It’s gonna be May! With the new month, comes a new installment of POTM. It works like this:
You find a post you like and you nominate it for Post of the Month. You do this by quoting the post and adding the comment "Post of the Month" or if you think you can't pull it off, simply "POTM". A Mod will move your POTM Reply to this thread. Conversely you can right click on the "Link to Post" at the bottom of each post and Copy Link Location. Then post in this thread with "Post of the Month" (or "POTM" if you think you can), right click in the thread and Paste. You cannot nominate your own post ... I mean c'mon ... that's just really lame ... no matter how cool/funny/clever/poignant you think you were. Each post can only be nominated once. The first person to do so gets the nod. On the 1st of next month (or thereabouts, I mean, we're all working folks here, well most of us) we'll make a Poll with all the nominated threads and everyone here will be invited to vote for their favorite thread. You'll have about a month to vote. So at the end of next month we'll have a winner, or more accurately, two, because the original poster AND the person who nominated them wins. What do you win? Gems of course. The mods will pay the winners.
So, to sum up. - Make good posts. - Nominate good posts. - Vote for posts. - Profit. - Have a laugh.
I must say that overall, I've been less than thrilled with this event. Missing the Rosebud dragon (admittedly my own mistake, resultant of my ill-advised attempts at breeding in the event cave, as the price of the dragon indicated at that point it would be impossible to obtain without purchasing extra beans, otherwise) is just kind of a soggy blanket on top of the picnic basket, so to speak. As for the ants in the basket, I know it's never guaranteed to be able to breed dragons or get lucky with other aspects like the golden chests or eggs, but I had colossally bad luck! In recent events, once in a while I'd be able to clone a dragon off of someone else (took lots of gem-rushing, of course), but no such luck this time. I've also had astoundingly bad luck in the rift, where I missed being able to breed essentially all of those epics. Ended up buying at least the Monoliths and an Ovalith from mystery eggs, so it's not as bad as it could be, but it's discouraging to breed and breed with no turnover. I used that handy trick that I think SteelBluminatiConfirmed had mentioned, popping the cubes down all over my islands to be able to hunt for eggs more easily, and that aspect did amuse me, as I couldn't be bothered to buy any more cubes upon observing that I seemed to have one unlocked, which was incidentally the tasteless heart ones...what an overload of gaudy little froggy blood-pumpers that was, carpeting my entire park! Anyhow, I also tried the other suggested probability-increasing trick of tapping the golden egg first before anything else, but only before I started trying that did I receive an egg--a random monolith twin (and twins don't interest me; I sold roughly a legion of twins throughout my time playing because I didn't like them, and now that we seem to need them to ever be gifted rift eggs, that irks me somewhat...wish I could just skip them and get the rifted versions instead of having to get all 3). Anyhow, after that one dragon-filled golden egg, nada! I only saw a golden chest in the mini games three times in the entirety of this event, and naturally it waggled its rascally behind at me and waddled off at light speed.
Don't like the new direction BFS seems to have gone lately in with the lesser gem prizes, either. Until I joined this forum a few months ago, I had only had one friend in the game...my sister, who I'd started playing it with, I think not long after it was released for Android. She quit because her luck was so painfully bad she rarely ever got any epic dragons and missed nearly every limited dragon. Yep, worse than my luck, poor dear. Anyhow, due to playing for a long time with no in-game friends, I never built up a massive gem stash unlike some players, so I thrived off of those 'freebie gems for breeding this dragon', and then when they were introduced, the gems from games within events. I stopped playing for a time during that first light/dark rift event, because I didn't like some of the changes at the time, but then I crept back a few months later and had to catch up on a few things...When they introduced the rift, I thought I might skedaddle as I wasn't keen on the changes, but gave it a chance, and it's still not something I like, per se, but it's now at least a familiar aspect of the game. However, some of the little changes like being less generous in some of the prizes and possibly breeding probabilities, certain prizes like the pedestals costing more, and that scare--which I cynically perceive as a test to see how we'd react--with the Rosebud dragon being initially impossible for us... I am beginning to suspect they may have hired a Ferengi as a financial consultant, but if so, I'd like to remind him of Rule of Acquisition #57, regarding the current loyal population of players for this game: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.
