i would be really pissed too, believe me
i'm at quest 3/20, 3rd chain, and i have around 1200 apples
you need 3 Cider Mill upgrades to get the bountyfull Cider Mill, and 6 if you want to upgrade 2 Cider Mill's
not sure if the 2nd grand pize (3rd,4th too) costs also 1000 apples, if so, you need 4000 apples to spend, to get 6 Cider Mill upgrades
Agreed, I think that Inno's ''sollution'' against guild hopping is working wildly diffrent then they want.
Let we said we have a very lucky player and he get 10 apple trees/day, but luck is running out and
the trees give only 2 apples/tree. So that are 20 apples/day.
Let we assume that this player does not buy any basket. At the end of the event, or at the last day
he collected 24 days x 20 apples/day = 480 apples.
Needed for grand prize = 1.000 apples
So the player is with trees not even close to it. This is not a bad thing, but just to show how silly it
will become to harvest trees, after completing all the missions. How are a good way to get apples,
thanks for that Inno that was a good move.
So what's the catch, what is the reason for this? Well Inno did said they wanted to reduce the apples
from guild hopping. Okay, fair enough I understand this, but with this ''sollution'' all players are punished,
also players how are new and players how did not switch guilds.
So if we want a good amount of apples from trees, this system motivates us to switch between guilds and
massive amounts of friends. As much as possible to get as many trees as possible, for the sweet apples.
However this was what they wanted to prevent. I would like to suggest a more effective sollution, then a cap
on apples from trees:
- Players can get only trees for the first XX aids, for example from 23.59h local time, resets after 24h
or
- Players can get only XX trees a day, start for example from 23.59h local time, resets after 24
With this, no mater how much players switch between guilds/friends, they can't get more trees then the
cap of trees. So players would only waste time do this and soon are not motivated anymore to do it, because
there is no way they get more. So, Inno with this you can make it equel for everyboddy. With this system the
old amount of apples from trees can return, without guild hopping or friends switching madness, since there
is no reason for.