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Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the [Dev Diary] Anniversary Event 2019 below.
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BB_Torkav
This is about coming together to help each other and frankly BB knows it wont work that way you was warned last year about the fact you give pre lvl 50 10x amount of dough to the over 51 candles in the same adventures ...you do this because there is no doubt specially now 10x the amount of players over lvl 51..problem human nature will always make most people think about themselves and not the bigger picture and this was seen last year and was only limited because of the toolkit bug...the 15k balloon is easily done with a couple buffs no problem there but if you want players to work on the whole goal then we would need to be able to make the buffs and most of us wont be able too..
i agree with most of this but we got around it by swapping dough and candles 1-1 in guild it sometimes worked on trade but like all events greedy players made it hard to get fair deals the most of the time thats why the guild was better option
i said last yr we should be able to get both kinds but they prob give lowers more to make them in prov house is it we could make one from the other
i just hope the greedy players dont take the mick to much this time coz they annoy the hell out of me
i know its all about supply and demand but you can spot them taking the mick trying to rip every1 off all the time in all events
but yep agree its gonna be a pain to get the stuff to make the buffs depending what level you are unless you have fair players that will help you out on trade or guild or mates so just gonna still offer 1-1 trades and if it works cool if not then prov house will be busy i guess
A: What the heck are adventure tales???
B: Can we use Fruits of Hardship instead of Enormous Cake?
even 1-1 isnt fair i can do a outlaws and get something like 30 candles and a lower lvl get something like 250 dough now 1-1 i would trade all i had for and they wouldnt even dent theres i would have to do 8-10 of the same adv to just match 1 of a lower lvl ....i can do my 15k balloons without making a single buff ..but its the bigger picture i am looking at this is the one event where it benefits all to just share
No dough outways candles by a huge ratio did last year will do again this year ...if you do a stealing from the rich a two player map over lvl 51 will get max around 25 candles if the lootspot is take by a lvl 50 or below they will get a max 250 dough give or take a few...same adv same kills huge difference
happy anniversary and cant wait to participate. fun to all and some cake too.
Hi everyone. Those who might have seen me before on chat in Newfoundland would remember me for 2 things, omni-presence on Trade Tab and my prolonged discussions and debates on BB's practices and i still have a big sack of non-positive reserves towards BB's decisions and practices of the last few years that still need answers and dealing with. But when i first saw this event last year kicking in live, i jumped up and was dancing like a happy kid and i was ridiculously excited to see the continuation of the event, which it was as always quite disappointing compared to what it could have been (can't expect perfection, of course) but it was great and most people turned out pretty happy out of it and those who weren't, were made happy through help and even those who knew nobody or even English language for that matter, just stumbled on help and good deeds of random strangers with no personal relation or even anything expected in return quite often. I think that built an amazing atmosphere along all of the confusions and the insane imbalance of the resources required to make the Cake buffs (which for a major part of it, was the cause of it all). I would say that was great.
I have my own opinions and conflicts with BB's decisions but there's no enemies, we all just want the best for this game and to keep it fun and going forever, even if our definitions and views differ, the aims are too similar to be opposing. But it would be immoral of anyone to deny the success of someone when seen obviously and to my knowledge and understanding, i think Anniversary event is the greatest achievement of BB probably even beyond this game so far since the level 50 breakthrough (and yes, including the weapon's drop removal, although an extreme "patch removal", it had to be done) and you don't have to believe me saying it but just thinking of millions of players playing this game from multiple servers under different languages (some players 1 account for each server) and millions of more accounts inactive and a variety of types of productions and game-playing patterns and styles between these millions. Then the combinations of resource production and consumption this crazy game allows us... calculating the potential exchange rates, consumption rates and needs and values and their match to their equivalent Gem price... just that (although i very much doubt BB did nor could have done it thoroughly) just to begin to think of doing such a thing sounds terrifyingly complicated and hard to do, and to actually decide to go with it and act on it, sounds like a huge enterprise that could challenge even some of the greatest in the business with all the monetary capacity needed to get it done, because it's nowhere near as simple as "enough money", that's why i appreciated this event from the first time and had great respect for BB for taking the great effort to bring this one up here. And i say it again, hats off to BB for this event, even with bugs and imbalances, still the greatest input in this game since i started playing over 3 (almost 4) years ago. This game entered a new era the moment the first Anniversary event kicked in live and there was no return option left since.
