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Originally Posted by Nynaeve
TL;DR: You can do it but they won't count towards phase 2 results.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Effiluna
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Originally Posted by Nynaeve
TL;DR: You can do it but they won't count towards phase 2 results.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Effiluna
I've gathered the answers I've been able to provide so far into a FAQ.
Don't forget there are also voucher codes to uncover and forum contests where you can win gems!
Happy balloon hunting!
I may have missed something I've not read all the post but does anyone have any idea how many balloon need to be sent in per server, also read some where this was based on all the positive feed back from the end of the world just wondering were they got that from I remembering everyone hating it
They will not give out how much balloons is needed. (which is dumb)Quote:
Originally Posted by xethilus
Now, you may be able to guess at the number, if you could see how many balloons are required for a percentage.
So what happens to those who were making balloons in prov house when hits 100% and can no longer be donated? If as it sounds like you're saying that ANY balloons made during phase 1 will not be counted/eligible for phase 2, does that mean all those balloons just go in the trash? Makes me little wary to make more once we get closer to 100% and just save the resources to make after phase 2 starts. I really think that is the clarification we'd all like. What we'd like to hear is "yes balloons made and saved (not donated) during phase 1 can be used for phase 2"Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Effiluna
I believe all balloons prior to phase 2 will have an internal server value of 0. Even though they're in your star menu it has no value. Which will be hard to tell apart from balloons made after phase 1.
You can put them in the mayors but they just have an internal value of 0 and thus not counted. it will appear they got counted when u donate but you don't know that because the event list update is going to update not counting them.
I believe that is what is going on.
It all sounds/seems so convoluted and complicated. One would think the point the event is to make balloons. We are making balloons. So why not just make all balloons produced count? Its not like the balloons in phase 1 cost no resources to make. We are using up our resources in phase 1 just like will need to in phase 2. This is what bothers and confuses me. Its like they are saying "great work producing all those balloons. But they don't count for the real event that starts now and you have to begin again with depleted resources bc you used them all on phase 1 when the balloons didn't really count for the main event."Quote:
Originally Posted by RonEmpire
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcain
I would like to thank everyone for their feedback on this worldwide event. This allows me to bring your questions and concerns to Blue Byte so we can continue to improve events now and in the future.
I think it is unfair that since there was no way to know when we would hit 100%, we are now losing all of the resources we have used to make balloons in the first phase. Some of us have thousands of balloons that were cooking over night only to wake up and find out they are worthless. That should have been an advantage to making 100% faster! Just voicing the frustrating many of us are feeling.
They should have the option to sell balloons for gold before phase 2 starts.
So, what happens to the servers that don't hit 100%? My guild is producing and donating balloons in the tens of thousands at a time, and Ares is still hovering around 34%. At this rate, there is no way we'll hit 100% within the "approximately 4 days".
I agree 100%. I also was making baloons over night so I could help this morning get us over the hump. I have several thousand that will now go to waste. What a dumb situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoffeePam
Seems like the Event Window is bugged. We managed to complete the event at rank 15. but it shows 99.8% for a while now. We can't turn in balloons anymore. But somehow the UK-1 is at rank 4 when they were near the bottom of the list last night. What's up with this bug ??
Yes, I'd like to know also. Seems wrong that we are unable to donate anymore and yet other servers keep passing us in the rankings. Very poor form. Has there been any official response to this yet?
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Originally Posted by Spikescopilot
Well, all servers will be participating in Phase two, you just won't get the rewards for Phase one, I guess.
So i'm little surprised not that many aren't complaining about the rewards. I'm really happy and excited to have new event and something to do. But seriously just a big decor building and 100 gems, and well a "change skin buff" that doesn't actually do anything beneficial is all we get for a month long event that uses massive amounts of resources. No event items either to work towards with balloons. Just the 100 gems and a building (that most high levels don't even want bc no room for) for hitting 100% in phase 2. We get 100 gems for logging in for a week. So that just sounds sad to only get 100 gems for whole event.
I'm not asking for massive rewards. Really just adding a "0" to the gems would make us all extremely happy. Something to consider BB
@ BB_Effiluna - I had over 100k ballons cooking in my PH yesterday morning(our server was @ roughly 48% completion). I used a chocolate rabbit and they were completed around 11pm last night. They are in my star menu. I was not online to donate them before our server reached 100% early this morning. Are you saying that the ballons are now worthless? i'm out a chocolate rabbit and over 200k hwl/hwp?
i understand the reason for not allowing servers to hoard ballons for use in 2nd phase, but that should only apply to ballons "made" after their server completed Phase 1. My ballons were completed before my server hit 100% and i was unable to log in to donate them, so i'm being penalized for it?
