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Convert in the PH, if u cant trade. But honestly, if there was ever a stress reliever, just buy a few gem'd cakes. 285 really isnt that much per cake.
Event is not fun though, least favorite, even below the stupid pumpkin refills.
Goal a bit too high, 250 or 300 million would be much more fair.
Are these overpriced (for resources that people don't even really need)? Probably. Is there are market willing to pay some of these prices anyway? Yes. Supply and demand. I don't understand why there is demand.
I did the 5k donation this morning, 3 days in. My festival hall was paused the first day of the event.
4k so far, been Buffed at least +50% the whole time.
It's 'possible', but more and more TSO is becoming a game for either dedicated players or 'pay to play' ones. Casual gamers are getting left at the side of the road, and after the fiasco of the last couple of Events, I went from a solid 'avid' player to casual at best.
Watching this game fall apart over the last 6-10 months hasn't been fun, and most of our Guild is only here for the social interaction now. :/
I am in the 4k range as well, pretty sure you have to be buffing with the large cakes to miss a day and be 5k.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstrumLuxLucis
I agree this game is getting to require more serious play and what is odd about these people asking for 'challenges' is this game is never challenging - it just takes more time which really isn't the same.
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Originally Posted by AstrumLuxLucis
Ditto
This is a very generous event. the storage tower, the geo, gen, explorer. all for some reso. Quite the gift. Hooray for the TSO. heres to another 20 years.
Thanks for the last 5 years of fun.
focusdonHim
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Originally Posted by AstrumLuxLucis
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You can still get plenty from events even through casual play. If you want most things, that's when it becomes a grind. And if you want everything, that's like a full time job. I've learned to accept that I won't be getting everything, but I don't really need everything either. I can take or leave more housing and have no impact on my game. 30k soccer balls for residences? No. Just no.
I agree this event is nothing like those in any case and very generous. It can be done by almost anyone, and the rewards are great. I think I'll burn through 10k or so mortars and a bit of time. I'm not even bothering to adventure except for enough WOTS to finish the achievement, which is about as simple an adventure as they come, plus The Shaman and Old Ruins for quests. It's a nice change of pace.
You're probably not one to say "I told you so", but regardless: your prediction was right on. 309 mil with 2 days 12 hours to go is pretty amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwalben
In other news ... am happy to see the logjam in TO break loose. 1:1 trades are going quite easily today. Which is as it should be.
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Originally Posted by Narasn
Welcome to the c*****y world of TO. I detest the TO in TSO more than I have seen in any other game. People here are the most greedy and selfish players I have ever seen. (There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between). I swear to all that is good that some of these greedy players are trying to send their offspring (yes, I do not believe they are human and refuse to call them children) to college on TO gouging. You know the interesting thing here is that I do have an account on German-9 and those players are much more like gamers in a strategy game like this... they want to not only be successful in trade, but aide their fellow players. Guessing it has to do more with being part of the North American Servers than anything else... anyway... if you need help, send FR, I help what I can (open to all players on Zeus). GL in event.
*Puts away soap-box for next time*
I also agree that the rewards for this event are very generous. I love the wondrous residences. The new bookbinder looks great. And this Gemini gen could be a real boost to the lineup. His bio calls him the older brother-- who is the other twin?
Last I checked, all trades are voluntary. Someone made a good point about this event being a little different than the others because there is a group goal. It's pretty obnoxious to see trades posted that are worse than you can get in the provision house conversion. But I don't buy them. Nobody has to.
Don't forget there are different styles of play. Some players make there coins through extensive production chains. Some players make a lot of coins by selling loot spots. Other players make coins by buying low and selling high. The thing about prices is things are worth exactly what people will value them for. I was trying to buy storage towers. One player asked for 2 improved silos, 2 magnificent residences, and a gingerbread storehouse for one storage tower. It wasn't worth that much to me, but it was to him. I didn't buy it.
Game resources also have more or less value depending what type of player you are or where you are at in the game. Some players love decorations, and will pay thousands of coins for a tree. I don't care if my island looks like a slum. Magnificent residences are of particular value to lower level players who can't earn a lot of beans, have lower pop, and lots of extra space for buildings. A lot of high level players pay a premium for higher pop density. A couple years ago players were offering 5 or 6 mag res for 1 gingerbread house.
Anyway. Just pretend I swallowed several balloons full of helium before jabbering all that
As far as I can understand the badly-translated text, his name should be "Older Twin" and he's the twin brother of the field medic, and General Log is their father.
Ok so does anyone know if the Gemini General's 20% restore troops ability stacks with First Aid. or would booking First Aid be a total waste?
Like the First Aid general it stacks as far as I can tell - and EJ has it skilled that way so I assume it works. (3/3 first aid = 9% more, probably additive not multiplicative).
