More Event Experiments: TfTD and Knight Bus Spotlight Events
hpwulola
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Witches and Wizards,
Get ready for the holidays as you take a trip to the Burrow and enjoy a very Weasley Christmas! We are continuing to experiment with some new ways to improve the gameplay experience, so we are excited to announce two more events we’re testing next week, another Tonic for Trace Detection Spotlight Event and a Knight Bus Spotlight Event!
Tonic for Trace Detection Spotlight Event
Tuesday, December 15 from 5:00 p.m.–11:59 p.m. local time
During this time, Tonic for Trace Detection will be more likely to reveal the following Foundables:
- Arthur Weasley
- Fred Weasley
- George Weasley
- Quidditch Keeper Ron
- Young Ginny Weasley
Knight Bus Spotlight Event
Wednesday, December 16 from 5:00 p.m.–11:59 p.m. local time
During this time, specific Fortress chambers in the Knight Bus will be more likely to reward the following Challenge fragment from successfully won Wizarding Challenges:
- Extendable Ears from Tower Chamber V
- U-No-Po o from Forest Chamber V
- Skiving Snackbox from Dark Chamber V
-The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite team
Comments
Thanks for scheduling the times better... but who on earth determined the fortress rewards. Those rewards are horrible.
@hpwulola I can't stop laughing, now that I noticed you wrote po o, to circumvent the filters!
spotlight event is a great idea for 'light' event
Although the reward for the knight bus is a bit of a bummer.
I mean getting Tower Chamber's rewards from Forest and Dark Chambers is just a bummer
If I may suggest, maybe the higher chamber rewards should be available to the lower chambers for the next spotlight hour. But that's just me.
"Skiving Snackbox from Dark Chamber V?" What is the point of this? Getting a low-level fragment for D5 is in no way an incentive to play. That's just an odd choice. Maybe instead make one of the Weasley wands available in a lower level chamber during the event?
The timing of this event is odd to me.
If the strongest and worst were to come out, then why would it be during Christmas and not Halloween for a holiday? 🎃
Oy, the comments! Thanks for this. Looking forward to it.
whoever had the idea for the rewards of Dark 5 has never played the game once and should not be designing it, Wed. night will be a KB-less day, what utterly horrible, useless rewards/event....and yet again w/o DADA/rsb rewards....utterly useless.
I like a great opportunity for those who have started recently. 😊
The first one sounds great, the knightbus however sounds awful.... it should be items further up the objects tree, such as the house badges or wands, rather than the joke items...I for one will give that a miss. I will be doing the trace detection event as I believe the majority of folk actually enjoy those... Can we please have 2 days of those type rather than the Knight bus, it was awful last time and sounds even worse this time. Many thanks.
@hpwulola
A better idea for fortress rewards:
From D-V would be DADA books.
From F-V would be RSB.
Looking at the new lesson plans recently added, my concern is how (can only speak as an Auror since I do not know what the book cost is for other professions) can it ever be possible in my lifetime to acquire 1,050 DADA books at current rate they’re being doled out??
@WitchHiker the other 2 are exactly the same, same requirements to unlock nodes, same names. I'm not -therefore- sure if its 1 plan per profession or 1 adversary plan shared to all 3 professions b/c it's 'you' as a wizard learning it, not you as a prof/magiz/aur.
So tdlr;
But even with 2, even more so with 1....the dada numbers are beyond ludicrous I agree.
and it's not 1050 dada, its 1150, 75+75+100+150+200+250+300 (75x2 is at the last 2 nodes before the fork 'unifies' after the rsb nodes, if im not mistaken.
I love the trace spotlight event. May we have a "name your own fragment reward" for the Forest Chamber IV and above for future fortress spotlight event?
@BenTiger Lol, I was hoping I got away with it 😅
Thanks for the feedback everyone! We hope to incorporate your ideas into future events like this.
Some great ideas here! I was thinking for the knight bus spotlight event, how about focusing on family fragments for the lower chambers. Earning 2 family fragments instead of 1 and maybe an increased chance of getting family fragments?
