Stews and 6 month expiration date

I think its because the reality of stews being ''limited in terms of supply'' doesnt really cut it.
Every event, farmers actually make up to few thousand stews (4-5k stews) which are put in the FM for 100 per bundle.
4k = 40 bundles and will take time to sell.

Moreover, its not just one farmer who sells stews for merching, its plenty amount and its already almost into next Halloween 2020 and the stew supply from previous years of halloween events have not even deplete (not even close to depletion).

I understand how this nerf seems exclusive to a potion that you feel can only be obtained from an event and not farmable like apples/stoppers, but I do understand why.

The witch's stew was initially intended to be event-only exclusive attack potion and not intended to be kept for all-time use. If that was the case, then it will lose its event exclusivity and the admins might as well implement stews to be farmable.

The only way to tackle this supply and maintain its event exclusivity is to add an expiry date. IMO 6 months is acceptable and not too short. That way you still enjoy half a year duration of being able to use these event potions, and the exclusivity is retained for the other half of the year prior to the next halloween event.

 

It makes sense tho... I would eat from a stew 5months and 30 days after it has been made. But 6 months?! Nah. Disgusting. Ew.

 

3K stews btw lol from 2018, not 2019
EDIT: these arent mine monkaS , I only made 600

 

Exactly this.

 

lmao love it when permanent event items get an expirration date years later, RIP to my boys Agent Earrings u had a good run

 

You hit the nail on the head with this, but maybe not in a way you liked. It is true that older players should not have unfair advantages, but these days it feels like the staff is trying to make the game so that newer players can rise to the top quickly, forgetting that the older players took years to get there. I get it's difficult for newer players to join if there's a huge elite that you simply cannot reach, but there's also the older players that just lose the value of all their previous effort.

 

Well sure, new content makes it easier sometimes (wew was shaolin a blunder), but I mean the more recent changes with eyes for horntail for example. With most changes, an explanation of "then newer players are invited to runs" is given. I've had to work my way through 4 hour 12 man runs too (you remember those), even though demure was able to clear ht in 20 minutes one time (still legendary folks!). It seems unfair to expect the older players to invite newer (weaker, less experienced, etc) players simply because those newer players have been able to climb faster.

Before you say it, yes I disagree with the 2 hour timer too since that just disables newer players mostly.

 

Hey Nise this event is very new player EZ which I support. Easy to get ap resets, bunch of free potions from boxes, int scrolls gfa scrolls from heartstopper box. And a free 140% Exp coupon for 1 month. Really helps out new player, when I was new player it was a struggle. However now is actually much harder for new player because mannequin get nerf and cannot botting in shaolin temple.

 

They didn't even use to exist
Ah good old times where skeles were the best exp in the game. Glad we're not in that era anymore

 

Remeber when on a past event made people create OP equips that never expired so ppl poured all fo their effort and mesos into them so when the GMs found out they messed up they put an expiration date on said items making people thinking of quiting and go nuts for several months? That was a fun joke.

 

yes I am glad too. Server have changes and fresh content but still remain nostalgic.

 

Doesn't ciders stacking to 5 completely defeat the purpose of nerfing party bear? If you're going in and out of cave then it's pretty easy to bring in like 6-8 slots of ciders which should be enough for 2 runs if you're keeping HTB. I'd argue that ciders are exactly the same as party bears were before since they are low cost and the only downside of them (1 per use slot) has been changed. Of course if you're sitting in cave for days-weeks before leaving then things are a little different because use slots are more valuable but those squads already don't use much attack pots.

 

Sure. If we go back in time, we use to only get 5k nx per vote.

Then we had vote streaks added that boosted this to 6k nx per day.

Then we had this buffed to 6.5k nx per day.

Then we had another vote site added that gives an extra 500 nx per day.

We've gone from 5k -> 6k -> 6.5k ->7k nx per day. This signficantly makes washing easier, and overall benefits the newer users more since the older players already have made their characters and took into account the lower nx per day into their hp goals.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as older players can be on the same footing as newer players by simply making a new char (and actually have a severe advantage when it comes to funding). But this is def a change that has made progressing the game easier for new players.

Another thing that comes to mind is event exp bonuses. In the past, 15% flat rate was insane, and the highest we would see. However, to accomodate new players, we recently saw +30% for 120- (christmas event 2018 and 2019? i believe), and +15% for 120 and above.

This anniversary event further pushed this rate creep to 40% for those 120- and 20% for those 120 and above. I'm all for catch up mechanics existing for new players to reach older players, but they should be balanced to where it shouldn't take a new player less effort to SURPASS an older player. I don't mind if it takes less effort to catch up. With this in mind, I think we should have left 120 and above exp rates at 15% or less.

If you combine this with new maps, you have an era of legends that is significantly easier to progress in compared to the past.

In addition to more nx, the recent event has HEAVILY boosted the availability of ap resets. One person has claimed to farm 700+ resets this event (idk how accurate this is, but it is in theory possible given how many different ways to get AP resets there are in this event). Now, I don't actually think that this is an imbalanced event, because it takes significant effort to farm those 700 resets. But, the thing is here that people having the option to farm this many resets does affect the balance of the game with the average level of HP in the server.

 

I guess I would belong to the "older players" group for witch stew since I crafted them in Halloween 2018.
Didn't bother to craft any last year because it was troublesome and I had less time to spare on ML.

While some older players created monopoly price for stews and extensively crafted them in 2018 and 2019.
Not all older players do that, like myself included.
The stews are crafted for myself and my friends and barely any was sold. Only sold like 2 this week because a poor guy was smega-ing.

Well, I still have plenty of stews leftover from 2018 since I am pretty inactive in-game and I doubt I could finish using them up by 22 Nov. But the currently stews' bug (have to trade 1 by 1 or drop it 1 by 1) is really bugging me to transfer to my main or even sell them away as well.
Is the sudden implementation of 6 months expiry date on a supposed to be permanent item appropriate especially when it is bugged in-game currently? I do hope the staff would look into a possible extension of the expiry date.
The last time something like this happened *cough agent eq cough*, I do remember there was a notice put up prior to any actions taken and some of our voices are heard.

Also makes me wonder if the strawberry cakes from PBPQ are getting their expiry date as well because I have been keeping them since 2019

& also, if the team's concerns are to look into unfair advantages for new players, I personally do not find it very fair if someone who is on the server for 3months getting what we had for staying with the server for 3 years.
Thought it would be unfair for old players to sell Christmas Gift Box chair for 400m+ while the Sprout Chair barely sells for 20m.
Are we gonna set expiry date on event chairs next then?