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Originally Posted by Raubhautz
Thanks for the offer but not on your server. A lot of Europeans play on the NA servers so I am not sure that is a factor but this is a sample of the trade office even today when a lot of the demand has disappeared. Most of this being offered was from free loot spots as well. I have no idea what BB thought it was doing providing so much excess dough to the lower levels. Guess there is no need for a challenge for lower levels to get up to 50 now, some people pretty well managed 1 to 50 just because of this event in the last two weeks.
https://imgur.com/a/U7sJACe
We seem to be just barely limping along toward that 1.4 billion goal. I knew the 400 million was easy, but this one is logically the more difficult one. Looks like we're on track but cutting it close.
ok i dont get - every sunday i get 2 x daily balloon quests... run 2 of same scenario.. last week i had 3 of em (jester) .. i had to run all 3 to get it to acknowledge the 2nd daily. obvi one was left over from somewhere else but still it should've cleared. today.. i ran the 2 i had - given by the daily quest.. nope it wont see the 2nd one - wont clear it.. and i have no more.. soo how am i supposed to do 2 dailies if you dont program it to acknowledge every run of the scenario??
I don't think we'll make it to 1.4 billion on our own. I'm guessing they will bump the totals up at the last second to give us the Bookbinder, because otherwise it would have been completely pointless for them to program in the Adventure Tales.
We've been doing about 120 million per day, with today's requirement at about 110 million, and 34 million left in the final 14 hours. We should get there with at least a few hours left to spare, but this is cutting it too close for comfort. People probably have enough left in storage to push across the line.
At last!! This game finally got exciting!!!
why if there are 2 days 11 hr left on the event count down.. does the last phase only have 11 hours left?? why are you shorting us 2 days??
I think the extra 2 days is for people getting to 15,000 if they haven't already. Phase 2 ends at 4 am eastern time monday morning.
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Originally Posted by Perwyn
the event ends at 10 am cest time on 23rd the extra two days are just for ppl to collect there rewards you wont be able to trade dough nor candles and you wont be able to donate balloons or make them
Congrats!
so we have
a bookbinder that won't queue (regardless of us asking for this for YEARS)... and thus wastes any buff we put on unless we stay awake 24-7 to add another book.
and
a bookbinder that's exceptionally slow but Does queue.. and refuses to take binder buffs..
>:{
I'm sorry. I will try poking again about a bookbinder queue to see if it can get anything out of it. I know it is frustrating to deal with and no one wants to have to be on all the time in order to keep it buffed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciara_Belle
-BB_Odhran
That's what i thought too. However, nothing has changed after the end of the event on the 23rd, you can still make balloons and trade ingredients. None of the things listed in deactivation happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by hades8840
BB_Odhran, please don't be sorry. There is nothing to be sorry about.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Odhran
The Adventure Bookbinder may look slow at first glance, but is it really??
Prior to the Adventure Bookbinder, to make a codex requires 15 manuscripts, to make 3 tomes, to make 1 codex. Run all of that through the bookbinder and see how long it takes. Bet it's longer than 4 days! We can make a codex without having to make 15 manuscripts and 3 tomes first. It's faster and it frees up those 15 manuscripts and 3 tomes for other uses.
No matter what BB does, people are gonna complain. But there is no resaon to be complaining about the Adventure Bookbinder. Absolutely none. It freakin' rocks!!
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Originally Posted by BB_Odhran
BB has been requiring us to either be on constantly or spend significant amounts of money on Gems to keep things running smoothly. Buildings that require constant attention to keep Buffs active. Buildings that waste Buffs if we aren't available when they die. Buildings in constant demand but can't stack/queue.
You're right. No one wants to be on all the time just to keep things running, but the way BB has structured the game, you pretty much need to be on at least every twelve hours for 30-60min or things grind down or waste resources...and that's assuming the game is running smoothly and the Support staff isn't blowing us off when things break down and we lose hundreds of thousands of resources and Buffs/Event rewards to technical issues during Events.
Unfortunately, people have been saying this for years, but it's getting *worse* not better. :/
That said, the Adventure Bookbinder is slow, but it's still one of the few things BB got right for players who run adventures at least somewhat regularly. Overall, the Event was passable and certainly a step up from the last couple of debacles.
The rest of the issues...need work.
More Queues, especially for things like the Bookbinder so we don't waste our Buffs. Queues for Explorers/Geos. Otherwise you really do want us on all the time to keep things running, because that's how you've structured the game.
I;m not saying i dont like the adv bookbinder.. i love it.. I just wanna buff it too :D
we're going to get more i bet
my star is littered with buffs.. i'd prefer to use what i have :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Aethelsyn
Now that it's over...
On average, I'll say it was okay. Not exceptional, like some past Events...but also not horrible like a couple of Events earlier this year that cost us more than a few players out of frustration...and for which Support really dropped the balls...all of them.
If this is the new minimum standard for Events, then maybe BB has fixed their wagon...and is going to keep improving as we go forward.
