@HerbalMagickInc : The event is only about portkeys, no regular foundables so TTDs or DDs don't help at all.
If you manage to find and walk 5 portmanteaus (they are 1km each), you have a pretty good chance of completing the task list, if that interests you.
Prestiging the page even to bronze, however, will be something that most players likely won't be able to do during this event (yes, there will be some hardcore players out there that have all pages on gold by now already, I'm sure), so these events will likely repeat very frequently, I assume; so don't fret over missing out.
Ok, 10 hours into the event, and still no portmanteaus. I was up with a thunder phobic dog last night, and checked several times. I usually have a decent spawn near my house. None on the way into work, and none since 7AM when I got to work. I sit between a fortress and a greenhouse at work, too.
This is the middle of the work week, so the time I have to walk the ports is limited, and yet I can't even get started because no portmanteaus.
Don't count on completing the task list with only 5 portmanteaus. I walked off 5, got 4 Paris Street, 1 Circus (where the game crashed on the first spell attempt so I didn't get the fragment), and no Menagerie. I shouldn't be surprised that the game is it's usual problematic self during an event.
My distance isn't tracking at all. Not with adventure sync. Not with the game open while walking and playing. How am I supposed to participate in this event when I can't even get the .25 km needed for my dailies?
@AurorsFocusPls Sorry to hear you got kicked from the encounters! I have lost quite a few encounters that way, and was afraid this would be bugged, too. I will not be taking this event too seriously.
@Elym78: What would you need that for? There are no challenge foundables in this family, so...
@Atonement : You get 10 scrolls (lol) and 5 ministry manuals per trunk; since you don't get the S.O.S. tree XP, it seems likely that you also can't get any of the other trunk improvements like gold presents or recharges
Glad to know I'm not the only one having problems! honestly, I thought given the level of some of the problems, I expected an update the next day with fixes..............but we only got a few bandaids............
Wow! what an absolutely awful event format... so basically, if i'm understanding the limited amount of time i've given this event so far, this is just a glorified portkey challenge.
Basically in a nut shell we have 3 new pages to work on. however, you only get a single encounter from one portkey, but you have no idea what page of the 3 that portkey is until you have walked the 1km to unlock it, and it maybe for a foundable that you don't actually really want. Looking at just the top page alone, i need to open at least 24 portkeys just to get all the foundables (but in reality i'll need far more than that), and i'm assuming that one of the foundables is from fortress (as it doesn't state a severity rating which is a tell tell sign for the other families), but i'm already ranked 4 on that and not a single runestone yet for this family. Is that yet another bug?
The rewards are utterly pathetic as well.
For most players, the ingredients from the portkey are largely useless although the unicorn hair will probably be welcome for some.
This event is just an absolute grind designed just to get people to purchase keys to speed their progress. especially as portkeys without a key in them will be removed post event.
Tbh, if this event format is going to replace one of the bi-monthly adversary events, I'd much rather have 2 adversaries.. That format works well and doesn't force people, abled or otherwise, out for long walks just to progress this family.
I've spent a few keys that i've built up fast tracking some portkeys to see what this is about but i'm not going to bother spending anymore. I don't need the ingredients, and the rewards aren't worth the effort. I'll open a few during the events as a matter of course, but I shan't be breaking a sweat on it.. Such a shame as adversaries was such a great idea, well implemented (although still waiting the lethals!!!!), but this event format just sucks imho.
I've prestiged all the exploration pages to gold, most of the challenge ones and a couple of the adversary ones so i do spend time playing the game (and known to actually spend money on the game), but this is one event that i'll happily let pass me by sadly.
Some one said that it will take 720 silver and gold keys, minimum, to turn the three pages gold and green star them. If I don’t spend any real money buying keys it will take about 10 years to complete.
DEVS - how do we play this event on an Android phone as adventure sync is not working. SO many have made this comment but I don't believe I have found a response here in on bug reports.
So basically, until this is fixed, it is extremely difficult to complete this task unless you have an iPhone or walk around with a screen on for Android?
So, an event that requires us to open portkeys but Adventure Sync is broken and the daily distance tracker is stuck at zero. There's absolutely no way I can open even a single portkey.
This is extremely frustrating.
