New: picture pieces are selected randomly and placed into your inventory when awarded. This prevents hoarding of a square and cornering the market.
Doesn't that make it really hard for me to collect a full set and then sell it?!!!?
Wander what they will do to "Downgrade" WC next... put a limit of 3 pieces a day? =/
Yes, it makes it extra-hard to get a full set through winning challenges alone, as now you can get doubles. We might have to do 30 or even 40 competitions (or more) to get the 20 pieces we need.
I guess they did this because people were earning a full map except for one piece (say, 2.1), then earning that piece, removing it, earning it again, removing it, etc., and selling only that piece for a lot higher than the others. But this is not going to solve that problem. If anything, it's going to make that problem
worse, as now there will be even fewer 2.1 pieces floating around and hoarders will just buy them all up and raise the price even more. This was a horrible change and I complained to the editorial about it. I think everyone else who's annoyed should do the same:
http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtm...n=editform
I'm with you, Cranberry. I already sent a complaint to the editorial...went a bit overboard, actually, took up all 1000 characters they give me, going over the arguements against it.
Oh, and another problem with it I found quite by accident: You can't get series 2 pieces now. At least, if you've completed set 1, and converted, but have no set 2 pieces, you seem to be unable to collect set 2 pieces, since the system refuses to recognize that you have space for them.
Up until now, I've liked the changes, for the most part. Found them to be fair, over all. But this...this is bad. Very, very bad.
Ok, so I'm not the only one that dislikes this new change. The past changes were decent and some were even good but this doesn't help solve the problem at all. Instead they might consider you cannot remove the item pieces 1 by 1 but instead you must remove all your pieces at once or none at all...however you can add the pieces 1 by 1. This allows for collecting and completeing but not mass producing one piece.
Q77 Wrote:Ok, so I'm not the only one that dislikes this new change. The past changes were decent and some were even good but this doesn't help solve the problem at all. Instead they might consider you cannot remove the item pieces 1 by 1 but instead you must remove all your pieces at once or none at all...however you can add the pieces 1 by 1. This allows for collecting and completeing but not mass producing one piece.
I don't play the World Challenges anymore, but I can see how crappy it is now...
By the way, if you could remove all pieces at once and place them in one by one, dosen't that mean you could remove a full set, insert the pieces you don't want, and simply collect the missing piece? That would take more time, but certainly wouldn't help much.
Yesterday I started
a thread about this over at PPT, and today I had a link to it sent to the guy in charge of World Challenges. If anyone has an account at PPT, too, it might be a good idea to complain there where he will see it.
turee2 Wrote:Wander what they will do to "Downgrade" WC next... put a limit of 3 pieces a day? =/
World Challenge News Pag Wrote:-Number of pic pieces that can be won are limited to 3 a day.
Now look at what you went and did.
But really, this newest downgrade has all but killed the world challenges...almost no point anymore, since it'll take AT least a week to complete an image by simply by winning pieces, and that assumes you don't get any duplicate pieces (or, at least, that you can trade any duplicates you do happen to get for pieces you need.)
So, new plan: Time that would have been spent trying to get WC pieces shall now be spent tracking down these obviously IMMENSE:rolleyes: WC gangs, and shoving my foot up their butts. Or TNT's, whichever is easier.
And everyone was expecting (or at least hoping) series 3 prizes would be extra-awesome to make up for all these restrictive changes. Well, they're not. I converted Tyrannia 3 last night and my friend converted Faerieland 3 this morning, and we got a Fire pb and a Lost Desert pb, respectively.
Now I have to start all over collecting series one and two before I can get back to three... and with the change in piece awarding you have to win around 30-40 competitions before you have the 20 unique pieces. And you can only win three per day... not per game or per world, but TOTAL. It's been utterly ruined.
Well it hasn't been totally ruined...It's just been ruined...I mean you can still complete a set in 2 weeks IF the game you are good at is selected
So...I guess WC has been messed up
The only good change IMO is the monthly winners and such...besides that, it's all bad.
Oh, one thing, just occured to me...Cranberry, when you completed Set 3, did it automatically clear the galleries, or did you have to manually do it?
If its automatic, I'm going to be ripped...I like having them all finished.