Miserly equipment

pixel_player42224013

The highest equipment is 306 reg / 3255 cap.
The event costs 17.6 Millions (Terra).
I feel fooled and will not play it.
See you next week.

AllMenAreIslands

pixel_player42224013 agreed. I posted a link to your comment in a thread by Roeland, asking him to pass along our feedback to the developers.

Happy-Haze

I totally agree with the comments above.

I personally think that the information in relation to the energy increases between each region should be available on the Wiki pages....it would be extremely useful & helpful if these averages & statistics were to be clearly addressed as a point of reference table....to be easily accessible to all players (yes I do appreciate that players could/should do the calculations themselves).

These are the type of averages & statics that would assist players to understand & prepare for the short & long term strategies that are a very integral part of Diggys Adventure.

From what I personally understand the regional approximate differences are as follows:

Egypt to Scandinavia is an increase of x6
Scandinavia to China is an increase of x3
China to Atlantis is an increase of x2
Atlantis to Greece is an increase of x1.8
Greece to New World is an increase of x1.4
New World to Terra is an increase of x1.25

These regional energy increases are not correctly mathematically calculated, correlated or reflected in the camp equipment that is currently available in regions, events or special weeks.

I personally think it's about time that the camp equipment was more mathematically consistent, logical, balanced & comparative to the energy increases required by each regional increase.

Or conversely if more powerful camp equipment cannot be provided then the energy requirements for each region, event or special week should be reduced accordingly to correlate with the relevant camp equipment values.

Also in my personal opinion the gem & precious jewel/stone camp equipment available in events/special weeks should be much more powerful than the standard event/special week camp equipment available.

For example in Valentine Day 2021 event for Scandinavia the gem equipment was 1 energy point higher (103 per slot) for regeneration for 295 gems & 10 storage points higher (790 per slot) for capacity for 295 gems (compared to the standard event camp equipment).

For example in Christmas 2020 event for Scandinavia the precious jewel/stone equipment wasn't much better either with the amethyst regeneration being 4 energy points higher (105 per slot) for 30 amethysts & the ruby regeneration being 6 energy points higher (107 per slot) for 10 rubies (compared to standard event camp equipment).

There is an absolute plethora of forum threads from innumerable players complaining about under-powered camp equipment, high tile costs &/or energy increases.....which I feel should also be brought to the attention of Pixel so they can truly understand & appreciate the extent of the number of players that feel disappointed & disgruntled.

pixel_player42224013

AllMenAreIslands
Nice! Hope it helps.

Roeland

AllMenAreIslands tag me next time, as I did not get any notification on that comment. I did just now give this feedback to support in a report as I too find the equipment too low

DerMo1

ich werde es spielen, alleine wegen dem 10x clear-boni. Wenn die Ausrüstung nicht gut genug ist, dann hole ich mir Energie...😃

MadameCurie

I play it, because I like the design. But the equipment is a disappointment in Egypt as well as Scandinavia. Well, it was disappointing when I checked it in the wiki before the event. So now I was prepared but am still sulking a bit... People are complaining about that for ages. And with very good arguments like sixfold energy needed in the next region should mean sixfold stronger equipment and so on.

So reasonable wishes, nothing exaggerated. I can’t understand why they put in the effort to create so much weak equipment. It just gets dusty in the shop.

AllMenAreIslands

MadameCurie it's not just getting dusty -- it takes bandwidth! I can't get rid of it. Over a GB of "data" for Diggy. Useless junk keeps being added to the "shop," which means added to the bandwidth of my game.

I'm eating food items to cut back the different things I keep, and selling old equipment.

Something has to be changed to address this.

AllMenAreIslands

Roeland thank you, Roeland. Apologies- the thread to which I posted was @ROMI's.

Roeland

Happy-Haze A big part of this is that Pixel want to sell the food/energy packs. I personally have no problem with energy in this game but I cook all day long. Not everyone is able to do that. I did get a reaction this morning on my feedback but I will try have a bit more discussion about this event specifically. Simply because even older (segmented) shop events had better Terra equipment. I'll post something about that this week

Happy-Haze

Roeland

Thanks heaps for your reply....greatly appreciated.

I would also like to add that in my personal opinion the number of event/special week specific "Special Items" required to acquire camp equipment should be increased to cover at LEAST 1 of the best regeneration & 1 of the best capacity pieces of camp equipment.

This could be easily solved by bringing back repeatable mines for the specific "Special Items".....assuming that the number of "Special Items" required to acquire at LEAST 1 of each of the best pieces of camp equipment (both regeneration & capacity) is actually achievable.

As generally the best pieces of camp equipment are unfortunately the only ones that are just barely worth buying most of the time (if at all).

For me personally I'm definitely not interested in paying out "real money" for energy &/or food items.

If this is Pixels reasoning to keep camp equipment values low & under-powered to increase "real money" sales for energy &/or food items....I'm sorry to say but I truly believe that their thinking & perspective is flawed.

Diggys Adventure is a long term game....therefore energy &/or food items only give an instantaneous, temporary & short lived effect.

The only things that I have/would spend "real money" on is worthy camp equipment & premium "Event Passes".

At a stretch I might consider spending "real money" on things such as gems, precious jewels/stones & event "Special Items" if I desperately needed them for some reason.

