Just came on to see really quick (12 hour college day sucks) and give a boost! Keep up the great work guys! We'll get them in the next round~ <3

Hmm. That would actually match up with the day we won. Maybe when the final stretch is near and there's a big gap, the team in the rear gets a passive speed boost so they can cross the finish line faster and everyone can go to camp faster?

I want the next NPC to lower the needed team votes for speed boosts by half : P That'll even the playing field, if we can win them.

It would. XD Hopefully we'll get that, or as some have suggested, Esther will show up and give us only good weather boosts or something.

It is incredibly unfair, and unless they fix this problem with the next character, I predict a LOT of people will probably just quit. I mean, where's the point? Honestly, I too can imagine better things to do with my free time than to give it my all only to lose because we never had a chance to begin with.

That's what I'm saying for a long time... Do you remember when team Saggi was glitched behind us like... 30%? Alright, that was sure a glitch. they fixed it, so they were behind us 3 or 4%, I don't remember quite well. Then, in minutes, they magically jumped to the lead. Staff said they spent some time fixing the glitch, and that leaded me to think that "fixing" was quite a manual thing, since they just didn't go to a position and then they started progressing, but there were 2 or 3 jumps of slightly over 1% in a few minutes.

But I guess I'm even considered a crazy whiner for some :P

Voted!

Are we prebuying from suspected donation-drive shops? We've had toys/toiletries and clothes/shoes, so food would seem like an obvious one?

if Esther is the next potentially gettable npc and if the other team wins her over that'll be quite troublesome. Especially is she gives an anti-monsoon buff.. D:

Also thanks for the mood-booster~!! ❤

Apparently there are not going to be any more item drives, so save your sP for now.

Gold has hit base camp.

I suspect that must be the case, because Gold were moving at more than double the speed we were toward the end yesterday (we were going approximately .15% per minute, they were doing .45%) - just so that the end of this portion doesn't drag on. It'd be interesting to keep track of the percentage movements at the beginning/throughout.

The biggest frustration I have with this event (aside from all the errors) is that it seems staff just throw us into things and "adjust" as necessary instead of having actually had it all worked out before the event started. That's why things feel so off for me, I think. In this case, I think they'll adjust the speed slightly for the next leg, the way they did the food/energy depletion (at least I hope they do) to make it more fair, because otherwise Gold will win the rest of the trail portions because of that speed boost.

I'll take that too! If we hadn't been so bogged down with Monsoons and Windy weather, I think we'd have won or at least been really close behind. All that bad weather back-to-back really threw us off last night :C

ah, thank you! this full-time work thing is really interfering with my Subeta Job. ;)

Our next obstacle is due for 4:04... You think we'll get to camp before that? xD

Oooo you were purple for second there. lol

I've had that feeling too, to be honest. I mean, does anyone ACTUALLY believe Team Gold gave ~50k more items than we did? Even after many apparenty gave up right after Sephora was announced to be the next NPC joining? And, if you think about it, not getting Sephora would have been the third loss in a row: First Team Steele got Wesley, then we won that day's race. I wouldn't be surprised if the game was rigged in Team Gold's favor, because too many people would have quit if we had gotten two NPCs in a row. And as for the whole glitch fixing thing, the way they worded it sounded like they guesstimated where Team Gold should have been at that point and just put them there.

I think the wind obstacle should just be taken out for both teams, it's not fair to either team. Blockades are one thing, but pushing BACK the progress we had? That's not a cool game mechanic, that's just wasting our efforts.

It seems like we are moving faster now that Saggi has reached camp, so maybe no more obstacles. :o

Haha, I've started using the "official post" classification to make it do that sometimes when I want it to stand out but not necessarily ping the whole group. ;)

I'm back from school early because I'm apparently still not healthy enough to make it through the full day of classes.

I'm going to have to agree that the speed boost seems kind of imba when compared to a food boost. They really shouldn't have put speed on the table and if we'd gotten both npcs that would have been so incredibly imbalanced. I honestly think they shouldn't done a boost that had to do with lowering the probability of a monsoon event or a wind event. That would be a more balanced change that was still noticeable. This whole thing just seems kind of poorly designed and execution isn't fairing better.

Also if staff are going to tune something like food decay put that information in a news post. I think our food struggles have been because a lot of people weren't aware that the previous pace of playing survivor was not going to cut it.

That's awesome - it definitely stands out! :D

ETA: We're definitely moving a LOT faster now, so it must be designed to give the other team a massive speed boost once the other has hit base camp. We're already at 98.55%