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I think that setting such a high target where players worked really really hard to try to get there and then getting 0 rewards is not a great plan from BB. It does not encourage me to even try to get the next goal done I think that the game developers need to think of a new strategy when planning these quests. I do like the continued donation rewards so maybe at least have a tiered goal so that we at least get something after all the effort that was put in.... Rant over
Especially since Misty Cake is bugged. They should have fixed it and give away some balloons.
Nah it is fine. I would be all for them eliminating the community goal or setting a threshold in the future so that people who barely contribute don't get any community rewards though.
And there really wasn't any working really really hard to get there either in my opinion. All you had to do is set up your festival hall and keep it running and maybe buffed. That is pretty passive gameplay.
Also, all those balloons look like they are getting carried over to phase 3 which has better rewards anyway.
I think it's pretty cool of BB to let us know that if we complete the 3rd goal, we'll get the rewards from the 2nd goal. On top of that, they lowered the 3rd goal from 3 billion to 2.1 billion. So get those balloons crankin'!! Donate early and often......
I feel like this is covering up the game having less players now. I mean it looks like they used the same part 2 totals as last year, and we made it with time to spare. It was nice of them to allow us to potentially get the second goal though.
it is because of less players my guild went from 21 active players to 7. and 5 of the players were power players very very active now no longer playing
Don't tell me Blue Byte developers team that the game is not crap when in fact it is crap. Implementing bug-free adventures on the live server is the biggest nonsense. Don't expect the world to reach the final stage with the event when a lot of quests are full of bugs. You can steam whoever you want but not me. I will waste a day and I will only make videos in which I will show you how you made this event **** dust. I don't care what you work with (adobe photoshop, adobe director, etc.) it is certain that the game is dust in short a big big **** and will tell you this not an ordinary player, a game developer. And in windows 7 and in windows 10 the game behaves just as bad: it freezes, it falls, etc ... I play on 3 servers at once the same adventure and guess what! so see what bugs are on each server. Sending you a ticket doesn't make sense as long as the whole game is down. With the last maintenance you fucked the whole game. Not to mention the login to ubisoft which is dusty again ... in these conditions where the game is dusty do you expect the world to be able to play it ??? At least now you understand how hard it is to play a game that steals your resources, crashes, adventures go like a ...
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Last year, we hit 1.4 billion with minutes to spare. This year, we hit 1.4 billion with minutes to spare. The difference was that the goal was raised to 1.5 billion.
People are finishing up their personal quests getting to their goal, maybe 25k for everything, maybe less. But now that their personal goals are done, they are going to slow down production. Some might even shut their festival halls off. Therefore, it is quite possible that we will fail the 3rd phase as well. So get crankin is right. Tell your friends and guildmates to get into gear.
I'm glad you had that information cause I was wondering what happened to cause the failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gwalben
We've come up 97 million in 17-1/2 hours since phase 2 ended. We shouldn't have a problem getting to 2.1 billion in time, probably a few days early. Keep crankin' those balloons!!
I don't think they intentionally made an unreachable goal. I imagine that they overestimated the number of active players.
Also, I'm not sure at which point they changed the amount needed for Phase III—whether between testing and live release, or after the Phase II goal wasn't met—but the original goal of 3 billion, I don't think was realistic. If phase I required 400 million, and phase II an additional 1.1 billion, I can understand that increase. People need a bit of time to come up to full production, and get a steady pace of cakes being made. But a further increase to an additional 1.5 billion for Phase III would be a problem. People are probably already producing at their peak during the second week, and there's just no place left to go after that (unless you buy balloons with gems). And what's more, a large portion of the players have finished up all their quests, so you won't have those additional balloons coming in, and some players who have gotten the main quest rewards might even play less and produce fewer balloons. Week 3 will probably see a decrease in balloon production rather than an increase. So it's a good thing that they decreased it from what I guess was the test server amount of 3 billion for the third week.
I think there are plenty of somewhat active players, but I think BB underestimates how many of us are feeling event burn out and repetition fatigue. Click click click click...ad nauseum... to send out the dozens of explorers and geologists, repetitive long adventures, heavy reliance on the adventure aspect and almost no attention to island design/organization, not enough resource deposits to keep up production levels, the need to spend way too many hours to advance even at a snail's pace, the growing dependence on gem purchases for buildings & other needs, and no ability to move buildings around due to the need to cram so much in such small space. Even events do little to break the tedium if they are so frequent that there is no time to experience normal gaming. This is supposed to be a "casual" game but it's trending towards compulsive long hours of playing (and/or paying $$) to advance.Quote:
Originally Posted by HortonsWho
The new goal seems like a way too easy slam dunk, but I can see why they wouldn't want to risk missing it and disappoint everyone all over again. 1.5 billion was not completely unreasonable, but I imagine they set it with a what if contingency plan in mind. I don't know how 3 billion would have been reasonable, though.
I'm not sure there is an enticing enough reason to keep donating beyond 25k, if everybody even knows about it at all. The donation feature is clearly an obstacle if there are hundreds of millions of balloons sitting around.
This event is pretty light on both explorer use and long adventures. Though the number of adventures was starting to get annoying by the time I got to Round X. Mostly really easy adventures, but just when you're done doing 3 adventures, you get another request to do another 3. Good rewards and I like the change of pace, but it was getting tedious.
If we fail to reach Community Goal 3, I will be very disappointed.
Do not dangle rewards and then blame the community of players for not earning the rewards.
I'm running 3 sets of Mortars with Enormous cakes continually. What more can I do?
Shall I nag people to "donate your balloons!!".
Shall I offer free resources, or free cakes?
What if there just aren't enough active and interested players?
Why punish those of us who are active and interested?
A Suggestion:
If Community goal 3 fails, give Community goal 2 and 3 rewards based on who has donated the most balloons.
Elgin, since phase 2 failed, the average donations have been 5.1 million per hour.
There are currently 4 days, 12.5 hours left in phase 3. 5.1 million X 108.5 hours = 553 million.
We're currently 385 million away from the goal. I don't see phase 3 failing. I think phase 2 failing woke a few people up.
Now that community goal phase 3 has bean completed, I have not received the phase 2 rewards as of yet. When are we going to get those rewards as promised?
^^I agree wholeheartedly... they have changed the dynamics of the game to the point that it's become more of a 'chore' and less of a 'game'.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoffeeCat
there's far less interaction among players and way too much reliance on large single player adventures, ventures and gems to make any significant progress.
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Originally Posted by Graywolf
Yes, Graywolf, I would agree whole-heartedly. I also agree with the previous player's post (CoffeeCat), Way too much time is being spent click-click-click, and not enough playing/interacting with fellow players; the results of which we have seen here, massive drop in regular players on G1 (or any chat for that matter). I still love the core of the game as well as many of the people I have met here, but the change in game play ability is apparently driving players away/elsewhere.
In any case, I am also curious along with Smith101, we (globally) have successfully completed Phase III goals and should be eligible to receive the promised Phase II rewards... They have yet to be received and may be lost in the mail?
ok.. so we did phase3.. had a promissory note we were gonna get phase 2 goals then.. so.. where are they?
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Originally Posted by Ciara_Belle
Please check your in-game inbox.
Congratulations to everyone! We did it :)
thanks :)