I've been thinking about this too.I think it is going to be a little different than in the past, but it's been a long time for me. There will be some kind of community currency (CC) and the community as a whole has to reach some CC goal. Then everyone gets the prize. I'm guessing that you'll be able to spend AB to get CC. Of course AB is used in the shop and for upgrades also.My initial analysis has me thinking that we want to maximize the AB that everyone is getting. The maximum amount of AB that is added to the "global pool of AB" (I don't know what else to call it) from tap-ball games comes from winning a 5-star difficulty match. That puts 31 AB in the pool. 30 from the win and bonus, and 1 to the defender for losing. And people should play to get their first-win-of-the-day Brockman bonus of 75 AB. If you are going to lose, then lose to a 5-star difficulty match to put 25 AB in that pool. 22 for the loss, and 3 to the defender.See the strategy thread.

Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!

roshigoth1 wrote:Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!Well I would not call it a waste. :) It does contribute to getting the community prizes.

These pictures below show the type of community prizes that were offered back during Whacking Day, basically we had to "whack" a certain amount of snakes to be able to achieve the prize! if you didnt collect enough you didnt win that prize. For example with this event you had to drop Eggs to your neighbours, the eggs would hatch and snakes would escape you then had to chase them around the town and then tap them, if you had the stereo speakers you could tap the speakers which would attract the snakes to them like the show :lol: Awesome event!! http://i.imgur.com/l9qzjhIl.jpgIf you completed the amount need in the picture above you could then continue to whack to open these boxes for more prizes :) http://i.imgur.com/oiS9jA5l.jpgPersonally this was the best way an event should run! It brought all your neighbours together to help each other and brought the forum closer together in regards to making neighbours to help people achieve the amount of snakes This event is when my daughter started playing (two days before the end) and with the help of this forum i along with many helpful forum peeps managed to complete the event in under 24hrs, well was a constant 22hrs worth of tapping :shock: could hardly write the following day i tell ya :lol:

Neglecterino wrote:roshigoth1 wrote:Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!Well I would not call it a waste. :) It does contribute to getting the community prizes.By waste, I meant that you're not getting any tangible reward for it. Just one small step towards the larger prizes, which you're not exactly guaranteed to get. While I hear it's always been successful in the past, they were linked to overall event progression. This time you have to take affirmative steps to go towards the community prizes that don't benefit you in any other way. It should be interesting.

I only participated in a community prize system once before (Christmas 2013) when I was knew to the game so I can't remember exactly how it worked, is there a minimum value that each individual player has to reach before they can gain the community prizes or could somebody actually just sit back, do nothing and still get the rewards?

::Community prizes::How work exactly.

roshigoth1
10 years ago
Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!
Neglecterino
10 years ago
roshigoth1 wrote:
Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!

Well I would not call it a waste. :) It does contribute to getting the community prizes.
NeoSEC28
10 years ago
These pictures below show the type of community prizes that were offered back during Whacking Day, basically we had to "whack" a certain amount of snakes to be able to achieve the prize! if you didnt collect enough you didnt win that prize. For example with this event you had to drop Eggs to your neighbours, the eggs would hatch and snakes would escape you then had to chase them around the town and then tap them, if you had the stereo speakers you could tap the speakers which would attract the snakes to them like the show :lol: Awesome event!!

http://i.imgur.com/l9qzjhIl.jpg

If you completed the amount need in the picture above you could then continue to whack to open these boxes for more prizes :)

http://i.imgur.com/oiS9jA5l.jpg

Personally this was the best way an event should run! It brought all your neighbours together to help each other and brought the forum closer together in regards to making neighbours to help people achieve the amount of snakes

This event is when my daughter started playing (two days before the end) and with the help of this forum i along with many helpful forum peeps managed to complete the event in under 24hrs, well was a constant 22hrs worth of tapping :shock: could hardly write the following day i tell ya :lol:
roshigoth1
10 years ago
Neglecterino wrote:
roshigoth1 wrote:
Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!

Well I would not call it a waste. :) It does contribute to getting the community prizes.

