Talk:Blonde Pussy Week/@comment-37887995-20190120042013

We're just a few days in to this event, and it sounds like quite a few players have blown through most of the 50 quests. (I'm stuck on 230, ugh.)  That leaves them with very few remaining ways to get Energy to continue to place well in the dailies. Thus, they're pretty much out of chances to get the last card, barring spending a LOT of real money directly on Energy.

So here is my theory as to how this happened:  Quite a few players came off the XXXmas Tournament with with a boat-load of winnings. Many (if not most) hoarded most of those rubies and chests for a rainy day (next tournament). The Blonde Tournament pops up, and many of these players can't contain themselves, thinking that with all these rubies and gold chests, a top three position will be easy pickings. Unfortunately, this "ruby dump" into this tournament caused the Top 3 and Top 20 scores to go off the charts as resource-rich players competed aggressively for Heavenly Coffers in the first few days. The gold rush has caused many of these folks to shoot themselves in the foot by basically finishing the tournament after only getting a few Heavenly Coffers.

Maybe this will open up the last few days of the tournament for players who started out more judiciously. We'll see.

Anyhow, designing a well balanced game is not easy.  I hope the DEVS will come up with a modification to the Tournament mechanics that will prevent players from "advancing themselves into oblivion".