,the cm is a new approach,but even the cm is only upgradeable during the christmas event. But as BB said also in future christmas events.

bfl72
Not understanding what points you're trying to make.

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Originally Posted by gibbletz

You guys really do miss the point. > 'Popular' < was sarcasm + Olympic gold medals have nothing in common with this event scenario.

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Well, perhaps if you had used a smiley or italics or something to potentially indicate you were using sarcasm then perhaps people might have read it as such.... just sayin'!

Anyway, you obviously don't approve of the sports analogy, so here's another one with direct correlations to the situation here:

Your favourite breakfast cereal runs an offer to promote their product. In this offer, they print tokens on each of the packs which you have to collect and send in before a closing date. 5 tokens gets you a free pack of cereal. 10 tokens gets you a limited edition spoon. 20 tokens gets you a limited edition bowl. You manage to collect 18 tokens before you have to send away to claim your prize. You send 10 in and claim the spoon. However, after the closing date you manage to find a couple of packets that still have the tokens on them in the shop, but that doesn't mean you can send them in and claim the bowl because the offer is now closed.

Like this analogy, Blue Byte ran an event to promote their product. During that event we had to collect a form of token, namely achievement points. Based on the number of achievement points we earned a prize. The promotion ran for a limited time, which has now long since expired and so the prizes that were on offer are no longer available. I have my prize and I am thankful for the opportunity I had to get it.