Summer event fun or is it?

[Gwalben]

I like any way to earn some extra XP, even though some of the quests are a bit silly, like the sandwich one. Small price to pay for the most expensive (questionably priced) event building.

[Stix75]

In short:
I agree that this event makes it challenging (to severely understate things) to gather enough balls to get all the "Big" rewards, which is usually fairly manageable during events.
Also, it bugs me quite a bit that like at previous soccer events the ratio between how many you need (or even have use for) of each collectible and how many you end up getting is completely off. The first thing that comes my mind is letting us convert them at say 30:1 into token which in turn can be turned 1:1 into any other event collectible. It would also be cool if we could get sink for the total excess like converting them into balls @ 100:1

[Emillie-II]

An Event Quest that takes 300 Soccer Balls? When it is already difficult to get them? Really????

[Ensign_Garak]

and then today .. pay 300 balls.. at the rate they are dropping from adv - 3 to 5 at a time...

I want to echo these sentiments, in that it was a TERRIBLE decision to require the advancement of a quest by paying a SIGNIFICANT amount of Event currency. Even if someone is enjoying the Event and collecting loot, when those efforts result in having to pay those hard-earned resources to advance, that has a tendency to limit the amount of enjoyment one might experience.

[Artillerist]

I want to echo these sentiments, in that it was a TERRIBLE decision to require the advancement of a quest by paying a SIGNIFICANT amount of Event currency. Even if someone is enjoying the Event and collecting loot, when those efforts result in having to pay those hard-earned resources to advance, that has a tendency to limit the amount of enjoyment one might experience.

Agree it hurt giving away 300 balls. hopefully we get them back later on in quest chain

[Forrell]

I agree that the ball drops from adventures are pretty light.

One thing to be pointed out is that everyone can earn a Snack Stand by doing the Host of Responsibilities quest chain. So the one in the merchant is a second one, which is very attractive to get, but even newer people should be able to finish the quests and get at least one. I think that's pretty generous of BB actually

Thanks for pointing that out

[GHarrold]

I agree that the ball drops from adventures are pretty light.

One thing to be pointed out is that everyone can earn a Snack Stand by doing the Host of Responsibilities quest chain. So the one in the merchant is a second one, which is very attractive to get, but even newer people should be able to finish the quests and get at least one. I think that's pretty generous of BB actually.

If I was new and realized I couldn't afford everything in the merchant I'd factor that into my decisions and concentrate on getting a Lucky and a Football Field, in that order. I could always pick up a friary in TO at some point down the road if it didn't work out during the event.

I feel kinda bad that newer people can't get everything that's on offer, but at the same time, I couldn't either when I was a newb. Had to prioritize and get what was the most important as far as being either rare and only available during the event or really expensive in gems outside of it. Heck even after playing all these years, I still prioritize and make purchases in a specific order just in case something comes up and I can't be on enough during the event to get everything I want.

Have you seen some of the things we have to pay for the snack stand,

1500-2500 sandwiches
200-300 balls
Elite soldiers

Not exactly generous when i have to give up o many of my resources to be able to earn one. They are not giving us one, we are buying it with time and resources.

[Ciara_Belle]

Today was delegate 400 s. So .. i rarely use s... most people i know rarely use them. Therefore i had 120 of em.. So now i'm, clearing my barracks, and re filling my with useless troops when i could be making troops for the adventure we Need to run to do this event. Once again a quest that is counter productive to the goal of the event... getting loot. I think the dev's need to go back to the drawing board for this event b4 they consider running it again. (oh and of course - no loot for the delegation of S (which is 4000 sw etc etc) just xp.

Edit - i miss read it... Its Swordsmen.. ELITE troops... Bloody stupid.

[SSSecretSquirrel]

I have to delegate 80 Heavy Infantry. Neeever herrrd of em.

[Perwyn]

Have you seen some of the things we have to pay for the snack stand,

1500-2500 sandwiches
200-300 balls
Elite soldiers

Not exactly generous when i have to give up o many of my resources to be able to earn one. They are not giving us one, we are buying it with time and resources.

BB could offer some people a solid gold brick and they'd gripe cause it was too heavy. Earning something is never without some kind of cost. In reality this is mostly costing us some pixels and some production time that happens even while we're logged out and sleeping. I wasn't happy with the 300 soccer balls I had to pay, but other than that, what's there to complain about? Really?