Mostly the 'value for effort' costs were okay. Some expensive stuff, but mostly worth the resources if you're sticking around and using them actively. A fair bit of garbage (Retro skins/etc) that will get ignored/deleted by most people.
Unfortunately, there was no real way to make up the lost ground if you fell behind on Balloons past a certain point. We had some Guilders who missed the 15k rewards and there was nothing we could do about it as a Guild. That's something to look into. Maybe a 'Guilder bonus' to Buffs, on top of the Friend and Prem ones. During Events, Guilders can drop extra Cakes/etc for a +10% bonus on Event production if we want to help someone who is falling behind. Enough help could push someone over the top, but at a cost. An added benefit to being in a Guild, but limited to Events.
Hopefully Halloween and Christmas measure up as well.
This event is basically a gift to the players. Sure, it takes a bit of resources and some time and effort, but it's quite reasonable and especially for all you get from it. I'm sure Halloween will be back to normal, but I didn't find anything too objectionable here.
I got the joyous bundle but passed on both this time. Too many buildings in the big one drove the price way up, and the explorer wasn't too interesting in the smaller one.
Gemini is solid. Using him as a Major replacement. More troops and abilities and fewer losses.
I booked my emphatic explorers for rarity searches. Not the most profitable use of them, but now I don't have to worry about guild coins.
Thorough geologist may become outdated before long, but he works quite well for marble and iron. If you time it right, I can see him being suitable for the longer searches, but I've replaced my stone cold and iron-willed geologists.
Adventure bookbinder is nice. Too bad it came after I stopped running so many adventures, but I figure I can average a codex or so per week for not very much cost (no manuscripts/tomes). That's a codex I didn't have before and all I have to do is give it time to produce, albeit pretty slowly. This should help reduce the complaints about books being too hard to produce (it won't, but it should).
I read this bit on the news and I'm a bit kind of concerned with this matter. Those who got the double rewards have some what of a bit unfair advantage of the rest of the community in regards to the items they got, specifically the Unique Explorer. What this means is - these players now have 1 extra explorer over the rest. The additional island floating house and settlers HQ which gives a pretty major population.Quote:
We are also aware that a small group of players received the first Community Goal quest twice, which allowed them to claim double rewards for it.
Next steps:
We will continue to investigate the bug that caused this. More details will follow in the near future (most likely after the Anniversary Event is finished).
What we know for now:•We will not take any items away
• It is not considered as an exploit
• The problem occurred on a random basis, and was caused by triggers not controllable by affected players
You said you're not taking anything away, but what are you going to do for the people who didn't benefit from this random giveaway bug that is your fault and not ours. And please don't tell me you're going to mass mail out rewards that ends up including them as well giving them even more free stuff over the rest of us.
I recommend having a Free Shop that allows players to collect the extra rewards that check Max Count. So those players who already received the new max count can't double dip in claiming the rewards to compensate those who didn't get the double reward.
As one of the folks who was puzzled to get the bonus 'double' rewards, I think this is a reasonable solution. I'm also cool with having my 'bonus' retracted, but after the debacle that was Easter/logins/etc, it was nice to get a small bonus (which I assumed everyone got, silly me).Quote:
Originally Posted by RonEmpire
After all the glitches foiled my carefully laid plans of lining up the Prem/PremFrBuff/Snow/etc to max out the Easter Event and level up to L65...only to see it all go to waste because BB couldn't get the login function to work, well let's say I wasn't going to complain about a bonus character and a couple of buildings. :/
I'm actually OK with letting some people enjoy a windfall. I didn't get the extra stuff, and it's not hurting me in the least that I didn't. If BB feels like they absolutely have to compensate everyone who didn't get the windfall, then please make it so we have a choice in the matter. I'd much rather have a handful of gems (or a voucher, or something) so I can selectively get something I actually want rather than yet another explorer I don't want and another building I have no room for. Or like I said in the beginning, I'm OK with a few people getting lucky, so don't give me anything at all.
What is the advantage the players that got two sets of rewards have? Trading power? Its mostly a one player game with chat and trade. The slight....very slight economic advantage one might have from this issue is hardly worth all the coding necessary to solve it in such a complicated manner. I'd probably just let it go or maybe I'd have announced it differently...several people may have noticed that they received two sets of rewards for the phase 1 quest...Congrats to those players, you were randomly selected to win the lottery! Then maybe people could sleep at night without feeling slighted.
Advantage = Explorer = Resources Events.
If you guys have played this game through all the various events, you will know event resources are limited and rare. The Easter,Xmas,Halloween just to name a few where the resources are used for the rewards in the event show.
If you guys don't see the advantage of explorers then you guys haven't been playing this game long enough. They're the single best investment in the game for gems besides the gempit. The return on explorers over time is just huge.
Other advantage are obviously population houses that give better than the normal foot print. The improved floating island is the best house you can get on water. and the 220 HQ is also the best for the foot print.
So yes, I'm kind of upset that I didn't get the double rewards.