[Feedback] Dev Diary Valentine Event 2019

[SSSecretSquirrel]

You are correct. I stand corrected about the trade coming back. That was a first time after multiple refreshes that it has never showed up. My comments about the game still stand though. The past couple of months have been pretty bad.

If you post any trade after the previous one it will use the same slot in to and the previous trade will become visible. If you then delete the previous trade the last added trade for that slot will be visible.
One of the few glitches that benefits the player that BB has not fixed.

[SSSecretSquirrel]

I am confused how to refill depleted Flower Farms, too. Even BB admits it's a bad deal to buy fertilizer (75 flowers for +10 flowers) from Merchant. I lose 65 flowers on that deal. Stoopid! So the Flower Farms are "one and done" for me. I learned you cannot repurchase Flower Farms, even if you delete depleted ones, when I played this event on Test Server. I was hoping that would change in the live event so I could keep purchasing farms, like pumpkin patches. Alas, no.

Maybe I'm not spending enough time networking with gamers to have a big group of friends in the game. The people I'm connected with are too low level to join me in co-ops or are lapsed players. The only way for me to participate in this event is sending my Explorers out 1-2 times/day, which isn't a high production channel.

The quests are huge resource drains. Recovering from creating Cards is too long when I only have 1-2 hours/day to log on and play.

This event has too many limitations for me to enjoy it. As many other posts have expressed, it feels like the priority is to make people use gems. Hopefully the 2020 version will show some love and make this more inclusive.

Actually if you use +300% buff+love crazed you will brake even buying fertilizer and +400%+love crazed will make you profit.
You cant keep purchasing pumpkin patches after they deplete.

You dont really have to put a lot of effort into networking. Join a big active guild and say hi please and thank you is all you need.

[Beel78]

If you post any trade after the previous one it will use the same slot in to and the previous trade will become visible. If you then delete the previous trade the last added trade for that slot will be visible.
One of the few glitches that benefits the player that BB has not fixed.

Thank you. Like, I said, That was the first time, after a refresh it never showed up. I got a bit irked. Thanks for the walk around.

[CoffeeCat]

Seems this Event is geared toward those who have a lot of free time to play during the course of a day. There is no way average player who only has 2-3 hrs a day can be productive enough to get more than one or two Event items. Needed more/better ways to get flowers other than having to purchase them with gems. imho

Respectfully, Cabbott

+1

[RonEmpire]

Feedback for this event overall: Thumbs down. A bit disappointed in the Quality of the testing. There were so many issues technically.

The Love Garden Card buffs "Valentine" that is suppose to give us double refills and resources = BROKEN majority of the time.
The Observatory Building also BROKEN and doesn't function properly. Major game breaking bug.
It's quite frustrating spending a lot of flowers to get a Lemon.

And the event timeframe was a bit too short for us to have enough time to get all the flowers especially with the broken refills not working.

Please test this game more next time before releasing. There are enough bugs in the game as is. such as the Christmas gift tree.

[Ciara_Belle]

love how they never fixed the card drop bug.. for the entire event...

[Perwyn]

Overall the Valentine event was really good and really bad all at once.

We all know the really bad, and I'll get that out of the way first: V-card buffs that stopped working, lag that made playing a frustrating chore at times and last, but not least, the Observatory being released with the exact same bug that was reported on test well before the event started. You can't effectively test an event on the test server, so having issues with the event itself doesn't surprise me.

But the Observatory is S(tandard) O(perating) P(rocedure) for BB anymore. People on test report the bug(s) with a new feature or building. But nothing changes and the release is a frustrating disappointment for players.

OK, so what was really good about the event?

In overall concept, it was very well done. It was challenging and it was fast and furious, like a combination of a crisis quest and a holiday event. It required a lot of play time to get everything, but being objective, what event doesn't? I think the scale as far as time/reward was probably pretty close to an event like Easter.

The Valentine cards and Flower bouquets were both really good elements and added a lot to the experience. Once the kinks are worked out I could see similar buffs being a good addition to other events as well.

Shorter was good. We have enough events that stretch on for 3 weeks, so a quick one added to the mix is a nice change of pace.

The Weather Station is awesome looking! Ever since I saw the artwork for that thing in a Dev Diary years ago, I've wanted one for my island. Thanks for finally making it available.

The Observatory is some stunningly beautiful artwork, and I got one knowing it was bugged just because it's so pretty. If it never works right, at least it looks good. If it was ugly I would have passed on it.

I had a good time with the event in spite of the frustrations of lag and the occasional loot bonus dropping off. It was intense enough to get my mind off of real life for a while, which was like a small vacation. Guess it was a play-cation!

Thanks BB. Now please fix all the broken stuff for next year!

[Schipperke]

I think there were a lot of good ideas in this event that didn't quite work.

The farms and buffs weren't a bad idea. Too bad the buff bonus didn't always work.

The observatory is a beautiful building but won't be useful if it doesn't work properly.

The weather station, I'm glad to have but it will be a while before I figure out what's a good use for it. Am hoping some guidemakers or smarter folks will do the testing and make recommendations for the rest of us.

The valentine card idea was cute, and I got a kick out of the messages, particularly the one saying "I love you almost as much as my couch."

I'm not sure of the reasoning behind awarding a solid sandwich as part of the rewards for one of the achievements. Was that meant to be a joke? I can't imagine anyone getting excited about a solid sandwich.

In short, I appreciate the creativity that went into giving us a new and different event. I just wish more of it had worked properly.

[AlliNel]

"Treasure Search (Explorers)
All treasure searches started before the start of the removal phase and returning before the deactivation have the chance to reward event currency. All treasure searches started during or after the start of the removal phase will not reward event currency anymore."

NOT! All explorers sent out well before removal came back WITHOUT flowers. Ripped off once again.

[Ciara_Belle]

Yup mine came back empty also... just the 1st 3-4 had some .. the other 30 had none.