Feedback - World Championship Event

[Estryark]

I couldn't disagree more on that and you just explained why by yourself.

New players don't have that many explorers and they can't even do basic long searches yet. They don't mass produce anything already to roll an economy and to buy the soccer balls from the TO, even the COLLECTIBLES, because the prices are ridiculous. Wait for the last week? The price will just go up.

Now for my opinion, how is this event balanced for them? The only viable way for them to have enough soccer balls to get to the rewards is to let them pay real money and go to the Gems market. That, in my book, is a serious "no no" and makes me believe that BB/Ubi only cares about my/your money.

But whatever, that's ok, because if you paid you will win in the end. For only 10 bucks you get at least 1600 gems, 8x250 balls so 2000 balls. Sell those for coins too if you want and there we go, the economy is busted for a month increasing the 'challenge' for those who don't or cannot spend real money.

This game is clearly pay 2 win, people should stop saying that there is a challenge, no balance is there.

[psaltery]

I don't spend money on this game. When I was new it was difficult to get all the items, and there were things I had to wait to get. I know of a player who leveled to 50 without ever getting a veteran general! He played everything with the slow gens, and had fun with it. It was almost a year before I got my first vet.

Re the economy, I agree that its insane. We have so many oldbie players on Zeus with lots of coin/resources. The more of an item we have in the server, the lower its value.

I think this is one reason they started Ares to begin with. And I think Ares is the default server for new sign ups? I've been told it's much easier to get balls and collectibles on Ares, as the prices for everything are lower there. Less coin in the server, so it's worth more.

I'm not saying the event is 'fair' for new players. If it were super easy for a level 5 to get everything from one event, the game would quickly lose interest for those who have played a year or more. The 'balance' in the game is about trying to keep all players playing and striving for goals, and enjoying themselves, not hand feeding us everything.

My point is we all put in our time, and had to wait to get things we wanted. Why should that be any different for new players now?

[Estryark]

You missed the fact that I am speaking about this event specifically, maybe I wasn't clear enough.
I am not discussing about the game and it's business model in general. So if you had fun with normal general for a year and reached level 50, that's fine for me and I have nothing else to say.

Like I said further down in my previous post, they put cheap and easy access to soccer balls in under 200 gems...it' still super easy for anyone, new or not, to get everything if they want to spend. This event is clearly a cash grab and this is causing a side effect on the economy of the whole server, which is **** and causing a lot of problems.

[psaltery]

fair enough. im not saying this is the best event they ever came up with, other events have been much more fun. ive heard a lot of ppl complain about the collectibles. we'd much rather kill stuff! hoping the devs keep that in mind next time and realize collectibles and boxes have run their course.

no one is required to spend money on the game. most of the items in the merchant for balls will be available again, either in the form of gems (which you can save up your weekly allotment for) or in other events (rumor has it that grout will be available in future events.) and if a noob doesnt get a lucky explorer, does that really change the enjoyment of play? i didnt get faster explorers until i had been here quite a while. if a noob is lucky enough to manage to get one, that's awesome!

and i want to say a big 'thank you' to those who do drop a few dollars on the game, which helps keep the space viable for all of us to enjoy.

[Estryark]

Yeah you don't get what you want and have to wait for 6-8 hours. If you do find the right item, you may have enough for just one single buff or not even for a full one at all.

They didn't really think too much about this, unless it was one of their tricks to force us to spend gems on those boxes. If it is the latter, I wouldn't be surprised.

[psaltery]

lol of course it was ive not done any of the advs yet, im going to save them up until i can make all the buffs, then prolly do them all in 1 day, while on premium.

i did open a few of those boxes, that part was kinda fun, seeing what u get.

do you have a good guild? many guilds will trade back no forth to get everyone what they need. send me a friend request, if i can help you in any way, id be happy to.

[BB_Rawren]

Just FYI, some of the issues with the worldwide championship event will be resolved in our maintenance tomorrow. Patch Notes

[Gwalben]

Technically it's not a 1% chance. It's like how I have a 45% chance of finding fast copper mines. Then fail 12 times in a row.

The calculations on the dotcom forum say that you can afford a single explorer based on soccer balls from the adventures. That means you need to find the rest, but I agree the pace of that is pretty slow. 3 balls at a time is terrible. You can buy a friary from the trade office for a market value that's probably significantly cheaper than the cost of 2499 soccer balls (on Ares at least), so I wouldn't bother with that unless the cost really collapses. Pricing is already in the low 20s, which is a lot better than it was during Easter at the same point in time, but it does not seem to be headed to mid-single digits.

I got decent deals for Easter eggs by the very end. Didn't quite touch the single digits I was expecting, but I was not too far off. I spent all my coins, including dumping a bunch of my resources, but it was well worth it. MMA and vet make a huge savings on troops.

I'm not bothering with more explorers yet. I will get 10 in time for Halloween, but for now I'm just saving up for a second gem pit.

[suitailja]

I used Foul on two different defenders but they did not go away. They each had only one skill so the foul should have gotten rid of them.

[Jonathan2kx]

My Per Day Avg Results:
Facts: Clearing 95% of each cycle,
Facts: 30 minute max delay on sending Explorers
Facts: 18 Explorers for 1st 5 days, then 20 starting on 6th day

Hope it helps some.

1. Island: Search Results
   1. Soccer Balls ( 10.5 )
   2. Banana Peel ( 3.3 )
   3. Corner ( 3.6 )
   4. Elastic Spring ( 8.75 )
   5. Fist ( 5.25 )
   6. Red Color ( 5.15 )
   7. Shoe ( 10.15 )
   8. Telescope ( 12.2 )
2. Expl: Results
   1. Soccer Bals ( 32.75)
   2. Grease ( 15.45 )
   3. Helmet ( 33.75 )
   4. Shoulder Pad ( 38.15 )
   5. Stud ( 19.45 )
   6. Twister ( 27.75 )
   7. Wet Grass ( 33.55 )

1. Stefan's Sports Box 91 Purchased
   1. Soccer Balls ( 8 lots : 91 )
   2. Banana Peel ( 7 : 91 )
   3. Corner ( 4 : 91 )
   4. Elastic Spring ( 7 : 91 )
   5. Fist ( 6 : 91 )
   6. Red Color ( 0 : 91 )
   7. Shoe ( 6 : 91 )
   8. Telescope ( 12 : 91 )
   9. Grease ( 11 : 91 )
   10. Helmet ( 5 : 91 )
   11. Shoulder Pad ( 2 : 91 )
   12. Stud ( 11 : 91 )
   13. Twister ( 6 : 91 )
   14. Wet Grass ( 6 : 91 )