Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the [Dev Diary] Halloween Event 2021
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BB_Trafffer
It's my favorite event of the year and so now I just feel depressed, knowing that I won't be able to participate in the way I usually would, struggling along on this Unity garbage. Well done to everyone who is playing "normally" on the client, if you've figured out how to do that. You'll have a great event.
I've tried several times to get the Client working without success but I gather it doesn't solve the latest bugs anyway.
with client u need to go through the install and then find the latest client.swf file in the thread and replace the old one with that one, else it will not work
Halloween is my favourite Event too and it looks as though ti won't be working properly, I'm a bit depressed too gone through all of settler 3 again, played settlers since first playing settler 1 on some console forgot what it was called something 600, I really like the settlers, I also really enjoy this browser one too. Let's hope things are sorted soon. I miss playing and managing my island.
Everyone keep well, and cross fingers and toes for the game to be playable.
Bye for now.
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I've always loved the events in this game, and Halloween is one of the best. But it's very hard to get excited about an event when the basic game mechanics are so damaged that even simple tasks like sending out explorers or collecting their mail can take forever, including one or more game crashes. And I'm dreading having to run adventures to try to keep the pumpkin patches going.
I got through the Anniversary event by doing as little as possible. I sent out explorers and ran the festival hall, but didn't do the quests. Not fun.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, BB - focus resources on making the game playable again. Most of us would gladly skip an event or two in order to have a game we can actually play and enjoy again.
Exciting part of the day...
Did not check addy by addy but besides the newly added split city in summer to the seasonal addys, looks like its once again the same addys.
Judging by the way you guys handled the game last months, and seeing that you added more and more content, how do you imagine us to buy all the new things?
You gave us more content but still the same double xp/loot? Would have expected a triple loot and double loot at least from your failures.
Pirate explorer... "obsessed with finding treasure and adventure" what adventure? the info you provided shows that hes obsessed with finding treasures... maybe u mean adventure as in map fragments. Also, what is that loot LMAO 2/4 plat swords?1/2 arquebuse?1/2 cannon? bunch of useless map fragments that we cant use coz u havent provided us coop/addys events in last months? the coins are fine i guess and with the chance of pfb/prem it looks like a worse scared explorer.
Not sure if you guys mentioned, didn't see, is it a fast..slow explo?
Mummified geologist.. its basically a Thorough geo but finds 4x times bigger depos instead of 3x.. good job BB! finally released a good geo, chummy geo last year was a big failure.
Stone depot... uhh okay? the cost - too high... it can produce 3 things.. if u start lv 1 with one thing then u can upgrade it 2 more times to have all of them.. why description says then it can be upgraded 3 times?
I can see the idea behind giving some love to granite/marble/stone masons and the grout factory.. but what is this joke XD 6 hours buff??? 12 hours buff??? and only 200% prod speed.... unless I am wrong and 200% prod speed is not just prod speed/3 (which pretty much counts as a buff with x3 output) then why are you releasing 6/12 hrs buffs when we had better lasting buffs for years, pretty much another failure.
Longboat storehouse... just give us upgradable event stores... its just another 40k storehouse same as dark roofed warehouse, just new design.
Pumpkin mansion- excited about this.. starts at 160 pop.. can it be upgraded with tokens tho? depending on this, it might be better than haunted mansion and probably best 2x2 besides wondrous.
Ghastly Halloween Bundle...
https://ubistatic-a.akamaihd.net/003...undle_2021.png
Unless I am blind, doesn't the picture of this bundle show an endless gold mine too? Need explanation about this.
10k pumpkins... endless gold mine in the image but nothing about it in the description.
Typical BB, the editors or whoever does this, just like with the valentines event, false advertisment.
I was actually so hyped about this bundle but I guess it was too good to be true coming from a bunch of failures lmao.
Horrific+Terrorific bundles.. don't have to say much here, the name basically fits both of them.
Game loaded: No place for new event buildings.
Game is not loading. Stops at 40% progress.
game not loading completely, reporting an error
prnt.sc/1xa1pi2
launch window 11 days, event window 21 days.
