I look in my inventory after each collection even though I’m watching for it. Nothing. It’s getting depressing really.
me too I check my inventory because so many people suggest it but nothing is there. At least now I can use some of the cacti I'm getting
Often Storm8 increases the drop rates when they get so many complaints or more and more they have special packages like the current one where we can buy 2 parrots but I will NOT spend any money this time; I've had enough and no longer really care. Guess I'm at the last stage of grief; acceptance that it is what it is; the game I loved has died and I need to just accept it and move on
Well, my fourth full day of wishing Storm8 would replace the two saplings I lost in a glitch. And I've been doing adventures ever since hoping to get one to drop but have had exactly zero drops... If I'd known this would happen I really might have skipped with gems, but so early in an event, it is taking a bit too much of a chance for me. I can't believe how sad it makes me to not be able to participate. I don't even want to play the game at all. I guess that means it might be good to give it up. There's enough in real life to be sad about. I'm going to have to show a lot more compassion to people stuck in this kind of situation in the future, that's for sure!
I am in the same boat. I've had no adventure drops at all either, despite going on a bazillion of them. I'm just taking 1 day and 1 chapter at a time and I'm getting all of the resources needed for each upgrade a little after the new day starts. I'm not working ahead either.
As I'm working from home I can babysit my game all day and this has been the only way I've been able to keep up with each chapter. I crafted 2 Seraphina's but that's all, so not expending much energy on this event but it's definitely time intensive. Not giving up yet though... the first couple of goals on each day for the final few chapters are easy, it's the upgrading that's going to take the time, so spending a little over 1 day on a chapter might be ok.
Maybe we can have a poll at the conclusion to see how many were able to finish?
There isn't any reason to check your storage apart from the 2 goals that reward the oasis tree and falcon for completing goals. if you get a drop from the adventure it's a freefall one, and only the cactus is in the crate. Agree a drop rate increase is in order!
I think everyone’s math is a little off ...
The Desert Tombs have a 4hr timer - or 6 collections a day.
(5 collections if you allow for 8hrs sleep)
A Desert Tomb usually drops 2 Hieroglyphics and 1 Sphinx Tribute.
And we have two of those.
So that’s 5 collections x 2 Hieroglyphics x 2 Desert Tombs x 4 Days =
80 Hieroglyphics!
(96 Hieroglyphics if you’re a zombie without sleep haha)
We only need 60.
Agreed it’s tight - but doable.
Those lucky enough to have a mystical third (or fourth!) Desert Tomb drop from the adventure will be cruising.
I’ve only sent out the quest required adventures so far (so 9) and had nothing but cactus. :(
Otherwise an easy event, I’ve already collected and crafted everything except the Hieroglyphics.
Great animation design that goes with the Desert Palace from years ago.
Cleo is great.
What is the Sphinx tribute for? I can?t place it in my kingdom.
If we're allowing people to sleep 8 hours, only 16 hours left.
The only way to make 5 collections is to set timers and be able to collect without any delay, otherwise the schedule will be off.
I think it's unrealistic and unfair demand from the game developers.
So the only sustainable way is to make 4 collections per day, taking in account that there one less collection on the first day
(because we lost 4 hours after receiving the tombs from the adventure) and only 3 collections is possible on the last day (because of 4 hours last Scarab Amulet craft).
So (3+4+4+3)*2*2=56 Hieroglyphics.
If the drop rate is 1.5 as some players reported then only 42 Hieroglyphics could be collected with normal play:
(3+4+4+3)*2*1.5=42
I don't get your logic.. If the special Adventure drops would be in the crate, you couldn't miss them. But now they are free fall (and you don't stand around your castle and wait to see what drops) you might and it's good to check.
I'm really sorry everyone is have such a hard time with the Hieroglyphics. :(
Such a shame this isn't a fun and positive event for all of us.
I get a drop rate for Hieroglyphics of less then 1.5 per visit. So I hope the drop rate increases in the coming days else I won't make it. And I am nearly a zombie player!
My tombs just dropped 2 and 1 hieroglyphics, respectively, so I am one short of the upgrade. Since it is past 11:00 pm here, I will not be able to update until morning. I am mostly able to get to the game every four hours, but clearly this will be tight.
Or I could stay up until 3 am.
