Originally Posted by
mikepastry
I did not have any beastlings ALL DAY yesterday and this morning when I collected from Ivy's and 2 sparkling mines, I got NONE again! This is ridiculous! If the goal is to MAKE us spend gems, then I REFUSE! I have gems, but out of principal I will spend NONE on cattails! The Ivy's Hut collection time is 12!!! hours; S8, if you picked this building for the event, you should have programmed it to spawn a beastling EVERY TIME one collects from it! And even selecting Sparkling Mine as a collection resource for the most essential material in this goal, was a bad choice! 1. The RATHER long collection time (4 hours!) as compared to other buildings that were used before (Farmhouses, Cottages, Old Thomas's, etc); 2. There is a limit on purchasing this type of buildings, so we cannot improve our chances of getting the beastlings by increasing the number of resource buildings; 3. We don't get a beastling EVERY collection time. This is a real show stopper in this goal! Why not give us a beastling every time we collect from Ivy's or mines?! And why not disable other monsters on mines for the time of the event?! To wait for 4 hours just to get a boar?! This does not create a positive game experience, but anger and frustration!
ANY GOAL SHOULD BE DOABLE WITHOUT SPENDING GEMS! Forcing players to spend gems by creating conditions that could be overcome ONLY by paying with gems will not only NOT increase your revenue, but I am afraid, quite the opposite, will result in unwillingness to spend any gems at all! If in the beginning of this event I was planning to spend some gems on crafting additional pet beastlings, now I decided to spend ZERO gems!