ANNOUNCEMENT - NEW AD PLACEMENT IN ACHIEVEMENTS

IvanPixel

Hello to all!

The new ad placement for the achievements will soon come to the game.

First of all, when will this be implemented in the game? It is currently scheduled to arrive in within a few days (it might come tomorrow, but it is also possible it will come later - there is no exact ETA now).

The change will be implemented on the PC version of the game (WebGL), as well as the mobile version of the game. We will do our best to introduce these simultaneously to both platforms - but should you notice that this feature is present on one of them only, please be patient, it will come to both 🙂

Now, this change will impact the players in two different ways:

1. New players in Egypt + some existing players in Egypt: as soon as this change comes into the game, any new game created will have some of the achievement rewards reduced to 60 percent.

This also goes for the games created before this change is implemented (provided that these players have not yet completed the achievement levels in question).

In most of the cases, only the rewards for certain levels in the achievements targeted by this will be reduced - we are mostly talking about the Egyptian achievements, as well as some general achievements (which are most likely to be reached while the player is in Egypt, according to our data).

I will write down all of the levels affected by this at the end of this post.

For this group of players, every achievement will also have an option to watch an ad, and to double the reward:

in case of the level reward reduced to 60 percent, you can get 120 percent of the old value when you watch an ad)
for all other achievement levels (with unchanged rewards), you can get double after watching the ad

2. All other players: there will be no reduction of achievement level rewards whatsoever - everything will stay as it is, but you will have the option to watch an ad, and get the double rewards 🙂

If you decide not to watch the ad, and claim the bonus, 100 percent of the rewards will be added to your game, nothing has changed here 🙂

I would also like to point out that the technical issues related to the ads in the game (i.e. ads not playing, game crashes after the ad etc.) have been greatly reduced in the past few months (again, according to our data).

Still, such situation can arise even now - but I would like to assure you that we continue implementing additional measures from our side, in order to further reduce the occurrence of such situation 🙂

To conclude, here is the list of achievements (and levels) with the rewards reduced to 60 percent (I repeat, this concerns only the players from the point 1):

Berry Harvester - all levels
Fungus Picker - levels 1 and 2
Herbivore - levels 1 and 2
Fishmonger - levels 1 and 2
Wood Lover - levels 1 and 2
Rock Gatherer - levels 1 and 2
Colliery Fan - levels 1 and 2
Copper King - levels 1 and 2
Tin Collector - levels 1 and 2
Iron Man - levels 1 and 2
Hero of Egypt - levels 1 and 2
Master of Frequency - level 1
Big Digger - level 1
Treasure Hunter - level 1
Caravan Skipper - level 1
Producer - level 1
Building Maniac - levels 1 and 2
Dirt Destroyer - levels 1 to 3

Enjoy! 🙂

Abhi

IvanPixel Thank you for the update! 🙂
My habit of not collecting achievements until I need a level up is going to earn me some extra level ups with this change in place.

Chani

IvanPixel I would also like to point out that the technical issues related to the ads in the game (i.e. ads not playing, game crashes after the ad etc.) have been greatly reduced in the past few months (again, according to our data).

thank you for that, but, they're still 3rd-party ads, and reduced != eliminated, so a "try again" button would still be really reassuring. ad providers are bound to do something weird that breaks things again eventually.

gamemaster

IvanPixel I would also like to point out that the technical issues related to the ads in the game (i.e. ads not playing, game crashes after the ad etc.) have been greatly reduced in the past few months (again, according to our data).

Not according to the amount of people still complaining about it that actually come to the forum and post, not to mention whatever amount is just doing that complaining on Facebook.

Abhi

IvanPixel It would really be good if the mobile is made like the PC version - the 2x button is always visible, if an ad is available, show it, otherwise spin for 10 seconds and give double reward anyway. You can make an attempt to call the load ad function again if ad is not found, and if one is found within these 10 seconds, show it immediately, otherwise give 2x anyway.

Another solution would be to show some form of indication whether an ad is available or not, like a mini camera icon beside the energy bar.

pixel_player40549624

thank you for info 😀

pixel_player15063277

Merci pour c'est infos , Mais comme beaucoup de joueur qui sont dans les regions les plus elevee ont pratiquemùent tous les trophee ou realisation , pensez vous leur donner leur donner une recompense exceptionnelle pour cela , Je parle de ceux qui sont en Greces , le Nouveau Monde et Terra ?

Chani

PSA: reload your game before even viewing achievements!!

It used to be possible to back out of an achievement without claiming the reward (usually to avoid leveling up until it's a good time). With the ad feature, that was disabled :/ I went in to see if ads were enabled yet and couldn't back out at all, and didn't want to kill the game in case it decided to count that as "accepting" the lesser reward. I got lucky and had a working ad this time, but earlier today I'd had a couple of energy ads fail (thank goodness those ones let you try again).

But hey, achievement ads are here 🙂 wheeeee

Abhi

Chani Thanks for the info, I just tested as well and yes it looks like the ability to back out was removed.

Oh well, they went in the wrong direction, instead of giving it to webgl players, they removed it from mobile as well.

This ability would have been so good for the players complaining about the ads unavailability/not working. They could have tried again later, but not possible now.

BlameTheParrot

Abhi
I hadn't seen this announcement until now, so was surprised to see the as option in the Achievements!

My ads DID work, but I think I'll try closing the app before entering the museum to claim the rewards to be in the "safe side."

gamemaster

BlameTheParrot
Is it just for mobile users at the moment?
We tried it on PC and had no option for ads.

Abhi

gamemaster Just checked and that's right, it's only implemented on mobile. Will come on portal soon as well like Ivan said.

gamemaster

Abhi
Yes, just read it again.
First time the app has something new that the PC doesn't.
Until we get it as well.

Texas-Mark

I just got my first achievement (final Colliery Fan level) with an ad. I got worried, because after the ad was done and before I touched anything, it opened the Play Store app which put the game in the background. That often does not end well when trying to bring the game back up to the front, but I was lucky and it did not force a restart like it usually does.