Was explorers finding eggs disabled for some reason?
Haven't had a single egg yet from explorers searches since that update last night.
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Was explorers finding eggs disabled for some reason?
Haven't had a single egg yet from explorers searches since that update last night.
ugh ok they came back again(At least the savage ones) and ONE of them brought back 16 eggs. I feel as if the eggs found in searches has been spanked down hard for some reason. Maybe reverse of the 'fix' they had in notes?
Five 21/21 schooled explorers returned from VLS this morn: 35/17/35/17/17 and my 3 21/21 Lucky Explorers (avg 70ish each) got 0/17/0. I'm glad I got that 2nd MMA before BB "fixes" any more game features!
I've got the max of 21 explorers. My 3 lucky's & 5 of my scouts are fully loaded & tricked out with books to bring back max event resources. My average eggs per day before the "correction" was 412. My average for the past 3 days is 271. So that's 141 eggs a day smackdown. Out of 21 explorers, 10 bring back eggs now, on average.
Not sure what the reasoning is behind this "correction". I know very long searches brought back the old rate of return when the event 1st started, that is with lucky's bonuses 23 & 45, and lucky's would sometimes get an extra stack. They've gotten that extra stack since their introduction to the game. That's part of their hype when introduced and hence the name "lucky", that extra stack. With sturdy shovel (+9%) it was a nice bonus.
I don't understand why spending gems on 14 explorers, somewhere around 14,000 gems, maybe a bit more, is something to be punished for. Sending out a mail with 50 eggs and a cute little message only adds insult to the slap in the face I already received from this abrupt change. If the devs felt they needed to adjust the drop rate of event resources, they should have done it starting with the next event, not after one week of the current one. If the devs felt they had no choice but to adjust the drop rate of event resources during the event, they should have done so by first communicating with their players and explaining what the "problem" to be corrected was and giving them a bit of time to mentally prepare for it, not say nothing at all and then slip it in overnight when nobody was looking. Cause this is exactly what it feels like. BB slipped it to me when I wasn't looking.
If the general or explorer bought with event resources is really good, a lot of people buy the 2nd one offered in the shop for gems afterward. I know I do. Kind of a win-win for everyone. Making it nearly impossible to get the offered shop items unless you spend every waking moment running adventures and running trades (which are ridiculous with the current price of eggs) is a lose-lose if you ask me. Events used to be fun and exciting. Now they're tedious. BB, you managed to take something really cool and totally screw it up, and once again did it in a manner to absolutely insure the maximum amount of frustration and resentment in your long time, loyal players. Great job.
I feel for you all getting fewer eggs. I however don't get any because I can't get on the game. I have had 4 short visits to my island since the event started. Support is "working" on the problem.
Yeah it's nice to put in an achievement of "Get 3200 eggs through explorer search", but that only works if they bring back a decent amount of eggs every day... which they currently don't. I MIGHT have gotten it with the numbers that explorers brought back before this supposed "adjustment" took place, but I can forget about it now...
So far today 0/4... waiting for the other 17 to come back.
Woa... they nerfed the eggs explorers bring almost in half. I can easily recognize when some body is showing me the finger. Thanks BB. I appreciate your honesty of expression. Way to appreciate your customers who spend money to support your game. You guys really don't get it, do you?
Before the nerf the untrained explorers were bringing either 32 or 16 eggs from very long search. Now its either 17 or 8. That is a 50% nerf. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?
Bohica
This is a complete bollocks. Where I come from moves like that are called "asshat behavior". Guess gem sales of those egg packages in the shop were not going well? "Lets cut down in half egg drop from searches this will leave them no choice but spend some money."
You guys have no clue how to induce people to spend money on your game without slapping them in a face. Just sad. Lame, shallow and sad.
I also find a reduction of eggs, not only in searches, but on the island and for the first time yesterday I did a loot adventure with no eggs at all. First time in about 16 tries that this has happened.
Luckily, I already have what I wanted from the Easter shop and will still get my 3200 eggs from searches, only about 300 away now.
Not a happy settler here.
