Hi,
Every game has events that reward regular players. Mabinogi's most event do so as well. However, consecutive login rewards in Sweet Coffee events (and it's re-runs) take it to another level.
First off, we only have 28 days to get 30 days of consecutive logins. Finding Gwen for 10 days is the only way to reach that goal. This itself makes the window pretty tight and doesn't allow any leeway for players unlike other events. Nevertheless, this isn't the worst part of this event so definitely not the hill to die on.
Secondly, special coins are obtained from consecutive login at days which are multiples of 7 and 10. We get 2 special coins on days which are multiples of 10 and one on days which are multiples of 7.
This is where the bigger problem lies.
Hypothetically, if a player logs in for 19 days but misses the 20th day due to any real life issue (work, family or net outages), they get 4 coins until 19th login, the streak resets, allowing them to get another coin on the 7th day after. So, in total they get 5 special coins.
For a player who doesn't miss the streak, they get full 10 special coins.
The only difference between these players is that the former missed
1 day during event period, just 1 day. But the result is a 50% reduction in special coin rewards.
My point is that this is very unfair. If the consecutive login reward was just some extra normal coins rather than the main event currency, this wouldn't be so bad.
Possible Solutions
A. Make it so that you get special coin rewards for total login rather than consecutive login. This way there is still penalty for not logging in but it's not as high as consecutive login.
B. Keep consecutive login, but make the reward for it something that's not the main event currency. Perhaps a couple of normal coins, or even something else like passes or extra Sweet Coffee boxes.
Do you guys also feel this way? What's your opinion on this?
Comments
On the plus side, players can buy special coins with normal ones. But a player that misses a day late in the event might not have any normal coins saved up to buy the special ones. Situations like that are why I typically save up the event items and wait until the last week of the event to exchange them. So I'm still good for this event.
I do think that it is fair to reward players who do login every day with some gift (homestead prop, event chair, etc.). In this instance, I also think that the loss of that many special coins is a bit extreme. However, I will accept things the way they are: I missed a day, so I miss the bonus.
Personally as a player, I can understand that keeping up with such daily consecutive tasks can feel incredibly taxing and difficult, especially when the real world happens. I personally agree with Loomiy's thoughts that it's fair to reward players that can dedicate the time to the event, but perhaps there are better and less punishing ways we can go about it in the future.
I'm curious to see how others feel about this topic as well! ❤ Thank y'all for this thread!
All players have very different lives based on where you live, weather, unpredictable irl events, and what we do for work. Some players are just stressed out students, some have long shifts at stressful jobs, and some work from home. It can feel a little to difficult if we have events where if we miss one day we don't get the prize we wanted from it. The Irusan's Attendance Event letting you buy additional stamps for days you missed with pon is the most fair solution I have seen so far. It doesn't overly punish players for missing days while still rewarding the players that make the effort to get perfect attendance. Also unrelated side note, it makes me so jealous we registered for that last Irusan's Attendance Event by talking to a giant cat but we can't ride on that giant cat all over Erinn. Please release mountable giant cat pets that function like the Corgi pets do.
Red heart ❤ Blah blah blah.
This is a great solution too, without changing much of event. I like this idea as well. It's not quite like Irusan pass since that's based on total logins. But a pass that acts as a streak-freeze would work. Thanks for the alternative suggestion!
Only downside might be that since Pon isn't given via ingame activities, people who don't have Pon can't buy a pass. I personally have Pon saved so I wouldn't mind.
Hm? So Unison League events don't really have an end date? They "end" once the last person has completed all the tasks?
But also, I actually don't feel like its too big of a deal to miss some streaks? I mean, maybe its just me, but I was able to pretty much by everything in the store and then some. I mean, I have two car trucks now, plus the clothes and props. I guess if its about the rewards you get for the constructive logins, I kinda understand that, but everyone is selling the stuff for pretty cheap on auction as well, so I just don't personally think its that big of a deal either
Another issue I'd like to bring up though is when you do a good portion of an event, but drop out for whatever reason (most likely due to life being distracting). So it might be nice if players get some sort of reward for leftover coins (or whatever event currency) they had been saving up in their inventory that they never got to use? Its a thing I know Identity V does, and while I don't like a lot of things the game does, that's one thing I do appreciate about it. Perhaps Mabi could make it so they mail you some pon in return, even? Totally understandable if they don't give pon, but anything would be nice to make up for that.
Well, the login rewards are like that. The other event stuff (like event quests) does have end dates.