Perhaps a good idea would be if Pixel ran some polls/surveys in relation to different subjects, ideas & issues these polls could be run simultaneously on this forum, Facebook, Twitter & Instagram such as:

Regional energy increases versus camp equipment values.
Event/special weeks tile costs versus camp equipment values.
Adding a "Try Again" button for ALL ad based issues (Double Rewards, Lucky Cards & Out Of Energy).
Repeatable mines for Kitchen recipes in ALL events/special weeks.
Repeatable mines for specific "Special Items" required to acquire camp equipment in ALL events/special weeks.
Additional underground camp slots.
Adding a 3rd setting to the Professor Switch System like a siesta/twilight mode.
Adding a day/night/siesta background changer to the camp scenes so you easily & quickly see what mode it is in.
Adding an automated switch over to the Professor Switch System.....for example when you hit the full capacity of day mode it automatically switches over to the next mode & continues to store more energy.

These are some of the suggestions, problems & solutions that I have seen repeatably pop-up in this forum.

Of course opinions are like armpits....everyone has them...some stink & some don't 😂🤣

AllMenAreIslands

Roeland hi, thank you for your reply. In addition to @Happy-Haze's awesome posts herein, I would like to say that I shall not spend money on inferior equipment, or equipment that adds a bare handful of points to my camp. The push to offer ever-lower values has infected even the items in the so-called special packs.

I was willing to spend money in addition to the items I could earn. I have been refraining lately and will continue to refrain when the equipment is not excellent.

I am not willing to spend when it is the only way to improve the camp. Maybe this is counter-intuitive to Pixel, but I do not like being forced to spend money in order to play. I detest being given garbage values intended to "motivate" me to spend money. Is it ornery of me to rebel? Am I being unreasonable here? I do not think I am.

pixel_player42224013

It's become a heavy discussion.

The current special pack „Wonderful Wonderland“ fulfills my criteria for a valuable package
( Items for the first row, both for rec. and cap, ), and I would buy it normally.
But now I feel forced to to so, so I don't.

Happy-Haze

pixel_player42224013

This subject has been a heavy & heated issue for quite sometime now.

There are a substantial number of players who are extremely dissatisfied & frustrated with the subpar camp equipment values versus the energy increases/requirements versus the "real money" costs involved to obtain more powerful camp equipment.

This the "Wonderful Wonderland" Special Event Pack I have been offered.

To me this is utterly ridiculous, disappointing, useless & over priced.

Actually here is another very good poll/survey point.....what I would like to see is build/create your own Special Event/Regional/God Packs.

Where the prices vary based on what you want in your Special Pack offering.

You should be able to choose from different grades of camp equipment (regeneration & capacity), event Special Items, gems, precious jewels/stones & region based materials/ingredients.....in any combinations or amounts thereof.

You could also offer energy & food items in there...for those players who want it....but personally I definitely would not be interested in those at all.

Antonella16

Happy-Haze
Ciao!
I bought this offer yesterday but my items were different.
I have not the original screenshot so I'll use one of my camp
200 gems
340 regen
3000 capacity
I don't remember the last 2

I'm in China, level 237

pixel_player42224013

That's different and interesting.

We have 85 Gems instead of 500, and it costs 6.99 EUR = 10.75 AUD
1 EUR = 1.539 AUD 1 AUD = 0.64977 EUR (20210316)

On the Portal you pay 5.5 USD - they save the Google tribute.

AllMenAreIslands

My special offer - I'm in Greece.

The regen would add a few points, but the capacity isn't high enough to add value to Day Camp. My lowest Day Camp item is 3000 per slot. I am not buying this special offer. I don't want to spend money on a few hours' worth of food I can make myself in the kitchen. That's all the food is: a few hours' worth of work in-game. Even those items are stupidly valued. Put some real food amounts in there: like 100 Sea Soups - something that represents real time saved. Enough already with the cheapskate approach.

Happy-Haze

AllMenAreIslands

pixel_player42224013

If you look at AllMenAreIslands camp equipment....his capacity equipment is called "Ordinary Surreal Clock"

Whereas my capacity equipment is called "Fancy Surreal Clock".

If you look very closely at them you can see the difference between the design of them both.

So there is different levels of camp equipment available in these Event/Special Weeks Packs.

I also believe that this is the same for the Regional/God Special Packs.

This is another reason why this information should be freely available & easily accessible on the relevant Wiki pages....instead of making players feel that "if you are not in the know then you miss out".....or that it's secret squirrel business 🐿️🌰🤫

MadameCurie

If they try to make me buy food or energy with real money they already lost.

It is absolutely not worth it.

Maybe there are still newbies or people who urgently want to divorce from their money who really buy food or energy, there must be or pixel wouldn’t offer it?

I adjust my playtime already. As the reward, the highest event item, is improving my weakest one a little bit, it’s just ok and I will take it. But I play less and leave the game in night mode, because there is no big improvement achievable for my camp. No need to really dive into it.

Actually that’s not bad, I was submerged in diggy world quite too much 😉

AllMenAreIslands

MadameCurie yes, i'm starting to do that more - leave it in night mode. Play the energy, eat up my food. When it's all gone, i'll be done.

I am tired of asking for the developers to do the right thing with the equipment. This angst is not what I want to deal with, when this is supposed to be fun.

pixel_player_48622414

MadameCurie Agreed! It’s almost as if I hit a pay to play wall. I have 52,642 capacity and it doesn’t regenerate as fast as it should in my ridiculous opinion. Only 6,000 and change per hour regeneration. Can’t do much with that. I’m retired and enjoy this game; however not working for me so much anymore. I hate to get out of Scandinavia and do everything I can not to complete those because I know that regen and energy in my camp will never get me through when I hit China or any special events. I think I’m capped off. Any suggestions? By this time I would think that Pixel would be offering me regen equipment valued in thousands not 69 or 45. Kinda stinks.

44atDiggys

They just keep pushing people away more and more. Gotten so greedy. Someone mentioned a buyout,anyone heard anything about that? Would explain some of what has been going on.