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Charity Orphanage Drive Event / Telescopes
Pepper Moon (IN1)
Posts: 6,684
I'm going to give a brief description of this event.
This Event "Charity Orphanage Drive" was first appeared on 17 July,2013 in the game.

About the Event
This event starts from 20 level onwards for all the players.
The event is to donate the Dollars using Donate button. The higher you donate higher will be your happiness of your decoration.The happiness of the decoration depends on how much you had donated in the charity.You will receive ranking bonus also.
If your current rank is between
- 1-3
+10 Happiness - 4-100
+5 happiness - 101-1000--- +1 Happiness.
A table is here for the happiness and dollars. The value given below for dollars is approximate.
[SIZE="4"][COLOR="blue"][B]Happiness Dollars[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [B] ([COLOR="red"]Approximate Value[/COLOR] ) 1 100 2 200 3 300 4 400 5 1,000 6 1,500 7 2,099 8 2,578 9 3,121 10 3,736 11 4,433 12 5,224 13 6,117 14 7,138 15 8,285 16 9,588 17 10,060 18 11,732 19 13,627 20 15,774 21 18,207 22 21,964 23 23,089 24 29,629 25 33,640 26 38,186 27 43,337 28 49,174 29 54,782 30 62,285 31 70,774 32 80,390 33 91,309 34 103658 35 117667 36 133526 37 151504 38 171872 39 194962 40 221125 41 250767 42 284355 43 322417 44 365530 45 414400 46 469788 47 532536 48 603644 49 684212 50 775523 51 878989 52 996213 53 1129057 54 1279589 55 1450165 56 1643489 57 1862456 58 2110645 59 2391889 60 2710556 61 3071672 62 3480856 63 3944536 64 4469939 65 5065308 66 5739937 67 6504405 68 7370653 69 8352242 70 9464535 71 10724924 72 12153123 73 13771490 74 15605347 75 17683376 76 20038094 77 22706333 78 25729843 79 29155937 80 33038198 81 37437383 82 42422312 83 48070974 84 54471789 85 61724734 86 69943522 87 79256645 88 89809712 89 101767956 90 115318390 91 130673056 92 148072112 93 167787943 94 190128833 95 215444392 96 244130682 97 276636515 98 313471438 99 355208733 100 402504432[/B][/SIZE]
Some Questions for newbies
- How to Donate Dollars in this event ?
Click on the car. You will see this option"Donate".
A box will Pop up as shown in the attachment.
write the amount of the dollar. Then click DONATE again.
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You can't take back your money that you had donated in the charity. - What is the size of my decoration reward ?
The size for all the 4 telescope is 5x5 - What is the happiness of my telescope ?
Click on "i" icon as shown in the Image posted below.
You will get the information for its Size , happiness , Building time , And Experience Points for Building the telescope.
You can also check the happiness of telescope from the happiness bar. The bar will show you the happiness with the addition of ranking bonus.
________________________________________________________ - What are the 4 types of telescope ? For What satisfaction i can win them ?
There are 4 types of Telescopes.- Simple Telescope
- Beautiful Telescope
- Valuable Telescope
- Rare Telescope
Each telescope has a satisfaction.
Simple Telescope
Simple Telescope has a satisfaction between 1-48 happiness.
Beautiful Telescope
Beautiful Telescope has a satisfaction between 49 to 64 happiness.
You need to donate approximately 14,501,65 $ ( For 55 happiness ) to get beautiful Telescope.
Valuable Telescope
Valuable Telescope has a satisfaction from 65 Happiness.You need to donate aproximately 50,653,08 $ ( For 65 Happiness ) to get valuable telescope.
Rare Telescope
If your rank in the charity orphanage drive is between 1-3 you will receive Rare Telescope.
Any Doubts ? Feel Free to ask.
Comments
Kat.
FYI, both the bar and the "i" include the ranking bonus in the displayed happiness, but the actual happiness that was paid for is shown by hovering over the total on the bar. It's important to point that out, because people who are close to the bottom of a range will probably get pushed out of it and lose their ranking bonus before the end of the event.
For instance, my current 47 is bound to drop to 43 in a matter of hours.
Does anybody know for sure when the appearance of the telescope changes? I have enough happiness for a simple one again, but if it's not too much, I would love to go for a beautifull one
Edit: I think the line is at 50 or 51, around there I got a beautiful telescope.
Each telescope has a satisfaction.
Simple Telescope
Simple Telescope has a satisfaction between 1-48 happiness
Beautiful Telescope
Beautiful Telescope has a satisfaction between 49 to 64 happiness.
You need to donate approximately 14,501,65 $ ( For 55 happiness ) to get beautiful Telescope.
Valuable Telescope
Valuable Telescope has a satisfaction from 65 Happiness.You need to donate aproximately 50,653,08 $ ( For 65 Happiness ) to get valuable telescope.
