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
To understand what this means: If you started the event TODAY and missed the last two days and managed to get all of the points, and did none of the other tasks that open up, you could get 25,740 points total.
But if you started tomorrow, and the next task is 80 points, and you do all the tasks (and did NOT start today), then the total possible points would be 29,520--if you started today and got everything, then it's 31,500 points.
90 points for 11 days at 6 times a day is another 5,940 points, and 100 points for 10 days at 6 times a day is another 6,000. SO! If you got all the times and missed the entire first day, you'd have a potential of 43,440 points *if you did not do ANYTHING* for the first two days of the event. Players who started on the first day have an even larger pool of points they can get. It's probably something close to 50 grand. So even if people need to miss some for sleep and work, it should not be totally impossible to make elite tier.
I hope this breakdown helps assuage peoples' anxieties some.
I'm cutting down my sleep hours and live by alarm clock whenever it's possible, but my best score is rather bad (mind you this is a weekend, so I have more time for playing than I usually do, yet I'm still somehow super low on numbers). I'm starting to doubt that 30k of pts is achievable under the normal circumstances (work, school, etc), unless some of the future tasks will offer significant increase in pts rewards like 500-700 pts per task. Either that or gotta live onsite 24/7 by timers for two weeks.
I'm not asking for it to be super easy and available for everyone, but something less intense that wouldn't make me feel that I'm basically destroying my health in attempt to get a bunch of pixels shaped like wings.
30k pts in 14 days would mean around 2,2k pts per day every day (and even more if you gathered less previously).
It's only third day of event but I'm already very exhausted and got visible dark circles under my eyes now, that much of stress is not fun at all.
30k points are still here and it looks like a mountain most of us won't be able to conquer. Extra tasks are good, but timers are still here as well... Heck, I don't even have a life! I'm literally sitting all day in front of my PC, literally from the point I wake up to the point I fall asleep. If 30k don't seem possible even for a loser like me, what about people who have at least something going on for them, be it work or family or honestly anything else?
So far it seems like you listening, but very selectively. Our community has to see transparency, and radiosilence is never a good way to handle things. If you need more time to fix it, or balance it, or anything - it's okay, it's understandable - just tell us something! Even if it's a simple "We're considering\working\we are aware". So far it's like you're ingoring us for the most parts.
I don't feel pride and accomplishment.
1) Point values- elite tier should be something you need to work for, but if shouldnt be so far out of reach that it can only be reached by dedicating your whole day to the site + losing sleep. This is promoting bad habits and is detrimental to people's health. The point values are ridiculously low- if you are putting in 100 tasks a day, you should be pretty confident you can get the things, and yet, if the math works out and the next quests are what's expected, I won't be able to get even close.
2) Not knowing- there's so much back and forth of don't worry the next tasks will be higher but....we don't know what they will be (though the newest one does show a potential pattern). Having a goal but not knowing what opportunities you will have in order to reach that point goal is really frustrating.
3) The timers- These completely screws over anyone who plays petsites in bursts, who has to be away from their computer for job or school or anything- I tend to play a couple hours a day at the end of the day normally. I can't do that now, and because I feel like I am constantly on, I don't have the energy to do dv stuff outside of event.
This is probably a mess cause it's 4 am but wanted to put something down about my current feelings. I do hope that staff starts to take into account the type of unhealthy precedent they are setting.