Also, side note, but in the last two events featuring it, has anyone else noticed that the dragon drop game seems to have increased in...bounciness? It used to be almost embarrassingly easy to predict where the ball would land, and I'd rarely miss what I wanted. But now, I calculate for a delay, and the ball ricochets around like a wasp on heroin and takes roughly five years to land anywhere. Is that just my perception, or have they perhaps changed their physics parameters for the game?
Anyway, I guess the above qualifies as a gargantuan nonspecific whine (apologies for lengthiness), and it's been a while in building, so I guess it's also an aged wine. Fancy. If anyone feels like sharing in it, plenty to go around. Drink up, me hearties! I'm standing on the edge, thinking it's not worth my time if it's not the same, carefree, enjoyable game that I used to love...sad to quit after playing for years, but if things keep going like they've been going...(trail off dramatically for effect... ...)
Oh I love this! What a fabulous aged whant/raine (rant/whine, it won't make a nice cross breed word for me dang) Zekky, superb summary bouquet, with after notes of irritation, good legs, excellent Ferengi nose, and eggceptional chocolate wallop! Went well with Camembert on walnut and pistachio crackers 😈 POTM!
LOVE the new welcoming screen, the gorgeous red twilight tower, and the lovely relaxing music w/our new theme! 😃 The talented BF designers/creative artists have given us yet another fun, captivating event! 👏🏻 I really like collecting the pieces for these beautiful decorations AND will be great to be able to collect from the habitats all at one time....
Also, another high note...misfortune finally arrived for me! lol...what an odd sentence! Got him in CBC w/plant & a generous buddy's misfortune (only sorry was not a twin so i could share in my misfortune!)
POTM for the phrases "misfortune finally arrived for me!" and "so I could share in my misfortune!" Also because I also like the new welcome screen and new events are fun, especially if they involve doing stuff we already do anyway, as in collecting from habitats.
Breeding attempts at Rift Misfortune: 182 Cost of attempts: Over 500,000 Etherium Cost if I'd bought the E with IAPs: £450 Rift Habitats I'd have if I'd spent it on them instead: 52 Misfortune living up to its name: Priceless
It has come to my attention that a POTM was overlooked for April. So sorry to LynnMarie and hess010. The nomination and post in question is below, please everyone who wishes to vote for them use the “were there any others” option of the poll, as polls cannot be edited after creation. My apologies again, for some reason that post isn’t coming up in any searches but is indeed a valid entry for this month.
hess010, Sorry it took a bit to get back to you, TAX WEEK! Umbral during Solar and Lunar Eclipse and Astrovane during Equinox are the only ones that change. When I get some time to redecorate I will post some more pics.
Taxes, ugh!! No worries, I totally understand. Thanks for getting back to me!
I just asked my accountant koala to come visit you.. You'll know it's him -- he always has a pencil tucked above his ear and will be carrying his beloved 10-key adding machine. When you see him, please approach him slowly and speak in a low, soothing voice. He's quite stressed out, as you can imagine, and startles easily. His name is Bob. 🐨✏️
I look forward to seeing some more pictures! 🤩
POTM!!
lol I need 🐨Bob most desperately! I still haven’t filed and those dastardly receipts and w2s keep glaring at me from my home desk!! I’ll make sure Bob has plenty of chamomile tea (or espresso shots if he prefers), gentle waterfall sounds (from my fish pond) and soothing ocean breezes. And of course a convenient outlet for his 10-key 🤓
Oh I love this! What a fabulous aged whant/raine (rant/whine, it won't make a nice cross breed word for me dang) Zekky, superb summary bouquet, with after notes of irritation, good legs, excellent Ferengi nose, and eggceptional chocolate wallop! Went well with Camembert on walnut and pistachio crackers 😈 POTM!
ok, it’s official! Zekky and Kiwichris, you win for the month of April!! KiwiChris- I can send your gems out right away, Zekky please PM me so you can get your prize. Thanks for all who voted and nominated. On to May!
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Just for the record, and to ensure no whiff of collaboration corruption (😈), and so that I can continue to ramble on and nominate posts; let it be generally known (Oyez! Oyez!) that any and all prize gems sent my way are redistributed to young players and/or very young parks... Feels good 😊
Last Edit: Jun 16, 2018 21:10:44 GMT -6 by Kiwichris
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