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Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the [Dev Diary] Easter 2020 Event below.
The original post can be found here.
Happy commenting!
BB_Saqui
Hmm with no second Boris added for us long time players, and a poor selection of buildings that we no longer need in the market this event seems pretty lame probably wont play to much during it.
It says the new Cloaked gens ability is multiplicative with Overrun. So does that mean instead of taking another 25% of max health off, it will actually be less than that?
So for example is the boss had 20K health, will it be 20k - 5k (overrun) - 5k (cloak) for 10k
or
20k - 5k (overrun) = 15k - 3750 (cloak but only 25% of what is left)?
because that is a big difference on some bosses.
The Easter event has always been a fun time for this game. Thanks for posting up the information for this year's event. I am curious, though, since the Master of Martial Arts isn't making an appearance in the event this year, might we expect to see him in other events during the year, or will he be relegated to the merchant shop from here on out?
Probably every other post is gonna echo the no 2nd Boris refrain; however, don't forget that The Major, Anselm, Nusala and Vargus all were limited to 1 at one point. And we can get multiples now. While I was disappointed I wasn't surprised and can make due with 1 till it opens up for him too.
Noble hunter tribute and titanium hen are crazy. Good in concept, but not at these ridiculous prices.
No second Boris? No additional MMA for the first time in years? On paper, Cloaked could replace MMA, if he could kill foxes, mounted bowmen, etc.
Able to get a second Princess Zoe?
Woodcutter as a seasonal adventure is nice. That is my go to adventure most of the time. It's not perhaps the simplest adventure but good rewards for what it is.
Another spring park finally gets me to 12 hours.
So I take it explorers were not nerfed during this event, unlike Valentine's. That is good. I was afraid of a possible pattern starting there.
Not sure any of the new stuff is that good, but this seems like a manageable not excessively grindy event with ultimately decent rewards.
BB deserves an environmental award for its recycling effort.
If recycling is so fun, why not just modify the MoD, give him slow attack and let him take the hit before the troops, hence putting the word 'defense' in MoD.
The den should make something that we don't already produce, like grout or even platinum.
I'm ok with no 2nd Boris, better keep it for people who are willing to spend money on a bundle, I think BB needs that.
Based on my testing on the test server, Cloaked will take a boss's health down 50% if skilled - so a 100k boss has 50k health to remove. They may have changed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trialgame
The hen appears to be better than on test - but still, a 2x2 building to produce about 30 titanium ore a day? Should be a tribute, or produce grout or oil or something.
Given that we can get THREE Cloaked it appears BB doesn't think they're that great ... we shall see.
shocked and disappointed no mma.. even MORE disappointed no boris add for use that have one .. :(
I really like this idea. They tried to portray him as a blocking general, but the key element for blocking is the slow attack. I tried to use him for blocking a couple of times, but always seemed to miss the mark in finding the right troop combinations to make it work, and now he's nothing more that a troop transport.Quote:
Originally Posted by kzar
I used MoD for a while on certain blocks. Now they're just sitting in my star. Might as well just use tavern. Maybe Steadfast for some camps if not booked as an attacker.
+1 to allowing players to obtain a second Boris. This limitation just seems artificial - unless Boris will be offered for Gems at a later time, as it would then totally make sense.
The Gold-Hearted Geologists that I previously obtained were fully-booked, and have since had books disappear from their Skill Tree. Since I have no idea if this problem has been fixed or not (I *did* report it via a ticket, and have heard that others have experienced the same phenomenon), I'm not sure that I need to buy any more of those.
Other stuff just seems pretty standard. A rather lackluster Event, this one seems to be. -EG
Was really excited about the possibility of getting a second Boris general for Easter Event this year... Pretty lame to not offer that BB...! :(
Apparently BB does not want players to buy gems and spend them on something really useful that helps them advance in the game or what...?
40 minutes, 32 seconds for 1 Titanium ore from 50 Fish and 20 Oil Seed for only 3,995 Eggs...! Are you kidding me?
It should be named the Titanium Turkey! With no description in the Merchant that any Resources are required let alone requiring the sacrifice of 50 Fish and 20 Oil Seed to produce that one Titanium ore... :mad:
Currently: Oil Seed = 10 Gold Coin each on the Trade Office (200 Gold Coin) + Fish = 0.02 Gold Coin each on Trade Office (1 Gold Coin) = a total of 201 Gold to produce 1 Titanium ore that costs 3 Gold Coin on the Trade Office.
Wow! We'll want to Rainbow Snow buff all three of those Titanium Turkeys...! :P
BB should either:
1) Modify this building into something that is actually worth almost 4,000 Eggs and produces something of significant Value; or
2) Make it into a Decoration with something worthwhile like 3,995 Population for example; and/or
3) Refund our Eggs or the equivalent value of 6,069.33 Gems each (that's 11,985 Eggs or about 18,208 Gems for all three buildings) for anyone that bought any of these nondescript sham Titanium Turkeys.
April 21, 2020 UPDATE: I have decided to turn a single Titanium Hen into my own "Tribute to BB" located right next to my Fairy Tale Castle as the amazing: eternal 'Sleeping Titanium Turkey' which will never produce any Titanium ore as presently configured...!
yup my geo lost her books as did several other guildies. i had no screenshots to "prove" it to ticket. it seems now a days you have screenshot the life outta the game to prove when something messes up. so i will not be buying another gold geo and wasting my books or time on her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ensign_Garak
Furthermore - the 1st event since i started playing .... nearly 8 years ago... that there is not a mma or 2 offered... i was counting on these as Mtn Clan (if its every fixed) requires ridiculous amounts of mma sac's... super disappointed.