I send adventures as many as I can. One adventure only cost 2 hours, so it could send about 6 or more times a day. Now I may have already sent at least 40 adventures and get 2 tombs back. Add 2 for goal, I have 4 tombs that enough to get resources.
Im so stupid. I made noodles instead of pasta. Now I have a lot of noodles and a lot of cooking to do
:-/
Yay! Another only 3 hieroglyphics which means that I still can’t complete yesterday’s chapter after the first collection this morning. I am already at a -1 deficit. This doesn’t look promising. If S8 makes it a guaranteed drop of 2, I think we’ll make it though it will really come down to the wire on the last day but as of now, no cigar.
This is S8 (well maybe the new new owners) annual no-win week event to generate cash for the company. A lot of times these events don?t even have a castle, medieval theme to it which is a good give away. Some will say, it can be done with cash........BUT, is it fun if you don?t sleep for a week and squirrel yourself the whole week in you house grinding out the requirements for completing this event? Ooooooooh fun fun
I don't think I'll send out any more adventures with the slim (non-existing) chances of getting a tomb. With my luck I'd get a rustic well or another pond. And I can buy more cactus if I need anymore. I'm going to just play along and hope for good drops of hieroglyphics.
Also my game has been so laggy and unstable, I can't keep a strict time line. This will be a hit or miss for me.
Lots of calculations here but the bottom line is a lot of players are not getting more than 3 hieroglyphs at a time collecting from both tombs.
Something needs to give here S8! Bottom line is, at the present rate, not a lot of players will finish without using gems or pulling out the plastic.
Please increase the drops from the tombs.
May I just send my spare parts to those who are struggling to finish, please? 😣
I know we don't have any sort of trading system, and prooobably won't (can you imagine the market if old event items became tradeable?! 😍 ) but I just wish I could help out. 😥
Other than struggles with Neighbor requests (accepted requests appearing waaaay late), i've had a fairly easy time this event. There were 3.5 days of stressing out over whether i'd make it (drops were a bit shady at first) as opposed to my usual 2-3 days, but i've been lucky with the Adventure drops for this event. 😔
I've been doing one chapter at a time, no Gem spending but I did Zombie a bit (for extra collections) and I used a Boost on my Workshops to fly through some hourly crafting and give myself a break that evening. I'm actually totally done collecting materials aside from 9 More Hieroglyphics, and i'll be able to get those today. I have only crafted 1 Seraphina so lots of my energy went to collecting crafting material instead of battling- then I just have to trust that the Neighbor requests system will behave tomorrow 😅. And craft the pieces that have yet to be unlocked in later chapters.
Everyone's math seems to assume that everyone's drops are consistent or at least similar, and that they can complete a certain number of collections consistently, and if the forum is any indication players have fallen into either Great, Good (me), Poor, or HORRIBLE drop rates...
Strange to see that a player's event success this time seems to have been literally determined by their luck RNG category for the WHOLE event (consistently good, consistently mixed, or bad).
Good luck to everyone, and I hope S8 is able to make this event more accessible for those who are time-limited and stuck in a drop-desert 😥! ❤️
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I quit the game for a year because I had spent real money on a chapter challenge and then failed to finish a few years ago. This time I thought I had done the calculations. I sped up the chapter to request from neighbors, I bought an extra falcon because I can't baby my game every two hours, but now if I want to finish, I will have to buy a desert tomb for 250 gems? I did adventures until I ran out of roast chicken, and can now only do three or four a day as I collect the chicken, but still nothing but cactus rewards.
Kicking myself for not learning the first time.
I understand! My point was more that whether it's possible/impossible for a player to finish was dependent on the player's luck category for the event; not at all contrasting to what you were trying to illustrate, rather "so sometimes the math works buuuut we can't control our drop rate" (can only increase total collections, which may not work if their realm's drop rate is horrible, and just plain isn't possible for some if their days/free-time vary).
I would've considered myself a "normal" player, but I suppose i'm one of the lucky ones (with loads of time) this time. 😅
Ironically their $9.99 package (250 Gem equivalent at normal prices) includes a Desert Tomb right now...
"Oh look you can get allllll this for 'just' the price of a Tomb!!" But you guys are the ones who set the price and the drop rates! 😂
Not cool. Generally I accept that with sorta-free-to-play games there's going to be a time/money tradeoff, but when people sink BOTH into an event and still can't make it?
That's bad.
Just got 5 hieroglyphics from my 2 tombs, so good start to the day.