Yea. I already complained about the building being too big 3x3 (size of a barrack) and yet it only gives 20pop.
it needs to upgrade to 100 pop to be really worth it considering its taking up 3x3 of space.
How come my explorers keep bringing me baloons if I can't use them. Are they really that stupid?
Hey BB. Add something to the provision house: Convert balloons into gems. 1000 balloons = 1 gem.
Does this mean we should stop doing the balloon quests for now? Or will those be the 'new' balloons?
How do we tell the new balloons from the old balloons?
Since Zeus has reached the 100% goal I've decided to go on Ares to help them out and try to get them up to their 100%
Now figuring out how to get to Ares wasn't all that easy for me lol. I didn't realise it was the same exact web address to play, but you needed to put in a different email address and create a brand new account that would only play there.
It's a second account under your name ... or whatever name you choose.... but it's not one you can use to share resources or anything else for that matter with your Zeus account. So no chance of pushing, no chance of anything at all by doing this.
Thanks. I saw on chat you were from Zeus. I was wondering how you created second game on Ares. Thanks for being willing to do that.
so i want to know how, after this step has been "completed", Zeus has dropped from 17, to 19, to now 21 in the rankings???
Actually we were at 15 last night when we completed it. for quite sometime. I have no idea how these other servers jump ahead of us with a 100% complete while we're stuck at 99.8%
Kind of nonsense server calculation bug. Silly programmer needs to sort that out.
I can't begin to describe how underwhelmed I am with this "event". It is a massive drain on resources for prizes that are totally worthless. I can't for the life of me understand why BB would squander the resources they used to to create this waste of players time and resources. We, as players invest a great deal of time, effort, and even money on this game, yes i know it is a game. I just have to say what an insult I feel it is to see the developers churn out a piece of crap like this and to execute it so very very poorly. I guess I expect too much when I expect anything from Blue Byte.
I agree, with most here, we need compensation for the waste of resources used to make balloons that don't count cause they were still being made in the provisions house when YOU said we reach 100% and are now saying we did not.
This is totally your fault, either count the balloons we had/have in our star menu's and give us credit. or a darn good compensation to cover the resources wasted, and a good reason to compete in Phase 2.
I'll bet they come up with a solution that will make less then 50% of the players happy. In fact I'll give odds.
^^SNAFU... Typical UBI Cluster...Quote:
Originally Posted by RonEmpire
1. I still think the CIA is behind all of this
2. How will you know if the balloons i have were from phase 1 and not 2 (are they being tracked like me too?)
3. This Director guy is funny been playing a year and is still at lvl 36 who's alt is he?
is there an issue with the results tab.. the usa has been at the same % all day and I know what I alone have donated so something is sooooo not right. I'm getting a message I cant donate anymore ballons but it isn't showing USA at 100%
So any word on left over balloons from phase 1 working for phase 2? And i'm still getting daily event quest to do the retro advs with balloon rewards. Are they just pointless to do now?
No for the first part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcain
Yes for the second part.
Yes, it's disappoining that there is no point in doing the daily balloon quests. I can't decide if I should be dismissing them or just ignoring them.
Should we dismiss the rest of the first quest chain too?
I'm disappointed all the other servers got notice phase 2 started but we got no word at all. Just woke up this morning and it was on. I had to go to the euro eng server last night to see and then a BB in G-1 said "he thought it'd start tomorrow" but wasn't too sure sounding.
Thanks for showing how concerned you are with the US servers BB.......sigh
I think they should adjust our donations to boost us up a bit to make up for the loss in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arcain
I was disappointed to see us start so late and getting paired up with only Ares. We should get paired up eventually based on the different regions. Like perhaps a german server. at least the time zone differences will offset the sleep schedule.
it's quite unfair they have a huge head start. if this is suppose to be a competition on who gets to 100% first. obviously they screwed up on the US side.
Does anyone know what the percentages mean? 100% of what? 200% of what?
I cannot see the percentages at all. All I get is a "Calculation in Progress" popup. Anyone know what this is? I've gotten it for the last 3 or 4 days and have no idea where the US, or anyone else is at--percentage-wise.
I have asked this question several times with no response.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llandros