So we're now being forced to complete all quests, adventures or buy our way to be able to stay stable in the game? Do you realize not everyone can do that? I worked my ass off to try and get through this last adventure but without help from my fellowship we came up very short. I try to complete the quests but I rarely can complete the 3rd stage without spending money. Is this what INNO is pushing us to? The only way to keep them from destroying us is to spend money?
Are you and I playing the same game or not? I have 2 cities. One is in the Elemental chapter and didn't ever have to spend money on any event whatsoever. If your FS didn't help in FA, you're in the wrong FS, or running it in such a way that you allow people not to participate? Our FS ranked #24 in this last FA and I don't even require our FS to play it. They want to!
(Side note: I hate FA. The prizes are never worth the effort but I help my FS in a really big way because they like to do it and I like them to be happy)
In my other city, I'm about to enter the Dragons chapter. I have never spent a single penny on the game. In fact, I made that city as an experiment to see if you really can progress without spending money. If I can make it to Dragon chapter without spending money, anyone can. I didn't have negative population or culture with this last update, because I plan very well, get rid of old and outdated culture, and balance my buildings with the prizes so that I'm not heavily reliant on prize population culture. I saw that as a real problem long ago.
Again, asking advice goes a long way to help one grow their city. If one ignores conventional wisdom, this is the kind of frustration that happens! I've seen it time & again in my 2 years of playing this game.
The double days of getting items to get the 3rd grand prize in quests is doable. I've missed out every time prior to them introducing the double days. I've never spent a penny on the events and have the 3rd grand prize on 2 of them. Maybe you could ask for advice/help on how to do it?
People who keep their old and outdated culture are only shooting themselves in the foot.
Now I really feel like quitting. Thanks Dewyne. Good JOb!
If the intent was to illicit guilt for my stating my opinion, it isn't working. Telling the truth of how I play the game and how it did not affect my pop/culture is more important to me than walking on eggshells from folks who are upset. <shrugs>
This has been discussed on these live forums since April 26th. Many of us carried that information back to our fellowships and have been working on strategies to mitigate the damage for weeks now.
Sticking that information in a "beta forum" with the original message that had nothing to do with the rebalancing was not fair to folks who subscribe to the announcements thread. Heck, Inno does not even bother to put the announcements in the newly created game icon for that purpose until 1-2 days
after they roll out a new event or update!
One should not have to read every single thread or even sticky to have basic information needed to grow one's city.
Somehow everyone is able to track down event quest lists beforehand, and know exactly when the FAs are going to start without "following the forums."
Event quest list spoilers cannot compare to this pretty significant game change. You don't have to participate in an event. But if someone changes the stats of your city, ya, that's kinda important to know.
But my main question to you is, do you really think this is like an event? No big deal to anyone? Or are you playing devil's advocate for Inno just because you can?
I should buy the biggest package update to where I was then call the credit card company and charge back payment . Its basically the same they just did to us !
Ha! I wondered that myself. I have some members that paid cash for the 3rd grand prizes in events and wonder if those have been tweaked. I haven't bothered to look since I would never pay cash for event buildings.
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Having said all that, I've never relied heavily on population buildings and have more residences because it's too painful to delete those event buildings to make space for something else I'd rather have. I recently had someone ask me why I have so many residences. It's because something in the back of my mind thought some day that might be too impactful. I'd rather go with basic game buildings a bit more heavily, but I try to keep a balance.