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[TaraBing]

Hello stars, this is the thread to discuss all things Patch Notes 2017.07.11

 

 

New Features
Studio boosters
• You can now buy boosters for your studio, which affect all members
• With one type of booster you can reduce the duration of missions
• The other type grants you higher rewards for duels

 

Studio battles
• You can win a new studio trophy which allows to make an additional movie per day

 

Conventions
• There are 10 new items for men as well as for women you can win at conventions
• Also there are 2 corresponding item pattern collections for you to complete

 

 

I haven't found the new boosters for your studio or how they work just yet.

 

For those of you in studios able to get trophies and keep them, how is the extra movie thing working out for you (assuming you've captured the extra-movie making trophy)?

 

Likewise, I'm not sure what the 2 new collections are, just yet... but keep your eyes peeled...  

 

 

-TB 

 

 

PS: If you see anything unusual, out of the ordinary, or related and worthy of discussing... please reply in kind.

 

[mimesis]

Omg!!!
I am really disappointed!!!! :-(

The trophy that allows to do more films per day gives further advantages to the top studios. :-(
I would rather allow the studios whose participants produce a target quota of films to produce more, thus rewarding the time spent playing rather than an aquired position. This would allow studios with higher participation but at lower level to challenge higher level studios. In this way the developers are just consolidating the status quo. :-(

Your sincerely disappointed.
Mim

[mimesis]

I forgot to point it out: also my pussy is very disappointed. :-(

[CaptC]

There is a big debate raging about this on the UK forums, Mimesis.  I can tell you, the new trophies do not appeal to a glory oriented studio. The very top level studios tend to be the ones that care about that, so these trophies should be regularly available for other studios.

 

The movie making trophy has a -20% penalty to your skills in a studio fight.  And thus, these trophies should be quite dynamic, because they are going to be hard to defend. If you want a movie making trophy, keep your eyes open and you may very well be able to take one.

 

Perhaps that will help you (and your body parts) feel better.

[mimesis]

I totally, utterly und hornily disagree!

And while I do that I stomp my foot on the ground - I guess you can imagine that!

This will totally skew the game.

What about the BBA? Players making more movies get a higher chance to appear in the polls?

Not to say about the chance to collect skill points and items?

And the temple where you need to collect film points?

Again: this will allow the studio with the players at higher levels to stay there and will prevent other studios to get there.

If you look at the rankings, overall studio ranking and temple ranking, you see a difference between the two. This change pushes towards the alignment of the tempel ranking to the overall studio rankings.

But maybe the developers just want to reduce the number of studios?

 

Well, my pussy says no. Once again!

[CaptC]

Has your studio had a lot of trophies, Mim?  20% is a crippling disadvantage. Many studios are not going to want those trophies under any circumstances, mine included.

 

In theory, everything else being the same, a 30 player studio with avg level 160 is fighting at even odds against a 30 player studio with average level 200 holding a movie trophy.

 

Movie temple is going to be exciting. Those trophies obviously give an advantage - but they are very hard to defend.

 

The effect on the BBA is where I tend to agree with you. But... those trophies are easy to take, so i do not expect them to stay all the time with the same studios, diluting the effect.

[mimesis]

Today the demonstation of the effect. We accidentally got the trophy.
I could do one more film than usual and by now the trophy is gone and we will not have it back soon.
We are 20th in the overall ranking at 5th in the tempel.
The result of this trophy?
The top 10 studios will hold it and each of them get part of its benefit. Enough to make so that we stay away from the top and that it becomes harder to get there.
I have been buying diamonds, many, but as of today i stop. I am saddened. I had fun until now and could cope with all the limits of the game. And i put a lot of energy in animating my studio and more.
But the developers, shaping the bbe world like gods can do, made something i didn't like. But in this case, i can also decide to leave the world.

[RosyCheekz]

CaptC,

 

Interesting that you say your studio doesn't want a film trophy...and then you go out and grab one on the first day. Just sayin'.

                                                                   Rosy

[mimesis]

Update.

I received requests from all the big studios concerning the trophy...

Of course...

Thank you Mr developer.

[CaptC]

CaptC,

 

Interesting that you say your studio doesn't want a film trophy...and then you go out and grab one on the first day. Just sayin'.

                                                                   Rosy

 

While I am the boss of my studio, I am far from the only voice. My senior players wanted to try one. *shrug*

[mimesis]

The damage is done :-(
May I at least suggest that the number of films consdered for the BBA polls is topped to 21? I think this is the number maximum number of films that all players can do without the bonus from the trophy.

[CaptC]

That is an interesting thought, Mimesis.  I will make sure that suggestion makes it to the developers.

[TaraBing]

Hi Mim...

 

The damage is done :-(
May I at least suggest that the number of films consdered for the BBA polls is topped to 21? I think this is the number maximum number of films that all players can do without the bonus from the trophy.

 

Such an interesting perspective... one man's junk is another woman's thank you sir...  

 

The maximum is 22 (without using the movie-making trophy), given a player carries an unfinished movie from the previous week and finishes it to 3-star level into the new week.

 

 

-TB 

 

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[CaptC]

No longer true, Tara.

 

Someone who is in a studio with a movie trophy, making four movies a day, and carrying one over from the previous week, can now hit 29.

[TaraBing]

Hi Capt,

 

... without using the movie-making trophy... in parenthesis...

 

I blitz through reading things sometimes too -- Thank You Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Program! .

 

 

-TB 

 

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Hi Mim...

 

 

Such an interesting perspective... one man's junk is another woman's thank you sir...  

 

The maximum is 22 (without using the movie-making trophy), given a player carries an unfinished movie from the previous week and finishes it to 3-star level into the new week.

 

 

-TB 

 

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[mimesis]

I apologize but I don't understand a single word.

[CaptC]

I think Mimesis is proposing that when calculating the bonus for how often a movie is shown, only the first 21 movies should count, Tara.

 

The idea is to not cut out free players from excelling in at least one area of the game.  BBA is frustratingly hard and random... but giving a systematic advantage to paying players means BBA becomes frustratingly random and IMPOSSIBLE for free players.

Edited by CaptC, 13 July 2017 - 02:48 PM.

[mimesis]

Thank you Cap. :-)
I would like to add that I am not a free player: if I have been buying diamonds and also in a fairly good quantity.
The point I am making is that the mechanism implemented doesn't favor the player that are spending but rather the biggest studios and somehow damages the competition.
The point is that people will stay in BBE if they are engaged and have the feeling that they can achieve something: getting on top of the porn industry (omg...this sounds so ridiculous!). Otherwise this game is just a chat room.
When the developers skew the game and make it impossible for new players in younger studios to progress, they are negatively impacting the motivation to remain long time in BBE and to invest in it.
As I shared with you...I can easily use BBE as a chat room and save money.

[mimesis]

I am sorry but I have to pick up again this topic.  

 

As easily foreseeable the worse has happened. And everybody who is playing BBE with some passion can see it. Just read the latest post from Honcho:

http://forum.us.bigb...g-point/?p=1681

 

Maybe on some servers where the competition is very high and there are many studios fighting for the top positions (German servers for instance) this might be a good idea (I would still question it), this mechanic simply kills the development of studios and of players in servers with less competition at the highest levels.

 

Now what?

 

Beside the fact that I am terribly angry, I just want an answer.

 

Did they do it on purpose?

Did they just miscalculate?

 

I want to know!!!!

 

For me this changes the nature of the game. I will just open a ticket to ask and get back all the money I spent here. I know it is unreasonable but my pussy is so angry that I simply have to protest!!!!!!