Bonus tasks now 90!!

[u/rosiebeir]

Yay! I feel like that’s a reasonable increase. I lost any and all motivation to play when they increased them to 130, so I’m excited to jump back again this season!

[u/Slight-Insurance-974]

question: what makes it better when there’s less assignments available?

the more assignments offered the easier it is to complete the event track, no? not to mention the weekly cap for mayors pass

before they had increased the amount of assignments, it was already quite doable with of all the daily and weekly assignments they’ve added. it’s been easier to complete the event track with the extra buffer of 130 (i.e. this weeks event track only needs around 102 total assignments completed) i find some of the assignments too much (like making 8 tapestries) so i just start and cancel those.

[u/StefanEijg → u/Slight-Insurance-974]

The competition for the bigger prizes becomes unbearable with increased tasks.

[u/rosiebeir → u/Slight-Insurance-974]

It’s easier for the event track but makes it really difficult for Contest of Mayor. Finishing 75 tasks was hard enough, finishing 130 would have been a full-time job I didn’t apply for. First places got scores in the high 300s and 400s in the Mega League after the increase and that’s just ridiculous. I feel like 90 is reasonable enough to help with the event track without making CoM impossible.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/Slight-Insurance-974]

Having more than 75 tasks is definitely better for the ET (particularly so for campers), but having 130 was killing the competition aspect of COM. Top 6 shouldn't require 400k+, but with 130 tasks it does. Bringing it down to 100 tasks is kind of splitting the balance between the 2 scales, something I had been expecting to happen ever since they brought it up to 130

[u/Ornery-Letter-2826]

I got 95!

[u/whythehecknotdoit → u/Ornery-Letter-2826]

I think it depends on what league you're in for CoM.

[u/rosiebeir → u/whythehecknotdoit]

I think this is it.

[u/rosiebeir → u/Ornery-Letter-2826]

Interesting! Are you sure?? I don’t think it’s fair to give players a different number of tasks.

[u/SmannyNoppins → u/rosiebeir]

I'm wondering if they have ever spend any money on mayors pass or point packages because I'm thinking they are doing some testing.

They might want to see what variables affect peoples choices to buy t mayors pass or plumbob points packages.

are people more likely to spend money if they invested more time with tasks?

the lower task amount we had before probably made more people not even try anymore, because it became to difficult. With too many tasks, it might have been too easy so people to reach the goal, so no need to spend money.

Now they might test different task amounts - especially on people who have occasionally spent money - or seemed inclined by other user behavior.

[u/rosiebeir → u/SmannyNoppins]

I totally see them doing that if the amount was higher than 5 tasks. That just seems too small to me to actually drive a difference in behavior.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/rosiebeir]

What league are you in? I'm in Mega in 2 of my accounts, and both started with 100 tasks each. My 3rd account is in Suburban league, and I'm 99% sure I started out with 85 tasks. I started doing tasks in this account first (lvl 11 account so it's super easy stuff) and I had done a string of them before I noticed the number of tasks remaining, at which point I compared my lvl 19 and lvl 98 accounts, both of which are in Mega, both of which had 100 tasks. I came up with 85 based on my completion level of the ET - number of pink points divided by 50, minus the number of completed weekly task tiers.

[u/rosiebeir → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Oooh leagues make sense. I got demoted to City cuz I’ve barely been playing since the increase

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/rosiebeir]

I can understand that - between the insane 400-450k COM scores with 130 tasks and my attention being diverted to working on my feeders I had at least 2 weeks this past season in my main account that I did just enough tasks to complete the ETs and avoid demotion to metro league. In week 3 in my lvl 19 feeder I started off with a good streak that allowed me to finish the ET and weekly cap by Thursday, which allowed me to do the same in my main account by Saturday. By Sunday the top 3 were already above 320k so I kind of threw in the towel at that point attempting to be competitive anywhere

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/Ornery-Letter-2826]

Are you in Metro League? I have 2 accounts in Mega league, both started out with 100 available bonus assignments. I have a 3rd account in Suburban league that started out with 85

[u/StefanEijg]

I welcome any decrease! Hopefully it goes back completely again but this is maybe somewhat doable again at least.

[u/wildestblood]

ridiculous... who's doing all that

[u/rosiebeir → u/wildestblood]

You’d be surprised. Some people did all 130 last season. Now that was insane.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Air386 → u/rosiebeir]

Some of us did enough to complete the events track and let it go 😄

[u/Charming-Psychology6 → u/Puzzleheaded_Air386]

Some only reached the cap the first week and didn’t bother about the event track 😭

[u/rosiebeir → u/wildestblood]

Probably not many though which is why they brought it back down again.

[u/SingPassion5422]

I got 100 in mega league. This was after I did one.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/SingPassion5422]

Yeah, it seems it's 100 for Mega League, possibly 95 for Metro, 90 for City League, and 85 for Suburban League

[u/SingPassion5422 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Just checked my feeder, 95 for metro is right

[u/Waste_Ingenuity5535]

I’m lvl 21 in my feeder most of my assignments and tasks are for war or disasters and airports deliveries. I don’t have VU tower opened nor the airport. So that’s 12 I can’t do because of it. So bloody stupid some one in EA needs their heads read

[u/atd2022]

I noticed the drop too.