Summer Festivities 2020!
The Summer Festivities have officially begun!
EVENT DURATION AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 5TH
EVENT DURATION AUGUST 21ST TO SEPTEMBER 5TH
- The event can be accessed through the button above or by going to the community drop down menu!
- For the first few days, an additional new task will appear each day for a total of 8 different tasks.
- Tasks refresh on a set timer, for example the Gather Refreshments task can be completed every 2 hours (12AM, 2AM, and so on)
- Overtime reward details will appear if the main bar is filled before the event ends!
- A seasonal quest related to the events of this year's Summer Festivities will unlock if the bar is successfully filled by the end of the event!
- This quest, if unlocked will be enabled for the duration of September after the event ends.
- The leaderboard is just for fun and does not include any bonus prizes for high scoring users!
Event Related Item Drop
- The Shimmering Ember is an event specific item that is now obtainable by completing daily errands for Louise Hill NPC's (Both positive and negative paths)!
- All shimmering embers are account bound and will disappear at the end of the event.
Happy Summer, we hope everyone has fun while staying safe!
Comments
Staff, please don't launch future events in this style. It's much better when the tasks aren't time-based and players can have a life outside of DV.
I was not thrilled with how little you could earn within the first few days of getting points at the beginning of the event, and I definitely lost sleep trying to catch every timer because I was at work for the first day of the event and was terrified I would have destroyed all chances at getting those beautiful wings before even understanding what I missed.
First week in, I'm much happier with the higher point tasks, but even they weren't all I hoped for. My brain found hoping for a near guaranteed 1k points per day with one task very comforting but the best we got is 600 oh well. However I am still not letting myself go back to a healthy routine because gOD I want the w I N G S.
Claiming system sucks and I cri over lost point.
Pre-travel boon sucked to work around.
Also I have like 150 something embers and counting because we just cant do anything with them?? I am praying they are at least converted into points to be counted at the end of the event otherwise ????? What a waste??? Not even an event store? We cant even trade these things!
Long story short devs it really looks like you need a better pr system for addressing issues and several tweaks to the game event you are making everyone angy and tired.
I'm gonna cry if I go through all this sleep loss and bad life choices and STILL dont get elite because of work
Valen (#36144)
No offense, but there’s literally 7 days left and I am at Gold status and I have a full time job PLUS this started while I was on vacation with my family so I wasn’t using electronics during the day. I sleep 6 hours every night (cause work) and the last few days I overslept 12-13 hours and I still have... So many points that I know for a fact I can get to elite. If I can make 10k points in 2 days while not being on it religiously, then I can get the remaining 10k in 6 days.
You guys are thinking too hard and acting high and mighty cause this is a new site. Stop with all the “this is a gross practice hur hur” No, you just don’t have self control apparently?? It’s a game. If you don’t get elite because you don’t try, then you don’t. Even with little effort, you can get elite easily.
This site is still new and admin/mods are still figuring out how to do things and you guys (not the people i pinged) are demanding them to fit YOUR needs. Please, stop being so entitled and give actual constructive criticism. This community has been the most annoying with the complaining and demanding the admins to bend to their every call. It’s ridiculous!
Anyways, try your best, don’t sit on the computer 24/7 cause someone on dv told you thats the only way to win, and have fun :) There’s 6 days left. If you’re like me and have 20k (or even 10k) points, you will TOTALLY make it to elite.
Just found out you can alchemize them!! (the things u get from this event omg) I am not sure if that really helps your case, but its free alchemizing fodder basically.
While it’s not entirely fun, since it’s mostly grinding, I do enjoy the prizes. 🤤
I do agree the countdowns and things for tasks is unneeded, and the need to click them to even DO them is kinda silly as well. I would rather just do it and then claim the points rather than click, do task, come back and claim points. I sometimes forget which one I claimed and my brain goes into autodrive and I do something else.
I, and almost everyone agrees, that the countdowns and slowly showing the tasks did give off the illusion that we won’t make enough points regardless of how we play and get on. I panicked the first day UNTIL I re-read the announcement! Obviously a lot of people didn’t read the announcement, but yeah.
Having instructions on the event page might help others as well!
Making the hatch a pet one 1000 points because omfg it’s sooo uncool to do it every 24 hours for that less of points. I hatch like 3 turniplings a day and I hold it until the 24hours is up lol.
But, I do agree with others when they say they’re stressing over this. The time based unlocks do feel like time is the enemy and you need to watch for when it is unlocked to do it so you don’t miss out on points, but I feel like it just created an illusion of failure for a lot of people.
Appreciate the event and cute prizes and hope you guys take some of the stuff said by everyone and put it into your next event! Don’t feel too stressed about all the demands aaahh.
1) you only have to be online roughly once every four hours since the timers are by time of day and not from when the last timer was set.
2) the “have fun with a pet” task really isn’t nessecary. I haven’t done it for multiple days and today I’m going to hit gold (I’m averaging over 2k a day without it *and* getting sleep)
3) I know in the beginning they could have communicated more, but as I think about it I understand why they didn’t. They told us there would be new tasks, so we knew something was coming. But this game heavily relies on not spoiling things. I would check in at rollover excited to see what the new task was, and that made it feel a lot less like grinding the entire event.
4) I’m personally really thankful for the timers and for how it is set up. The other site I play just has 20 minute timers that went from where you last got one and it was very stressful to try and get enough tokens to trade in. I like how this one it’s set point values that you can calculate how much you need to get each day to get a certain tier. Plus, if elite was easier to get it wouldn’t have as much value. From what I gathered the spring bloom only went to the top 25% so I imagine that’s the goal they had in mind for how many people hit 30k.
I dunno. I didn’t have internet the first 3.5 days of the event, so all I could do was really sit and watch the comments on my cellular data and yet here I am at gold with 5 days left so I’ll probably get elite unless something weird happens and I haven’t been damaging my health or school work (because I’m also a full time college student). I know this is long. And probably unnessacary. But I just thought I’d put my thoughts out there and see if maybe it helps anyone see things from a new perspective.
If you look at the table in the comments 5 or so pages back, the maximum points you can make per day if you literally did every single task over a 24 hour period without sleeping is 3360 points. If you get 8hrs of sleep the maximum (meaning you do every single task over a 16 hour time span) is 2665 points per day.
I dont support misleading information and false ones at that. It was proven by multiple members that it was not possible to make that many points. Support the event and be satisfied with it, that's great BUT don't do this kind of lying.
I'm about to reach gold tier and it took 530 tasks over 8.5 days. That averages to 62 tasks per day which has been a massive time commitment.
You have to remember too that it took 5 days to unlock all 8 quests with the last two being the highest in points. So for the first 3 days the community floundered away with small point frequent tasks.
The first few days you could also not attain or reasonably attain the 2000 points a day needed for elite tier which caused stress and panic. It also meant that each day you didn't gain 2000 points, in the following days you had to get higher than that to reach the elite tier.
Staff communication was also lacking. Telling staff what went wrong is very constructive because they know what not to do next time and which parts of the event weren't enjoyable. There have been suggestions for improvement and different event model suggestions as well as compliments on what users did like. I think as a whole the community has done a good job in conveying the pros and cons of this event to staff.
When the leader board was up, a staff member was doing tasks essentially 24/7 which gave the impression to myself and likely others that an unrealistic time commitment was needed to reach elite tier.