Future events

cdepast wrote:

00-marco_rosas wrote:

cdepast wrote:
Everyone waxes nostolgic about old events but truth is- people complained equally.

People don't complain equally. There were definitely many more complaints from the old events where all the content was out and open in the beginning about nothing to do. The threads were pages long.

With that said, the current event isn't a good one. The problem isn't due to the 3 part format, however. It has to do with prizes and high cost of craft items and other mechanics.

I predict when this event is over, daily players grinding it out will be able to craft all the prizes and easily compete the prize tracks.

I agree, it's taking a long time to get there but just like with the last crafting events, I'm sure I'll be able to get at least one of everything I want! Plus it's a long event, so it taking a while doesn't really matter.

Overall I don't mind this event and the whole crafting thing, it's 10,000 times better than the boxes and wheels!!

my only complaint with the events as of late is that casual players can't get half the stuff that the more... non-casual.... players can get. i've been on both sides of that coin.... when i was playing obsessively (checking in every hour) i found it easy to get everything during clash of the clones and THOH 2014 (and multiples of a lot of stuff)... right now i'm more of a casual player cuz, you know, life, and am finding advancing taking FOREVER. at least with the wheels of chance and stuff it felt like i had a chance of getting cool items, now it's like, okay, i have to devote x amount of time to this game in order to get these items. it's becoming a bit much.

i still love the game, but the new event format still needs a little tweaking, i guess.

JimJ321 wrote:
I think they should do a Paw Patrol event.

You're kidding, right?

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/paw-patrol/images/f/fd/OMG_CAR.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20140131184950

I don't mind crafting, and I have no idea how community prizes work since I was never around for them. I don't like when things are released in phases though. I liked how in the Stonecutter and CoC there were just 10 prizes from the beginning, and you had the whole event to get them. I feel like there's too much pressure when they release them in phases.

chippers29775 wrote:
The way I see it, EA has taken a template approach to events. Each event is split into 3 phases. In each phase, we tap things on footpaths. We upgrade. We craft.

It's the same program logic for Bob clones, corn stalks, felons, robbers, robbers with rainbow wigs, elves, aliens and bunnies.

Even upgrading and crafting is just copied from the previous few events. It feels like watching the original Power Rangers series and realising that each episode was essentially the same as the next.

The idea worked well at the start, but now it's gone stale. Events just don't have the flare and excitement around them anymore. The way to get prizes is pretty much the same.

This is exactly how I feel. I used to look forward to events. They switched up the game for a while, and each event was a little (or a lot) different than the last. Now each event is pretty much the exact same mechanics with only the content changing. They're no longer unique, and a year from now likely not nearly as memorable as the 2012/2013/early 2014 events.

Maybe that's why this event feels like it's dragging on so long for me. It feels like I just did it during Super Heros.

I think the main reason I dislike crafting is that every item requires two types of things (and there's always a surplus of something leading to the annoying phone booths etc). A secondary reason is that the best strategy during crafting events is to wait until the end to craft but that makes it hard to enjoy the event from a decorating perspective.

Also, as someone who looks forward to events for things like fences, it's annoying that the fences aren't a game cash item (I am totally someone who easily spends 100K on fences when events happen and making fences a crafting thing means I can't do that).

(ngl, if the fences were 500 fertilizer each I probably would craft 16 fences rather than the SideshowBob welcome sign that's the kind of fence person I am but at 3000Fertilizer each it's not happening)

casby wrote:
Also, as someone who looks forward to events for things like fences, it's annoying that the fences aren't a game cash item (I am totally someone who easily spends 100K on fences when events happen and making fences a crafting thing means I can't do that).

(ngl, if the fences were 500 fertilizer each I probably would craft 16 fences rather than the SideshowBob welcome sign that's the kind of fence person I am but at 3000Fertilizer each it's not happening)

Yes! I consider fences to be a staple of my designs, so it's pretty stifling not to be able to get a bunch of them. I wouldn't mind if they were craftable, but like you said, they should be cheap to craft.

casby wrote:
I think the main reason I dislike crafting is that every item requires two types of things (and there's always a surplus of something leading to the annoying phone booths etc). A secondary reason is that the best strategy during crafting events is to wait until the end to craft but that makes it hard to enjoy the event from a decorating perspective.

Also, as someone who looks forward to events for things like fences, it's annoying that the fences aren't a game cash item (I am totally someone who easily spends 100K on fences when events happen and making fences a crafting thing means I can't do that).

(ngl, if the fences were 500 fertilizer each I probably would craft 16 fences rather than the SideshowBob welcome sign that's the kind of fence person I am but at 3000Fertilizer each it's not happening)

In a few months theyll offer them for in game cash like they did with the easter fences, just to make everyone who's struggled to get them really angry :lol:

would be fun to have an event like old times again where everyone took part and earned certain prizes. its been a while

I completely agree 100% with everything.

I'm sick of investing ALL of my spare time despite being a serious fan of the show/game. I've been playing for SO LONG and haven't been able to craft ONE item in this time. On top of this, after spending so much money on land to fit in Monsarno buildings and a Minimum Security Prison I have to also spend a ton of money to upgrade some money pile for Mr Burns. At the beginning of this event I had almost 9 million, I was so close to an aspirational building of my choosing and now I barely have 3.2mil.

I hate parodies too. Gimmie the classic things from season 1 - 10. The things every fan likes especially since those are the seasons everyone raves about. There's a million things they could make into the game including a whole event based on those "hideous" jell-o's that everyone brought to Mr Burn's picnic. I'm not saying that should be an event but even that would've been funnier than the awful Clash of Clones.

I'm sorry I have a life EA. I also don't care being berated by people whose parents either spoil them in gift cards or people who make $100,000 a year and can afford to blow $100 from their paycheck every week to plow through these events. Every time someone mentions it's a struggle the brown-nosing committee makes sure they come in and chime how special they are cause they're not having an issues and are really enjoying the game and they love EA. Gimmie a break.