Now a note on how we might make this simpler/easier for each other...
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Good luck and have fun everyone. :)
Ps: Sorry for slaughtering it with Bolds and for going full WildTaurus mode on the amount of text here... Got a "Spoiler" there though.
At 9:1 ratio this is pretty much cowpoo. The active time needed to run 9 adv vs 1 alone makes it way more time consuming. It might be better if we got same amount of candles for completing say Princess as low level gets dough for completing say Lost Skull but im pretty sure its not even close?
Only way I see to get decent dough is to PAY a low level (if I can find one) to get on my ls and demand the dough in return. Normal practice? I think not.
yep agree...like i said i can do the 15k balloons without making a single buff you get a couple free from achievements and one the second day of the event ..its the bigger picture i was looking at as we would all like the main goals ...last year we did it but from the get go we could all use toolkits ....this year i think we will struggle but i guess time will tell
Sorry but to me it don't look like your looking at the big picture.
Fact. There are a lot more players in the upper bracket than the lower, which if you remember was the reason given as to why they get more dough. It was done so that given the information BB has both groups should get the same amount in total. (Those of you with long memory's will recall BB's terrible record on getting this sort of balancing right)
High level players can chose to use resources which don't impinge upon thier ability to run adventures or if they do they have the reserves in stock to cover event usage, the lower levels on the other hand if they want the goodies have to chose between using thier weapons for troops or balloon's, the smart ones will go for the loot spot route so as to maximize thier balloon production.
To get everything you don't even need to run many adventures since the cakes you need to make for quests and achievements is twice as many as you need to reach your personal donation goal, just 2 hours every other day is all the time a high level player needs to spend on adventures.
Looking forward to event will have to leave up to the Germans to cover the community goal
your thinking of your personal goal i am not i am thinking the global goal i can get my 15k balloons without even doing an adventure so i will get everything my personal goal will get me ...but if the buffs are easier to obtain then i will keep my little hut running for the entire event buffed that means more balloons for the big goal.....and if the lower player has any sense at all and is guided right he wont spend any troops doing adventures will be enough Lootspots going for them to drown in dough which they can share half and still cover what they need ......by the time a lower lvl players has done an adv he or she could of done a dozen lootspots
Why not just cut out the nonsense and let explorers find dough and candles whatever the player level?
Choosing a pretty number to divide the player base and then having to go for 9:1 ratio to actually make it work instead of going for 1:1 and then choosing the level divider based on that must be the stupidest balancing decision I've seen in a game.
It's been specifically balanced that way so the higher levels may be forced to buy their balloon packages for gems! Also giving just 5 candles on a prolong search which takes most types of explorers over a day to do is proof of this. Never seen them so low since 2012 when scouts found 1,2 or 3 event resources, (yep it was that bad) looks like its getting back to that now.
That's not true. For example anyone above lvl 62-63 will not have to do a single adventure or a send a single explorer during the whole event to complete all personal goals. Anyone above 54-55 will manage the same by using a few cake buffs during the event which you get from the calendar or achievements.
Point is, they are not forcing you to trade. You can convert between Candles and Dough, there is just 1 quest to buy 50 Candles or Dough and that is the full extent of the trading you need to do. The only other interactions you need have with other players is the arrangements to have cakes dropped.
Ok new plan.
Since the candle amount is very low when playing myself, find an active 50- player (there must be some out there right?).
Supply with RotM and res.
Ask for the dough in loot in return.
Convert the 9x dough into 3x more candles than id get if i played it.
Profit!
Might want to check your sums as to how many you will have and be able to convert.....And, not all have 46 explorers. Most who play actually go to work, have family to speak do, even risk going outside sometimes, they don't have the time to focus on sending explorers on constant short searches. What BB could do with remembering it is a game, not a way of life.
Making me actively hate lower level players. A week before event they are begging me for free stuff because everyone insists on teaching new players they don't have to work for their stuff. Then they try to gouge me in event all the while freeloading on the people who actually can make the balloons required...
I guess if BB is wanting me to like the game and it's players less, job's a good un.
I will be unable to finish already one of the first quests because it requires to buy 50 sth from other players. Well I'm a lone player and I feel sick of this forcible socialization.
In my economy overview why is the festival hall classed as level 3 for working out consumption rate of platinum and bronze swords, but is level 4 for battle horses?
I hate this event. Scrap it and start over, preferably with new devs.