@Dony The problem with Inno improving things lately has been that they changed them for worse, so I don't expect anything good from this change too - well, we will see (and who cares about to be first in FA, I don't expect them to give us better rewards (following many recent changes they could give us 1 1Kp instant and 1 1min time instant for the whole FA)).
Different FA like to compete in different fields.
So the "who cares about to be first in FA".... Not you, I can understand. Me neither.
But someone does. It´s the same drive as being 1. in spire or tournament.
Before the new tournament I frankley didn´t care, if my FS scored 45k or 85k.
The reward was the same. But I knew many in my FS cared. They wanted higher ranking, so I contributed with what I thought was reasonable.
Some in this tread also complained, that the FA ended on a weekday. I guess they care
There´s several problems with FA:
- someone can easily be locked out from rewards
- many badges are produced needlessly
- the rewards-efford ratio is way too low compared to other events
The badge production part is straight forward: you can always produce a lot of badges.
The limiting factors are:
- how much time do you want to spend
- how much are you willing to cripple your city, to get the space needed
- how much are you willing to use speed-ups, spells, and other ressources, knowing the output ain´t worth the investment
This don´t differ that much from other events. It´s on a way bigger scale, but same principle.
The badge delivering part on the other hand is complicated:
The limiting factors are:
- do you have any of the badges needed in the current point
- is anyone from your FS online to deliver the badges needed
- are the points, where you could have put a badge filled, and you then get excluded from the reward
- do your moronic guildmates toss their badges all over the place
- does one of your moronic guildmates click "next level", when one or more points could easily be filled
- and so on.......
There´s simply so many ways, to see your hard work go down the drain
Your guildmates don´t have to be stupid, evil or obstructive for things to go wrong.
Simple miscommunication or inability to be online at the "right" moment easily does the trick.
I think INNO overestimates the ability to cooperate in FS
I don´t know how INNO should remake FA to make it more likeable, but I have a few ideas to minor improvements:
1) You should get all rewards, that your FS earns. No matter when you contribute. Just give all the rewards after event, along with ranking reward.
2) There should also be rewards to the FS, when they reach different point tresholds. Not only the ranking reward.
3) Every badge should count for something. So either give points, when a badge is produced, or when they´re trown in an alternative pitt.
I know, that point 3) requires a lot of scaling between the badges, and hence will take long time to implement. But points 1) and 2) seems pretty straight forward.
I like the idea, that FA is pure FS rewards only. That makes it different from the other events (solo rewards only), and tournament/spire (both solo and FS rewards).
I guess, that I may have said some of the above before in other threads/context, but a little refresher don´t hurt (I hope)
Feel free to improve/comment on my ideas. I know they´re not perfect. They´re meant as a bandaid not a cure