CURRENT EVENT Rager Against the Dean! A Campus Takeover Party

[Caitlin]

which makes me reiterate please don't have leaderboards for community events

I keep thinking this. The issue I can see happening is people only hitting to get to the minimum drops to collect overall rewards then not hitting parties after that, which will cause parties to not move along like they should.

Maybe if there was more of a personal lb? Styled like the new story pass/battle pass? (Hopefully I’m making sense). They can keep the community rewards part with tiers you collect after drop minimum but adding in something to keep people coming back to it. Or that might turn out the same as the way it is now but just a thought. I’m thinking maybe people won’t be as greed driven because eventually they will finish and not all at the same time so it would almost be like groups of people at a time helping push the party along. Instead of having a large amount of people spamming parties to be the top. This gives others who don’t plan on getting the rewards or using dns (or don’t have any) a chance still at getting the minimum and those who continue to help the party can earn more rewards. But with anything there’s still flaws with this idea. Thoughts on this?

 

[Caitlin]

I keep thinking this. The issue I can see happening is people only hitting to get to the minimum drops to collect overall rewards then not hitting parties after that, which will cause parties to not move along like they should.

Maybe if there was more of a personal lb? Styled like the new story pass/battle pass? (Hopefully I’m making sense). They can keep the community rewards part with tiers you collect after drop minimum but adding in something to keep people coming back to it. Or that might turn out the same as the way it is now but just a thought. I’m thinking maybe people won’t be as greed driven because eventually they will finish and not all at the same time so it would almost be like groups of people at a time helping push the party along. Instead of having a large amount of people spamming parties to be the top. This gives others who don’t plan on getting the rewards or using dns (or don’t have any) a chance still at getting the minimum and those who continue to help the party can earn more rewards. But with anything there’s still flaws with this idea. Thoughts on this?

Or I guess they could raise the drop minimum to collect community rewards. That could keep parties going. Was trying to think of ways for people who want to really work on the party get rewarded still.

 

[Gir]

In conclusion the event was not worth it. I wasted so many DNs lol

 

[Sleepy_kitsune]

In conclusion the event was not worth it. I wasted so many DNs lol

Wasted dns and the hard hitters secured lb and stopped hitting because it maintained their spot. Deffo not a good idea for community events

 

[Snowy_Winter]

Did anyone else just completely forget about this event going on? Since the community party isn't on the "main page" (where the spinner, timer boxes, and club party is) I just forgot about its existence. Maybe it's just me, but I don't often swipe over to the other page, so I totally forgot about the community parties.

 

[Nate]

You changed the party difficulty originally to appease smaller players, when it was never a difficulty issue, it was their inability to be in game on time for party start. 18 chances to get 150 points (5 ul’s worth btw) ~ if they can’t get themselves to show up on time to less than 30% of the parties… guess what? they don’t care enough for the rewards. now that you’ve exponentially increased the party difficulty, and the general public have already claimed the avi reward, guess what? it now all hangs on the hands of LB players who have no incentive to keep wasting time, dns, some money for those dns bc instead of bringing difficulty back to the original after community tiers were completed, you left it the same, & that’s ignoring the fact you decreased the max drops per person by 50%… LB is quite literally better off letting every remaining party fail and save time, dns & money to keep our current spots. Only those who can complain atp is those who didn’t bother showing up to the first half set of parties that already took place to get their 150 points, which if so then let THEM buy & use dns… & believe me they WONT

I do want to take the time to thank/appreciate what has been done to compensate for aforementioned actions. Good call to eventually change the difficulty of the party to a happy medium (and hope if more community events happen, this is the difficulty you stick to). Glad you refunded the extra dns people used on the party during which the max drops per player was cut in half without proper prior advisory. I do still think not having let that 1 party that was destined to fail go through was a poor decision as LB severely got affected over it. Community events shouldn’t have a LB, to avoid what happened this event being repeated in the future. Also thank you for using the proper channel (in-game newsletter) to let us know of changes that were made (eventually, but better late than never).

 

[Noel]

I do want to take the time to thank/appreciate what has been done to compensate for aforementioned actions. Good call to eventually change the difficulty of the party to a happy medium (and hope if more community events happen, this is the difficulty you stick to). Glad you refunded the extra dns people used on the party during which the max drops per player was cut in half without proper prior advisory. I do still think not having let that 1 party that was destined to fail go through was a poor decision as LB severely got affected over it. Community events shouldn’t have a LB, to avoid what happened this event being repeated in the future. Also thank you for using the proper channel (in-game newsletter) to let us know of changes that were made (eventually, but better late than never).

Bouncing off of what Nate said, thank you (ATA) for rectifying this. In the future the following would be to note:

• if there is a certain hit cap to be obtain please make counting this, some kind of visible iteration where we can see in real time logs regarding hits.
• If an event is indeed for the community, a leaderboard should not constructed because there is no “I” in TEAM.
  
• Party difficulties regarding these events should be considered PRIOR to release. I did notice the parties did start having a happy medium, please utilize this method(s) for the next event because it was well received.

 

[Canaille]

I keep thinking this. The issue I can see happening is people only hitting to get to the minimum drops to collect overall rewards then not hitting parties after that, which will cause parties to not move along like they should.

Maybe if there was more of a personal lb? Styled like the new story pass/battle pass? (Hopefully I’m making sense). They can keep the community rewards part with tiers you collect after drop minimum but adding in something to keep people coming back to it. Or that might turn out the same as the way it is now but just a thought. I’m thinking maybe people won’t be as greed driven because eventually they will finish and not all at the same time so it would almost be like groups of people at a time helping push the party along. Instead of having a large amount of people spamming parties to be the top. This gives others who don’t plan on getting the rewards or using dns (or don’t have any) a chance still at getting the minimum and those who continue to help the party can earn more rewards. But with anything there’s still flaws with this idea. Thoughts on this?

