Could you also ask what will happen with sub events and their rewards?
Last time things were a little crazy. Since you get to choose the order you do sub events, it really screwed up the rewards system. Compare to, say, Hearts of Darkness. End of day 1, first sub event ends, an alliance’s 20 scores are added, placement determined, awards given out. Easy.
But Strange Sights has three sub events going on at the same time. So at the end of Day 1, you have Day 1 ending for everyone at the same time like normal, but depending on which path you picked in the game, you’re either in Day 1a, 1b, or 1c. These scores are calculated separately for alliance scores, which can vastly alter placement for the individual days themselves, depending on how the individuals in the alliance pick their paths (the event is described as “pick your own path”, but the reality is that the alliance will do better together if they all pick the same paths, in the same order, and you are punished for picking your own path if it deviates from your alliance).
Basically, it’s weird and wonky and didn’t appear balanced well. The “solution” last time was for every placement reward to be the same, so sub event placement didn’t matter, and you got the same awards each day regardless of placement (so 15 players in the alliance going for Day 1a got the same rewards as 4 players completing Day 1b, and 1 player completing Day 1c, regardless of how well they did; then the process repeated for days 2/3, adding up that every player that played the event, across EVERY alliance in the game, got the same placement rewards for the sub events each day).
Of course, the devs called this a “bug” at the time. The reality is that the system wasn’t set up for some people to be completing different sub events on the same day, and it wasn’t all ironed out in time for Strange Sights to launch. We were worried about it as an alliance family, and the “all sub events have the same rewards “bug” thing” balanced it out last time.
Have they fixed this situation for the upcoming run? Or are the sub event alliance placement rewards going to be the same across all placements like last time to avoid the discrepancy altogether? (and by that regard, what would the alliance placement rewards be for the SUB events?)
They tried something new last time, and it was awesome (shame we haven’t seen more Mindless Ones in the game since the first run of Strange Sights, really and truly), but it wasn’t fully polished out, the devs called the fix a “bug”, and never actually addressed any complaints that were raised, in regards to the sub events.
The posted changes and improvements are appreciated and welcomed, but it feels odd to complement the new lamp and better lighting when there’s still an elephant in the room crushing the sofa, you know?
