Summer Event Update!
As we enter into the home stretch of our Summer Festivities event, we have an important event update to announce!
Due to some staff work schedules shifting for this coming weekend, the end of the event will need to be extended in order to ensure that our main backend dev is able to be online during the final moments of the event where the site processes all final scores and awards. While not initially planned for, we hope that this extra time will give everyone a last minute opportunity to keep working on their scores and tier placements!
QUICK EVENT END INFORMATION
Incredible community effort thus far on our
first major sitewide event since launch!
The end of the event will be extended by 24 hours!
As of this post, the event timer will be updated to reflect this change.
As of this post, the event timer will be updated to reflect this change.
Due to some staff work schedules shifting for this coming weekend, the end of the event will need to be extended in order to ensure that our main backend dev is able to be online during the final moments of the event where the site processes all final scores and awards. While not initially planned for, we hope that this extra time will give everyone a last minute opportunity to keep working on their scores and tier placements!
QUICK EVENT END INFORMATION
- When the event timer hits "0 seconds left to help!", the event will close and automatically shift into processing all scores and reward data. It should take approximately 1 minute for everything to process, after which you may visit the event page to view your rewards!
- All successfully unlocked overtime rewards will be automatically added onto your event rewards - everyone who participated in the event will receive these overtime items!
- In order to update the site with new content associated with the ending of the event, we'll need to have a short maintenance downtime period at 12:30am DV time on September 6th (~30 minutes after the event ends). This should be quick, lasting approximately 15-20 minutes or less!
- As a reminder to everyone, the Shimmering Embers event items will extinguish at the end of the event! Be sure to use them up for some easy Item Alchemy rewards, if you'd like, before they're wiped from player inventories.
Incredible community effort thus far on our
first major sitewide event since launch!
Comments
People did ask earlier on (a week ago or maybe even before that) whether the embers would be needed for anything else and did not receive an official staff response until now. During this period, many users used up potatoes and conecakes buying or trying to alchemize recipes instead. Calling others 'nit-picky' and needing to be 'spoon-fed' when they're asking for a confirmation that would improve their experience (in an event where there was already a pre-existing lack of transparency in other areas) feels a bit unnecessary and extremely condescending.
Exactly this from VEE.
I'm someone who wasn't really affected by just now getting confirmation that embers can safely be alchemized since I had no need to do it before, I knew they were able to be alchemized but I figured I'd hold onto them just until the last day (or until we got confirmation) and then alchemize them all. No loss from me just waiting, I had a bunch of recipes on hand already so I've yet to run out (though I am getting low now) so I didn't need to buy more or try to alchemize for more.
But I still do not like the transparency we got with the embers, or even with a lot of things in the event. (I was basically at a point of not working much at all on the event tasks because I thought I had no chance to get any good tier with the time I had to spend on this site until another USER was kind enough to do the math and make a spreadsheet and that gave me enough determination to continue on with the event. With the amount of worrying people expressed staff really should have stepped in themselves.) And I will gladly point that out to staff because as I've said many times before (which people apparently look over in my posts just because they seem to need to jump at every little "bad" thing people have said about DV and just nitpick on that) I want DVs staff and just DV as a whole to improve, so I give them my criticism.
Everyone really needs to just be kinder to each other. This game/site/its staffs actions isn't/aren't as perfect (and that's ok) as some of you may think, and we're not trying to put the staff down in any way because of that. The criticism we're giving shouldn't be taken as that, I don't want mine to be taken that way.
it was stated since the start that they would disappear? lmao
https://dappervolk.com/item-alchemy?items=1460,1460,1460,1460,1460
The embers were stated to disappear when the event ends. There is only ONE task that involves embers. The staff stated there is literally nothing you can do with them/account bound.
Why is everyone acting like it’s such a big issue that they didn’t state you can alchemize them? And why are people acting like they’re some valuable hard to get item that they wouldn’t even try to alchemize? 😳😳
Also, expressing that the community is silly for not knowing to alchemize isn’t really rude, unless people are for real harassing you over some dumb mistake lol. Some people just test things out rather than waiting for anything else. Most games don’t give thorough walkthroughs, since that defeats the purpose of playing a game.
Let's please respect others. Even small criticism is still valid ones even if you don't believe it is. No need to be rude to others.
if you really dont know why people are making a big deal you clearly didnt read through everyones posts. because people seem to think users are upset because they didnt KNOW you could alchemize the embers. THAT WAS NOT THE ISSUE. the issue is that users were unsure whether there would be a future use for embers at the end of the event. as many things have not been revealed until later, during this event and other dv things, its very understandable that people felt there could be a use for embers to be unveiled at the end of the event.
even if you dont understand why people are upset, what is the point of trying to invalidate their criticism? nobody here is invalidating positive feedback lol. negative feedback is NOT an attack. its not complaining, its not blaming staff. its. feedback. we all want dv to be the best place it can be, omg. lets respect each others opinions.
thats great if users enjoyed experimenting and alchemizing embers on their own. but that doesnt just diminish the experience of those who did not enjoy the unknown.