Venting on the Halloween Event

[Pacratreturns]

There comes a time where a games devs completely screw things up. And it seems like the time is now. Prior events were too easy and you were able to build up a stockpile of most event items pretty easily if you were a decent level. Now, the devs have taken it completely in the opposite direction. Instead of making it a challenge, they made it darn near impossible to do anything. 10 adventures in a row out of the minuscule adventures allowed with no pumpkin drops, 14 out of 15 run in total the last 2 days without them. Only 5 pumpkins total on the collectibles. And the pumpkin patches are basically worthless unless you babysit them constantly.

I play this game for fun. Heck, I play any game for just for the fun. If a game ends up turning into more work then fun, I drop it. And this game is on the verge of doing so. I've already decided not to drop any more money into the game after the 2x gem debacle when I am running no blockers or adds on my browser yet still couldn't purchase after the other times I was able to with no problem. I already decided to cut my game time down as I am not going to spend countless hours following the stupidity of the devs on keeping a balance between needing to stay on the game constantly or failing to get much done.

[SweaterPuppies]

The time would have been last year, as it is the same event.

[humveetech]

Not sure but anytime you play a game that involves some sort of Gem you can buy to make life easier is always based on that in mind regardless of you play or if you or buy gems. Its a money game, want to buy gems to purchase fairies to locate items.

But my complaint is they did say there will be MORE PUMPKIN DROPS this year correct???? We have passed the half way mark & I still havent hit 50 pumpkins found on my island. If this is more then last year, what was last year -1 a day????? Im at 41 & I did use fairies & not one on my island. So how is this more drops if none show up ?????

[soporosek]

yah, i think it's mathematically improbable (impossible?) to get the 100 pumpkin collectible achievement unless you get really lucky on random number generator.

[upjyb]

At least the achievement exists this year. Last year you weren't getting 75 free pumpkins for getting lucky.

[Droidhak]

No, not impossible to get 100 pumpkins in the collectibles. I achieved that this morning, although I wasn't sure either at the beginning if that was ever going to happen. I must have been on the luckier side. I will say, though, that it would be nice for all the pumpkin adventures to at leave give us a few pumpkins in the loot, even if the lowest amount is 2.

[Blamuut]

Not sure but anytime you play a game that involves some sort of Gem you can buy to make life easier is always based on that in mind regardless of you play or if you or buy gems. Its a money game, want to buy gems to purchase fairies to locate items.

But my complaint is they did say there will be MORE PUMPKIN DROPS this year correct???? We have passed the half way mark & I still havent hit 50 pumpkins found on my island. If this is more then last year, what was last year -1 a day????? Im at 41 & I did use fairies & not one on my island. So how is this more drops if none show up ?????

The pumpkin collectible is bugged. The fix made it worse than before as the parent code that determines how many to place overrides any so called fixed.

Or the following is true:

1) You are punished with a lower amount of collectibles if you log alot of hours per day resulting in half spawns like 10-14 total collectibles. This is to counter getting 3 spawns a day since they gen about every 8 hours.

AND/OR

2) You are punished with a lower amount of collectibles if you have a full island saturated with with very little space resulting in less collectible spawns.


Everyone I know that either has a moderately empty island OR logs in only a few hours a day gets between 20-28 collectibles (with 2-7 pumpkin collectibles) when they log on. I know one with 76/100 as of Friday who logs on twice a day for maybe 30 mins. I get 10-12 with 0 to 2, twice a day being logged in for half a day. Yeah I'm at 40/100 and I might make 50. But these collectible spawn rates are ridiculous and quite frankly they need to reduce the achievement to 10/25/50 or fix the stupid algorithm.

[upjyb]

Fix the algorithm I agree with, but it isn't BB's responsibility to make sure you don't have terrible luck.

[NeoOne]

Fix the algorithm I agree with, but it isn't BB's responsibility to make sure you don't have terrible luck.

lol - From some of the posts in the other 'pumpkin' complaint thread, terrible luck is not the word for it. lol (I am a fortunate one, actually, but my island has lots of free space as I spend my gems on other things than licenses)

[Raubhautz]

yah, i think it's mathematically improbable (impossible?) to get the 100 pumpkin collectible achievement unless you get really lucky on random number generator.

I think it is mostly related to the over-crowding of the home-island. Seems that the folks I know of having difficulty getting drops larger than 13 are mostly high level folk with lots of stuff on their island. I'm one, have a whopping 54 pumpkins so far and have not missed a drop or collection; further my largest drop was a 13, this morning was 8.

Seems having a busy island is put at a disadvantage for this event/achievement.