I have always disliked that the really good avatars are always top 100. Most people come on here to socialize and have fun, hit parties and chill, yet it seems that if people want the good things, they have to take out a loan, to just maybe buy a reward. For new people it's very disheartening because they know full well they can't get what they want.
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If you settle for minimal activity in your club and think any hits are enough that's fine, but over here and for many others we expect people to be active and contribute. No one likes failed parties, and our free to play players can't progress in their gameplay very well without parties being completed to award drops.
There's no reason ATAs game "improvements" should make the work club admins do more labourous.
LuciferIsHere
Member
Hi ATA,
Thanks for trying out new things for the game. That's how it can evolve over time.
For feedback, Id like to mention that getting 4 consecutive male avis wasnt the most fun experience for me.
I'd kidnly suggest getting back the option to win both male and female. Or, rather, have an option to choose. Choosing the M or F avi would be ideal for not only me, but for other players as well.
Hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears. Thanks for the time to read through it.
Thanks for trying out new things for the game. That's how it can evolve over time.
For feedback, Id like to mention that getting 4 consecutive male avis wasnt the most fun experience for me.
I'd kidnly suggest getting back the option to win both male and female. Or, rather, have an option to choose. Choosing the M or F avi would be ideal for not only me, but for other players as well.
Hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears. Thanks for the time to read through it.
GoddessHailey
Well-Known Member
It has been out for me around 6 am EST. So , I was more trying to say that it could take several or until a day or 2 to see stuff there. Hopefully, it is the same for you too. Let me know.
LeeJarrett
Well-Known Member
Ewww, y'all changed the stats on misc. How about, instead of changing the mechanics of the game, you give us hunts we actually want that don't look like cheap, thrown-together-at-the-last-minute money grabs? Misc quality has gone down, furni looks the same as every other fall fairy hunt (why is every fall hunt fairy-focused???), and I don't care for the avis. I have an avi I'll always go back to. But art quality has seriously been dropping. Fix that.
AlisaieStormblood
Well-Known Member
Before you make assumptions that way.... please check the club.
This is just a game and as such I don't expect minimal activity but I do expect members to put real life first and we DO have a minimum main hunt drop requirement. I say any hits are better then none as every hit counts towards party completion. If we have prank Primer going so fast that people are only hitting 3-4 times with regen I am not going to get upset. Nor am I going to punish them for not liking a hunt and stepping back for a time. Or get upset my f2p players have less hits because they're trying to help each other lose containers while hitting parties without using dns.
Also I am not sure how to upload a picture yet but they're giving the hunt drop for free in Molly's. 300 free hunt drops
Some clubs use main drops. Others don't. As a club Pres who uses side drops, it's not that I expect an unreal expectation of activity from members to take time away from their real lives. I do; however, expect a level of activity that is fair and equal amongst members to at least reach a minimum amount by all. If someone has a busier than usual time in real life, all it takes is communication on their part and understanding on mine to reach a compromise.
To put a situation out there, if 20 members during one hunt using main drops as the required mark decide they don't like the hunt or have busier lives during that time reach the required amount by mostly boxes that will cause the club to slow down tremendously and more than likely begin to fail parties. Side drops still require effort to benefit the club and don't mean that we expect the game to come before their real life. In my opinion, it just makes it a more even playing field to expect a minimum amount of activity from all players. Some may go way above that mark, but at the very least everyone is at least trying to put in the same effort as a base for the club to continue functioning.
To put a situation out there, if 20 members during one hunt using main drops as the required mark decide they don't like the hunt or have busier lives during that time reach the required amount by mostly boxes that will cause the club to slow down tremendously and more than likely begin to fail parties. Side drops still require effort to benefit the club and don't mean that we expect the game to come before their real life. In my opinion, it just makes it a more even playing field to expect a minimum amount of activity from all players. Some may go way above that mark, but at the very least everyone is at least trying to put in the same effort as a base for the club to continue functioning.
I'm replying based off what you've said here. As Snake said above, communication and understanding goes a long way with decreased activity from an individual, I don't think anyone expects pixels to be put above IRL (and if they do shame on them), and every club tracks activity though different methods and to different requirements.
There's nothing wrong with using main story drops as a tracker, but it's not optimal for seeing party activity the way side drops are. I made a comment a few posts back about how the 22 lite boxes from Molly's does a lot to make an account look more active than it is through main story drops.
If ATA is so adamant on removing side drops then they should give us something that tracks activity as good or better than them, and so far this is not it.
AlisaieStormblood
Well-Known Member
I agree that they can do that with the lite boxes but I like to think we notice patterns too even unconsciously. You can't say you've never gone and looked at parties to see if someone hit because you don't think you've ever seen it.
