Dear BlueByte,
All we have officially been told to do is: Collect balloons and donate them to an Inter server event. to reach a vague target of 100%, 150% and 200% which reward all the players on that server with a prize for each target.
Now unless your understanding of % is different than the rest of the world, there can not be a difference between the number of balloons donated up to 100% and those donated after to reach the higher targets. So why have you not made any statement to that effect back to the player community, where speculation and rumours are abound as to why there ` appears to be' a sudden slow down on the leaderboard of servers once they pass the 100% threshold.
Now there is some more speculation, driven I believe from what has been seen on the test server, that another reason for this `slowdown' is that at some point the balloons will have a gold coin value and players are balancing the prize value of the donated balloons against the in-game value of the gold coins. There has been no official announcement of this, with details of when, if or how this will be implemented, so please get your act together before you unleash even more bad feeling of this event, when those who are generously donating in the spirit of a server community, suddenly discover that really the 150% and 200% targets were never worth playing for, and those greedily stockpiling balloons on the speculation of gold coins profit from the hard work and generosity of others, benefit so unjustly.
IF you are deciding to go the balloon/gold coin route, make an announcement NOW so everybody can make an informed decision on how they wish to proceed. Also if, like other aspects of the event, you haven't quite thought this through, ( Phase 1 and subsequent pairings and staggered gem happy hours quite easily spring to mind) may I suggest that any value of gold coin to balloons increases after each of the three targets proportionally, thus still giving the incentive to those wishing to profiteer to at least still keep contributing to the server event.
Please, Please give your GM's a statement to give to their players, you must have set out a plan for this event, by not sharing it with us you're not helping. As a surprise may be a good party idea, if its badly thought out it could be a disaster like sending an Alpaca as the entertainment to Hungry Lions convention
Here's hoping my concerns will be heard amongst those popping balloons.
Happy Anniversary
Larili: