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Update April 29th - Naughty or Nice - Discussion
Latten (DE1)
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I have a question: If someone sends the naughty one and messes up my production for the day--are they anonymous (like the shadow soldiers on Empire). ?
Are these "gifts" and "pranks" going to be bought with farm dollars, or gold?
No, in the information window of an affected building you will always see who you have to thank (or repay ^^)
Since Balancing is not yet finished, I can't give you a definitive answer for this, but right now it's either (very little) gold or Karma points. This might still be subject to change though, so please take it with a grain of salt.
The only thing I hope is that this event will not require much gold.
Another worry I had was the potential for bullying--so far it looks like people can only be pranked a certain number of times, but suppose a group (e.g. a co-op or otherwise) got together to repeatedly prank someone's farm. If (for example) you can only be pranked once every three hours, imagine that the co-op had, say 15 people, each of whom bought one prank, and then every three hours one of them would use the prank on their intended victim.
That person's farm would be disabled for potentially 45 hours (and maybe more, if the co-op was smart and only disabled the victim's farm during hours when they would be awake). That wouldn't even amount to a prank anymore if that sort of activity is so infuriating for the victim (especially if they are not a gold buyer and cannot retaliate).
My worry is that I can imagine tactics like this would seriously deter people from playing the game over the long term.
Also, what about if people write things in the forum that you don't agree with, and since we're all required to be nice in the forums to each other (which we generally do quite well), then couldn't the sabotaging of someone's farm be a passive-aggressive way to disagree with someone's views, or an indirect way to tell someone that they are a jerk on the forums? That also seems like a misapplication of the prank system.
In short: what measures will be in place to prevent these sorts of scenarios from happening?
Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that this gift/prank system is a bad idea, since it is just in the works now and we don't have enough information to decide either way. I'm just hoping that we can get clarification on what the limits are, so please don't take my worries of the system as fatal flaws of gift/prank. I'm just trying to get information!
I already have some people i would love to prank,
And also some to help.
But I would never go over board.
I just hope it does not cost to much gold because i don't buy gold i earn it by leveling up and stuff,
so i don't have that much to spend.
i agree, this is a stupid update
The bullied person earns a lot of karma repairing his buildings and buys a lot of pranks, at the same time asking help from his co-op or friends, who then also buy pranks in the anticipation of the next event. And next time - it's full out farm/co-op war with all the feelings you get from the fights or battles...
I don't want to prank anyone and am confused by this "event"
1. Is there a way not to take part and avoid being pranked?
I would be very upset if I were pranked and am a little surprised by the malevolence.
2. What are Karma points?
3. Are Karma points going to be part of the everyday game or just during the event?
4. Are missions going to be effected? (a good point brought up earlier)
5. Why when this "event" is over, would the pranks still be allowed to continue?
6. Will all items be prankable? ie. houses, decos, orchards, cows/pigs, fields, silo, mill etc ...?
Will it cost dollars or more gold?
Or something else?
If not I simply won't log in while event is on.
I want to play and enjoy in my game,I don't want people messing up my farm.
If i don't send pranks to anyone--Then i should get none in return to mess my farm up. The naughty kid will destroy the game for me.
I also remember people whining about getting attacked repeatedly on the Empire game and they were told to "go back to play the farm game" And now the war comes to the farm. GGS: There are lots of nice games out there & I am certain people will start to go find them really quick. Keep this one peaceful!
I know this is completely off topic, but if you want to create havoc in a game then GGS should have created something like this for Gangster instead of telling us we are no longer getting any updates and our game is dead.
Great job GGS. Way to destroy yet another one of your games and shame on me for continueing to support you. I guess Im the ultimate loser here.
Em 8)
i completely and totally agree with em... the pranking part of this 'event' is totally uncalled for in this type of farming game.
if anything, GGS should expand on the concept of cooperatives...as in, within your OWN cooperative, you would be allowed to share resources with another player. for example, if someone is struggling to produce enough dung to make the fertilizer to start their money-making apple orchards, then allow us to gift to them a portion of our excess dung. that will not only help them, but ultimately help the coop.
in conclusion, this 'event' is a really REALLY bad idea for an update. there are so many ways that this 'power' could be abused...not only by the people who buy gold who would seem to then have ultimate 'power' but also by people who dont buy gold who just want to bully others.
i'm going to wait and see what this update will bring
give it a try and then i will see if this event works out for me
That is what i am going to do to.
Geez. The more i play this game the less i like the direction it is heading.
Just saying.