Present skunkupine dropped an expansion permit! Yay!
As much as I SO don't approve of or enjoy the cash grab enforced by the 6 hour timer of conversion, insult to injury addition of the halving of cabbage worth.... I really do appreciate the quality of the snowpeeps, tuftkin, and grumpy green skunkupine. Love them. I have bought three items so far - and am sure to purchase more as they come up in the tent. That the final prize is so amazing too is fantastic... seems like a weekly Ali equivalent. I wish we would get another one if we got 4 more prizes from the tent! ; ) I am not doing any snowball conversions - don't have THAT many cabbages - and yet I can also see how for those w hundreds of cabbages it isn't as much of a big deal.
In some ways, this event is leaving me with being veeeeery stingy during the year re baron"s tent use, to save up hundreds and hundreds of cabbages, in case they do this again next year. Not sure that is what S8 is going for, because they would need to increase the value of the tent prizes more often - more alis and energy droppers (prefer alis), more ticket droppers, items that drop awesome stuff like fireflies or the gnome that drops beams and blocks and potions, super cool deco you can't get otherwise (e.g. all the deco droppers from last year's February Valentine event) etc.
So unless it is awesome rather than merely quite appealing, my cabbages stay put from here on in.
PS my math was off, sorry, from earlier post - of COURSE we would need to have 25 crafted snowballs, as the 6 don't accumulate once we start converting the cabbages. I guess that is cynically why they have the 6 hour timer - to force maximum cabbage loss. If it were a five minute jobbie, you'd need to babysit the game that day, but you could conceivably leverage the free 6. Sigh.
Edit add: Destiel's post page 9, number 83 - 150 hours of crafting per prize, and 25 energy. 600 hours total crafting for four prizes. SO not OK.