Yeah, if I'm understanding it correctly it's a bit head-tilty for me. (Mind you, also eases some regret because though I saved my gathering turns, I did hatch all my nests, bond with my fams, etc already today, and at first I thought dang, missed opportunities for moar loot. And I thought it a shame I'd be brewing vistas for most of the event rather than collecting goops. And I was debating doing my own exalting rather than sending to Plague's PB.)
But aside from self-reporting quantities of items contributed for bragging rights, there doesn't seem to be a metric for encouraging individual users to interact with the site more for more chances at items - or, for that matter, even turning them in rather than just hoarding all but one of each per phase and keeping the rest for plain ol' baldwin fodder (from the item DB entry it at least looks like they'll be meltable - if not, the mats tabs of the AH is likely to get clogged with them). However, this is the first such event on FR, so participation awards probably do make more sense to both get everyone accustomed to it and alleviate any accusations that a supposed sitewide celebration was skewed unfairly towards power users.
(Although of course my magpie/hoarder ass is happy that it's not the case, probably would've made sense to have the event items disappear after all's said and done, like Strange Chests do. Otherwise there's really negative incentive to turn in more than necessary, since you're tossing concretely profitable goods into a pit for zero gain - except, yes, as someone said upthread, seeing the next phase sooner, but I'm way too patient for something like that to be a big perk, lol.)
Lol that they hastily corrected them to be unmeltable, with the implication that they never considered ahead of time that people would use them for Baldwin instead of the event. Chalk up another one for admins not really in touch with how people actually play the game.
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Re: site's down for maintenance
(Anonymous) 2021-06-08 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)But aside from self-reporting quantities of items contributed for bragging rights, there doesn't seem to be a metric for encouraging individual users to interact with the site more for more chances at items - or, for that matter, even turning them in rather than just hoarding all but one of each per phase and keeping the rest for plain ol' baldwin fodder (from the item DB entry it at least looks like they'll be meltable - if not, the mats tabs of the AH is likely to get clogged with them).
However, this is the first such event on FR, so participation awards probably do make more sense to both get everyone accustomed to it and alleviate any accusations that a supposed sitewide celebration was skewed unfairly towards power users.
Re: site's down for maintenance
(Anonymous) 2021-06-08 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)(Although of course my magpie/hoarder ass is happy that it's not the case, probably would've made sense to have the event items disappear after all's said and done, like Strange Chests do. Otherwise there's really negative incentive to turn in more than necessary, since you're tossing concretely profitable goods into a pit for zero gain - except, yes, as someone said upthread, seeing the next phase sooner, but I'm way too patient for something like that to be a big perk, lol.)
Re: site's down for maintenance
(Anonymous) 2021-06-09 01:32 am (UTC)(link)Lol that they hastily corrected them to be unmeltable, with the implication that they never considered ahead of time that people would use them for Baldwin instead of the event. Chalk up another one for admins not really in touch with how people actually play the game.