If you need me, I'll be sitting out on the bench until things are fixed.
Adventure Synch is still broken, not very clever, when we need it for the 1920s event. Hope the responsible persons for the last update are very embarrassed! I just walked 2,2 km, and AS is counting 0,1 km. This is also a problem on iPhone. I jused used 6 silver keys for no apparent reason - once again; unbelievable....
I'm not here to gripe. Yes, AS doesn't work well for me either. Yes, I have red dots all over my registry. Yes, it's annoying that there's an entirely new family page that I can do very little to turn to gold pages which mars the completeness of my registry. But I take all of this as an ongoing, long standing, group problem and not a personal slight, so griping does nothing really. I am disappointed, however.
I've been playing since day one. I've been on this forum for about as long too. With all of the issues people are having right now, there has been little to no guidance or reassurances from anyone in the HPWU team. This wasn't the way it was in the past, but I was afraid the day would come when the organization got too big to mind its base. Oh well. It's just a game after all.
The portkeys that show the ministry lobby aren't working. @hpwulola The screen never stops rotating. I can see a few whackspurts but they move by fast and touching them does nothing. The other portkeys seem to be working fine, just those are not, for me.
@EngorgioCoffee@hpwulola I have the same problem. What did you do? I am getting ready to restart my app but I figure I will lose both the portkey and the encounter if I do. Which really sucks to be quite honest.
@hpwulola I am not sure if it is your responsibility to respond to and/or relay our complaints and concerns to whoever can do something about them. If it is, you have definitely let us down for a long time now with the lack of response to our questions and requests for information. If it isn’t your responsibility, could you please tell us whose responsibility it is so we can address them instead?
We are frustrated and saddened about the many problems with a game we love and want to keep playing, and we are receiving no information or reassurance from anyone who knows what is going on. Those of us who have put a lot of money into the game are feeling taken advantage of as well. This is not the way to keep your players engaged and happy.
Again, if you have no information or help to give us, could you please let us know who does? Thank you.
Okay, after watching the Ministry office spin around for several minutes, I restarted the app. When I went back in, the portkey was still there and, upon activating it, it did work. Hope that works for everyone.
I managed to build up a key stash after the dragon egg event. So I have just barely enough to get ten special portkeys going in the next few days (still have to open a few from before, I've picked up 6 today).
It seems that these pages are meant to take several events to complete, although, who knows whether it'll be possible to get one for each page. It sure would be a lot easier if the portkeys were color coded like the dragon eggs!
I'm running Android 11 and used to be able to get the daily walk in by going back and forth from front of the house to the back of the back yard a handful of times, but that doesn't seem to have worked since the last update.
I've completed almost every event, but have "only" gotten ten frames to Gold. So I still have plenty of prestige-ing I can do.
I sure hope they make this better for people, especially in countries and regions where vaccine access is an issue. I'll go out and play in the car if I have errands to do, but I absolutely recognize that it's a privilege to have a private car and gas money! (and be old enough to drive!)
I get a decent spawn at home, enough to pick up spell energy, but I can't imagine being a rural player.
Someone made a point about exploration. At least in pokémon, there's occasional special tasks to go to a new place. (I've been boycotting pokémon since they reduced the distance. It's been interesting to see what else I can do with my time!)
Thanks everyone for the feedback, catching up on all the comments as we complete the first day of the event. We definitely hear your concerns about Adventure Sync, we hope to have a fix for this soon and we will run more 1920s events in the future.
Also passed along the feedback regarding the low drop rate for the non-encounter item on the 1920s pages, we will look into the tuning for future events.
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I have driven around 5 kilometers and have seen nothing about the new screen.
I have an Android phone .
The new special will be impossible to finish.
Yes I am using a tonic for trace detection.
But nothing new on the board.
I live in Western New York.
Anyone else having this issue?
I also can not download assets without crashing and can't open gifts without freezing.
Signed,
Not a happy player in Lockport NY
@HerbalMagickInc : The event is only about portkeys, no regular foundables so TTDs or DDs don't help at all.
If you manage to find and walk 5 portmanteaus (they are 1km each), you have a pretty good chance of completing the task list, if that interests you.
