EA Staff (Retired)Hmmm. attached is my entry for green valley which got, unbelievably, 4 stars. I thought the max was 3.5!
I did notice during voting that all cities I saw had 2, 2.5, 3 or 3.5 stars as an average rating. In general, the better entries were people with 3.5 stars so obviously the ones who try. But where are the cities on 0 to 1.5 stars? some of the rubbish I saw was only worth that and so many people submit junk. More importantly, where are the players with 4-star average, bearing in mind 4 stars are needed to reach the end? I need to win this week or get 'double blueprints', or get a handout if I am to get to the simcash.
I suspect the voting does work in a way, the rubbish cities do get lower points and the better cities get higher but the spread seems to be 2 to 3.5 stars not 0 to 5 stars. I have suggested other options (elimination so only the better ones gain more viewings and stars, group the cities into 10 chunks based on the voting, lowest chunk gets 0 stars, highest 4.5 stars (winner gets 5)) or they can even just apply a multiplier - double the distance people are from 2.5 stars (range would then be 1/1.5 to 4.5 which is better). Whatever, the voting needs to change, or the event track.
Like the idea of votes getting blueprints as rewards. Encourages voting and will allow people to make up the shortfall in entries / stars.
Also agree voting shold not be on a Monday or Tuesday. It was only done that way to align with Com and see below for what people think of that! Do design Monday - Thursday, vote Friday. Design tasks not to appear in com!
You're right.
You won your Royal Resort by competing in an early (third or fourth), pre-Mayor's Pass CoM Season. Top prize was the Luxury Cruise Ship that round. 😁
I do hope Design Challenge tracks are modified similarly.
It was very difficult to win top prizes in the early Season competitions. The devs modified the contest by allowing Mayors to continue to complete tasks after CoM ended and before the next CoM began, and allowed those off-CoM Plumbob Points earned to count toward Season prizes. They also no longer had mayors begin each Season in Neighborhood League.
More mayors were (and are now) able to win top prizes. Downside: They began charging $4.99 USD to get the best prizes. Upside: Platinum and Gold keys, War supplies, War cards, temporary storage, War Simoleons and Expansion items were added.
Frankly, ultimately I think we will get a lot of what we're wanting while competing, or completing Design Challenges...Like one more challenge per track, more incentive for mayors to vote (no little prize for voting through one queue, but maybe 100 simcash if you vote through ten queues in 24 hours), and a few more prizes, BUT, there will be a catch and it will likely be something in the neighborhood of $2.99 USD per track or event.
...Just guessing. 😉
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