Impossible tasks on streaks
In general, streaks are awesome. They are a great idea and I've had some of my best totals ever with them. BUT, there is a problem. I just had a streak task in CoM for Wave Simoleons. But streaks are only valid for 24 hours, and in this case my Wave Export HQ doesn't open up for another 38 hours! That means it's impossible to play this streak task, which means I have to abandon this streak that already has two completed tasks. This is unacceptable! You can't lead me on with the promise of bonus points, not tell me what the upcoming tasks are, and then spring an impossible task on me after I've already completed two of the four tasks!
This is a MAJOR problem, and there are multiple solutions:
1. Don't assign tasks that can be impossible: for example anything with a burn-down like war tasks, export HQ tasks, monster tasks, even epic tasks; or other possibly impossible tasks like city expansion or other upgrades, since the player may possibly be fully upgraded.
2. Take a look at the existing state of the current player's city before assigning the task and don't assign a task that would be impossible for that player at that time. This means if the player is not at war, don't assign a war task; if an export HQ isn't open, don't assign an export HQ task; if the city is fully expanded, don't assign a city expansion task.
3. Remove the burndowns. This means no 18-hour wait between epic buildings, no 12-hour wait before war preparations and no 12-hour additional wait for war attacks, no 48-hour wait on export HQs, etc.
4. Give us an option to speed up the burndowns. Monster attack burndowns can be removed for a price, but the price is ridiculously high. If I get a streak task to attack a monster but the monster isn't scheduled to arrive for 48 hours and I can speed that up with sim dollars, that's fine, but not for 200 dollars! There's no way that one CoM task is worth 200 sim dollars. Remember, this is the price just to play the task, not to complete the task quickly.
In their current form, impossible streak tasks in CoM are even more cruel than impossible regular tasks in CoM. It's one thing to give me a challenge, and it's quite another to give me a challenge that can not possibly be completed. Doing so means that the CoM is no longer a contest of skill, but a game of chance to see which player doesn't get screwed by EA.
FIX THIS NOW!!!
