Feedback - Sneak Peek: Easter Event 2015

If you are going to reward new players for NOT playing last year nor the year before by allowing them to get the all the special event items, then I want the "Pirate Hut" - no, not the pirate residence - but the special bldg. given out to Beta testers for the "new" Ares server. I missed Beta testing by three months.

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Originally Posted by SweaterPuppies

The description says the Legendary Veteran does "a lot of damage", but the stats are 25-50. Is the description wrong or the damage? Or is 50 a lot?

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Agreed with all the comments about Legendary Vet.. How can it be a Vet, if it carries less troops, and High HP only helps when it is the last standing unit, which is not much at all... The damage it makes, specially without Splash Damage, I am guessing will not have any significant benefit.

I understand that making it carry 250 troops will make Vet completely useless.. but there should be some variation, just like MMA, which would make it noticeably useful in considerable scenarios... Just for example - how about a MMA with lesser troops but higher HP?.. Or same as MMA with slightly lesser damage but higher HP.. etc..

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Originally Posted by focusdonhim

Want to say Thanks to BB for this game. it has much to be developed but it is a great experience. I look forward to many thngs in gameplay and it is truly my best hobby. Trying to satisfy the community is a study in futility. But I believe many of the new adjustments to the game are making the game better.
One caveat, I thnk what happened with the ma made the developers gun-shy about the dynamics of the gameplay. It tilted the advantage over to the players in a big way. The changes to adventrues is a cse in point. One guy wrote that he could do IOTP WITHOUT even guiding the gens. He just sent mas and vets, pointed thm at the leaders and let them ping pong around the island. he came back 20 mins later and closed the adv. So BB had a real dilemma in the trying to fix the ma advantage. IMO, that is why all thse contortions to the sytem. If they allowed us 3 or 4 mas it would be a joke to do ft. Anyway, that is my 2 cents. And, game on.

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Good feedback Focusdonhim, but IMHO, MMA was quite balanced.. Don't know why BB is being gun shy with Legendary Vet though. BB should be able to easily create a variation of a General well balanced against existing Generals.. I think they still have some room to play around with various attributes of a general.

At 150 population (well, technically 180, but let's be honest that almost nobody is going to do the expeditions), the Easter residence is narrowly better than a frozen manor. The concept of upgrading buildings through achievements is an interesting one that may finally bring some use to the achievements system.

I agree that it would be best if the legendary vet general were a true legendary vet with at least the 250 troop capacity and special abilities to complement the generals already in existence. In either case, I'm looking forward to the Easter event!

It is not the logistics and reason why new eggs are implemented. I think everybody understands and more or less supports the idea of NOT hoarding event resources. Why not offer MMA general for new eggs as well as for old? And fine if you want players buying gems put a limit 1 on MMA from event so you have to spend gems to buy 2nd. I think this way you are straight with everybody. You give all players in game a chance to get the best gen in the game for event resources (they have to play and it is still free game) and a chance to get a 2nd one (if somebody wants it badly) for real cash purchase.

This way every one gets a chance to get the goodies (free game) and if you want more of it you got to pay. You give stuff for free (no need to buy gems) and also option for more for gems. I wouldn't have ANY problems with this approach. Not only you reinforce the free game reality, but also spur gem sales. Nobody can accuse you of greed, you give a chance to get MMA to all players, and at the same time you boost player hunger that can only be satisfied by... gem purchase.

I have 2MMA's I bought one from event and 2nd from gems. I am very happy to have 2 and very satisfied at the prices of getting both. Didn't need to get 2nd one but wanted to and I have no regrets paying gems for him. I am happy about it.

I am not sure how I would feel about it if this was be my first Easter in TSO. NO practical chance to get even 1 MMA while hoarders can rip me off by jumping prices because... the only way I could get MMA is through old eggs that I CAN'T get. I don't really care how you explain the reasoning for this. It just doesn't feel right.

Last year did feel right. Got MMA from event and could get another (as luxury) for gems. This year? Just not fair to newbies.

I wrote few times on those forums what works in free MMO's. If the game is free you can't limit and gate players to force them to purchase stuff for cash. You give a fair chance for all players to get goodies that you can put a limit on. Then you offer more for those goodies for cash in the shop. As well as lots of fluff for those who can afford that is not must to have but fun (if you like to have it).

This is a recipe that's been working very well for games who are either paid, free or employ a combination of both models (like SWTOR). The only just things for older players to have that new players can't have are achievements and fluff unobtainable anymore for newbies. NOT VITAL AND IMPORTANT FEATURES (like the best general in the game). I frankly believe the grim and drama you (BB) created by offering Frozen Manors once from gift boxes and shutting that down last year was a bad rep. You put a lot of grim on newbies who were silently hoping for their chance of getting the best housing in the game as older players had.

It wasn't fair because older players didn't have to do anything to get the FM, just spent some gems and some didn't even do that - buying boxes for coins because you could gift them. It just wasn't fair.

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Originally Posted by Plumz

I wrote few times on those forums what works in free MMO's. If the game is free you can't limit and gate players to force them to purchase stuff for cash. You give a fair chance for all players to get goodies that you can put a limit on. Then you offer more for those goodies for cash in the shop. As well as lots of fluff for those who can afford that is not must to have but fun (if you like to have it).

This is a recipe that's been working very well for games who are either paid, free or employ a combination of both models (like SWTOR). The only just things for older players to have that new players can't have are achievements and fluff unobtainable anymore for newbies. NOT VITAL AND IMPORTANT FEATURES (like the best general in the game). I frankly believe the grim and drama you (BB) created by offering Frozen Manors once from gift boxes and shutting that down last year was a bad rep. You put a lot of grim on newbies who were silently hoping for their chance of getting the best housing in the game as older players had.

It wasn't fair because older players didn't have to do anything to get the FM, just spent some gems and some didn't even do that - buying boxes for coins because you could gift them. It just wasn't fair.

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That is like saying that it was not fair that BB made gem packs (gifting 200 gems to a friend at the cost of 220 gems) only availilbe for those two weeks in halloween. But in reality life is not fair, not everything is going to be fair, and what is fair for some may be seen as unfair for other. Gem packs and MAs were a bad business idea for BB because it (imo) affected their long term gem sales negatively, so it is not fair for BB if MAs became available again and made FMs too easy to get so no one would ever feel the need to run Nords2 again and the gem packs- One player buy 20k gems, invests 20k gems into a gem pits and gets 40k gems (20k free) now that player gifts another player 40k gems (costs 44k), invest those in 2 gem pits and that is 80k gems that was made from only 20k gems that was purchased with $$.

The main point is that (like i said) what one person says is fair or unfair, might not be fair or unfair to another person. But your argument is pretty much saying that if BB decides to make changes to gem shop or event shop, players who missed those items/feature before the change should still be able to get them, which is pretty noble (assuming you did not miss getting those items and that you are just speaking to try and help low levels) but it is not too sensible.

I could argue that i was a month or 2 shy of getting the Beta Memorial that the Beta testers received (which imo is the nicest building in the game), I should be sent a Beta Arch because it is unfair that I (myself) was not playing at that point in time...