I would like to very strongly agree with Tjarah (#33813) here

"Please, please, think of people's well-being! This game has appealed to a lot of marginalized people who already are likely to have higher stress levels than average. I was really hoping that the game mechanics would also reflect respect, not just for diverse identities, but also for the real people who hold these identities. So far this hasn't been my experience of the game :( "

i understand that the elite tier should be more challenging to achieve. but challenging SHOULDNT mean giving up basic human health and feeling full of stress for 14 days.

i dont even care that much about dv and im sitting here wondering if i should try to sleep less so i can reach the elite. that shouldnt even be a question im asking myself. and if you think it should, that is seriously messed up. how could you expect your userbase to abandon their lives to play their game? how do you expect ppl to keep giving you money at this rate lol? do you care about us AT ALL?

im currently at 2470 and ive been on dv during ALL OF MY WAKING MOMENTS. there is no way i will reach elite tier. i cant believe this. i really want to because otherwise what is the point of working hard? but 30k? how is that even possible to obtain while still getting sleep?

Krycelli (#3919) calculated that you would get 40k points from doing everything 24 hours a day. but thats impossible? so you are telling me if i spend TWELVE HOURS OF MY LIFE ON YOUR SITE EVERY DAY FOR 14 DAYS I STILL DONT GET ALL THE ITEMS??? who decided this was balanced lol i literally dont understand. did yall do the math at all ? this is extremely unreasonable.

I also want to bring up Dread (#772) 's point

"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. "

this is a problem across the site on many many issues. i dont understand why staff cant communicate effectively with their userbase. just tell us what is going on lol!! im sorry if your feelings are hurt because you have all worked so hard on this site. we do appreciate your hard work, and i dont think ANYONE wants staff to feel bad. we just want to be heard? we just want to have a conversation? a big reason people are so emotional about stuff is because when we dont hear about something.. how can we know?? its very frustrating.

i want this site to do well, i have made a lot of lovely friends and the art style is very impressive. its just hard when it feels like staff doesnt care about its users.

i feel it would be different if there were just a few timed tasks but the rest had an amount of times you could turn in limit, but timeless so ppl with strict schedules could rack up points in the time they do get to the pc. this event just feels like its pushing away MOST of the userbase, and catering to a small percent. very strange :/