Prestiging the page even to bronze, however, will be something that most players likely won't be able to do during this event (yes, there will be some hardcore players out there that have all pages on gold by now already, I'm sure), so these events will likely repeat very frequently, I assume; so don't fret over missing out.
Ok, 10 hours into the event, and still no portmanteaus. I was up with a thunder phobic dog last night, and checked several times. I usually have a decent spawn near my house. None on the way into work, and none since 7AM when I got to work. I sit between a fortress and a greenhouse at work, too.
This is the middle of the work week, so the time I have to walk the ports is limited, and yet I can't even get started because no portmanteaus.
portrays still not tracking steps so won't be able to play
Don't count on completing the task list with only 5 portmanteaus. I walked off 5, got 4 Paris Street, 1 Circus (where the game crashed on the first spell attempt so I didn't get the fragment), and no Menagerie. I shouldn't be surprised that the game is it's usual problematic self during an event.
My distance isn't tracking at all. Not with adventure sync. Not with the game open while walking and playing. How am I supposed to participate in this event when I can't even get the .25 km needed for my dailies?
Anyone worked out how to get rid of the red dots that appeared on all the registry pages yet?
@AurorsFocusPls Sorry to hear you got kicked from the encounters! I have lost quite a few encounters that way, and was afraid this would be bugged, too. I will not be taking this event too seriously.
Do we not get 1920s wizarding world family runestones? Bc I'm up to level 5 for the family and have zero runestones...what gives?
@Elym78: What would you need that for? There are no challenge foundables in this family, so...
@Atonement : You get 10 scrolls (lol) and 5 ministry manuals per trunk; since you don't get the S.O.S. tree XP, it seems likely that you also can't get any of the other trunk improvements like gold presents or recharges
Glad to know I'm not the only one having problems! honestly, I thought given the level of some of the problems, I expected an update the next day with fixes..............but we only got a few bandaids............
SQA Team gets a big "F"
Wow! what an absolutely awful event format... so basically, if i'm understanding the limited amount of time i've given this event so far, this is just a glorified portkey challenge.
Basically in a nut shell we have 3 new pages to work on. however, you only get a single encounter from one portkey, but you have no idea what page of the 3 that portkey is until you have walked the 1km to unlock it, and it maybe for a foundable that you don't actually really want. Looking at just the top page alone, i need to open at least 24 portkeys just to get all the foundables (but in reality i'll need far more than that), and i'm assuming that one of the foundables is from fortress (as it doesn't state a severity rating which is a tell tell sign for the other families), but i'm already ranked 4 on that and not a single runestone yet for this family. Is that yet another bug?
The rewards are utterly pathetic as well.
For most players, the ingredients from the portkey are largely useless although the unicorn hair will probably be welcome for some.
This event is just an absolute grind designed just to get people to purchase keys to speed their progress. especially as portkeys without a key in them will be removed post event.
Tbh, if this event format is going to replace one of the bi-monthly adversary events, I'd much rather have 2 adversaries.. That format works well and doesn't force people, abled or otherwise, out for long walks just to progress this family.
I've spent a few keys that i've built up fast tracking some portkeys to see what this is about but i'm not going to bother spending anymore. I don't need the ingredients, and the rewards aren't worth the effort. I'll open a few during the events as a matter of course, but I shan't be breaking a sweat on it.. Such a shame as adversaries was such a great idea, well implemented (although still waiting the lethals!!!!), but this event format just sucks imho.
I've prestiged all the exploration pages to gold, most of the challenge ones and a couple of the adversary ones so i do spend time playing the game (and known to actually spend money on the game), but this is one event that i'll happily let pass me by sadly.
Aolcot, I totally agree with you.
Some one said that it will take 720 silver and gold keys, minimum, to turn the three pages gold and green star them. If I don’t spend any real money buying keys it will take about 10 years to complete.
I got a portkey open. @hpwulola, and when I click on wrackspurts, it doesn’t register.
DEVS - how do we play this event on an Android phone as adventure sync is not working. SO many have made this comment but I don't believe I have found a response here in on bug reports.
So basically, until this is fixed, it is extremely difficult to complete this task unless you have an iPhone or walk around with a screen on for Android?
Devs you need to make this equal for ALL.
FYI @hpwulola
So, an event that requires us to open portkeys but Adventure Sync is broken and the daily distance tracker is stuck at zero. There's absolutely no way I can open even a single portkey.
