Crafting complete without Endless Bob
I did take advantage of fight club, but I was most certainly on track to get at least one of everything even without it.
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wadebear wrote:
The problem with this event (and all the others I've played) is that it there's too much randomness in the generation of crafting materials. Oh whoopee - tapping those 40 Bob Clones got me 4 Theater Masks and MORE CORN.
Before I learned of 'fight club' I did an estimate of how many Theater Masks I was likely to get based on how many I was getting per day. According to my results I might have gotten enough to craft one of everything - and that with playing once an hour all day long plus getting up in the middle of the night to do a round of tapping. Sheesh!
Meanwhile... Corn running out my ears. Onto the floor. Out the door. Down the sidewalk. And spilled onto the street.
What't the point in giving us gobs and gobs of one crafting item that we can't possibly use up? It would make sense if we could covert or trade it with other players (or both). I had my fingers crossed that the Farmers Market would be an avenue to do one or both of those. Convert at a loss ratio - say 2 corn for 1 Fertilizer, 3 corn per DNA, 4 corn per Theater Mask (etcetera). Or use it as a portal to trade with other players... (not that trading Corn would be any use since everybody has gobs of it...).
Ok, done venting. (For now...)
Actually for a player who didn't use the glitch (I am one), theater masks have been the easiest to accumulate because the payouts for those tasks are so high once you upgrade the Opera House a bit. I certainly haven't had to get up in the middle of the night either to accumulate more than enough masks to craft one of each of those prizes. The worst has been DNA because the payouts for those tasks are comparatively low compared to the fertilizer, corn, and theater mask tasks - I'm still a couple thousand DNA short of crafting the last item (Gas n Grub) but will still get there with a few days to spare assuming the crafting continues until June 4.
There did seem to be an imbalance in the crafting materials for this event - as you say, too much corn compared to the other crafting items. It isn't really randomness though, it's just how EA decided to design the event.