I just came to this to complain about the drop rate of eggs too. I just had 3 lucky explorers come back with no eggs whatsoever. I am pretty good about resending them right out and I only have 1027 from explorers so far - there is no way I can get enough for that 3200 egg achievement in the time left. And I needed those points to get the lvl 6 egg house since I don't do pvp. Guess no point in trying at this stage and might as well cash my eggs out instead of wasting them on those adventures you need to do 5 times.
New quest chain, first quest: Bring back 50 eggs from VERY long explorer searches.
4 days later still no luck. Search is 1 day 19 hrs, and I only have 3 explorers...
So best case scenario it will take 6 days for this quest...[sigh]...
as of this morning i'm at 3129 eggs so far from explorers.....seems to be working fine for me. they always had high and low days so keep trying
invest in savages!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlliNel
I have 10 explorers (3 reg, 5 fast, 2 luckies), keep them constantly on very long searches, don't even have 1600 eggs from explorers yet.
Probably not going to hit that quest myself, which is disappointing.
I would if I had something to invest...Quote:
Originally Posted by Troll-Phu
Hi everyone,
In the latest changelog, we talked about the explorers:
- The Skill "Sturdy Shovel" works now as intended when Stripy Eggs were found by an Explorer
If you had this skill level 3, the explorers would bring back approximately +37% of loot, instead of the intended +9%.
This is why explorers are finding less eggs since the latest update. The chance of finding eggs has not been changed.
Cordially,
BB_Endesmor
You totally know what we'll tell you now, don't you?Quote:
The chance of finding eggs has not been changed.
Then, the "chance to find eggs" has always been far too low for the explorer quests to be achievable by most players in the time allotted.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
The final one is only probably for the veterans. I will probably just barely hit it and I have all I can possibly get, and I only have 2 or 3 hours of downtime.
Please tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ceruhe
BingoQuote:
Originally Posted by Eriond
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Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
With all due respect, the explanation in the change log explains absolutely nothing at all. The explanation posted here gives details that make sense of the whole mess and if it had been included in the change log to start with may have avoided quite a bit of the negative energy expended around this change.
However, I still maintain that a change like this either should have waited till the next event. (How many events has the sturdy shovel skill been incorrect in so far anyway?) OR, communication prior to the change should have been issued informing everyone of what was going to happen and why. As it came completely out of the dark and in the middle of an event there are (once again) a lot of people frustrated and angry at BB.
Your organization really needs to start practicing some basic communication skills.
Something is very wrong here.
How does one skill change that very few possess change the entire game egg drop rate? How did that nerf the drop for adventures?
I think it's just a cash grab and will cause more to leave the game than one can imagine.
Very bad blood created here.
Savages are the only ones bringing back any eggs today. My lucky and tavern explorers have brought back not a single one.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlliNel
in the last 2 days I have found less than 20 eggs with explorers, and the luck? one hasn't found any. I am a beginner player, no way I can make most of the goals. I'l be very luck to make the 300 goal. As for gems sale, I can only get those when they do the happy hour sales, otherwise can't afford enough to make it worth while.
The drop rate of eggs in adventures has not been changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by honnolea
This achievement has multiple tiers. We do not expect every player to reach the maximum tier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eriond
3 lucky explorers before the change: 115 eggs
3 lucky explorers after the change: 17 eggs
I wasn't really keeping track, so perhaps those are exaggerated results of one great run and one lousy run, but that seems like a big change to go from all finding something plus two finding a bonus to two finding nothing.
That said, this afternoon, I got just shy of 200 eggs from my 10 savage scouts and 1 fast explorer, which seem like fair results. I'm not sure whether there was any advantage or disadvantage relative to books.
I won't disagree with that. However, I am a L50 with a good base of explorers and I play a lot, so they are always out on searches, and prior to the mid-event change, I was on track to hit that maximum tier. I no longer am, and I don't think the "shovel" change can fully explain that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
This is nuts i used a LOT of resources to book my explorers -- i just had 4 of em all come back from medium searches with ZERO eggs... and my luckies who i paid to get and book are coming back only 15% or so of the time w/ eggs.