This is simple counting BB, c'mon.
https://i.imgur.com/fI32MQJ.png
Merchant locked noble cemetery after only 2 bought. Thought is was 3?
I activated xmas market this morning and probably this is the reason I am not able to join the game
Got no golem.
no no no no NOPE NOOOO more patience for this see you at X-mass event!!!
Game does not load at all. Stops at first brown bar ..........
EDIT: Ah, it loads, it just takes 10 + minutes to move ....... lol
And no event :)
EDIT2: and finally in, with the event, and constant zone refresh and freeze. This will be a hell of an event. Not sure how much I will do. Seriously considering client hack. C'mon BB. You're literally forcing us to use hack by your poor standards ............
No mention in dev diary of cemeteries producing or not during deactivation phase.
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Originally Posted by ClarenceDuPont
That quote from dev diary implies that cemeteries will produce during the removal phase.Quote:
You can use the Banshee's Scream buff in order to get more Pumpkins before the Removal phase finishes. The buff effect will end and you won't be able to use such buffs anymore after the event deactivation.
I thought there was supposed to be an update to fix the problems before the event started? Did it happen, because I'm not noticing any improvement.
And for the event, everything freezes as I click through the event quests, then it jumps around, freezes, jumps back up to the top of the quests list, and then closes itself.
The golem describes itself as "A ship from distant lands used for different weekly challenges."
I've provided it with the purified water until its heart shows zero and crumbled, but there's no option to complete it.
If I have anything open (like the Golem or the star menu) and try to type in chat, it all jumps around, then freezes, then closes the open window so that I can type in chat.
Name: Horrific Halloween Bundle (not tradable, not giftable)
Type: Bundle
Price: 1x 18999 Gems (Limit: 1 per Player) | Halloween exclusive Bundle. Only available during Halloween
except it costs 21999 Gems in merchant and apparently I cannot buy one as I have reached the limit on the number I can purchase.
Hello everyone!
We know about the issues which appeared after today's hotfix, and the team is working to resolve them.
We will keep you updated.
Yeh me to, I thought I would give it a go, it is my favorite event after all. What a farce. No golem, No calendar, No event tag in merchant or mayors house, could not cancel the weekly `failed' quest, loading took ages ( and I've not really had loading issues before ) multiple clicking to get anything to stick, deposits not showing, I couldn't even un-sleep some of my production buildings till the zone refresh caught up after about five minutes because the quest reminder wanted to alert me to every single new quest from the event ( and there are a lot of them open at once! idiots! ) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Alina_Light
The event stuff sort of came back after I visited some one to drop off some buffs but not the golem before I had to log off.
But OMG I see BB actually KNOW about these issues, and that is without pages and pages of specially formed bug reports, wow and on the same day as release, give the guy that actually turned on the game to check a pay rise. I know we got the `we'll keep you informed' qualification in the same post, and we all know what that means :rolleyes:
It takes a player to keep the game going on client, whilst a developer team at BB, with their own game, can only break and constantly ruin it, and it takes them six weeks to manage that....there are just no words to describe how bad you are at your job :(
they are playing their own version of Pokemon, trying to catch all the possible bugsQuote:
Originally Posted by ClarenceDuPont
First day of event, 2 hours of playing, here is feedback:
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You are welcome.
cant seem to invite anyone to an adv its hard enough playing one now I send out the invites and they never get there
apparently they are aware of thisQuote:
Originally Posted by hades8840
Love tree worked yesterday, no worky today, just spinny spinny.
And shocker - xmas bakery broken from yesterday also.
I have exactly the same problem that love tree and xmas bakery are not working. Not working with the unity version or the old client so seems to be a server issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClarenceDuPont
In the last upgrade to the system, the developers in their wisdom, decided to sort out the diamond buying area.
They need to sort out the game first. Because people are not going to buy diamonds if they cant play the game properly.
People are leaving this game in droves.
I am just logging in each day, reading my emails then logging out.
