If it were to be a weekly affair, we would avoid it every week and just play the derby as normal because our priority is winning. We have excellent communication and cooperation and this week was still impossible because we are at the mercy of a task generator which simply didn’t give us the tasks to complete even a line. We will try points bingo, but I for one am not looking forward to it if this derby is anything to go by.Originally Posted by Kangas
Same feeling here. Pity as the idea seemed good but as usual SC built it around frustration and withholding required tasks in hope of enticing diamond spend to refresh tasks. If every week is a points bingo eeek then we’re going to lose interest even faster than us happening currently.
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Hi Everyone,I Love doing the Derby and As always it’s hard to get some players to participate at all in that,I like the Bingo but Some players don’t get it and get tasks that are not bingo related they pick an Orange peg , And I have to be on top of them and tell players not to grab the orange pegs to grab the blue ones and also watch out for who has what task and what task of that is left, It kind of frustrating ,I know it’s new but the task also are so low and some take long to complete which most players grab the easy ones ,I kind of grab the tomato or something else lol,Going to see if at the end of bingo if prizes are worth it or just do Derby without caring about bingo ,My problem is some don’t get it and I can’t be on hay day all day trashing Task myself..
I especially agree y #1. We are not getting the tasks on the bingo card or the ones coming up are in the 200's. If we take lower score tasks, we risk not getting all horseshoes and definitely won't place to receive top 3 rewards. So what would be the reason for all that effort for maybe a few extra bolts or whatever. Our bingo card has a goat milk task (5) even if 320's come up, the task takes 40 hrs. 40 x 5 is 200 hrs for one square.
We haven't gotten a single line yet so it's a little frustrating. So yes please, make sure we're getting the tasks on bingo card and point appropriate for our league. This pertains to bingo with rewards. Am I correct thinking there's bingo with extra derby points? If so, I'm excited to see that one too. Thanks to all who put effort into this idea. It's a great idea, just needs tweaked 🎃👻
We haven't seen 2 of the needed tasks yet, low or not. . A hat and a town gal simply haven't shown up. There's only 3 of us and I'm a leader so I feel I have to be on always to trash. This is exhausting and I sure hope this isn't a auto fail situation as we've tried really hard to get a few of these lines. Frustrated!
The biggest problem we have is not getting the tasks to do in the first place. That, and the number of iterations of a task. For larger NHs 7, 8, 9 are way too many. 8 goat milk? Really? They take 24 hours of the derby to do. That's one day out of 8 people's derby time. If long term tasks like that are going to remain, then the number needed to complete one task needs to be lowered. How about one or two rounds of milking goats, and how about eliminating that extra 1, 2, or 3 in the animal tasks that require a complete extra round of milking just for 1 or 2 more!
If we (1) got the tasks that are actually on the card, *and* at higher point values, (2) had fewer iterations per square, and (3) shortened durations of the longer term tasks, then I think this would be doable. Otherwise, why bother? I posted our card on another thread (what the heck, I'll post it here, too, as I just found out how to post pics, lol!). The NH tried to do it, but we aren't even getting the tasks needed, so its a week of wasted effort.
That is a really frustrating card PetHerder. Getting those crop tasks are just impossible. On the plus side ive been interacting with the forums frequently this week and I too learned how to post pictures! At least we all learned something.....
I agree with all your points. Definitely fewer iterations per square of the trickier tasks would help. Somehow ensuring that the bingo cards are not impossible to complete would also be encouraging! We didn't mind taking lower value tasks this week but the right ones just did not appear for days on end.
It just wasnt much fun.
As OP of this post I wanted to come back and tell my results for this bingo derby and hope that SC are reading the posts and are taking suggestions into consideration.
We wanted to give the bingo derby a very fair chance and we did but could only finish with 2 bingos this morn. We could no longer hold off for tasks that were on our card but never generated! We are a well oiled team...and we have players constantly trashing tasks pretty much around the clock so I feel we are not to blame on this one. And FYI no one spent diamonds to trash task board...nor will we ever do that.
So just to go over the suggestions that I have been reading in MANY posts on this forum and as a weekly derby player that I think could make a big difference in whether people will like bingo or if bingo will be an epic fail.
1. Most important I think is that the tasks on bingo card HAS to generate on task board. We did take lower point tasks than normal in order to get them done...however...I don’t feel that we should have to compromise our normal playing of derby to accomplish something “fun”
2. Please make it that we can bingo at any time...up to 3. Trying to coordinate getting all 3 at once was not fun filled either. Sure it’s a challenge...but I think just getting the bingo with a whole team is an accomplishment in itself. I can understand wanting to get more team work and communication into a NB but that should be up to us and not “forced” upon us to have some extra “fun”
3. I see a lot of NBs struggling with amount of tasks to do...9/10 strawberry tasks or 9/10 goat milk task is very unreasonable! How about an adjustment for harder tasks? Do 9 boats...9 towns...9 fishing...but drop the hard tasks to 4/5. The bingo has to be doable and realistic! OR make the basket tasks that have those in it count towards the task. Imagine a basket task that we could grow strawberries and gather goat milk and count for both of those tasks if they were on the board? Then doing 9/10 of those tasks wouldn’t be so daunting!
All I know is something has to give on the amounts for harder ones...or make it easier to achieve.
4. Personally I would love to be able to blackout the card. Of course that would hinge on being to bingo one at a time...see #1. And if you only want to give out 3 extra prizes/points per derby then make the blackout the 3rd one. There’s your challenge! Being able to work on blackouts would allow the whole NB to work on any bingo task on the board. I feel this would be more enjoyable for everyone. The strategy is still there coordinating how many of each task is being done and being able to make sure lower level players are able to do some tasks also.
I wish a mod or Nick would say on this post if things are being considered. I would like to know that this was at least read!
SC...make the derby great again!
I didn't know what blackout was. And I was going to ask, but then I thought: why not google that for myself?
Came up with this link: http://www.bingo.org/blackout-bingo
Just to confirm, blackout in the context of the bingo derby would mean completing all squares on the board?
So if a NH has to do six tasks per square, would they have to do all 96 tasks to achieve blackout?
Or would you prefer that blackout happen when a NH just does one of each task shown in a bingo square, regardless of the number of tasks required for a regular bingo line.
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In my head it would be all tasks complete on the card...or as in your example all 96 tasks. That way everyone could be working on bingo tasks and not have to worry about stressing about what tasks to take...or us leaders micro managing everyone’s derby...which by the way I hate to do. Everyone needs to be able to play their own game.I didn't know what blackout was. And I was going to ask, but then I thought: why not google that for myself?
Came up with this link: http://www.bingo.org/blackout-bingo
Just to confirm, blackout in the context of the bingo derby would mean completing all squares on the board?
So if a NH has to do six tasks per square, would they have to do all 96 tasks to achieve blackout?
Or would you prefer that blackout happen when a NH just does one of each task shown in a bingo square, regardless of the number of tasks required for a regular bingo line.
But if they did it the other way that would be fine too. As long as they get rid of having to bingo all 3 at the same time.
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