Elf spawn

Mirality wrote:
It's been mentioned in another thread that they might soon be offering some premium purchase to increase elf spawn rates though.

I'd take that with a grain of salt until there's actual proof - there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that's anything more than wishful thinking at the moment.

There's only 2 possible ways EA could introduce more Elves (short of tweaking the spawn rate itself):

*Sell new item(s) that spawn Elves.
There's no additional buildings/decos in the game files, so anything new would have to be introduced via an update (and by that, it's obviously a catch-up patch release & not something planned prior).

*Adjust existing item(s) to spawn Elves (& sell said item(s) to players again).
The obvious item to spawn Elves is the Elf Home, so they could just enable it like how they issued presents for Part 1. However, just like possibility #1, it's a reactionary thing as they haven't been doing so for the last week or more.

Either way, it's obvious that any tweaks would be reactionary to a miscalculation (or bad planning), and not something we as players can say with any certainty is actually going to happen. And with all the issues they had at the start of Part 2, I don't know if EA would have many regular staff on hand to do the legwork over the public holidays.


TL;DR - there's nothing in the game coding to say that, so don't believe it until EA sends out game patches.