Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=109693&page=1#10 Author: Hebs Time Posted: 1/7/2025 at 7:42 PM New winter event is really awesome, its just sad that droprate on gifts are so low and spawn rate of the special pets are so low too since normal themed are gone while event is on. I been using 3 perfumes during a couple of events i joined each time, i think its kind of expensive when you dont run into any rare. So in my opinion either droprate of gifts should be increased or spawn rate of the pets be increased. I do know others struggle with it too so its not just me. I farm my gifts from named ones 2 times daily + the few gifts nutcrackers drops i managed today get up on 25% which is highest i been on so far. I dont have the time to sit and farm whole day i do have a family also i guess others have too, im sry if this sounds like a complain, it isnt supposed to be that but i really want to do the events but just cant sit whole day and farm so if chances on gifts/spawn was higher that would be nice. Hope you understand what i mean Hebs

Regarding the 'spawning events' part, keep in mind that you can save your Stolen Gifts until whenever you want to turn them in. They do carry over from event to event. So I would suggest that you just hold onto them and keep a stockpile until it's a time you're able to participate in the event and then dump all of your Stolen Gifts to push the progress along. You can even find a few other players who are in a similar situation and work together so that, together, you guys have enough to trigger an event whenever you want that's convenient for you. That was actually the intention of the Stolen Gifts system - to give players more control over when events spawn.

Regarding the spawn rate, it's just a very tough thing to balance unless I'm going to put in arbitrary limits on a per-player basis. I've tried that before in previous events years ago - players did not seem to like that and it seemed to discourage the high-playtime players from playing, which I definitely don't want to do.

The Attraction Bonus is meant to help be a pity system for all players to increase their odds after working that up. A player with maxed Attraction Bonus, battling on Tier 5, and with the Themed Pet Boost at 100% has a significantly higher chance of encountering a Tyrielle's Minion Themed pet than they do a regular Themed Pet outside of the event. However, it obviously takes a bit of effort to reach that point. But keep that in mind for when using Perfumes.

I wish the whole encounter system was a better system and more flexible - I actually do not really like how it all works out at this point, but sadly there's just not really anything I can do about it for the foreseeable future. It is definitely a system that I plan on vastly improving whenever I am able to restructure how exploration works.

All in all, so far, I'm pretty happy with the amount of Tyrielle's Minion Themed Pets that players have been finding. Since Saturday night, there's already been just shy of 100 caught (plus however many were not caught). It's been a little over 72 hours that the event has been active, so we're at 13 event iterations and 100 Themed - so that's about 4 events per day and 30 Themed per day. I think those are very fair numbers so far. But, as always, I am always looking to adjust things as needed and I'm sure I will continue tweaking as time goes on.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=109693&page=2#11 Author: Krinadon Time Posted: 1/8/2025 at 1:47 AM [quote=2761443] Regarding the 'spawning events' part, keep in mind that you can save your Stolen Gifts until whenever you want to turn them in. They do carry over from event to event. So I would suggest that you just hold onto them and keep a stockpile until it's a time you're able to participate in the event and then dump all of your Stolen Gifts to push the progress along. You can even find a few other players who are in a similar situation and work together so that, together, you guys have enough to trigger an event whenever you want that's convenient for you. That was actually the intention of the Stolen Gifts system - to give players more control over when events spawn. Regarding the spawn rate, it's just a very tough thing to balance unless I'm going to put in arbitrary limits on a per-player basis. I've tried that before in previous events years ago - players did not seem to like that and it seemed to discourage the high-playtime players from playing, which I definitely don't want to do. The Attraction Bonus is meant to help be a pity system for all players to increase their odds after working that up. A player with maxed Attraction Bonus, battling on Tier 5, and with the Themed Pet Boost at 100% has a significantly higher chance of encountering a Tyrielle's Minion Themed pet than they do a regular Themed Pet outside of the event. However, it obviously takes a bit of effort to reach that point. But keep that in mind for when using Perfumes. I wish the whole encounter system was a better system and more flexible - I actually do not really like how it all works out at this point, but sadly there's just not really anything I can do about it for the foreseeable future. It is definitely a system that I plan on vastly improving whenever I am able to restructure how exploration works. All in all, so far, I'm pretty happy with the amount of Tyrielle's Minion Themed Pets that players have been finding. Since Saturday night, there's already been just shy of 100 caught (plus however many were not caught). It's been a little over 72 hours that the event has been active, so we're at 13 event iterations and 100 Themed - so that's about 4 events per day and 30 Themed per day. I think those are very fair numbers so far. But, as always, I am always looking to adjust things as needed and I'm sure I will continue tweaking as time goes on.

Thx for explaining i will try stockpile then to see how it goes :)

I'm just making sure I understand this.. despite the fact that my team is level 30.. I am supposed to be getting level 75 minions in the fest zone? If this is the case which tier is now best suited for level 30 and will there be more drops/rewards for tier 5 since the minions won't scale to your level?
**Edit**
Ok so I think I understand it now after talking to some people. The initial forum post in the change log wasn't very specific so I was extremely confused about the encounter due to not realizing it meant *all* enemies and not just the bosses. Long day at work.. my brain exploded. But the pieces are picked up and mostly put back together again lol.