Anarchist Beauty's posts

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@star2000shadow: Items added!

When the event opened it was blatantly pointed out to the staff that these are the highest priced EI's in the history of Voltra.
Even though it was pointed out to them within the first 12 hours of the event being launched and they could have very easily adjusted the prices before even a single one was purchased.
They didn't seem to care too much and have seemingly ignored any other complaints about the difficulty of acquiring items.

@blue: Certainly feels that way, because I am far from the only person who's complained.
I'm just the loudest and now also being oh so conveniently ignored by staff. 🤔
Quite a way to handle things.

@Totalanimefan: I've been keeping a minor eye on the active users thing at the bottom of the main forums page and over the last few months I really don't think I've seen that number above 15.
Even since the event started I haven't seen the number higher than 26.
So like I already told crisis, you'd think they'd have done something to actually encourage activity instead of smacking us with huge EI prices and going 'oh well' when someone complained.
Especially since my original arguments included the fact that some people have crazy lives and can't dedicate hours of time to a forum site. So like, do those people just not deserve to get a personal EI set? Because I think that's really messed up and unfair.

@crisis: All very valid points, but I've pointed out in the FAQ thread that due to active lives [jobs, kids, schooling, etc] that participating in other activities is not always an option and posting is all that some people have. Without the multiplier that would have left someone needing between 15 and 38 every single day for the entirety of the two week event. [Numbers based on max vs min payout for Event Forum only.] And for someone with an active life, that could be an almost impossibility.

The main issue I have, that is continually being ignored, is that these EI's are literally the most expensive EI's in Voltra's entire five year history. Even specialty EI's have NEVER been 750 currency before, and I would really like to understand 1. why that is and 2. why that's being completely ignored by everyone who tries to respond to me. Like the activity on this site has all but crash landed into the dirt, so an event that requires such a high amount of activity to get even a SINGLE EI set for PERSONAL use is just absolutely baffling to me.

Encouragement of activity should generally start smaller. To, you know, actually encourage the activity they want, and then increase from there to continue said encouragement. This event came out swinging a 12 gauge and they handed us a stick to cope with it. And I am not the only person who's mentioned the high prices, I'm just the only one loud enough to try and put the blame where it belongs... On the staff.

So let me see if I understand what's happening here...
After getting/seeing complaints that people will barely even - if at all - be able to get a single event set for themselves because you've created the highest priced EI's in Voltra's five year history, you decide that the solution isn't to just lower the EI prices but to *checks notes* release a confetti drop multiplier that requires *squints* even more posting to activate?
After part of those complaints were that people with active lives won't be able to post enough to get a full set in the first place?
Did I get that right?
Oh, wait, I forgot the part where confetti drops were ALREADY higher than previous events and the part where staff claimed that THAT was "fair" in response to a complaint that the EI's were too expensive.
Am I getting that right?

@Justice: Thank-you!

@Vozzy: The difference between your responsibilities and regular users' is that we have to actually work for our items and can't just spawn them to our accounts like you do.
So, no offense, but your 'hope' doesn't mean shit when you've actively tried to counter every valid point I've made about having a real life that doesn't allow for the time needed to get even a single set for personal use and defending the literal highest priced event items in the entire five year history of Voltra.

@Vozzy: So what about people with lives? Family, children, jobs, other responsibilities.
Maybe that means they don't have time to do the activities or even a puzzle.
And with the current math they need between 15 and 38 posts EVERY DAY for the entire two week period this event is supposed to run.
For someone with a life even 15 posts a day can be a struggle and that number is based on max payout for every post, which doesn't happen.

@sunny: So doubling the confetti payout justifies the highest priced event items in Voltra history?
Said highest prices being about 3-4 times higher than average?

Bro, not to be vulgar but why the FUCK are event items 750 confetti a piece?
That is literally the most expensive I have ever seen an event item and I have been here since this site opened.
Like... What is going on?