The point to the events is getting a nice final piece. Fair enough. If you have a problem with someone getting 2 or 5 or 15 final pieces then don't fripping offer the bases and DEFINATELY don't sell the evolutions as craft pieces in the crafting.
My point to most of my points on this subject is we've gone from some decent events, rewarding people who work hard with a decent bump. THAT is getting lost in ALL of this. Doing these repetitive quests, spending my boosts and timeskips? That's not normal HA HA having a great time stuff. It's called GRINDING AKA WORK. I didn't get to the "bonus" part of this event by picking my nose. I worked very hard, spent an incredible number of rewards from other events and instead of them making the CHRISTMAS event better, they keep messing with it in ways or having it mess with us in ways that don't reflect that at this point in the month, some of us are trying to BETTER ourselves with an event that we saw was pretty fun looking at first at the beginning of the month but after two or three tries at a present, we found it truly was not.
No, after three presents, we found this event was clearly 1/10th of the benefit of the previous last 5 or 6 events? Less? Get a single goods boost and then mix them all up again? Go through 12 presents and hone in on the winner and have it shuffle on you? No, this wasn't fun from the beginning. It wasn't funny either because despite the fact we of course are welcome to ignore every event you give us, you fluff juuust enough in there that we have to try anyways.
To say that this event is the single most largest failure I've seen in the game is an understatement. I'm better than sure I spent MORE timeskipping and boosting than I even earned. I guess the final xmas house will eventually pay me back in 4 months however I'm much too salty at the moment to even consider playing that much longer.
IT WAS A CHRISTMAS EVENT! HOW COULD ANYONE WHO DESIGNS YOUR FLIPPING EVENTS ******THINK******* THAT DESTOYING A REWARD SYSTEM AND PUTTING IN A "LUCK OF THE DRAW" SYSTEM COULD EVER ******EVER!!!!***** BE ACCEPTABLE?
Do Swedish (Innogames) and German (I gues they're in there too) even recognize Christmas? The point where the gifts are supposed to be BETTER than the rest of the year, not chopped to a portion of them?
Captured Conversation of Elvendar Design Team
Ulf "Derpa Derpa HOOOO wrecking games I DOOOO's"
Ingred "Oh Hey Ulf! Wocha doinnn?"
Ulf "Oh just ruining a working system that makes people pretty darn happy in Elvenar, what...about...you?"
Ingred "GOODNESS, Ulf! Is that such a good idea? I mean...it *IS* Christmas!"
Ulf "No no no! None of that! We make mistakes. Big UGLY mistakes in past events! Even though we allowed our event to allow people to make 200,000 Mermaid Swimmy Pools, those rascally players! They made 200,000 Mermaid Swimmy Pools and now Ulf is sad!"
Ingred "Ummm maybe we should have only let people make 1...or 2 Mermaid Swimmy Pools? You know, it is our fault that the people make 200,000 Mermaid Swimmy Pool!"
Ulf "No no no! I'll hear none of that! And whhhyyyyy you ask? I havvveee a plannn!"
Ingred (shuddering in fear) "What is your plan ummm...Ulf?"
Ulf "I'm gonna take every single stinking GOOD thing from every single stinking GOOD event, gonna THROW those out, gonna just THROW THEM ALL OUT and instead of a fun and cool Christmas Event, I'm gonna make it a stupid dumb luck to get anything instead of that easier/enjoyable/not too time consuming choosy plan that still was plenty hard for most!"
Ingred "Ummm UIf...that sounds like a bad pla...."
Ulf "NO NO NO! I need to make DUMB plan! Then and only then I can trick the SMART and sneaky players! I'm gonna make it so dumb that half the game will be too stunned to even be able to post complaints! You see...HA HA You. Will. See!"
Ingred "But Ulf...it's Christmas. Why you make such a bad event that breaks the hearts...oh the Children, Ulf! Think of them too!"
Ulf "NO NO NO! Revenge is needed now, Ingred. Those sneaky players and their 200,000 Mermaid Swimmy Pools. They must pay now and oh yes, I will MAKE THEM PAY! By the time I get done, it'll cost you more than you can even earn if you do any more than 1/3rd of the month AAAAAAAAHAHAHAAHAH!"