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[CaptC]

Sure, that suggestion has been noted and we'll pass it along.

[Lizbeth]

Just to add.

 

Object was a poor choice of words. It's more combative than intended, because, this is their playground and everything is ultimately their call. To object is to imply I have some grounds upon which to do so. Rather, I would say I find disagreement with it.

 

I know that it is possible to code things tied not to the time of a server reset, but at the time of their purchase. For example, 7 day boosters are tied to the time you purchase them. If you buy a booster on a Thursday at 1am EST (which is 2 hours before server reset), that booster runs until the following Thursday at 1am. The game doesn't hit 3am just 2 hours later and go "Ok, that now counted as one whole day". When you buy a 7 day booster, it is for seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours.

 

If a Party ticket at least just lasted an actual 24 hours (I still think 48 would be nicer) from the time you attain it, however that means is, then if the server goes down, if people lose track for a moment, if something comes up, if life happens in any way, they have some grace period. Further, there's no way to game this, exploit this, or derive any kind of unfair advantage or benefit.

 

I feel that there is a better, more fair and player friendly way to implement what they are trying to achieve, even if I don't understand why LOL

[mimesis]

Good morning!!!
Yesterday i was very tired and only rubbed my pussy once before sleeping 8 full hours like a baby :-)
Effect of all this: my pussy is hungry and my brain is incredibly sharp, being the latter fact the only real news.
But in this incredible state of mind i can clearly see things normally escape my understanding: why we may have the groko, why i will not buy a pair of boots i saw some days ago in a store, why we hape party tickets in this new flavour.
And the answer is: because players wanted it!
I look at myself as a typical player (just a bit more horny) and i can see how the change has affected my playing. I didn't spend a single diamond to buy a ticket for a party but my diamond spend has increased dramatically: refinements, washing machine, sewing machine...
Oh yes!!!
And you know what? I like it!
Good job to the CREATORS!!

This game would be so nice if they just the film trophies were not there!!!!

[CaptC]

It's not enough that movie trophies were toned down, so that whether or not you have movie trophies it is possible to max out your big bang award exposure?

 

I don't mind movie trophies being nerfed for the bba. But you can't take them away. 

[mimesis]

I can easily explain why i am still bothered by the film trophies: because they reward directly skill points!
An example: before the trophies my star was steadily growing and i did catch up a lot of players that were much higher level (just check my position in the glory rankings). One of these player was id****x i think he is in your studio Capt.
I was around the same level in term of skill points and i was beating him quite regularly.
After some months of film trophies the situation has changed and i cannot compete any longer: he has aquired a number of skill points that is incredible and that i can in no way obtain.
I am a dedicated player, i do all movieß, i focus on skill points...but as i am not in a major studio i cannot compete.
Monopolies...
Of course all of the players in the top studios are happy with this situation. My friend mountbara puts it clearly: join a big studio if you want the same.
But i won't. I am happy with my studio mates and i will not leave them for any reason just to build more skill points. Our studio is so much more fun!!!
Still i find this mechanic unfair and i will go on complaining about it!!

[CaptC]

You are mistaken about one thing, ideefixe is in the wrong studio. (Yes, I deliberately said it that way. LOL)

 

I agree with you about snowball effects, and the movie trophies are definitely one. I wish the game balanced things out more fairly, but I play the game that exists.

 

The thing many studio bosses do not take into account is that the movie trophy has significant fight penalties. Spiderbabes runs at 65% penalty most of the time, and many more studios should be able to beat us, than those who will actually take a swing.

 

Yes, true enough, those studios may have to drop a trophy or two to win the fight. The point remains, they CAN beat us by managing their trophies - but they would also rather run a farming game. Against studios who can hold more trophies than them! They CHOOSE to fight an unequal fight, and then complain about it.  That is not my fault, or the fault of any top studio holding max trophies, or even the fault of the game designers.

 

There is more than one way to skin a cat. If you can't out-farm my studio, maybe there are other tactics to try.

 

When I was in your shoes, Mim, I was complaining about snowball effects, too. But... we were fighting about it. (You might be too, Mim. I must admit my attention focuses on just a few studios these days, so I cannot directly speak to what Daily Climax is doing.) We were attacking all the time. We treated ALL trophies as if they had cooties. We would attack as far up the glory charts as we could, dumping trophies for minimal glory loss, then attacked as far up the chart as we could the next day, winning with our trophy advantage, gaining maximal glory. We moved up the glory charts steadily and rapidly.

 

This showed the server we were aggressive and doing interesting things. We got REALLY good recruits who wanted to be part of a studio like that. It also attracted good merger offers, one of which catapulted us up the charts quickly. (Thanks, HoosierDaddy!)

 

As soon as we got to the point where we could beat the top studio using max trophy advantage, we started attacking them directly, even though we weren't even in the top 10. We gave The Pimp our last trophy all the time, taking it back two days later, gaining huge amounts of glory on the exchange. Rising up the glory charts even faster, and putting our name in front of the very best players in the game, by beating them every few days. We started gaining some of those players...

 

Guess what? Turns out the studio fight game is ultimately about getting, keeping, and motivating the best players. Who knew? (Minx did, and bless her soul for teaching me that.)

 

Recruiting good players to a fast-rising, aggressive studio beats the HELL out of an incremental farming fight while down two trophies.

Merging two mediocre studios to make one that is a lot stronger is also a big win.

 

Big Bang Empire has a lot of farming elements to it, incremental growth. But that's not ALL there is to it. Just saying.

[mountbara]

Yep Cap, it all depends on what you are wanting from the game, Mim's studio is heavy into roleplay, so it's harder to recruit people who want to just battle, although she does a good job of it

[mimesis]

I see things in a slightly different way.

Our team wants to roleplay and to have fun chatting but, as they are playing BBE, they want to be competitive at the same time.

Why to go on playing BBE otherwise? An erotic chat would be the same if we didn't want to compete!!

Furthermore, our performance in the temples demonstrates that our team spends more time playing than others. In fact we are incredibly dedicated to the game and this because we have a lot of fun when we are together in the studio!

But in spite of that, we will not get the skill points from the extra films just because we are not belonging to a top studio, even if we wanted to spend diamonds to get that!!

Omg mim, you are really boring!!!

Yes I am!!!! :-D

My husband knows how stubborn I can be but he loves me nevertheless....omg, do you think this is the reason why he sometimes wants me to wear a gag?!?!?!

[CaptC]

I understand, and applaud, a studio that has a design. And that sticks to that design.

 

But the game is what the game is. If you are selecting people for criteria OTHER than what they contribute to studio strength and growth, it is difficult for me to completely sympathize with complaints that the game isn't fair to them.

 

Movie trophies exist.

If you want one, you need to build your studio around taking them and keeping them.

That might not be fun for you.

But it's not unfair.

[TaraBing]

Something tells me Daily Climax Studio has WAY more "FUN" roleplaying this game. ;-)

 

 

-TB

 

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