Tabithia, I like you, but you're just not understanding, and I don't say this to mean "You're stupid".. you just don't have the same experience or time invested. You can't completely understand, anymore than I can understand a myriad of experiences of others that I have never shared.
The large majority of competitive and/or veteran players don't do extra films to increase our chances in the BBA. I've been playing for 3.5 years, won it just once, that mechanic is dead to me. Its kind of adorable in a 'coochie coochie coo' way that you're not so jaded and min/max focused that you even still think about films in the context of BBA results. LOL
Just an FYI, a long time ago, Playata changed the rules of the game to hard cap everyone's film exposure bonus to 21 films. Prior to that, players in studios that were doing the most films, *were* getting a very disproportionate level of exposure and results/rewards in the BBA. You'd see the same players from the same 2-3 studios in the top 20 or top 30 each week. It was patently unfair, and a great many of us lobbied that this mechanic be changed so that all players, in all studios, had equal exposure for their film. The solution, as I said, was to cap the bonus at 21 films, past that, it gains no further exposure bonus. Spending diamonds to refresh a film vote to vote for yourself, well that pay to play is always going to be here.
We do the extra films for the skill points Failing that, for the small amount of bonus experience, notes, diamonds, or the vendor value of an item, but really, it's about the skill points. LOL
My competition, and at this point I can speak only for myself, generally doesn't have more time to play than me. I think it's safe to say that almost all of us top players, have probably invested a great deal of time, and continue to do so on a daily basis. It isn't that they have more than I, or I have more than them.
Rather, it's that in the PAST, we could ALL be top players and competitive among each other, while ALL OF US played for the same amount but less time each day, and thus we all had more free time for OTHER things.
The amount of daily playing time, for ALL of us top players, to remain top players, is now more than it was three years ago. I can't stress this enough...no one is playing MORE than the other, we're all playing the same amount of time as each other, as we likely always have, it's just that now we're all collectively playing more hours per day.
This is what (I might be wrong but I don't think I am too far off the mark) EileenDream means when they say:
"but people wanted to defend this idea of keeping everyone here all dang day when there are so many other things to do in life".
Edited by Lizbeth, 26 June 2019 - 06:29 PM.