As the game is still unplayable.
Just why oh why did the team still decide to start the event with all these problems? I can honestly say, that the game is at it's worst state ever. A lot of people are having all kinds of problems that make the game unplayable (lag, zone refreshes, buffs not working, gens not working, invitations not working etc. The biggest problem i'm facing is the "Server zone crashed" error which game with the latest update. None of the hot fixes fixed that. For me it means that my island is locked and i can't log in for god knows who long till the lock is somehow automatically lifted. This has happened to me 4 times by now and i also know other players are having this issue. Premium time goes to waste, buildings are not buffed, pfb is useless, explorers sit in the star, pumpkin fields slowly run out and get depleted, no pumps no nothing! And all u say, is that u are aware of these issues? Will there be another hot fix any time soon that would fix all these major issues or is it now finally the time to leave and never return? I have never seen so much incompetence in my life..Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
Looks like love tree also not working for me today but xmas market is working
Later edit: looks like island hopping fixed my love tree
My xmas bakery worked 6 hours AFTER cooldown ended, lovetree 7 hours.
Many attempts with logoffs in client and web before it worked
Hey everyone.
We are aware of the issue with the "Locked Zone" and a hotfix is coming - we will publish the schedule soon.
For now, please don't use Love Garden.
We are also looking at other issues that have been reported, such as adventure invitations or Love Garden.
We will keep you informed.
I am not sure why the servers are being touched at all. The old client was still fully functional (except for excelsior graphics) up until the recent "server improvements". Now we have some aoe buffs not working, zone lock issues and adventure invites not working on either client. The focus needs to be on the unity client and not the servers. The servers were communicating with the old client perfectly fine.
The developer team should try using the old client so they can see which stuff on the server is working instead of trying to fix things in the wrong place.
Some examples are:
Indicators above buildings to show upgrade available (Easter Baskets, other event buildings that are upgraded by achievement points), work as normal on old client, broken on unity
Mine deposits, show up normally with the values contained in them on old client, broken on unity
Green activity lights on friends/guild members, work fine on old client, missing on unity
Zone refreshes, these just reset menu positions and clear out unsaved numbers added to generals on the old client, but on unity they completely freeze the client for several seconds.
There is loads of stuff like this where the unity client needs the fixes, but the developer team is trying to fix them server side instead?
Unable to login yesterday using EdgeQuote:
Originally Posted by The_Sarmatian
Able to login today with Chrome but no Halloween calendar , No Halloween tab in Provision House, no Golem
I had to refresh to get them but then Quest List won't open
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Originally Posted by The_Sarmatian
Today I was able to login through Chrome, good luck
Chatting with players in global, issue with bakery/love tree/market may be related to incorrect cooldown.
My love tree has a cooldown of 20 hours but I was only able to start it after about 26
Xmas bakery is 24 hours cooldown, could only start it after about 30 hours.
Unverified obvs but seems reasonable, credit to first lord and kodran for pointing out.
ETA Observatory has similar behaviour, countdown expired, spinny spinny trying to to start
Will the event be extended to compensate ppl for not being able to play how they would of for various bugs that stopped usQuote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
Where to start with this event...
... only on day 2 and it feels like I been at it for a week ... one minute love tree works .. next it doesnt, same with spring park and all other buffs .. its a lottery of which will work ..
Adventures are a right struggle which requires alot of patience , one minute generals set off .. next they havent , then they set off again, then I have to wait until camp is destroyed as there is no bar now to see progress .. next minute general hasnt even set off ...
I am glad explorers are coming back with pumpkins as I am struggling to do enough adventures to refil the pumpkin fields ...
Only another 19 days of HELL to do.
The event would be much better if the zone refresh wasnt there, which happens every couple of seconds, yes seconds, but you have know about this bug since July on test server, the deafening silence on this zone refresh is astonishing ... no word on when it will be fixed/looked at...
Anyway back to zone refresh, on next adventure on the Horrorween Event.
Next issue is what will break on next hotfix ... I need a drink.