Haha, I'm laughing with you all. WE TOLD YOU!.... Seeing some
teeth in the current event, are you?
These are all the issues we brought to bear when this event started here. We learned about them in beta, and tried to share what we learned here to "save" you (from yourself).
Be careful what you wish for. You can NO LONGER play these events without huge amount of time, strategy, resources and focus. They are NOT the way we played events in the past. They are harder, cut sharper, and FULL OF distractions.
Rival requirement, the long event duration of 1 month, the Daily challenge requirement .... Here's what I said here (on January 13th):
Please leave your feedback for the Wildlife Event 2024 below.
forum.us.forgeofempires.com
I"ll make it clear to everyone else right now: Inno just softened this up, and probably made it easier to achieve. However, in beta and now in Live - you're tied to this event for 1 month. You miss ANYTHING - you STILL may have to pay to make it up - even with the reduction from 30 to 25 paws to make the event upgrade.
@Sharmon the Impaler comment is spot-on. It's an INTRICATE, DEMANDING, Financial sinkhole......
DISTRACTION.
Rival is designed to take away from your event progress while chewing up the scarce resources. 4 stars give next to nothing in the progress bar , 6 stars give much more. This is all while using tickets that should be used optimally for the event and people are chasing after scraps with them in Rival instead. Use your tickets for Paws and Dailies not the junk in Rival , it gives you 3 golden tickets but you have to waste 7 regular tickets to get them. That is like being happy to spend 6 dollars on a claw machine to win a 50 cent prize lol.
Enjoy your next WILDLIFE 2 weeks, but make sure your wallet has fresh cash to spend. Sounds like your going to need it.