WORST event ever: let's settle this

annettemarc wrote:

brickevand408 wrote:

neuroheart wrote:

Wijsheid wrote:
. People who are negative just can not stand to not have won everything.

There are players who did win everything, and are still negative. (At least one of them has already posted in this thread.) Your postulation is flawed.

Like me, my frustration was that when you have enough gold to go fore a box i was getting fences, gates...
And the best prizes where not easy to catch, 80 boxes till you have all? ... that has nothing to do with luck only money

And getting TO the gold boxes depended on LUCK. No matter HOW much real life money one was willing to spend. You could never be sure you were going to get a gold box, so getting 80 gold boxes was NOT a sure thing. So it was not a strict "if you're willing to waste enough real money you had the option of buying your way to all the prizes." That saying was NOT TRUE.

I was lucky to get enough gold boxes from the pink-and-blue wheels. Lucky.

Yeah, I'm one of those who bought his way to the prizes, and I've regretted it ever since. For a long while, I had set things up so Nelson was pointing and laughing at Shary Bobbins floating in the air. I intended it as a reminder to myself of my own foolishness.

However, I do remember a remarkable moment at the end of the Easter event: Annettemarc starting a thread where she opened up her feeder towns to help all comers. Good deeds aren't always rewarded, but they should be recognized. That something like this was even contemplated indicates just how bad things were in those final days.

Mopurglar wrote:
Easter was the worst... That said, one aspect of events that was better then, but has been getting progessively worse, is neighbor interaction. At least with Easter, neighbors could tangibly help each other by visiting and filling baskets. For CoC, while neighbors are free to raid each other, it's more a gesture that is mutually detrimental.

This seems to me the best argument against C of C. If it winds up being a precursor for a new style of gameplay, this poll might need to be taken again.