Separating the Mayor's Pass points from the Green Crystal points from these tasks has impacted me personally in the following ways:
Personally, I like to max out my weekly Pass progression in the first three days of the week so I can chill for the rest of it. But right now, since bonus tasks only give Green Crystal points, I'm forced to grind points daily from daily tasks (aside from weekly tasks, which require completing a certain number of tasks to get massive amounts of points—I usually use those as a supplementary boost). Anyway, I can't completely judge the new changes yet, but given the current situation, I won't be buying the Pass anymore to save myself the headache. Even though you claim it makes things easier and better to complete, hardly anyone seems to be stepping forward to say they're happy or not exhausted. We'll just have to wait and see how you guys tweak it further.
Because only bonus tasks provide Green Crystal points—which you claimed was for a fairer CoM (Contest of Mayor) and to stop cheaters—cheaters are still reigning supreme and haven't been affected at all. Meanwhile, for the Club's weekly challenge chests, since only bonus tasks give points and you didn't lower the progress requirements, hitting those goals has become a massive struggle. Usually, in our club, players like me who like to max out the Pass in the first three days would naturally push our Green Crystal points past 120k+. Together with four or five other active players, plus casual players chipping in as they pleased (since daily tasks actually provided a very decent amount), we could quickly rack up 50k-80k points. By Saturday or Sunday, we'd already hit the Epic chest and cleared past the halfway mark of the next tier. And now? The highest anyone can barely manage is 60k-70k, and everyone else is sitting below 40k. We're still barely past the halfway mark of the Rare chest. Progression has slowed to a crawl—people are either too exhausted to grind all these bonus tasks, or don't even want to bother anymore. The current changes don't feel like we're casually gaming the system; instead, we're being forced to hustle and sweat just to keep up with these tasks.
Hmm... if you guys insist on keeping only bonus tasks providing Green Crystal points, you should either lower the progress thresholds for each tier of the Club Challenge chests so that grinding bonus tasks isn't too agonizing, or handle it like the Red Crystal points from challenge events—introduce a brand new currency, like Yellow Crystals, where all tasks can provide points specifically for leveling up Club Challenge chests, instead of relying on Green Crystals. It could be any other color of crystal, I think you get the idea.
Lastly, I really hope you saw my post about special roads on the forum, and I expect a great solution (one that doesn't require me to tear down and repave all the roads across my entire city). I loved the change that allowed all vehicle types, and reverting it just to push out the Ghost Avenue feels completely lazy and counterproductive. If it was a 'bug', you should've fixed it at least two years ago instead of letting us use it for so long just to screw us over. It's not just me who hates this; plenty of players in my club hate it too. Now I just hope you guys provide a solid fix in the next update, and don't make us go through the massive hassle of redoing our entire road layouts just to enjoy some traffic. Also, when are you going to fix the issue where vehicles on level 2 standard roads get stuck driving on the center yellow line? Please let me see that you guys are actually putting effort into solving all these problems in the next update. Thank you.
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