The Winter Rock Festival - new update

[pete blake]

Drop rate of musical instruments was slow to begin and seemed to speed up as I approached the number required. Suddenly I was there. Yay!! Struggling with the jackets though - looks like I may have to buy the last ones at 1 greenie each. Easy to forget there is a profit motive here........
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[Pit1024]

Drop rate of musical instruments was slow to begin and seemed to speed up as I approached the number required. Suddenly I was there. Yay!! Struggling with the jackets though - looks like I may have to buy the last ones at 1 greenie each. Easy to forget there is a profit motive here........
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Don't buy more than 5 - otherwise buy the chest for 6 greenies / 20 jackets, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[pete blake]

Don't buy more than 5 - otherwise buy the chest for 6 greenies / 20 jackets, if I'm not mistaken.

And there you have it - perfectly captured - how one forum member with knowledge can help another who lacks it. I didn't know about the chest - and now can't press the buttons fast enough to buy one. Many thanks @Pit1024
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[Darren Hawken]

1. The drop rates on adventure flights were never changed. Period. The only thing we've changed for adventures is making them available to everyone through excavation flights instead of only purchasing map sets with Airport Cash about 4 years ago.

2. There's a rise of false time cheating issues in the last couple of weeks. My own live account I have for QA purposes was affected as well. We're investigating why this is happening. And the support team treats everyone the same, they have a procedure to follow — please don't blame them for that, they provide us information and help us save some time to actually fix bugs.

I lost Four Planes that we’re in my reserve hangers after an update and was told that I must have sold them by mistake

Absolutely laughable response from support imo

 

[alex]

Free2Play
My drop rate was about 10 to 14. Meaning that for the 40 rock items I had to land max 560 Guest plane in 6 days (windows).
Planes land about 55 sec to a minute, meaning you a have to play 9 hours and 20 minutes to land the planes

I was wondering if your company knows about RSI and CSR (corporate social responsibility) and if this was a issue when Game Insight thought of this quest ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility

because I find it tricky when you are asking your users to land so many guest planes in such a sort time.

 

[andy8758]

Yes the time lag has caused me to send many neighbours gifts they did not want. Nobody has grumbled yet though, even if i send a rope block instead of 20 fuel.

 

[Robobobo888]

I only have 16 out of the 40 instruments needed, with only 10 hours to go on the event. Drop rates have been atrocious!

 

[Robby Kusuma]

That's an urban legend that there are more chances to drop something if you complete several flights at once in quick succession, or collect passengers and coins from the same type of building very fast, etc. Too bad it doesn't really work this way and it never did. But I guess completing several things simultaneously is just more fun than doing them one by one, and that's why the legend lives on.

It is not a legend.... It is a fact......

 

[Free2Play]

What is so different on AC to all the other games I have, many of which have time quests etc.

The core difference I believe is the option to play both offline and online which is a major headache for us as developers and a major convenience for the majority of AC players.

In the single player games, paid or freemium, you fix the bugs you have, and you don't really care about cheaters that will break your game — and they will always break it, sooner or later — because their misbehaviour doesn't affect anyone else.

In the 'online only' games with time quests and all you as developer can ensure nobody breaks your game, as everything is synced with developer's server every few seconds and any exploit gets noticed immediately. Major MMORPG games have effective measures against cheaters.

This doesn't mean we've given up on regulating the game properly, though.

 

[p2p]

So the event is over, had 101 Jackets in the warehouse but could not complete it because the quest window showed 99/100 Jackets. Contacted GI support 3 days ago, was given replies, but no viable solution yet. They think I have the extra jackets from the previous event, but that's not possible since I never played this one, only joined 6 months ago.

Had enough with landing planes to last me a year.

 

[Pit1024]

So the event is over, had 101 Jackets in the warehouse but could not complete it because the quest window showed 99/100 Jackets. Contacted GI support 3 days ago, was given replies, but no viable solution yet. They think I have the extra jackets from the previous event, but that's not possible since I never played this one, only joined 6 months ago.

Had enough with landing planes to last me a year.

