Am I wasting balloons and resources?

[Plinkerton]

I've donated close to 60k balloons over the course of a few hours and our percentage still hasn't changed ... how often are the percentages updated?

[ZBest]

Did the requirements change all of a sudden? now it shows that 5 servers are already at 100% and the rest are much higher than before.

Ya, there's a post from the devs on the front page saying that their original calcs were --- 'FAIL!'

[LadySilverDagger]

Ya, there's a post from the devs on the front page saying that their original calcs were --- 'FAIL!'

Really, they seriously admitted to a mistake?! Color me impressed (but not surprised there was a mistake).

[MarMarl]

On the design aspect, I have to wonder why we have these 10, 50 balloon rewards for doing things (my daily was even wasted on 50), when anyone can make tens of thousands just converting water? I can blow through an armies worth of recruits doing Shaman for 10 balloons, or just make a ton of wells for nothing and get 10,000.

[RonEmpire]

On the design aspect, I have to wonder why we have these 10, 50 balloon rewards for doing things (my daily was even wasted on 50), when anyone can make tens of thousands just converting water? I can blow through an armies worth of recruits doing Shaman for 10 balloons, or just make a ton of wells for nothing and get 10,000.

ya definitely unbalanced quest rewards. you get 100 balloons just for doing the daily click find the hidden objects. the adventure attack quests gives only 10

[TLC1]

Some servers blew past other servers :/

Is there more players on these servers compared to others?

If so how is that fair for those smaller servers to get say 100,000,000 balloons if they only have a small % of the population of the larger servers that has the population to reach that number in only 2 days time?

I've donated almost 30K in balloons and didn't see my server go up even a 0.01% :0
I know several in my guild have done the same and it hardly moves :/
Do we just have a bunch of cheap players on our server or what not donating the balloons to this?

The BB crew also didn't take into ANY consideration of lvl 50 players once again! They had 2 adventures with no rewards but XP for the troop loss players suffer running them and HELLO lvl 50 players DON'T need XP anymore so they got shafted.

I'm not a lvl 50 player but I can understand them not bothering to run them simply because it is just another resource suck they are doing to this game. Give the lvl 50 players a flipping reason to do these things! Have their reward exchangeable from XP to something else THEY can use!

[Oodolf]

As a very minor point, it would have been nice if those seeming random balloon reward mails actually said what activity earned you the balloons. That way we could our ancillary efforts a bit better.

Or did I miss something? (I know a whole slew of actions get you those periodic balloons, but when I get three at a time for small balloon amounts and a fourth that almost seems decent, I'd like to know what got me that 4th one.)

[Mephistopheles1]

I think it is odd. 20 servers are stuck at 99%. We (USA2) moved up from 52% to 67% but the 20 servers NEVER MOVED ! They stayed at 99%. They couldn't make ONE percent ? I don't think the chart is in any way connected with reality. It is a scam. I think the whole point of the "contest" is to drain resources from the game.

[TLC1]

It is a scam. I think the whole point of the "contest" is to drain resources from the game.

Of course this is a resource drain :P

the longer it takes to do things because of lack of resources the longer they can keep us here to play the game.

When you think about it. if they didn't drain the market of so many resources we'd be drowning in them.

[Troll-Phu]

YES to original question on this thread and 10