By waste, I meant that you're not getting any tangible reward for it. Just one small step towards the larger prizes, which you're not exactly guaranteed to get. While I hear it's always been successful in the past, they were linked to overall event progression. This time you have to take affirmative steps to go towards the community prizes that don't benefit you in any other way. It should be interesting.
aidx1054
10 years ago
I only participated in a community prize system once before (Christmas 2013) when I was knew to the game so I can't remember exactly how it worked, is there a minimum value that each individual player has to reach before they can gain the community prizes or could somebody actually just sit back, do nothing and still get the rewards?
anaquarind
New Spectator
10 years ago
I also have never played a community prize event before. Historically, has the community been able to hit the top prize before the event is done? Or one or two short?
Neglecterino
10 years ago
roshigoth1 wrote:
Neglecterino wrote:
roshigoth1 wrote:
Other than the soccer balls on the prize track, from what I can see they're gonna cost 500 AB per ball, so get ready to waste AB on those instead of extra decorations!

Well I would not call it a waste. :) It does contribute to getting the community prizes.

By waste, I meant that you're not getting any tangible reward for it. Just one small step towards the larger prizes, which you're not exactly guaranteed to get. While I hear it's always been successful in the past, they were linked to overall event progression. This time you have to take affirmative steps to go towards the community prizes that don't benefit you in any other way. It should be interesting.

Agreed. It will be interesting to see if people think spending 500 AB to get one ball is worth it when the prize is going to take hundreds of millions of balls to unlock!

I assume we will have some way to see the progress on unlocking the prizes.

I don't know if we personally have to have some number of balls to get the prizes.

Looking forward to it!
NeoSEC28
10 years ago
Igcognita wrote:
NeoSEC28 wrote:
These pictures below show the type of community prizes that were offered back during Whacking Day, basically we had to "whack" a certain amount of snakes to be able to achieve the prize! if you didnt collect enough you didnt win that prize. For example with this event you had to drop Eggs to your neighbours, the eggs would hatch and snakes would escape you then had to chase them around the town and then tap them, if you had the stereo speakers you could tap the speakers which would attract the snakes to them like the show :lol: Awesome event!!

http://i.imgur.com/l9qzjhIl.jpg

If you completed the amount need in the picture above you could then continue to whack to open these boxes for more prizes :)

http://i.imgur.com/oiS9jA5l.jpg

Personally this was the best way an event should run! It brought all your neighbours together to help each other and brought the forum closer together in regards to making neighbours to help people achieve the amount of snakes

This event is when my daughter started playing (two days before the end) and with the help of this forum i along with many helpful forum peeps managed to complete the event in under 24hrs, well was a constant 22hrs worth of tapping :shock: could hardly write the following day i tell ya :lol:

These were actually personal prizes

http://tstotopix.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/600px-tapped_out_community_prizes.png

Everyone had to collect a certain amount of items to add to an overall total, so everyone could win the prize. With the Whacking Day prizes, people could help you gain a personal prize, but ultimately it was up to you if you won the prizes or not.
With the community prizes, you could probably not collect anything at all and still get the prizes, because it's based off everyone's total tally, not just one persons effort.

Ahh good point! :oops: I sit corrected :lol:

In that case i shall say personal prizes were the best! :lol: :P
aofigo009
10 years ago
Neglecterino wrote:
I've been thinking about this too.

I think it is going to be a little different than in the past, but it's been a long time for me. There will be some kind of community currency (CC) and the community as a whole has to reach some CC goal. Then everyone gets the prize. I'm guessing that you'll be able to spend AB to get CC. Of course AB is used in the shop and for upgrades also.

My initial analysis has me thinking that we want to maximize the AB that everyone is getting. The maximum amount of AB that is added to the "global pool of AB" (I don't know what else to call it) from tap-ball games comes from winning a 5-star difficulty match. That puts 31 AB in the pool. 30 from the win and bonus, and 1 to the defender for losing. And people should play to get their first-win-of-the-day Brockman bonus of 75 AB. If you are going to lose, then lose to a 5-star difficulty match to put 25 AB in that pool. 22 for the loss, and 3 to the defender.

See the strategy thread.

As Neglecterino says, we've started talking about the Community Prizes already, and any important information everybody needs to know I will add to the front page, as I've done all event! Good luck everybody! :)
Ataccounting
10 years ago
Although mysteriously prizes were spread pretty evenly throughout the event. And programming a system to receive information about currency being collected is much harder than scheduling prizes to release at a given time...

/cynic