Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36016297-20190303163405/@comment-75.100.64.94-20190304131345

Jp356 wrote: Howard,

😂 I doubt that the changes in TY fixers affect the entry level players...I just don't think they are getting batches of silver birds and screwnut bracelets 😂. Unfortunately, my non-tt, non-wiki friends circa level 150-300 are desperate for the earliest fixers that we tt-gifters have in abundance.

The overwhelming quantities of white string, tar, and SCALES 😱 are results of tt-gifting.

The mid -upper level players who do not tt and do not have tt friends (...other than myself😔) are now out of string, petals, resin, tar, scale...

they need those fixers to combine collections for energy and access passes.

I just had a level  227 friend gift me  ten CIs to grab my attention to her newly changed nameplate... " ...SCALE" 😭😭😭

Howard says:

Jp,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply.

You are correct. Because their available fixer list is shorter, newer players were probably less affected by the changes in the distribution ratio.

And again, yes, non-tt players have far fewer thank-you gifts, thus the changes in distribution could have caused a lack of lower level fixers.

To be clear, I am not saying that I endorse this change. Just that I can interpret it as an attempt to address the ‘string glut’ complaint.

Scale has been on my own wish list for months.

Every release I collect data (5000+ thank you gifts) on the distribution rates and the drop rates of fixers from room visits. I use this data plus knowledge of my own fixer usage to predict which fixers will have shortfalls. These items make up my wishlist. After the ‘string glut’ change, several longtime items came off and new ones went on.

H