Endesmor, this is an absolute BS *twirl the cape, distract* response and you KNOW it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
Your 'excuse' somehow says that BEFORE the change and FOR ALL TIME(?) that a few books in a FEW of our explorers affected ALL OUR explorers?
The simple fact is ALL explorers are bringing back VASTLY less eggs than before. Not to the amount of 37-50% but LESS THAN HALF, easily less than half. ALL EXPLORERS even ones with no books.
I don't know if they paid you extra bonuses to write up that obvious LIE(Not even bs here, your outright LYING to the customer because if your NOT your gullible and dumb as a sack of stones to believe what u just typed) Good one there with customer service champ.
This was a change that you COULD claim as some big mistake 'oops we messed up' and tweek it back, but instead your gonna sit here and do this?
Oh look, whats this? an insult? WHO do u expect to ever reach that tier? Since, as you said its a ONE TIME RESOURCE, people can't 'catch up' next year, this is the ONE AND ONLY chance. And you got ALL of them max allowable explorer players who have books allocated into all of them saying they WON'T reach that tier. so I ask JUST WHO do u expect to reach that achievement? If the players who have ALL the explorers and ALL of them are booked up, and ALL of them being sent out with no downtime are not the people you expect to get it, WHO will?Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
Totally agree with this post. The BB explanation is crap and we all know it. Not like it is going to change anything though....Quote:
Originally Posted by Atma-Darkwolf
"This achievement has multiple tiers. We do not expect every player to reach the maximum tier."
OK but you're not giving us a reasonable alternative achievement to get the Easter building to level 6 WITHOUT having to do expeditions (of course I suppose the same answer applies here: "we're not expecting all players to reach level 6 of that building"). It's unfair to force even level 50 players to do expeditions in order to get the maximum building level, nevermind the lower-level players. So you're dangling a carrot ("upgrade the building to level 6 to get 190 extra settlers!"), but no way for the average player to get there within the given length of the event.
Unless the point is to force people to do expeditions. It won't work :)
And again BB is pissing off their own customer base, potential gem buyers. I have 8 explorers with the shovel skill (including luckies) and 9 without. The drop rate of eggs was drastically reduced (not only numbers but also the chance of getting it on ALL EXPLORERS EVEN THOSE WITHOUT BOOKS.
BB your PR is a total disaster because... of your treatment of your customers. In other words - you have a PR problem because... YOU have a problem. Your bad customer rap is due to your own decisions, your own responds and your own doing. I hope that someone from UBISOFT will (by some miracle) read this and get hard on you for creating such bad rap for your own company and your own product and for ultimately lacking any skills into fixing it. Without either insulting your customers or completely losing any credibility.
I think they should admit they got adventure numbers reversed with the explorer numbers in achievements
I had max adventure achievement in one day and may if goes back to what it was get explorer max
the explanation of shovel working would only alter the results by a few eggs /search
20% of 40 eggs is 8 and 9% is rounded up 4
I'm especially unhappy that the explorer eggs got changed mid event to be worse now that I have the event quest for my explorers to bring back eggs.
I feel like BB stepped on my *******. Mid-event, no less. I watched people breeze through this quest and now I'm stuck waiting for explorers to come back empty handed over and over.
Gee, thanks.
People who play every day should be able to achieve this though, no ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Endesmor
i play every day, even (laugh if u will) have alarms set for the luckies9Since they only take 9hrs or so) so they get shipped out at least twice a day.
I do my regular login-logout cycle every 12hrs roughly, collect loots, run a few traitors(during event)
18 explorers(3 lucky 1 special 11 savage adn the 3taverns) and BEFORE the 'fix' I was on track to gain enough via the explorers(that achivment) having just hit around 1575 eggs(JUST hit the 1600 tier after update actually, from explorers sent before downtime)
Now Im at maybe 2000. If this keeps up(roughly around 100 eggs a day from explorers, where before update I was getting 5x as many) I will NOT reach that final tier.
This coming from someone who can sit down and spend 5 hrs playing adv, and micromanaging the game every 9-12 hrs(with alarms set to make sure no explorer is down for long)
I cringe for the poor new guys, or even those who have a few savages. No chance in bloody heck anyone in those shoes could pull this achievement off.