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2020-07-28

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2020-12-08
Retired breeder
Hello - where do you get the reindeer? Sounds awesome!
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2020-12-08
lavakirl12
lavakirl12
The reindeer I got came from the christmas events and were basically free (some had to be acquired with certain progress through the event)

So... you can only pay passes to get more passes.... I-

And is it just me, or does it not even seem worth it? Since it costs 1 pass to raise 1 point...
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2020-12-08
CowboyCrazyGirl
CowboyCrazyGirl
ShadowKokufu wrote:

I'm still strongly against using passes to increase the reindeers' skills. This will just allow pass buyers to race to the top and win all the competitions by increasing their reindeers' skills with passes. I'm a non-pass buyer so for me, my reindeer are still useless because they'll never get enough skills to win comps from rides. And even if they did somehow manage to get enough skills, someone could easily just increase their own reindeers' skills with passes to win against my own reindeer.

Please remove the option to increase your reindeers' skills with passes. It makes the competition too unfair. They can get their skills from rides like the solars. That way, we must build up their skills over time and everyone has a fair shot at winning because players don't have the opportunity to suddenly spend their passes on increasing their reindeers' skills so that they can have reindeer with skills that are hundreds, or possibly thousands of points higher than everyone else's reindeer.

Even though you have made this change to give the reindeer a purpose, the reindeer are still very much useless to most players because they have no chance of winning a competition unless the players will continuously waste thousands of passes on them to increase their skills. And in all honesty, wasting thousands of passes to keep winning like that is useless because you're still not going to get them back even if the reindeer do get a few hundred passes from placing at the end of the competition period.

I agree with you 100% here. I am not able to buy passes because i am a college student who has to pay rent and other bills first before i can do anything. I only have money from financial aid because where i live, no one is hiring for me to get a job. But yes, this will cause all the top players, who are all VIP AND buy passes a lot will get the rewards. I think that this game needs to be evened out. I really do not play anymore because it seems that if you are not VIP or a top player, you will not succeed in this game. I have trouble with people using my studs because i do not have a lot of time to train them up.

I second that the passes to improve skills should be removed.
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2020-12-08
rain103cloud
rain103cloud
I don't exactly have a problem with people using passes to increase the reindeer's skills (I almost never buy passes, and buy very small numbers on the rare occasions I do), but I really do wish that they were at least a bit more useful than normal horses. If someone has 100s of dollars to spend on passes to skilling up their reindeer (or has cracked some secret code to making that kind of coin without using real money) and wants to use them that way, more power to them. I mean, at least it'll keep Owlient in business. I knew this game wasn't "fair" to non/rare pass buyers when I signed up and honestly, I've been happy with how many passes you can rack up without paying real money. But for goodness sake, extend the ranking and give out ten aging points to places 51 to 3000 or something. All this really did was make the reindeer go from being *less* useful than normal horses to being *as* useful as normal horses for 99.9% of players. Technically an improvement, but an underwhelming one. Even the ones who manage to get passes out of them will undoubtedly sink vastly more into skilling them up than they'll ever recieve back.
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2020-12-08
SusanG
SusanG
Is this a new thing that will continue even after Christmas like a once a month contest or just a December thing?
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2020-12-08
Nalu93
Nalu93
As proposed, please give the participation prize, 20 passes (or even 10 if needed!) to every reindeer who enters at least X competitions each month.
As it is, only 50 players in a server will take something home, and it's going to be those who have the most passes to invest in reindeer (and thus sinking the passes in skills)
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2020-12-08
Retired breeder
Where do I get my reindeer
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2020-12-08
RowanGreen
RowanGreen
Actually looking at who's on the leader board it seems skills might not be a massive factor. There's some original Blitzens in there (ones with skills from the tree decorating event), but also ones with just the 500 in everything. So far I haven't seen any with pass-boosted skills.

If this is running 15th to 15th then I'm guessing this first contest will only be a week. I am worried that people spending passes will be a factor.. but personally I'm going to wait a week for first results before getting too worked up about it.
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2020-12-09
Sincerely
Sincerely
I'm glad that we can take care of our reindeer divines now. I like how cute they are and I gave them all backgrounds. The reindeer divines are perfect for AP farming and completing some objectives but now I can earn some equus as well. I don't like divines that you can't take care of like the Yggdrasil divine, So I'm very happy with the changes.
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2020-12-09
ramo_howin
ramo_howin
I was expecting the classification to take into account the cumulative winnings from all your reindeer, but that would mean that those with more reindeer have an advantage as well.

I'm guessing if one person is first and second though they will win both prizes? Which is like the Gran Prix so I guess we can't complain too much. It will be interesting to see how much the skills influence.
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