I agree completely this isn't a good way to track activity at all. Maybe if they did like a single drop thing if someone did 17(? I think that's a full energy bar on the first cash bar on most parties) hits on a party and gave us a way to keep track of how many parties we did a hunt?
I'm sorry I don't quite understand your first paragraph here? If you're talking about how we track / determine activity within our club as I said we mostly use side story drops, and just click an individuals profile to view them. I have a completely free to play alt as the club holder that is used to determine what is achievable within a hunt for someone who doesn't open pimd key boxes/hop for lbh/attend ec clubs.
We mostly use party history just to check for drops when we participate in p/potd testing, or to determine general activity across different times of day.
I think having a story tracker drop in accordance with the way side drops do (different amounts depending potd/pro/ec parties) would be best. But then we are still left with the injustice of the awards for the main story without side stories (As snake so wonderfully outlined for us) and the poor reward system for the story avis.
CapedClown
Well-Known Member
They’re not usually this slow to release offers. I hope they account for this when it comes to redeeming daily freebies.It has been out for me around 6 am EST. So , I was more trying to say that it could take several or until a day or 2 to see stuff there. Hopefully, it is the same for you too. Let me know.
CapedClown
Well-Known Member
What? The tiers drop boxes as normal. You don’t have to open them if you don’t want to. Nothing is stopping you.
KittenErica
Member
One thing I noticed even a higher level player gets fewer drops if they haven't completed the newbie quests. I don't know if that is something anyone else has.
Also I hate that they're giving 300 hunt drops out in shops like no boxes etc. Just free 300 hunt drops
Can you elaborate what you mean by the newbie quests? Your party should should only really be affected by max plunder. You want to make sure you have enough in tutors and depending on your account stats it might take more than a full unload to get max drops from a party.
Your account is the size of one of my alts, and it does need more than 1 unload to get max drops from a party.
Irrelevant
Well-Known Member
I do like the free drops from Molly
Hunt changes being tested!
Hey everyone!
We have some more tests on the way so we wanted to give you more of a heads-up on these, as well as directly share what changes are being made to this new test and why.
We want to keep trying to create the best, most engaging content that we can for you and these tests will help sculpt the future of Party in my Dorm. PIMD is just as much our game as it is yours so we want you to be included in this as we move forward.
This test will be running over the course of the next hunt (September 12 to September 26). The hunt after that will go back to the usual format.
We ran a similar test during the Dog Days of Summer hunt. That test included changes to the side stories and to the number of main story reward tiers.
We heard your feedback (good and bad) and are continuing to iterate on these changes to see what players enjoy most and what still needs tweaking.
Nothing being tested is permanent and is subject to change.
Reward Tiers
We are changing the reward tiers to 18 instead of 25.
This change had a lot of feedback and we went through it all. A few of the most common pieces were:
- Too many tiers, which also made them harder to reach and progress
- Not being able to see all of the tiers
- The rewards were weighted too heavily towards the highest tiers
To address these, we'll be reducing the number of tiers to make them easier to reach and view. We're also adjusting the rewards within these 18 tiers and spreading them more towards the earlier tiers, not later. That means more rewards (yes, that includes avatars) and more obtainable lower tiers so that we all get a chance to enjoy some more story rewards!
Still not enough?
We will also have two 72-hour XCs (Extracurricular timed events) that run each weekend (1 each weekend). These XCs will include multiple tiers that will have both rewards AND additional progress for your main story.
Lastly, be sure to check in daily on Molly's Deals throughout the hunt as there will be more FREE ways to earn progress for the main story.
Party Activity Items
We will be testing an item that rewards based on party activity!
Another big piece of feedback that we received was that Club admins had a more difficult time being able to tell which members were active and which weren't since side story drops were gone.
That's where our new activity tracking item comes in! Similar to a side story drop, you'll only be able to collect these from being active in parties.
This is not a stat item but is just meant to help Clubs track their members. As a sneak peek, here's what it looks like for the next hunt!
Here's where we need you
We want to make it clear that these are just tests. These are not final and they will also not be the last tests we do.
Your feedback is extremely important in how we move forward from here. Let's try to keep things constructive though, okay?
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Please also fill out the regular survey and be sure to answer the question on what you thought of the hunt design! Positive or negative, we want to know.
Take your time. This test isn't as stressful as Milhouse's. <3
Looks like they're being given out 7 per party regardless of party, you may get less if you don't have max plunder thoughNot sure if it’s already been asked but the tracker item.. the bookis it given one per party or per party hits? Or what? I’m confused as to how we can track members activity if we don’t even know how they are given out
Pterodactyl
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Some people are still buying shards to get the Avis. Not a million people, but I still see it from time to time.Ata when will zodiac Avis and those Greeks be removed from store I mean they've been there for so long can't they be removed and then maybe resigned and put back in store or something new Just saying and yh these new tests thingy better get good