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The great sheep hunting
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Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:43 (9 Years ago)
I'll send out the Furfrou
Please note that this was an experimental contest, to see if you like the basic concept. Feel free to give feedback - I'm pretty sure that we can improve the system together. Stuff like a "Start Hunting"-button to avoid timezone troubles would definitely be useful, for example.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:44 (9 Years ago)
Riako: I absolutely enjoyed the contest and the intensity of it all. I think we should do it again in the future.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:45 (9 Years ago)
Congrats to all other winners, and sorry that I sort of stole the rest of your chance at the last one.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:46 (9 Years ago)
I think it'd be better to do something like "get X amount of clicks on X pokemon" because this system favors premium users.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:47 (9 Years ago)
Collecting Teddiursa plushies!
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:48 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:48 (9 Years ago)
(though one of the comments was a bit rude in my opinion when someone put that they were done, and it seemed, to me anyway, broke when someone finished in like two days after the start and it took others several days just to get the eggs.)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:51 (9 Years ago)
This contest favors premium users because they gain twice the EHP and EXP as a regular user making it so that they can get to the goal much quicker.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:53 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:53 (9 Years ago)
The only thing I'd change is make a notice at least 2 days before. Waking up to a sudden new contest is like "Woah! What happened while I was sleeping!"
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:55 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 00:58 (9 Years ago)
I'm talking about the task to obtain these eggs from the Tall Grass - lucky members got an egg on the first try, while others had to wait hours to get their egg.
In my opinion it wasn't that hard to get a Mareep egg. Medium Pokémon need 10 minutes in the Tall Grass for each try and the propability is 1/9.
But maybe you see this as "unfair" and prefer a page where you just adopt these eggs instantly in the future.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:00 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:01 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:03 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:10 (9 Years ago)
I mean, I may be a Premium member, but it still took my a little over three hours straight to find the eggs, keeping the tab open for the Tall Grass the whole time, waiting to see it refresh. Granted that's probably pretty fast compared to others, but it was tiring mentally waiting every 10 minutes to only be met with a Poke'mon that isn't a meep egg. That is probably the luck part.
I also only had about 4-5 hours of sleep since the whole thing started until I finally finished. Clicked over 10,000 Poke'mon in one day (which was exhausting, I seriously don't know how DemonShade clicked that many guys @_@ ) And at least 4,000 the next day. And it seemed like no one was clicking back at all those first couple days, haha...
I broke down, bought a flute. Made a Yarolds' account, and STILL only got 7th. I went through every possible measure to win, and I'm premium, so I'd consider the odds fair.
Anyway. I thought this was a fun challenge, and if the eggs were just given to you it'd take some of the fun out of it.
But, yeah, I do agree with KrazyKarp. A warning that this event was going to happen would have been really awesome. I was lucky to catch it when it started, but I know a lot of others who could have used the heads up.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:17 (9 Years ago)
But still I think it's was fun Contest and I'm happy I participated in it :)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:23 (9 Years ago)
Regarding the premium/non-premium thing, I pretty much agree with what Gothbutter said. Regardless of the account status it is still difficult to level up the Pokemon. The only way I even received clicks at all was with the use of Yarolds and doing 10k clicks on that first day....also the 4 rare candies I bought helped immensely as well as being on the index page... I swear if I didn't do that I probably wouldn't have gotten the clicks needed to level up my Pokemon. So yeah non-premiums may be at a disadvantage it's not a huge one to really matter considering there were plenty of resources and the whole luck aspect could have given an advantage.
Riako: I prefer it being luck based. Honestly it would be too easy if everyone was just handed the egg haha. I loved the suspense of clicking a grass and seeing if it was a Mareep or not. It wouldn't be as fun if we were just handed an egg. Also then it would be really unfair to non-premium/non-popular people.
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:24 (9 Years ago)
That aside: I agree that a little heads up would be nice. Especially with the wording of them needing to be obtained after a certain date. (I was thinking we got a one day's heads up, then checked the date again, to realize that by the time I read the message it was already starting)
So a notice of the event would be nice, before the actual start time.
Personally, I think that there should be some luck to the event, but I also think that having a 1:8 chance egg to pokemon ratio every 10 minutes can be hard for the unlucky users. (And give a bit of an unfair advantage to someone like me who finds eggs in the tall grass the first time and figured that it was probably changed for the contest >.> )
So I think a separate page to claim the egg(s) for the event would be nice, with a little left up to chance whether you get the egg or not for that time slot. The how for this could be played around with.
I don't think the clicking event favored premium users, in all honesty. I think it favors users who don't have a job or school to attend, thus those users can accomplish more in a larger amount of time than the others. (Since if I weren't a premium user, I'm pretty sure I still would have placed for the sole reason that I have no life and would have stayed on until I reached the goal)
Hopefully my post makes sense XD (sorry if it doesn't, my mind is elsewhere right now)
Posted: Mon, 16/06/2014 01:27 (9 Years ago)