Alright so this is a long post and I hope it gets a bit of attention but honestly I'm just sick of hearing people complain and having to agree with them. I love this game and so many things about it but the issues still add up and not seeing them fixed is wearing thin. I spoke to alot of people on this, turned to pub, campus, my clubs and my friends for advice, input and criticism giving this as an end result. Not only have I tried to highlight the issues but I've tried to provide reasonable solutions in the hope that maybe we can get some things fixed. JOBS alright so pretty much jobs suck and are redundant once you finish them. I get they are in place to help new players out with some free stuff but it would be nice if it was used to reward older players aswell. Doesnt even need to be alot but leaving a whole part of the game with no purpose after a certain point seems kinda useless. So heres my idea. A set of jobs that unlock after the other jobs are completed and that reset either monthly or weekly (depends on how generous ata feels). If you complete the jobs you get a small reward, maybe a few dns, maybe a few ec, a furniture key, just something along those lines. Also if the last set of jobs had a payout that scaled to the player stats but still lower than parties this would mean that in terms of growth parties would still be more efficient but if you wanted to waste some energy getting that little extra reward you could. Now this next part is aimed at ata who needs some help when it comes to adding mechanics that give free stuff (cause we all know the spinner is weighted to the max and barely ever gives anything). Quite simply you dont give enough dn and EC out (The timer boxes were a great start but I'll get to that later). You give out so little that I'm used to playing the game without EC or dn. But if you gave this little periodic tease or taste of how useful these items are, I strongly believe that more people would be inclined to spend money. And like I said, hitting parties would still be more efficient for growth so the free dn wouldn't even really do much for the player in terms of growth since they got less money completing the parties than if they had put that energy to better use. It would give the illusion of helping and that makes you guys seem less sucky than usual. Really I only see positives from each side of this. TIMER BOXES Labyrinth boxes are great. Honestly, I'll give you credit there. But the other 2? Really? Yes, I get that they are for beginners, Yes, i get it's not meant to do much, but it means that my timer thing sits there doing nothing most of the time because it's not worth opening the small boxes. The beginner furniture just clutters up my room menus and gets annoying, even a faster way to recycle them would fix that part of the issue, but overall they still arent worth it. So, either make the lower boxes give something better, or add other bigger timer boxes like the labyrinth box. Even if they take 1 or 2 days at least the timer can be more useful MODS AND DEVS So I asked alot of people for their input on this post and one problem that seemed to keep coming up is people being dissatisfied with the mods and devs, including the chats having too much bullying, harrasment and other inappropriate or insulting behaviour. Most people blame this on the Mods not being active in chat enough and the Devs consistently being nowhere to be seen. I personally havent seen a red name in chat for months and the effect of your absence shows in the game. If the people making the game aren't playing and experiencing it, how are they going to understand the problems and the way that everyone feels? Long story short, actually play your game. And monitor the mods to make sure they arent being biased in terms of silencing. I'm far from perfect, I've been silenced and have deserved it. But I know people that have been silenced for nothing, I have seen people post and have personally posted things that should have caused a silence but havent had anything happen. Consistency is the issue. VIP AVIS Ok, so I dont even have VIP so it doesnt affect me but- the vip avis have the same stats as alot of the other avis... now when someone is paying extra to get these special boxes you could at least give the avis a slight boost? I've heard this complaint alot so just passing it on MALE/FEMALE AVIS I swear to God if I hear one more thing about Avi trading I'm going to have a meltdown. It's a horrible idea. Ok everyone agree? Good. If anyone wants to debate why ask in the comments and I'll elaborate. But what does annoy me and plenty of other people is when avis are won from the spinner or from a box, firstly it takes a ridiculous amount of luck (which is understandable) but then I have a 50% chance of not even getting my preferred gender. What I believe would be better is for the pairs of avis to be put in the same spinner slot/box slot and that when you win you get an option to pick one or the other gender, even if you drop the odds of winning avis a bit more. For example, (I dont know the odds so imma pull some numbers outta my ass) -say theres a 0.5% chance for a specific male Avi and 0.5% for a specific female Avi giving a total of 1% chance of getting an Avi from that pair -instead give us a 0.7-0.8% chance of getting the Avi Pair and being able to choose one of them. The odds of getting an avi would drop 0.2% but, atleast we would always have the damn gender we want. A FAVORITES MENU FOR AVIS Theres people I know with 100s of avis. Ok, your sliding thing made it easier but damn it's still painful. So 2 options; Firstly, put like a little star/heart something next to the avis that people can tap and it marks it as a favorite. Then either 1. Make a seperate tab that has all of the favorites in it or 2. Just make it so that any that are favorited show up first in the list. Cant get much simpler than that. THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK I know that was a heavy read and thanks to anyone that put in the effort to read it all. Apologies if any of this has been talked about in recent forum posts but I'm probably not in the forums often enough and this is in fact my first post. Any feedback or criticism in the comments will be appreciated and while I'm not expecting everyone to agree with my opinions, from the support I've received already I'm hoping there will be more to come. Thank you to everyone who contributed, including but not limited to The Admin of -Submission- The Members of CAT-A-COMBS EveAn_ LazyFox LittleMissSassy -HeavenOrHell- Now theres the problems, the conversation has been started, solutions are available, ATA listen to Shia LaBeouf's words of wisdom and
You already get DNs and ECs from jobs at random, and at the end of the 93rd job you get 10dns and 20b. They can be left as is.
Tickets only involve me and the person on the other end. It doesnt involve the community and everyone playing the game and they are the ones who this affects. On any game forums are the place to talk about the game and the issues people have with it
Mods aren't even getting anything of real value by modding. They're not really entitled to do anything for you. Also, I've never seen an online game with no bullying. It's almost inherent internet behaviour, the only thing mods can control is censors.
1)Jobs are fine, and should & can be left as is. You get DNs and ECs randomly. And if you want more ECs you are more than welcome to use the offer wall, if theres nothing available then I guess it Zuccs to Zucc. 2) You don't like whats in timer boxes? Kinda simple just don't open it. ATA doesn't not have to give us free anything at all. And it's really not all that hard to recycle furni. 3) if you win an avi regardless of it being male or female, feel lucky. Obviously they're hard to win, and if ATA put this into place they'd lose a bit of money, maybe not enough for it to make a difference, or maybe even a lot, but we all know ATA would never put this into place for the simple reason of money. I probably made a lot of typos don't @ me I'm not going back to check
4) there's nothing wrong with VIP avis now, they have reasonable stats considering the other things you get when purchasing VIP, and I'm sure with the recent spike in avi stats future VIP box updates will include higher stat avis but until then it's perfectly fine as is.
I get that. The internet sucks. But that topic of bullying and harrasment was passed on to me by someone else my main issue is just not seeing the people running and controlling the game around at all. If someone wants to be a mod it should be because they are going to put in an effort and make a difference regardless of if they get rewarded or not
1.Jobs do kinda suck tho I'm hoping that them putting the job board in the dorm means they're goi myg to do something with it? But I'm not holding my breath 2.the point is it's something they added to the game to try and make things interesting, yes it's a good idea but it doesnt really do alot. It's not a point of giving us free stuff it's just that it's a game and doing actions should give a suitable reward. Waiting hours for a box to open should mean we get something worth the time. 3. I understand your point, the money ata makes has a big affect on what in this list would get done but still it would be nice if they thought about the players more than their pocket just sometimes