Posted by [Dec] Altering the Guelta for Dec 2017

Fush (F6 Gold
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2016-12-21 09:14:04
I bring Lioden a suggestion based on the experiences of people from chat based on how painful gifting is. This is a suggestion changing the Guelta for the better. Something to motivate people to gift plus the end of the month closer to Christmas everything becomes so slow with everyone dealing with holiday stuff. Its obviously not motivation to unlock something that just gives you energy. As a personal experience I only used the Guelta once this whole month to see what it does lol and believe me it made no difference and it kind of needs to be changed. So here I am with a suggestion or two!

Suggestions to how the Guelta can be changed. it may mean a tiny bit more work but I think people would enjoy it more.

Idea 1: Since we have a mud pit which gives us muddy items. Why not have a fun twist and make the Guelta a snow themed area that has snow items. People would love snow for manes, lions, decor, etc as its really something we don't have as actual decor. Sure we have the frosted whiskers and cold breath. What about piles of snow as if it just snowed on a lion, Icicles fangs, other cold related things. I think these things would be pretty great with motivating people and they would have so much more fun with the event.

Another idea attached to this same idea is what if we make it into a game. You throw a snow ball at some pins or something and you get a prize. its a random chance but people would enjoy it a lot more. Energy is useful but people want decor more lol.

This would work pretty much the exact same way as the Wallowing pit with a different face and items pretty much! Just Snow themed instead of mud! But as an added bonus maybe it should be hosted by an albino lion since Dec seems to be full of albino animals so it could make sense that way. other then that you really don't need to do too much more XD

I'll see about making a dummy picture of what it could look like as an example.

Idea 2: Having a random chance at getting snow themed decor while gifting people. This way it doesn't quite unbalances the Event currency but it motivates people to help with the event since gifting is always the slowest and most painful part of the event.


People can post ideas on how to fix the Guelta into something that motivates people. Encouraging people to gift more so we can open the tiers faster instead of admins and players worrying about the tier 3 shop opening it. Because two years in a row where the event been pretty far behind based on the player base. The numbers are fine but people been lazy and complaining when it could of been open if everyone like every other event works together to open thins. It is kind of a disappointment of an event people dread because it haven't been fixed quite yet . But we are here to improve things and feed back is not a bad thing!


Seriously people if you don't like my ideas suggest your own! there is no reason to not support this! This will benefit everyone and make this event so much better!




This suggestion has 61 supports and 5 NO supports.



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Edited on 29/12/16 @ 07:18:42 by Feather :: The Festive Assbag (#42722)

Fush (F6 Gold
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Posted on
2016-12-21 10:09:52
Lia the thing if we gain StB from gifting. the prices in the shop will change drastically to try and balance it out. Then it may not be perfect and people will be sort. We will always have people short of event currency.

The problem with getting event currency from say gifting to people would support more vendor junk to be given out XD so with poop we would get poop items literally XD. Its the same thing thats happening now. We are resorting to gifting junk items in order to try to get the tier unlocked.



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Cerrates
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2016-12-21 10:09:57
I'm agreeing with majesty on this one. ^^



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Lia-Lin
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2016-12-21 10:27:31
Mmm very true Fush. But I myself only have just over 100 StB, and I explore frequently. I don't think making StB a bit more available, while keeping the same prices in the shops could hurt too much.

Also, a very good point about junk being gifted. I'm not too sure about a way to get around that, but I still think the concept is a good one. c:



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2016-12-21 10:31:40
How about this:
As a way to encourage gifting, players would recieve a random encounter that said "After leaving your gift, you hear a faint ho-ho-ing in the distance. On your way out, you found yourself a [skull/feather/decor]"

Or perhaps we could have a fun little minigame where snow (snuh) is being thrown at the player and they have to dodge it? They would gain an extra life for each poop/gift they left and the prizes would be like:

1-50= dud
50-300= stinkbugs/decor
300-800 = rare decor/background
800+ = marking app? something cool?



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Cerrates
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2016-12-21 10:33:37
If there was a snow game thing (in addition to the energy boost, not instead of) then I don't see why it would need to take currency if it's supposed to be like the wallowing pit. Just make it free the same as the pit.