Rare Telescope
If your rank in the charity orphanage drive is between 1-3 you will receive Rare Telescope.
Any Doubts ? Feel Free to ask.
Reg the telescope type, i think the happiness are the base happiness (without the bonus for your rank)
Actually When i had donated some amount of money for 54 happiness i was having the simple one. Donated few more to make it 55, Then I saw it was beautiful telescope there for sure.
So how can you say that we get Beautiful Telescope at :)55 and higher ????
Thanks,
Nabil
Correction are done in my Posts.
I don't know how much I have donated so far, but, at present, my reward is Beautiful Telescope with 67 Happiness (62 + 5(bonus for ranking on 4-100)).
P.S. I donated a bit more and, now, at 64 base happiness, 69 total happiness, I get a Valuable Telescope.
This charity event. (car above farm.) How much, EXACTLY do I have to donate to get the telescope prize? OR get to the next step what ever that is?
If this works like a mission, where people keep buying gold just to stay ahead of the pack, tell me now. I'll just avoid the thing.
The more you give the more Happiness your telescope will give.
There's quite a discussion in the official discussion when it first came out. Farmers say what value Happiness they got for the dollar donation they gave
http://en.board.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/showthread.php?72555-Discussion-thread-for-quot-Update-16.07-new-orphanage-charity-drive-quot&p=835569&viewfull=1#post835569
And post #107 even has a farmer generated equation to help you. Its not a GGS provided formula so don't rely on its accuracy, but may give you a guide
Basically, decide how much money you're willing to spend, check to see how much happiness you can buy for that, and decide whether you want to do it. For instance, on two of my farms I just upgraded the farmhouse and the restaurant, so what I can afford right now is not worth it — I have better decorations in storage! — so unless I earn a lot more money by the end of the week than I anticipate, I'm skipping the event this time. On my third farm, though, I'm always scrabbling for better happiness, so I've taken a chunk of money that I had been saving to upgrade my farmhouse, because I can always do that later, but this event doesn't come around often.
If you have more spare money before the event is over, you can increase your donation to get more happiness if you want to.
At the end of the event, if you're in the top 1000 donations on your server, you will get one or more additional happiness points. It's better to assume you won't and be pleased if you do, than to assume you will and then be annoyed if you get edged out or down to a lower tier. For instance, right now my WWW farm is at rank 35 which would add 5 extra happiness to the 57 I bought, but since this is only the first day of the event I expect to be pushed way down from there before it's over.
I just love the idea of some different decor. Will try to at least land in the middle. I have no hopes of getting a top spot. Middle ground would be nice.
Does the decor piece itself have any happiness to it at all? Say someone just donates a dollar to get it?
(Off to go click it again and see if it says.)
I am going to partake in the event ONLY if Steve gets here first--I am a bit low on funds and the telescope I did get cost a heap of money. I don't really have to have another telescope.
This particular decoration has a variable value, so the happiness you donate for is the happiness the telescope will have. You might as well spend more than a dollar and get something useful! Just don't spend so much it hurts.
Also, it has four cosmetic variations, three depending on its happiness, and one that only the top 3 on each server get. Prince Manish included pics of them in this info post that I just remembered.
Also, technically this event is a race against the millions. Around the end, some will have spent tens of millions to get the best deco. You could still only donate what you think it is worth, but to get a nice value you will need to spend a couple of million. Do make sure you donate towards the base value though, as the value you get from the rankings may change when you fall out of the top 100 or so.
A well dec is 15,000 dollars for 18 happiness and a fountain is 35,000 dollars for 18 happiness. They are a bit smaller in size and the telescope is a 5x5 size, but I have the room for it.
oh well.
Anyway, I'm not going to go insane with this. My artmaker farm has me in the middle ranking but that may change.
So..... we have to wait six days of donating before we get the thing right? So not like other events with several "tasks"?
I don't have millions. Takes me several days to get one mil. (I do have a life.)
I like the telescope. And I see just having it acts like any other decor. The other thing is a perk but again, not going to go nuts trying to climb on top of the pile. Too many people toss gold at it just to be on top. don't care.
I just like the decor mainly.
cheers. Thanks for explaining it.
With one exception: it does not count for any of the "Have X decorations on your farm" tasks. Replace it with a flowerbed or something when you need to do those.
You also don't have to wait until level 47 to get it, either, which is of great importance to many players!
Just one thing from me, on a personal note: Please refrain from using expressions like these, it's somewhat demeaning to other players - there are plenty of reasons why one would be able to spend a lot of time with the game: People who play the game maybe from work, or because they're working at home, or because they're unemployed at the moment, or because they visit the school or university and so on
Yes.....I've only been playing for a couple months and I got a telescope about a month ago now I guess. Either way they have "special events"where you can get things so if it's not specifically the "orphanage" it will be something else.