Okay, thanks for sharing this info
Don’t get me wrong but if you had to move the trials back, maybe increase the crates in the contest till it’s ready.
A +10 increase with two contests giving far less badge booster crates, without anything to compensate it, is just not fun.
It’s good to know that it will come eventually but that doesn’t change the current pain many feel and express.
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You do realize it is at least 2 more weeks until Xmas, right? That means we will lose 60 more, making it total 120 crates…
I doubt you will give us that much
For all we know, we lose those crates and gain nothing and knowing that during the server merge announcement is just horrible
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even if they do, can we consider it a ‘gift’ when it’s just returning stuff back that we were previously getting anyway 
that’s like kidnapping someone’s doggo then returning it to them as a xmas gift a month later 
thaaaaaaaankssssssss
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Maybe not 120 because not all of us can complete FTN so let’s say it’s 90. And getting the things taken from us back is not really what I call “a Xmas miracle” 
I think the general reason for this was that 6-day contest gave way better rewards, mainly the nice amount of badge booster crates (and to and extend the same for cosmetic crates)
So removing those badge booster crates is kinda ashame, as it essentially kinda downgrades the rewards back to 3-day contests…
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Ah so this is why they increased the amount, to tempt people into getting enough chips to 6* and max red skill,
That, but mostly the extra time given. 3 days make it even harder to hit 1M
Rewards on server 21 are 100x worse at the same point as on server 1 at r18, and what’s the reasoning behind it tbh older servers get hundreds of diamond crates while we get 4-8 in the progress rewards. I get you want to keep that gap small but it’s so hard to progress with mods and red skills with so little diamond crates given out
Hopefully a lot and cosmetic crates as well.
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I believe the issue was everyone was surprised and that is why it was poorly received.
From where I stand if anything the FTN at 6 days is not bad there is no difference between three or six days if and only if it’s diamonds and stamina. Contests that requiring us spend extra time everyday are more of an issue when they are 6 days.
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Yeah i have to agree with most here. Theres not much testing to be needed when u compare bagde booster crates to megabit crates (due to the fact they give harldy any). This ftn contest wont seem to solve the problem of whales droppin out of the game lately, well at least in my server.
I would say the reasoning behind the contests is that people don´t really care about the time, but the rewards @Loutre.
When the contests were first changed from 3 to 6 days, the team significantly raised the progress and rank rewards (where majority of playerbase cares about progress ones anyway). People praised the increase in rewards not the increase in days.
Then when the team did the once-and-undone 3 day FtN, people were displeased because the resources there scale purely on time.
Last important notice:
IF YOU DO NOT LOWER THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO A HALF DURING 3 DAY CONTESTS (from 6) YOU ACHIEVE NOTHING.
Just dissatisfied or outright giving up players. Well… to be fair they give up every minute the Fortify the Network contests exist regardless.
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Also, back when contests lasted 3 days, if a contest involved spending stamina you could almost guarantee that there wouldn’t be a Campaign Double Drop or a Get More Stamina Bonus event during that contest. Since contests have gone to 6 days, most of them have at least the double drop, and occasionally a stamina-spending contest will even have a Get More Stamina Bonus day.
I don’t really like the feeling of contests being a constant, daily part of the game, but if someone wanted to argue that the benefits outweighed that feeling, I couldn’t argue against them.
The first few 6 days FtNs this happened… but I believe randomly.
Now the team actively avoids either of those bonus events, setting it either a week before or week after FtN. Which is sad… @Loutre could the team please feel us more? FtN is a pain and scheduling bonuses there would be nice.
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I can’t believe they actually listened and gave double drops during ftn 
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That was actually confirmed earlier, on cap rise patch notes.
Tomorrow something should appear as well.
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Yes bonus get more gold event
No Badge Booster Crates in both rank AND progress rewards, after a double cap increase?
And 7! Stamina items as progress rewards?
Feels very Grinch-like…
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