That's awful
First time GI introduced the 100 limit I was thinking of an event requiring 100 items or more. And now the time came and GI fell in their own trap. Let's see how they will repair it.

Btw, if I were you I would send GI a screenshot with my inventory of Jackets, Musical Instruments and one Arena built and will ask for 4000 coins, 800 exp pts (was that the exact award, guys?!) and the Rock Dinner building.

 

[p2p]

That's awful
First time GI introduced the 100 limit I was thinking of an event requiring 100 items or more. And now the time came and GI fell in their own trap. Let's see how they will repair it.

Btw, if I were you I would send GI a screenshot with my inventory of Jackets, Musical Instruments and one Arena built and will ask for 4000 coins, 800 exp pts (was that the exact award, guys?!) and the Rock Dinner building.

I'm quite pissed...

But they already have all that info, isn't it? It's the way they (don't) catch errors like this one. I'm pretty sure I accepted 2 jackets from neighbors when I had the previous version of the game before I updated to see the new quest. So the new version of the game didn't see the entities previously created. If the limit would have been 200 then no issue, right?

 

[Pit1024]

I'm quite pissed...

But they already have all that info, isn't it? It's the way they (don't) catch errors like this one. I'm pretty sure I accepted 2 jackets from neighbors when I had the previous version of the game before I updated to see the new quest. So the new version of the game didn't see the entities previously created. If the limit would have been 200 then no issue, right?

Sure,
For me however always helps if I show to GI the issue and clearly request a compensation. Sometimes they accept, sometimes they reject but at least I always get an answer.

 

[AshPort]

i kept getting jackets after i finished the event, received jackets today too

 

[p2p]

i kept getting jackets after i finished the event, received jackets today too

The Biker Jackets from Hell will haunt us for aeons and aeons to come....

 

[AJ]

The core difference I believe is the option to play both offline and online which is a major headache for us as developers

Why not make the game completely online? That's the best way I think to transfer developers headache to cheaters

 

[LAX]

I'm quite pissed...

But they already have all that info, isn't it? It's the way they (don't) catch errors like this one. I'm pretty sure I accepted 2 jackets from neighbors when I had the previous version of the game before I updated to see the new quest. So the new version of the game didn't see the entities previously created. If the limit would have been 200 then no issue, right?

If the 100 limit ever is imposed on older players, that would be it for me. This game is hard enough without the 100 limit. Thankfully, I found this game years ago. With the current 100 limit as a new player, I would not play it. As much as I like the game, that is a tremendous handicap!!

 

[mo elbo]

If the 100 limit ever is imposed on older players, that would be it for me. This game is hard enough without the 100 limit. Thankfully, I found this game years ago. With the current 100 limit as a new player, I would not play it. As much as I like the game, that is a tremendous handicap!!

i second that, i will defenetly stop playing shoud this limit be imposed
As i expirianced it when this limit was imposed one off my games was awaiting repair after a crash
When i got it back it was limited to the 100 items i imidiatly sent a ticket stating it was imposible for me to play and that it would mean the end for me luckely the lifted this limit after considering that i was a longterm player that had invested considerable amounts of money and time in the game over the last 3years

 

[Andy]

I wonder why not increase the 100 limit after 1 year of playing the game, for example? Presumably, the cheaters (if that's the reason for the limit) would not like to waste such an investment of time?

 

[AJ]

I wonder why not increase the 100 limit after 1 year of playing the game, for example? Presumably, the cheaters (if that's the reason for the limit) would not like to waste such an investment of time?

I don't think 100 limit affect cheaters in any way, There should never be 100 limit in a game like this where you need 500 item's to 3 star a destination.
Even Alliance tasks require a player to fly 100s of flights to a destination but game doesn't allow more than 100 item's, It just doesn't match.
This 100 limit and Alliance tasks are the 2 of the things I really dislike in the game, There was a case on facebook in which a player was unable to complete the last event as he had 100 of musical instruments in his warehouse already and he couldn't use musical instruments anywhere to make space for new ones so he was unable to finish the event