October's more Fortress-centric Community Day takes place tomorrow
Sunday 18 October all day from 12:01am till 11:59pm local time. Special Assignments will reward
3 DADA books, 3 Spellbooks, a Silver Key, 40 Gold, 20 Energy, some potions and some ingredients.
In the past, there have been issues with Fortress bonuses not being properly received unless a person in an active Community Day time zone enters the Fortress chamber first. (To be on the safe side, it helps to be the first person into the chamber. On the other hand, if the bug persists, it allows us to extend the bonuses as long as someone else enters first.) It's still unclear if this has been fixed or not.
As usual, the ever magnificent OrangeWizard has been so lovely as to make us some infographics with the details and tasks:
( Read more... )If you do nothing else, grab your freebies and download your assets.Similarly to September's CD Event, that's 70 Foundables we need to return, which for me at least means 3 TFTD and a boatload of energy or a lot of energy and potions. The good news remains that the Tonics will brew much more quickly, but frankly we just had that same perk the day before, and I don't know about you, but I just don't have enough ingredients for that to be much help on back to back days. So yeah, once again, unfortunately that's about it on that front. Especially as that's in addition to 5 Fortress Challenges fought. My complaint about Energy spawns remains as well, and yet again the rewards are pretty paltry compared with August's 5 Spellbooks, 30 Field Guides, 5 Ministry Manuals, 13 Runestones, 100 Gold, 70 Energy, a Potent Exstimulo potion and ingredients.
I'll repeat this in case anyone missed it:
the Community manager has said they'll be adjusting part 2 of the Brilliant Event to make it more playable due to rampant complaints about part 1 (and as a Professor, I found it particularly galling), but poorly balanced events like this one aren't exactly making me optimistic. I've already sat this month's Wizarding Weekend out because it was all but unplayable for me, and the rewards simply weren't worth any effort to try to change that. Keep in mind, part 2 of the Brilliant Event is coming up Tuesday, and this is a lot of energy we'll need for... what? At present my strategy is trying to save my energy for the Brilliant Events, because those at least make a difference to my registry. Hmm. All I can say to that is I seriously hope Niantic gets their shit together and looks more closely at balancing some of the game's mechanics, because holy cricket...