This is extremely frustrating.
If you need me, I'll be sitting out on the bench until things are fixed.
Adventure Synch is still broken, not very clever, when we need it for the 1920s event. Hope the responsible persons for the last update are very embarrassed! I just walked 2,2 km, and AS is counting 0,1 km. This is also a problem on iPhone. I jused used 6 silver keys for no apparent reason - once again; unbelievable....
New bonus assignment is to watch a sponsored video (mine was about a solitaire game to download) and I got "one dittany".
WOW!!! A NEW LOW.
I'm not here to gripe. Yes, AS doesn't work well for me either. Yes, I have red dots all over my registry. Yes, it's annoying that there's an entirely new family page that I can do very little to turn to gold pages which mars the completeness of my registry. But I take all of this as an ongoing, long standing, group problem and not a personal slight, so griping does nothing really. I am disappointed, however.
I've been playing since day one. I've been on this forum for about as long too. With all of the issues people are having right now, there has been little to no guidance or reassurances from anyone in the HPWU team. This wasn't the way it was in the past, but I was afraid the day would come when the organization got too big to mind its base. Oh well. It's just a game after all.
The portkeys that show the ministry lobby aren't working. @hpwulola The screen never stops rotating. I can see a few whackspurts but they move by fast and touching them does nothing. The other portkeys seem to be working fine, just those are not, for me.
@EngorgioCoffee @hpwulola I have the same problem. What did you do? I am getting ready to restart my app but I figure I will lose both the portkey and the encounter if I do. Which really sucks to be quite honest.
@hpwulola I am not sure if it is your responsibility to respond to and/or relay our complaints and concerns to whoever can do something about them. If it is, you have definitely let us down for a long time now with the lack of response to our questions and requests for information. If it isn’t your responsibility, could you please tell us whose responsibility it is so we can address them instead?
We are frustrated and saddened about the many problems with a game we love and want to keep playing, and we are receiving no information or reassurance from anyone who knows what is going on. Those of us who have put a lot of money into the game are feeling taken advantage of as well. This is not the way to keep your players engaged and happy.
Again, if you have no information or help to give us, could you please let us know who does? Thank you.
Okay, after watching the Ministry office spin around for several minutes, I restarted the app. When I went back in, the portkey was still there and, upon activating it, it did work. Hope that works for everyone.
I managed to build up a key stash after the dragon egg event. So I have just barely enough to get ten special portkeys going in the next few days (still have to open a few from before, I've picked up 6 today).
It seems that these pages are meant to take several events to complete, although, who knows whether it'll be possible to get one for each page. It sure would be a lot easier if the portkeys were color coded like the dragon eggs!
I'm running Android 11 and used to be able to get the daily walk in by going back and forth from front of the house to the back of the back yard a handful of times, but that doesn't seem to have worked since the last update.
I've completed almost every event, but have "only" gotten ten frames to Gold. So I still have plenty of prestige-ing I can do.
I sure hope they make this better for people, especially in countries and regions where vaccine access is an issue. I'll go out and play in the car if I have errands to do, but I absolutely recognize that it's a privilege to have a private car and gas money! (and be old enough to drive!)
I get a decent spawn at home, enough to pick up spell energy, but I can't imagine being a rural player.
Someone made a point about exploration. At least in pokémon, there's occasional special tasks to go to a new place. (I've been boycotting pokémon since they reduced the distance. It's been interesting to see what else I can do with my time!)
Can we really get portmanteaus from trace and challenge rewards?
Day one : I just finish only two place image, but only two portkey reward because hard to finding.
But too much using portkey to get spell energy to (almost 1k spell energy).
Happy hunting portkey!
Thanks everyone for the feedback, catching up on all the comments as we complete the first day of the event. We definitely hear your concerns about Adventure Sync, we hope to have a fix for this soon and we will run more 1920s events in the future.
Also passed along the feedback regarding the low drop rate for the non-encounter item on the 1920s pages, we will look into the tuning for future events.
Appreciate all the comments and photos shared.
Does anyone have the flavor text for this event? My wife and I missed all the text as it appeared when we were not expecting it. :/
Push back again. Nothing is populating for this assignment.