Hey folks! Just wanted to let you know how stupid I am. Eventhough I had to recognize painfully for already 3 times now, that EA is unfair when it comes to the bonuts round (because if you trade more books and chicken fingers for the required 5.400 brooches then it won't add up for the next bonut round, they will just be wasted) I've done it again and wasted a lot of chicken fingers and books. Somehow I'm getting a spontaneous short time amnesia just the moment before I start trading the resources. Thereby I think I have already wasted about 3-5 rounds of bonuts... So f***ing stupid.But on the other hand: don't you think that it's pretty f***ed up from EA that this is even possible? Why haven't they just put up the same mechanism as in other Events or when you gain XP, when it all added up for the next round? I think they are devils :-/Am I the only one who's that stupid?

I just did that, too. LOL. It's frustrating. I'll turn up my sound next time and listen for the bonuts chime. Oh well. It's just a few donuts lost. Event is almost over. If you've done it three times, you can't really blame EA anymore. :)

I think. We discovered something similar in past events....

It would be nice if it was fixed. During Act 1 I was stupid but this act I have been on the flippin dot, and I'm proud of that.

Been there, done that too many times!Now I watch the numbers better.

Yeah this seems to happen a lot. Been like this for so many events I figure it's just part of the game.

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bluntcard
Seasoned Novice
8 years ago
I just did that, too. LOL. It's frustrating. I'll turn up my sound next time and listen for the bonuts chime. Oh well. It's just a few donuts lost. Event is almost over. If you've done it three times, you can't really blame EA anymore. :)
miraclemet
8 years ago
I think. We discovered something similar in past events....
simp7fan
8 years ago
It would be nice if it was fixed. During Act 1 I was stupid but this act I have been on the flippin dot, and I'm proud of that.
iZombieApu
8 years ago
Been there, done that too many times!
Now I watch the numbers better.
KillaSqirl
8 years ago
Yeah this seems to happen a lot. Been like this for so many events I figure it's just part of the game.
devilhunt1449
8 years ago
Your not on your own, I've also done it myself just today, recon that I wasted some 2000 collectables as I was busy just turning in 4 lots for the daily task and had forgotten about only needing around 1000 items for the bonut round.
PatrickSays
8 years ago
Lol!! Me too :( I've done it a few times and even though I catch myself I do it again and again. Probably wasted at least 5000 to 7000.
AARONRTD
8 years ago
Oops, I did it again......
matulaboola
8 years ago
Yuh theys devels
alapalme
8 years ago
Yes this is the case in every event for the bonuts round. Why? because the bonut round is attached to a task. When you accomplish the task (by surpassing the quantity), the task is deleted and a new task is created with the same target (0/5400). This at least as far as I remember is how every event has worked in the past.

The reason the counter "doesn't" reset when accomplishing event goals but does "donut" goals is that exactly; the donut goals are just tasks, while the goals are cummulative quantities (ie, you get a reward after 10000, then 17000, then 19000). One of the replies above asks why not use the same mechanism-- the answer is because then EA would have to program the bonut rounds as goals starting from the last event goal. So if the last prize is at say 70000, then they'd have to add goals at 75400, 80800, and so on.. and possibly quite many given how many bonut rounds we all got this event. But then, they'd need even more hacks to hide those extra goals from the main event dialogs, etc, because they're bonus, etc.

Bottom line is-- it's not EA being greedy, mean, etc etc, it's just the way the bonut rounds are designed. They are single tasks. You complete one, a new one starts at 0.

My strategy is to leave plenty of pagans in my town and each time I approach the target, I stop trading fingers/books and start tapping the pagans. Least waste possible this way.