I know you are all angry but!!!!!!!

[veganbot]

It's too consistent. All the servers that have got there have throttled back. I think it's either a bug with the rankings or the target changes when you hit 100%.

No, BB have just been busted for cheating, there's no way they could carry on with their advantage so they must have done something, I'm hoping the german players have quit in disgust after realising their win was manipulated

[canute]

yawn!! back to the Rugby/F1/tennis/cricket/TdF/ - I had a go!!! and donated probably 30k balloons... but why bother to compete in an pointless competition?
There seems to be a serious case of stupidity in the organisation.... everyone knows how to make a fair system.... you either have one competition with first and last then second and next to last etc as groupings..or you run several small competition groups..

I'm quite happy to see the German/Polish servers winning... just don't expect the rest of us to get very excitited about it!!

[Sto_Helit]

yawn!! back to the Rugby/F1/tennis/cricket/TdF/ - I had a go!!! and donated probably 30k balloons... but why bother to compete in an pointless competition?
There seems to be a serious case of stupidity in the organisation.... everyone knows how to make a fair system.... you either have one competition with first and last then second and next to last etc as groupings..or you run several small competition groups..

I'm quite happy to see the German/Polish servers winning... just don't expect the rest of us to get very excitited about it!!

Not expecting you to get excited really and the pointlessness of trying to win in a rigged contest is noted. However, some of us are still going to try and get at least 100% for our server group. We are not doing it to win the prizes that we have no hope of winning, but to have the satisfaction of achieving what we can attain. If you aren't competing, could you do your game and let us do ours?

We won't ask you to make balloons if you don't want to, please don't dissuade people who do want to compete from joining in.

[canute]

Not expecting you to get excited really and the pointlessness of trying to win in a rigged contest is noted. However, some of us are still going to try and get at least 100% for our server group. We are not doing it to win the prizes that we have no hope of winning, but to have the satisfaction of achieving what we can attain. If you aren't competing, could you do your game and let us do ours?

We won't ask you to make balloons if you don't want to, please don't dissuade people who do want to compete from joining in.

well Sto... aren't you a great cheerleader?... I'm not interested in dissuading people, as I said i HAD A GO and did 30k balloons on my short daily visits... but my point is quite valid... I didn't mention the silly gem situation, just the mechanics of running a competition... if you want to keep running into a wall with your head when these competitions come up that's fine.. I tried that... it hurt...

[Larili]

well Sto... aren't you a great cheerleader?... I'm not interested in dissuading people, as I said i HAD A GO and did 30k balloons on my short daily visits... but my point is quite valid... I didn't mention the silly gem situation, just the mechanics of running a competition... if you want to keep running into a wall with your head when these competitions come up that's fine.. I tried that... it hurt...

Canute, I can't help seeing the irony in your last post and your username Your point is extremely valid as is everybody's on this matter. Maybe its the rebel in me, but I'm not going to be beaten down by the unfair and the unjust just because it hurts on occasions. If BB chooses out of ignorance or desire to treat their customers unfairly, that's their problem. I like Settlers the game, and its the game I choose to play, it doesn't mean I have to play it their way..just because they put us in different teams doesn't mean that we can not look at the rankings and calculate how OUR servers team would have performed had we been teamed together. As such we can have just as valid conception of beating the German server teams as they have of `winning ' from being given an unfair advantage. The 3EU/UK servers have done themselves proud in this respect and them getting a few more extra gems at the end of the event doesn't change our performance or what we are achieving, and what is still left to achieve .
I admit I cleared my PH the night the news broke about the happy hour, but then I remembered the targets I set myself for this event in `MY' game, and BB and other servers were not going to spoil MY game with their actions. So I picked myself up and got back into it. I'm not going to tell you or other players how to play your game, but I would like to think that if you could use some spare capacity of your PH and/or resources to just keep some balloons being produced, you would be helping our servers go from `whining sore losers' to `those that have the metal to complete the task' DESPITE the failings of others....and that has got to be irritating for them...and worth a few balloons

[veganbot]

`whining sore losers'

???????? It's not that at all,BB have blatantly just cheated in a competition tey themselves declared as fair, if they hadn't then your comment would be valid but you seem to imply that we should just ignore their undehand tactics

[Ozzymandeus]

I'll just leave this here:

How can newer game worlds compete with older ones?
We heard your feedback from the End of the World event, some game worlds will collaborate together in order to achieve a common goal and win rewards. Rest assured that cooperation will be limited only to results, game worlds will not be directly connected in any other way.

The amount of balloons required depends on the economic output of your server. The leader board will take into account the economic output of each server; relative to its amount of active players. This should guarantee a fair competition, no matter how old or young game worlds are.

[Sto_Helit]

well Sto... aren't you a great cheerleader?... I'm not interested in dissuading people, as I said i HAD A GO and did 30k balloons on my short daily visits... but my point is quite valid... I didn't mention the silly gem situation, just the mechanics of running a competition... if you want to keep running into a wall with your head when these competitions come up that's fine.. I tried that... it hurt...

Well, I'm still having a go. I'm still enjoying it. I've donated over 150k balloons now and am pushing through the pain. It will be worth it.

[Larili]

Quote Originally Posted by Larili View Post

`whining sore losers'
???????? It's not that at all,BB have blatantly just cheated in a competition tey themselves declared as fair, if they hadn't then your comment would be valid but you seem to imply that we should just ignore their undehand tactics

Sorry veganbot, I was speculating on how the game managers could probably try to justify the unjustifiable in their meeting tomorrow ( if they have such a thing ). This is the perception I had after the EotW event, and given what has happened I think I may have a point
I am certainly not implying that by continuing to strive and reach 200% despite this unfairness I am in any way condoning the unfairness, but rather that any argument I make regarding this issue will carry more weight, as it can not be dismissed so easily as coming from someone who is `whining' because it was too difficult or because I did not achieve the goal which was set.
Lulu put this thread up to re-motivate some of you who like myself were very angry about what has happened, and how our trust in BB has been abused so badly. The easiest thing to do would be to no longer take part either on principle or protest or both. But there are more ways to be a winner in a game than just be first past the post, and there are more ways to protest than walking away and not participating, if you think it is the right thing for you to do then you have no argument from me and I will respect you no less for it. I'm posting here to give those that are wavering another option, will a few resources turned into balloons really break your island or game plan? But it could make the difference in getting prizes for the server community and give even more relevance to our criticism of the event and how it has been managed. I won't even promise BB will pay any attention to us the players here on EU/UK servers if we do get 200% or if we stop where we are right now. But I do know that I'm going to make 500k balloons by 23rd July, barring BB locking me out of my island For my own satisfaction of beating my challenge to myself, if it annoys BB game fixing event management then that's a bonus right now ( and secretly I'm throwing one of them down every well I build....what can I say I'm evil when I'm angry )
For all you ` I am not taking any further part in this fiasco event' Go on make another 10k balloons, I know you want too, I won't tell anyone, it will be our secret

[Nogbad]

Another solution, to be ready for the next time.
We all make a new account on a Polish server including our other friends from overseas, and in our spare time build up its economy.
Then, when the time comes, and another 'fair competition' begins, we all concentrate our efforts there.
That would hit them in the proverbials, as the ensuing outcry from the German servers would be incredible.