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Fush (F6 Gold
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2016-12-21 10:39:07
Lia remember they already increased the drop rate of stink beetles in poop to try and help with this. The problems are the gifts tbh. they are always last to be completed as no motivation. And a lot of the event encounters dont give event currency for some weird reason when they look like they are suppose to. But for now this thread is focused on the gifting side of things not the whole currency problem which can totally be another suggestion which already been addressed.

Cerrates thats my whole point. It would act pretty much like the wallowing pit and it would be free. Plus it would be something fun and it'd motivate people since it would have snow themed stuff which been pretty wanted from what I understand.



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Cerrates
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2016-12-21 10:43:00
Yeah fush I know you meant it to be free. ^^ I was just addressing/wondering why people started talking about what currency it would take. It doesn't need to take currency at all so Idk why people were arguing about that lol.



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Posted on
2016-12-21 10:43:25
I'm not going to lie, this is my first time doing this event and I dread it so much cause it's just too much for much for me specially when I'm broke.



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Lia-Lin
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2016-12-21 13:22:02
Oh yeah, sorry. I just got sucked up in the whole comments thing. x3 If it's like the wallowing pit, that'd be really cool!



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2016-12-21 13:38:30
Or maybe a mass gifting button or you have a random chance of getting these decors when you're gifting people?



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Fush (F6 Gold
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2016-12-21 13:43:42
Expresso. That could be an idea but there may be an issue with it. people would focus too fast on gifting there for the number of gifts may need to be increased. I'm looking for a solution that doesnt unbalance the event while finding a way to improve it. But its a good idea non the less. I'll throw it into the first post.



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Thalath {Offline} (#41669)

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2016-12-21 13:47:47
What makes this event even more nightmarish is that going through tons and tons of accounts and gifting is extremely tedious.

It's a ton better than last year IMO, but it still needs more fixes. I like the idea of the Guelta giving items, but I like the energy boost way too much and it's extremely valuable for this event, so I wouldn't want it removed.

I'd prefer something that makes gifting more worth doing, like a random, small chance of getting StB for gifting. There is currently absolutely zero incentive for gifting, other than unlocking the tiers, of course, which you'd think would be incentive enough but I guess not.

I know there's that whole thign of "gifting should be done selflessly!!!" but when the event revolves around it, well... that kind of doesn't work.



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Edited on 21/12/16 @ 20:50:14 by Thalath (#41669)

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2016-12-21 13:49:33
Yeah, I mostly find gifting tedious more than anything else. Maybe we could have a mass gifting button, or have a hoard of items that we are willing to gift, and on every player's page, just click the gift a random gift from gifting hoard button

Also with idea two: maybe there is a liimit to how many decor you can randomly get from gifting? i.e. 3 max. And the chance is very little



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Edited on 21/12/16 @ 20:53:09 by ✨Expresso {Coffee King}👑 (#10384)

Fush (F6 Gold
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2016-12-21 14:01:07
Thalath, I can understand how it can be pretty important to people and energy. but 5, 10, 15 energy isnt much and some explore rounds i never found a single stink beetle. i only used it once and I never found myself needing energy So to me its a useless feature because all i like is the wallowing pit and the shop. There's no motivation in a feature I get nothing out of. I believe others feel the same way. It may need to change but for the better. Plus sometimes features are implanted and they dont work. This feature doesn't really work with the event. Plus I an completely open to suggestions from anyone.

Expresso. i like the limit thing to the decors so it would be fair. i also really want to think about the newer players they really dont have much to offer so they would have a harder time with the gifting part. Therefor they may not be able to acquire the decors.



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Thalath {Offline} (#41669)

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Posted on
2016-12-21 14:03:24
An extra 10-15% energy every hour is very very valuable, considering you can only use a Bone Marrow once per day, and Energy Boosts cost 2 GB. So to you it's a useless feature, but definitely not to everyone. I could argue that decor that comes from the Wallowing Pit is generally worthless because it becomes extremely common.

There is literally no need to remove the energy part of the Guelta when it has no negatives. Just make a secondary feature to go along with it.



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Edited on 21/12/16 @ 21:06:11 by Thalath (#41669)







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