I would personally say have no leaderboard, keep the minimum points needed to collect rewards and up the reward tiers. Like this event was around 6m points needed by the community and we got somewhere over 13m (don't remember exactly what it was). That way people would have to hit at least a certain amount to unlock the rewards, higher tiers would have people needing to keep hitting and no leaderboard of any sort would hopefully lead to more community cohesiveness rather than hostitly.

 

[Macey-KiLIing_You_4_Fun]

My thoughts about the community event. First and honestly should be no leaderboard. Instead make more tiers for better rewards last tier being the vip avi. Why I say this? I had time to be sad and I’m still very upset and mad.

I was rank 17 before you guy changed the pace of the parties and that screwed me up badly pushing me up to 56. Then we fail a party. Then u change pace again and from that second change I had to keep pushing and pushing just to get back into top 50. Remind you this was my first time trying top 50! I really really wanted the vip cat and I knew the risk using dns and I was okay with that! I ended up at 54 and it broke my heart. I really tried and it upset me.
The thing that upset me is that anyone ranked 51-2500 got the same avi. Just depending on what tier u got more misc. Cool. I wanted the vip avi. My alt who doesn’t have dns but use the free video to get free dn got the avi with 1.2k drops. Me I had 24k drops and we both got cat avi. It not right that ppl who used barely any dns got the same avi as ppl who have drop that were 24k and up. It like rank 51-200 doesn’t mean anything u get same stuff as ppl who were top 2500. Idk if it makes sense but I feel cheated and I’m upset I really really wanted the vip cat avi just to end up with a cat avi that 2500 other got when the barely spent any DNS like my alt.

 

[Macey-KiLIing_You_4_Fun]

I know it sound stupid but it was my first time trying top 50 and I’m an avi collector and I really liked the vip cat avi and I tried my best!!! I used as many dns as I could I set alarms at 3am and 7am est time my time zone and worked my butt off. I’m upset. Please don’t say means things to me I just telling them how I feel and idk if I ever wanna try top 50 again. I feel scammed about the whole event. But I did try and I didn’t make it thank you I had to get it off my chest. Now I gotta buy vip cat avi

 

[Noni]

I know it sound stupid but it was my first time trying top 50 and I’m an avi collector and I really liked the vip cat avi and I tried my best!!! I used as many dns as I could I set alarms at 3am and 7am est time my time zone and worked my butt off. I’m upset. Please don’t say means things to me I just telling them how I feel and idk if I ever wanna try top 50 again. I feel scammed about the whole event. But I did try and I didn’t make it thank you I had to get it off my chest. Now I gotta buy vip cat avi

Hey Macey It doesn’t sound stupid at all. You really tried—alarms, DNs, time zones, all of it. Top 50 events are super tough and not making it doesn’t mean you didn’t put in the effort. It’s okay to feel upset. Be kind to yourself—you did your best, and that still counts.

 

[NickiTheRocker]

Going off of what many players are voicing, community events should not have a leaderboard period. Happy Holidays everyone.

 

[Brattitude]

How to get rid of left over dials in my inventory

 

[Bimb0]

Yh as soon as I saw the lb i thought to myself "oh another spending scheme". Cuz lets face it. Its right after BF when most ppl already spent dns to UG. very suspicious that there just happened to be a Buddy Box Promo smack down in the middle of event. So to label it a community event yet employ such tactics is very not demure nor cutesy.

 

[LuckyCharmed]

I know it sound stupid but it was my first time trying top 50 and I’m an avi collector and I really liked the vip cat avi and I tried my best!!! I used as many dns as I could I set alarms at 3am and 7am est time my time zone and worked my butt off. I’m upset. Please don’t say means things to me I just telling them how I feel and idk if I ever wanna try top 50 again. I feel scammed about the whole event. But I did try and I didn’t make it thank you I had to get it off my chest. Now I gotta buy vip cat avi

It does not sound stupid at all, this was my first time trying top 50 too, & I myself love collecting Avis. I ended up #52, only 24 points away from 50. I completely agree with everything you said. My alt as well got t2500 with minimal effort and the free video ads. Hope things change with future events, not too sure I’ll ever try to do this again.

 

[Brattitude]

How to get rid of left over dials in my inventory

Still wondering btw

 

[Louigi]

Still wondering btw

Most likely - wait until next campus event. During this event you could use up old items from previous campus events (crystals etc.) on the last bar. It didn’t get you any points and the hits showed up as ”failed” but the items did get used and thus disappeared. So I’m guessing it will be the same with these dials

 

[Brattitude]

Most likely - wait until next campus event. During this event you could use up old items from previous campus events (crystals etc.) on the last bar. It didn’t get you any points and the hits showed up as ”failed” but the items did get used and thus disappeared. So I’m guessing it will be the same with these dials

Thank u. Its a bit unfortunate to wait but ill remember this. Devs should add an option to sell old items for like a day after the event is over.

 

[Guy]

damn missed it

 

[GoddessHailey]

I just mean like a non-tradeable stat or dorm item or set of avis, not so much an exclusive event. A lot of stuff is already unattainable to the majority of the player base whether it's behind LB restrictions or a paywall, which is more upsetting than saying "Hey players who have been here a decade or more, thank you for sticking with us!", so I don't see why thanking players who have been here a long time would be frowned upon. It's the same as the Single City/Kingdoms At War concept; if you play the game and do the time, you're rewarded with exclusive furnis/stats/avis that are non-tradeable, as a thank you for playing ATA's other games. A business showing appreciation for long standing "customers'" loyalty is nothing new, except maybe to ATA. I hope this makes sense haha. But I know a lot of OG players would definitely appreciate this.

This comment @Angeli . unsure if you saw it