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Was lucky: 3x girls in the rotation - i needed 145 orbs to get first Morgan and then Fabienne. (The last girl i left there)

good news for you, you can selected for the villains a lower level and then you are able to get these girls again. click on the radiobuttons above the villains level.

It should be KinkoidIsSorry not with a 1 edit: ninja'ed

let's get this straight - a mistake is having all informations available and doing the wrong thing - this is not at all what happend here. I'm also not "angry", just my professional itch for doing things the proper way needs to be scratched - meaning, would be great if Kinkoid would spare in future other gamers similar disappointments by providing game mechanic changes via in-game channels, reliable and robust.

I care about game mechanics very much - in fact i take my most joy out of discovering and optimizing game mechanics myself - i intentional avoid potential sources of spoiler information (like cheat sheets, forums etc) to challenge myself. No, i dont play games the "optimize and win at all cost and also with external resources & help" way , as it seems you do. About my forum use now, i headed to the forum as for me the immersion of the game was broken - something happend unexpected and unexplained by the internal coherent existing game mechanisms - last resort approach, if the game broke for me. About investing money for dating tokens, there is just now a parallel thread going on where a gamer described how he intentional invested money into kobane and then into fights to maximize his dating token amount - i guess you can find this thread.

I stand by my interpretation that it was not huge and properly communicated: It is claimed it was one time a daily message (haven't seen it) , but these daily messages are often of low information content and therefore clicked over by many players; it was indeed several times in the patch notes but theses are not the right announcement channels for future mechanic changes but the past. Proper announcement methods would have been: message in harem screen+blinking dating token or mouseover message, window filling message on login on last day, count down timer on the bottom of the screen etc etc. So there ware many ways doing it more properly - in game.

I mean, yes you can frame the situation that way that fault is on players who don't like to do the spoilerish metagaming like reading patch notes or forums - but i'm a strong believer in self-explaining games and software in general. It should not be needed to go to external information sources to understand the game mechanics or change of them. The information was not properly enough communicated via in-game methods (which are plenty) - I think gamers caught by this are rightful angry, especially the ones, who invest real money to get dating tokens.

I asked the support - they told me they will not bring dating tokens back. So the question of compensation or temporarily re-activation IS indeed at hand.

yes, I agree. I think they should at least allow the players to use their earned (and paid for!) dating tokens by temporarily re-activing this feature again - or compensate them as it was suggested in this thread. Also, this seems to be not a fringe issue - many players are affected I guess - but as the forum goers WERE aware of this change, the caught by surprise non-forum goers are less likely to end up here and vent - there are many more .

Yes, indeed - i think this was managed not very well. While the forum using players were most likely aware of this coming change - the players not using the forum or reading patch notes were caught most likely by surprise - I guess you too. Also, you are not only one who got affected by this drastic feature and currency removal - there are more people, see example threads. In fact, I would be quite interested how many players got affected by this currency removal.... What compensation you would have in mind? What ratio Dating tokens to Kobane you would find fair? Or you have orbs in mind?

thanks! Indeed, it seems I missed that.

well, I think it could have been easily communicated via the many in-game messaging methods: - via the daily message directly there "Player, remember today last day to use your dating tokens - for balancing reasons they will be shot down tomorrow" (not just a daily message with further indirection ala spammy "patch note released - link here" without any hint how serious this time it is) - as screenfilling on-the-nose-message on login to the player: "Remember today last day!" (like the "Kinkoid team sends you -..." message) - as counter on the bottom like the selling offers: "dating token support runs out in 3d 2h 12s" - in the harem as mousover on the dating token counter + blinking dating token counter Core point is: there would have been dozends of ways to do it properly in game. As last remark, some people told people who lost now their dating tokens due to missing information, they should have just read the forum or patch notes regularily: I still don't think this can be expected from all gamers, one reason why i minimized such "meta gaming" exposure is, as it breaks for me to some the degree the immersion of learning game mechanics naturally in-game as often they are spoilerish and this takes the fun aspect away from fiddling with and exploring a game.

you are not the only one for sure - the insufficient communication methods of the developer are to blame here. Maybe we should gather all the impacted persons in one thread - as suggested above by Bomba. Maybe the "suggestion" section is the right place.

It is good that they communicate ahead their changes, but classically (in technical domain) the "patch notes" are not the usual channel to communicate with the end-user about the future. Maybe they should have called it "Game Announcements" - even better if they would have done it in-game with their screen filling message windows on player login on the last day. Using the "patch notes" is unusual and can lead therefore to misunderstandings and miscommunicatiosn - as it happend here.

well, If it was announced there but I missed it, then it was at least partly my fault. But I guess many players missed it - in fact a temporary removal could be the best method to grab attention of all players and then activate it a last time for 1-2 days, when all players have noticed.

Well, I'm in the technical domain myself - a patch note is not an announcement channel for future changes for the end-users.

well, I was caught as well off-guard by the temporarily (?) disabeling as I don't read patch notes regularily - also, patch notes should be not used as announcement channel of future important (!!!) changes for normal players - It should have been messaged in-game by the many possibilities there.

Hello holymoly, Hello 430i, thank you for your responses! I had only ~3-4 contest rewards stocked up - but the 21 day limit from the other bug report sounds possible. It would be really good if it would be warned before or at least "auto taken" when the time limit is hit...well. As I think this should be visible to the users I will try to escalate this as a official ticket - where can I set offical tickets (thought this forum would be it)? Have not found it... cheers

Hi, today I noticed that in HH (and in 1x CH beta) I lost 1x contest won girls which were there as reward. I didn't take them immediately as rewards can be taken delayed which is often helpful for further contests. today I noticed these award slots went away without warning or notice- It was not obvious that there is a time limitation for the storage time of these rewards :( Specifically, I lost the 5x star girl venus , which hurts... hope this can be recovered (or at least warned about in future)? cheers