1MagentaRose said:

With so many friends wanting only airship items

It sounds like you may need some new friends. If you don't want to put your game ID# here in the forum, then send it to me in a PM and I'll send you an invitation. I always have only one airship item on my wishlist along with 3 other items.

Some history.....the airship wheels increase as you level up. Each time you reach the next level, the airship also increases the amount it can ask.

In the lower levels, this isn't a problem because you can generally continue to play rounds to build excess airship inventory. However, once you have about 60 HOSs open, the players are at an extreme disadvantage. 

The theory about the increasing wheels is that there are an increased number of HOSs open from which one can get the airship item. That may be true, but I can only do a finite number of HOSs in one hour, and that averages between 55 and 60. 

Because there are 6 items for the airship, I concluded a couple years ago that I need to do 3.5 full rounds for each airship I send to maintain a balanced quantity of each item and not have the inventory gradually be depleted.

When only 60 HOSs are open, that's about 3 hours of work....airship comes back after 4 hours, so it's very balanced. 

However, there are currently 171 HOSs in the game....If I can do 60 in one hour, it will take me nearly 3 hours to do one full round. I'll let you do the math for how many hours would be required for me to do 3.5 full rounds..........ain't gonna happen; I don't love the game that much, nor do I have that many available hours in one day.

So, when we were on the Big Fish forum, many of us saw the trend and begged, pleaded, groveled with the Devs (through the Moderators) to put a max level on the amount of wheels the airship would request.

We offered suggestions for letting us keep the excess wheels in some inventory spot to use for a future airship sending. We made other suggestions how it could be made more fair to players. Nothing was ever done. All our requests and suggestions fell on deaf ears. So, it is what it is.

To add insult to injury, the Devs have currently given us a "reprieve" on postcards for some of the higher leveled players. They've also reduced the amount of shards Trina asks for...it started at 50 and I'm up to 55 now, but certainly less than the 200.

BUT....there are only 4 things Trina asks for instead of 5, which means the other items come up more frequently. IF it were balanced, IF they'd ask for HOSs the majority of the time, this would be a beneficial thing for helping players to increase airship inventory.

This month, my Trina quests have asked for airship wheels 60% of the time! ....I'm not making very much progress toward Key Master when there's little airship inventory remaining.

AEGram said:

To add insult to injury, the Devs have currently given us a "reprieve" on postcards for some of the higher leveled players. They've also reduced the amount of shards Trina asks for...it started at 50 and I'm up to 55 now, but certainly less than the 200.

At what level does this appear to happen? I'm about a third of the way through Level 107 and Trina is still wanting 200 shards and I'm still getting the requests for postcards. Maybe I need to level all the way up for these things to happen. But that's not going to happen any time soon. I'm just playing a little at a time. In my opinion, there's no reason to rush this.

AEGram said:

However, there are currently 171 HOSs in the game....If I can do 60 in one hour, it will take me nearly 3 hours to do one full round. I'll let you do the math for how many hours would be required for me to do 3.5 full rounds..........ain't gonna happen; I don't love the game that much, nor do I have that many available hours in one day.

Ain't gonna happen for me either   I'm Level 98 so I think I'll just concentrate on the Main Quests and not worry to much about trying to re-do all my lost Achievements.

1MagentaRose said:

not worry to much about trying to re-do all my lost Achievements.

That's the exactly what I decided to do after the second time my game was wiped out by a "glitch" on the BigFish server. I know I accomplished them once - some twice - and that's good enough for me.

Hang in there.

LvlSlgr said:

At what level does this appear to happen? I'm about a third of the way through Level 107 and Trina is still wanting 200 shards and I'm still getting the requests for postcards. Maybe I need to level all the way up for these things to happen. But that's not going to happen any time soon. I'm just playing a little at a time. In my opinion, there's no reason to rush this.

When the Spring download was pushed and installed on my game, Trina started to ask for 50 shards instead of 200 and no longer requested postcards at all.

Gradually, the shard amount has increased to 55, but still there are no postcards added to her quests. 

Additionally, I receive 16 coins and 1 Golden Key when completing her quests. 

I have no idea how much longer it will remain this way on my game. It was nice in the beginning to only have to give her 50 shards and to get a reprieve on postcards, but what is requested is certainly not balanced....shards and wheels are asked for the most, then ZZs.....50 scenes is the least frequent of her requests. 

Apparently, this is the Devs way of "helping players" to achieve the ridiculous amount of 3000 keys for Ace Assistant and 5000 for Key Master.

They'd help us a whole bunch more by putting a limit on the rising number of wheels the airship will give each time players level up. Trina asks for 300; one of the DQs ask for 350. That DQ amount should be lowered to 300 and the airship should yield no more than 300 to 321 wheels...OR they should provide a way for us to store/keep the excess wheels.

Thanks, AEGram. Apparently this didn't happen in my game as Trina still wants 200 shards and the postcards. The shards are a real problem because about 18 months ago my game was sent back to Level 1 as if I as starting over again. BF restored some of the things I was missing but not hardly any shards. Due to Trina's lust for shards, I haven't been able to accumulate enough to buy even the first thing in any of the private rooms that require shards. I try to let her sit and wait but then if I'm going to have to send an airship in a DQ I try to line it up with Trina's request for an airship. And I go to those private rooms as often as possible chasing those butterflies hoping to get a shard. The crazy thing is that i had completed the Magic Miser Achievement twice before that happened. You ask twice? Yes, in March of 2019 I had the "hijack" glitch and had to do a lot of things over again. Fortunately that time the BF rep gave me the number of shards I asked for. 

Sometimes I wonder why I'm still playing this game. LOL

Have you contacted Big Fish or Elephant Games for game restoration?

If I were to lose my game, I would contact Elephant Games....it's my understanding that they have the capability of restoring your game exactly as it was when it got messed up. Apparently, the technicians at Big Fish are not able to do that. (And, Elephant Games' restoration includes your friends!)

AEGram said:

Have you contacted Big Fish or Elephant Games for game restoration?

Oh yes ... both. The first time with the "hijack" (2019) BF restored a lot of what I had records of. However, they didn't restore the avatars I had received from the CCs and I had ALL of them. That was the most upsetting thing to me. I contacted EG and they didn't do anything other than commend me on being such a faithful player. I responded to that email a few days later asking again if they could help but I didn't get any response.

After that problem, I started backing up my game weekly.

The second time when my game went back to Level 1 as a new game (2020), I tried to restore from the backup but it didn't work. I contacted Dhyani since she seems to be our "expert" on this. We spent at least 2 hours on the phone and nothing we did worked.

So I contacted BF again. They restored my level (highest at that time), coins, diamonds, energy balls, etc. But they didn't restore any of my crafted items (amounting to about 6 million if cashed in) or eggs (amounting to about 4 million). None of the regular inventory, shards, etc. Honestly, I was seriously thinking about just quitting the game, but they restored ALL of the avatars from the CCs. That is the only I've continued with the game. No, I didn't contact EG this time since they didn't do anything to help me the first time.

I can tell you this much - I'm probably jinxing myself - if I have another problem like either of these I will l definitely quit the game.