So if this first phase only goes 4 days...no server will reach 100% at this rate....is it a waste to be donating them now?
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So if this first phase only goes 4 days...no server will reach 100% at this rate....is it a waste to be donating them now?
from what i can tell, no.
You will be rewarded for what you give, but i am almost sure that there will be a balloon wipe.
The BB's just started 3 new contests, the Event wasn't tested so there is absolutely no one who knows for sure what is happening. (other than the BB's)
Ok, because if I donate all my balloons now, I wont have resources to convert for phase 2...and the rewards seem much better for the longer time we have to complete phase 2. Of course we don't know what the rewards for phase 1 are. Already donated 6Kish balloons and wondering if I should donate another 13k just sitting in storage.
I do wish they would clarify if we all start over on collecting balloons if we make it past the qualifying round which is taking place now. I would like a definite answer not a guess. If they do not start us all over after qualifying then we can go for broke now without worrying about later.
the balloons we collected and donated get erased after phase one and start from 0% again.
yeah but if we don't get to 100% in this phase we don't see any of phase 2 according to the info in the Event Window under your avatar.
Plus what else would you use balloons on anyway, there's not merchant items to buy with them.
But that's not what they said in the diary, they indicated that servers that failed in the first phase would be grouped together so that they'd have a shot of winning as a group.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aquila
Or maybe I'm crazy because I could have sworn that they said those that didn't make it phase 1 would work together in phase 2.Quote:
THE SECOND PHASE OF THE EVENT
Key facts related to the second phase of the event:
The balloons from the first phase will not be included in second phase results.
During the second phase of the event, certain game worlds will work together (results) in order to achieve a common goal and compete with servers that have stronger economies.
The task is to reach as high as possible result (percentage).
3 types of rewards that every game world can get: reaching 100%, 150% and 200%.
2 international rewards: the fastest game world and the game world that donated the most balloons during the second phase.
I hope this clears up some of your questions! I'll post in the dev diary thread if I learn anything new tomorrow. Link-y doo.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Effiluna
Did the requirements change all of a sudden? now it shows that 5 servers are already at 100% and the rest are much higher than before.
I suspect that the requirements didn't change it was more that people logged in and put in their balloons - most players I suspect are not on during the day so the balloon donations will be trickling in over the course of the day and shoot up in the mornings and evenings when players sign on and make their donations.
I've donated close to 60k balloons over the course of a few hours and our percentage still hasn't changed ... how often are the percentages updated?
Ya, there's a post from the devs on the front page saying that their original calcs were --- 'FAIL!'Quote:
Originally Posted by Bordoc
Really, they seriously admitted to a mistake?! Color me impressed (but not surprised there was a mistake).Quote:
Originally Posted by ZBest
On the design aspect, I have to wonder why we have these 10, 50 balloon rewards for doing things (my daily was even wasted on 50), when anyone can make tens of thousands just converting water? I can blow through an armies worth of recruits doing Shaman for 10 balloons, or just make a ton of wells for nothing and get 10,000.
ya definitely unbalanced quest rewards. you get 100 balloons just for doing the daily click find the hidden objects. the adventure attack quests gives only 10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarMarl
Some servers blew past other servers :/
Is there more players on these servers compared to others?
If so how is that fair for those smaller servers to get say 100,000,000 balloons if they only have a small % of the population of the larger servers that has the population to reach that number in only 2 days time?
I've donated almost 30K in balloons and didn't see my server go up even a 0.01% :0
I know several in my guild have done the same and it hardly moves :/
Do we just have a bunch of cheap players on our server or what not donating the balloons to this?
The BB crew also didn't take into ANY consideration of lvl 50 players once again! They had 2 adventures with no rewards but XP for the troop loss players suffer running them and HELLO lvl 50 players DON'T need XP anymore so they got shafted.
I'm not a lvl 50 player but I can understand them not bothering to run them simply because it is just another resource suck they are doing to this game. Give the lvl 50 players a flipping reason to do these things! Have their reward exchangeable from XP to something else THEY can use!
As a very minor point, it would have been nice if those seeming random balloon reward mails actually said what activity earned you the balloons. That way we could our ancillary efforts a bit better.
Or did I miss something? (I know a whole slew of actions get you those periodic balloons, but when I get three at a time for small balloon amounts and a fourth that almost seems decent, I'd like to know what got me that 4th one.)
I think it is odd. 20 servers are stuck at 99%. We (USA2) moved up from 52% to 67% but the 20 servers NEVER MOVED ! They stayed at 99%. They couldn't make ONE percent ? I don't think the chart is in any way connected with reality. It is a scam. I think the whole point of the "contest" is to drain resources from the game.
Of course this is a resource drain :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Mephistopheles1
the longer it takes to do things because of lack of resources the longer they can keep us here to play the game.
When you think about it. if they didn't drain the market of so many resources we'd be drowning in them.
YES to original question on this thread and 10