Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the [Dev Diary] Halloween Event 2024.
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BB_Saqui
Please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on the [Dev Diary] Halloween Event 2024.
The original post can be found here.
Happy commenting!
BB_Saqui
Bad moves
These were useful items from last year's merch and have now been removed:
- Resolute gen - 5599 pumpkins (max. 1) / 6999 gems (max. 3)
- Scared Explorer - 4199 pumpkins (max. 3)
- Ghost Lantern - 5499 pumpkins (max. 3)
- Improved Farm - 700 pumpkins (max. 3)
- Improved Bakery - 1250 pumpkins (max. 2)
- Improved Deerstalker hut - 2850 pumpkins (max. 2)
Good moves
- Great to see that some old standalone items are returning to the merch! Bewitching Explorer, Pirate Explorer
- Wondrous Halloween Residence is not in the bundle! Nice!
- The new Blacktree Explorer is very promising!
- I love the Levitating Hunted Warehouse! First of all, its design is AMAZING! Huge kudos to BB's designer, whoever designed this building! Also, it's very nice that it can be placed on water. The only thing that could be improved is that it could be upgraded.
- I like Biofarm, too. Even if it's not as fast as the improved farm, at least it doesn't require anything for input. We don't need to build a silo for it so that we can save space.
- Nice adding: Shotfirer. Please consider adding Demolition Crew for one of the other event merch as well!
- The Pumpkin Mansion upgrade option is nice, too!
Conclusion and suggestions
This year's merch is better than last year's, but there is still room to improve it.
The bundle prices are better, but the content is not. The most expensive one is worth its price, but the 2 cheaper ones are not. The generals in that are useless. On the positive side of the bundles, we have PFB in every bundle, which is nice.
Still, I wouldn't say I like it when you move items into the bundle, but you remove them from the merch as a standalone item. Why cannot we have both? Add it to the bundle and leave it standalone, too. E.g. Ghost Lantern
Why did you guys remove the option to buy standalone items using gems? In the past, certain items could be bought using event resources and gems, too. Nowadays, this option is gone.
The Longboat Storehouse upgrade option is also a nice move, especially the level 3 upgrade with +80k! However, upgrading a storehouse with event resources is a bad idea as the storehouse cannot be moved like any other building. If we want to move it, we have to demolish it. So we lose event resources, and if it happens outside of the actual event, we cannot upgrade it again and will have to wait a year. Storage upgrades should be done by normal resources.
It's very nice to see that we can have standalone explorers!
I very much like that we can finally get extra Shotfirer in merch! Please consider adding Demolition Crew to one of the other event merch as well!
The new items (explorer and buildings) are very cool!
Previous feedbacks:
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300686
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300590
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300451
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300361
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300080
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post300021
- https://forum.thesettlersonline.net/...l=1#post299746
BB_Saqui: FYI, the original feedback link in the Dev Diary is wrong. It points to this URL: https://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/39633 and not to here. We cannot reply there.
Few thing to point out right of the bat:I'm not debating pros and cons or advocating getting them or not, just pointing it out. Something to keep in mind when planning trading in the pumpkins.
- even though the new water building bear striking resemblance to the Improved Floating Residence, it's actually a warehouse (aka storage).
- the production time of the Bio farm is 10 minutes, which is far below that of Improve Farm
And reading through the Dev's Diary I didn't see info for the Bonaberti Business adventure, but if I remember correctly it's 2x loot and xp for this event. If someone (preferably mod or dev) can confirm this?
I like having some shotfirers. I still have a few rocks left to destroy. Apparently, they increased the amount you can buy for gems at some point, which I didn't realize, but it is nice to have them available for event resources.
Agreed that the smaller bundles aren't good. Maybe I can see an argument if you have some to spare and want a mansion, but the middle bundle is worthless. The most expensive bundle is good, though.
I'm not sure whether to think the event actually ends on November 4th and it has been shortened by a week or if that is an error.
I thought the farm sounded good, but yes, with that production time, it doesn't seem worth it. Good for newer players but not worth the space for anyone with a lot of improved farms and ways to stock them.
Noted that Dev Diary and wiki have the event at 2 weeks. This event has been a 3 week event. Was this done in error?
Well looking that, halloween event is here but my building disappeared. Did I send in a support ticket Oct. 30 (you bet, you betcha)? And did I get a reply (not f n likely)? https://prnt.sc/1mE66TvVrDI2
This happened on the other server as well, didn't bother reporting it. Why? Because they won't fix it anyways. . . . . .
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of others.
reimburse, fix in game things!? ubisoft? this games been a shitshow for almost a decade now, so much worse the last 5. I expect some half-*** mailer with stuff, but in no way does it allieviate the issues it has had, has, still has, current ongoing issues, and more to come.
I've spent in excess of 180 login attempts through 6 days, eventually getting on (most times, ive given up on 2 days) cause their server is getting ddos or they dont care. Then the pleasure of being in game and erroring out right back to the intal issues.
good luck getting an official messages here, let alone any fixes. "WE SRrY, HREs FlaShSalE You Can't Even BuY"
Whats the solution, use the custom flash based initializer some fans made to play the game cause the main developers are lost Lol.
This is just so Ridiculous.
The total number of Blacktree seeds is 10 but we only get 1 red seed this year (the one from the quest is purple). If possible can we get a fix for it - +1 red tree in the Merchant.
The upgrades to the Pumpkin Mansion and Longboat are a great addition, but what we need more than that is upgrades to the Sunflower farms. They take up a lot of space and their production is very low (accounting for that space), even with Fertilizer buff. I hope we get it next event.