I was really wanting to play the many Unknown Regions I have been saving up for the past 2.5 months. I had in good faith that the Mountain Clans would work by the Easter event. I've asked in the Help tab on tso and was told by many players that there are still problems w the Ventures.
Also I don't understand why players can't get 1-2 MMA from Easter. It was very consistent in previous Easter's. Also no 2nd Boris :(
And there it is -- The notorious Gem Sale.
I think that it would serve BB well to understand Player Sentiment in relation to making sales to players. You see, my sentiment toward BB was pretty high when they stepped up and offered that Premium Time package to players while encouraging them to "stay home." Despite my having purchased Gems not long before that, my Player Sentiment was quite high, and I was considering buying more.
However, after hearing about the Boris limitation on the Test Server side, I decided to wait. I'm glad that I did because, with the hard cap of 1 on Boris and the loss of books on Gold-Hearted Geo with no apparent fix on the way, my Player Sentiment toward the game is in the basement now. I really don't think that BB could put together any kind of whiz-bang Package of Game Stuff that would entice me to purchase more Gems, when making decisions like limiting Boris to 1 per player.
If you think about it, the really fair thing to do would be to make the hard cap 2 and allow every player to pick up one Boris from the event, and another one for all players who do not now have one, if they want to put in the work during the Easter Event to earn a second one. I call this the "Everybody Wins and Everyone's Happy" scenario. Unfortunately, BB has decided to select the "Irritate the Majority of your Player Base" option by implementing a hard cap of 1 on Boris.
If BB does not currently consider a "Player Sentiment" variable in their financial projections, perhaps they might want to contemplate incorporating something like that in their projections. BB may not technically "lose" money, but I can assure you that there are Gem Sales that are not made when Player Sentiment is low.
Thank you for reading. -EG
At the Foot works and People of the Mountain work properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy-Beard
What doesn't work in Unknown?
edited, quoted wrong post
Yes, that is a real stinker. I'm going to pass on the terrible cloak generals and hen house. Id rather pay for the overpriced residence! I am gonna grab me a Major and Vet, those still have use :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pteris
Bought and tried a cloaked gen. It looks like although it doesn't say it has flanking, he did behave that way. Tagged a camp in Black Knights that had cavalry and elite soldiers. Without flanking he should have hit only the elites, but instead he killed the cavs first and then hit the elites. Not sure if this is a glitch or it is supposed to have flanking but for the moment he is a better 1r sac gen than the mmaQuote:
Originally Posted by Ciara_Belle
Edit: so now I used him to tag an Oil Lamp. A camp that had Sailors (defenders 100HP) and Boatswains (swift 40HP) and this time he only went after the Sailors, which is not flanking. So not sure why he hit the cavalry first on the other battle (no he did not kill off all the elites and had spare damage hit the cavs but it showed in the wrong order). Can only assume another glitch.
Looks like cloaked can be used in place of MMA on many camps, though not all. He is at least as good, on average much better, potentially substantially better, but unreliably so due to poor accuracy. Normally I would book 1-up, but master planner seems to be the way to go here.
Looks like the Titanium Hen is a big ole bust. Costs WAY more in resources than it gives.
Unless you need him to hit once (as wave 1 of a blocked attack, say) MP and 1UP are basically the same - either one 20% chance to hit the big numbers, or two 10% chances - and in fact the two 10% chances are a bit better as you get the 500 both times if you "lose".Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwalben
Disappointing event with items that are not much use. Titanium Hen was looking forward until it has ridiculous requirements to make 1 Titanium ore. This will never be used on my island unless its re-looked at and its requirements have changed. Could have at least offered another Boris to us and then to top off a bad event is a maintenance day that was scheduled for the 13th happens on the 12th. Someone screwed the pooch on that outage.
Well apparently other servers had the maintenance listed for today so ours saying tomorrow was probably just missed translation. Either way it is just stupid to have a non emergency maintenance at all during the event.
Think somehow I wound up in another time zone. I'm central US and they have me shut down. Hope I'm not on for 2 maintenances-
Did the Romulans get royalties?
^^Translate this!! Take some of the money you make from gem sales and invest in a calendar!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trialgame
And now you have to pay 300 gems to open yesterday's door as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trialgame
why would you have to do that? the door was available for a full 16 hours before the maintenance. lots of time to click it. hell, there was still 4 hours after the game came back up to click it before it switched.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aurrorra1
The 16 hours in question may have been the hours we sleep, and those still with a job were working. I log on once a day. I didn't see the message. Luckily I tried again before I fell asleep so I could at least get my daily credit.
Disappointing that Bring Back Memories never started for a bunch of us, and there is no countdown timer from the previous Quest.
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A Recipe for ‘Employee of the Month Badge’ goes out to whomever at BB oversaw the Titanium Hen’s resource requirement design parameters (not its artwork):
First add several sprigs of players without completed Easter Quest chains....
Fold in 3 Titanium Hens – don't worry about any broken Easter Eggs or Resource requirements...
Sprinkle, according to your own taste, random Flash Crashes and Server Disconnects over the cratered surface of your opinion of BB’s Technical Support “system…”
Debuff in the Mountain Clan Campaign for 4 hours – oh wait that’s broken and does not apply so you will have to use the following step instead:
Cloak in a generally poorly configured dark room for four weeks or so… (plus or minus a day)
When serving to ‘The Settlers Online’ players, attempt not to singlehandedly Boris to death…!
Still disappointed the Buffs do not work on Unknown Regions. I tried it multiple times through out the event. Every time had the same problem.
Will this be fixed anytime soon ?