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Bad moves
These were useful items from last year's merch and have now been removed:
  • Royal Explorer - 4499 gems (max. 4)
  • Celebrative Lookout - 3299 gems (max. 2)
  • Anniversary Premium Bundle 1 - 14199 gems (max. 1) (1x Oil Refinery, 1x Celebrative Lookout, 1x Bold Explorer, 1x Diligent Geologist, 7 Premium Days 2x3 days and 1x1 day, 1x Large Pack of Balloons, 250 Oil, 2x Machine Oil, 2x Celebrity comes to town, 2x Small Birthday Cake, 2x Elixir)

Good moves
  • Great to see that some old standalone items are coming back to the merch! Bold Explorer, Gen. Tremble Beard, Diligent Geologist, Sickbay, Old-School Barracks
  • Nice adding: Emphatic Explorer
  • Misty Cake map for map frags! Oh yeah!
  • Interesting new Balanced Geologist
  • New buildings! Improved Bronze Weaponsmith, Advanced Toolmaker Tribute and special bookbinder
  • The Calendar's rewards were nice

Issues, bugs
  • I was unable to buy Misty Cake maps from the merch. It was locked from the beginning. This is very annoying! As far as I know, it happened to many other players as well.

Conclusion
I think this event merch is not as bad as it was last year. I can see the improvements (even if it's still a bit of mixed feelings), and it looks like BB devs have read the feedback from last year. Even the new bundles are not perfect, but at least PFB is included again. There are new buildings, etc. But on the flip-side, you still took away good stuff (Celebrative Lookout). Overall it looks better this year.

Suggestions for improvements for next year:
  • Add back the Celebrative Lookout
  • Increase the Oil Refinery max. number to 3 or 4
  • Add back the Royal Explorer
  • Fix the Misty Cake merch map bug

Previous feedbacks:
We will most likely get Lookout and Royal in a flash sale.

Misty Cake was locked for almost everyone, except new players.

The new bundles are worse this year.