Soggy, you make it sound like organized gaming is a given but the truth is it is not. Coming from the land of MMORPGs, I know by experience the difference having an organized leadership can make, whether money is spent or not.
Let's talk about Inno's FA. The following is addressed to the forumers in general, not just you Soggy:
1. Prizes are pooh-pooh - I agree and so do most people I've heard from, both diamond and non-diamond spenders. We should continue to petition Inno on this.
2. FA is buggy and user interface sucks - same as no.1
3. Top FS used diamonds to win in the FA - purely assumption. How do you know that? Why do you assume that? Are you jealous of their performance? Is it that you can't figure out how they do it and so assume that they bought it with cash?
4. It is too hard to finish the FA - well, clearly, "hard" here is relative, because many smaller (in rank) FS did finish, and finished way ahead of many higher ranked ones
5. People can't have fun/will not bother with the FA - says you. Maybe some FS simply like doing something together as a group to see how far they can get? Is this not possible? Have you talked to the FSes who finished? How do you know why and how they did what they did?
So apart from point no.1 and no.2 in this post, all the other complaints don't square with me.
3. Isn't a complaint, it's simply the way things are. Look at the cities of the winners. You will find that the majority of them are full of high level diamond residences, workshops, and culture buildings. Even if they didn't spend any more diamonds for the event, their production is supported by diamond expenditure. There's also no reason to believe they spent thousands of diamonds on building their city but aren't spending some more to win the event. Regardless, Soggy isn't complaining about that, he's simply taking it as a given that winning a top-3 spot is out of reach of most fellowships that do not spend large amounts of diamonds.
That was "most." Yes, it's possible that there are some sufficiently motivated fellowships that have large enough members that they could place in the top 3 if there wasn't another group that was willing to spend diamonds to beat them.
4.
"Too Hard" and "impossible" do not mean the same thing. For an event that is supposed to be promoting fellowship cooperation, at least half of the active fellowships should be finishing. The return on investment for the required effort was insufficient to get the majority of active fellowships to complete stage three. Ergo, the event was too hard. That in no way means, or implies, that there aren't lots of fellowships that finished it and enjoyed themselves. In the same way that the fact society doesn't use mountain climbing as a way to engage people and promote bonding doesn't negate the fact there are thousands of people who enjoy mountain climbing and manage to climb some formidable mountains.
5.
"People" and "All People" do not mean the same thing. There are absolutely people who could not have fun with the event and did not bother with it. I and an entire fellowship among them. In one of my fellowships, some people did participate, and finished stage 1. That does not mean that there are not other people who did not.
Points do not have to "square" with everyone to be true. The event was too hard for lots of people, not all people. The event was not fun for lots of people, not all people.
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