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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
Disgusted
Does this mean that there will be 2x XP , 3x LOOT and Cake dough/Candles only on Ventures, or on all kind of adventures ???Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
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Originally Posted by hades8840
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...
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.Quote:
Description: Gaze in astonishment on the content of this time-limited package:
If you really expect people to fork over that much cash for this shit-show called unity, then you truely have lost your marbles
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.
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 ;)
I Cant login: I can't complete opening all doors and send out explorers.
Event failed. Sorry, I tried.
Pretty tone deaf imho
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: :)
Till the last moment I thought that BB is gonna scrap the celebration. :) :)Quote:
It's been wonderful 27 years on PC, a long, meaningful and nice journey which we'd like to celebrate with a special.
Now we all have to use Flash Client workaround ........... lol
My goodness .............. this is sooooooooo surreal .............
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Qualan
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.
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.
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?
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Originally Posted by General_hux
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
So... roughly 200,000,000/2500 = 80k fulltime participants in event :PQuote:
The first donation goal is set at 200,000,000 Balloons!
Why you always ask to put some feedback BB, if you dont do anything with it :confused:
Force of habbit I guess :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Talentju
To ask & to ignore.
Festival hall has 3 production lines so triple your estimates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheetah2_777
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Qualan
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by General_hux
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....
Is this right, or am I confused here....Quote:
Originally Posted by DorotheusII
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 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????
Goal is 200 000 000 balloons:Quote:
Originally Posted by DorotheusII
200 000 000 / 12 500 = 16 000 players.
gl hf
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My starmenu:
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Who else is excited about the event?
The community goal is worldwide, not just the worlds on this serverQuote:
Originally Posted by PharTing
Ah ha.... Thanks for that.... Played with Mr Google and found there are a few more! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by PaulLG
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
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.
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 wasQuote:
Originally Posted by gunoierul
First time getting this
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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?
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.