For the higher chambers double challenge xp and/or increased fragment drops would be nice.
@D1ZZLE777 I loathe and hate trace tonics from the bottom of my heart and to the core of my being, I only do them when a task requires them to be done and even then I only place them and ignore them or close the app if there's no more tasks after (like in CD etc). They are (ttds) by far the most boring aspect of the game for me.
I think these are pretty cool for players earlier in the game. As someone who is more advanced, they are of little value for the effort.
Something that might be interesting to try is a Dark Detector event. Maybe focus on a few rare foundables based on the number of DD placed at an Inn. Place three and you get a guaranteed red flare in each of the three 10 minute increments. I'm in desperate need of Swooping Evil, for example. It would really help advanced players who could get more MOM using DD and Trace Charm.
Yes, this might be difficult for those who are limited in movement right now, but maybe there is a way to make it work out?
i vote for wand page fragments. especially those trio main character wands, LoL
Buenas
*El cambio de horario me parece excelente
*El evento del tracecharm está bien, le agregaría algún recuperable de los de nivel emergencia
*El autobús... En ese hay que seguir experimentando, las recompensas son bastante pobres y no incentivan a meterse..
Un incentivo podría ser más xp
Good idea on changing the schedule for the events.
BUT
Who said that it would be a good idea to have fortress foundables guaranteed for an spotlight event?
Those can be obtained easily by playing the chambers outside an event.
Or is there a change? Those are not gonna be guaranteed foundables?
So, nothing is guaranteed in the game anymore? We are actually playing by sport?
I mean, we really need to get some feedback about this....
New ideas are great, execution is TERRIBLE
have a little decency to clear the air, please.
@hpwulola @HPWUrobert
Very nice idea, this event. A lot of traces.
Only, I've seen just Fred. Once.
I see a lot of complaints here, so am I the only one that's enjoying the TTD event?? With a bit of fortress work beforehand, I was just able to presige my Courtroom Ten page to gold with all the Arthur Weasley traces! I also like that the only effort I have to put in is what I need, no more. Honestly, I can't complain at all!
might not be so bad today -after all- for fort spotlight
looks like the guaranteed challenge fragment is extra, doesnt overwrite normal fort floor challenge frag. @hpwulola would have been nice if this had been explained instead of letting us think the jokes products would overwrite normal challenge frag which would be very bad in Darks/D5. Would have received a lot less complaints imo.
So the TFTD event was great. I really liked the timing of the event. The traces from the tonic were good and having a few higher level foundables in there helped me to get ministry manuals. Great work on that and I hope there are more of these spotlight events to come at least with Tonic for Trace Detection.
@hpwulola the event (KB) is not working as advertised. Event's started for me, I am 1st in lobby then others (im assuming from other timezones) enter the lobby and we join and fight. In both Forest 5 and Dark 5 I've had 3 + 5 instances where I did not get the advertised challenge fragment which is supposed to be guaranteed. I dont care abt joke products, but others might.
Knight Bus Event ia s misunderstanding. There are nobody to play . I tried 3 times Towers V and nobody, later I tried 3 times Dark V and nobody, more people play in Dark V when is task ,,do your highest chamber ".
We should encourage more players to do Challenges in the Event time.
Solutions
With the SOS report still broken, I completely forget about these.
@Roarian they do the highest chamber b/c it is attached to restricted/dada books aka rewards. Spotlight 'events' have no rewards, and as proven are bugged, both ttd and KB ones. No reason for ppl to do them.
@MotherOf2Lions same! And I didn't even get in-game notifications. I got push notifications on my phone. Unfortunately I didn't have any TTD available when I got the notification and didn't have enough time to brew one & decided this event wasn't worth spending money on, but I would have liked to participate.
Is it part of the event that we get less challenge XP than normal?? I normally always get 2400 from completing dark chamber 5 with a team of 5 & level 5 runestone.
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