[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Coda

Ah... I'm afraid I WILL be having the timer in there. :x Now, if the timer is ticking, it won't make any NEW fireflies show up, so that largely minimizes the occurrences of encountering that message, but for people like me who open a dozen tabs all at once and work through them, the possibility exists that two pages might both spawn a firefly, but you can only redeem one of them.

An additional reason for the timer is an anti-cheating mechanism. If an unscrupulous user were to figure out how to trick the system into thinking they'd clicked a firefly whenever they wanted, the timer prevents them from being able to get currency any faster than someone playing legitimately, thereby negating the incentive to cheat.

A third reason is simply server efficiency -- when we first developed this system, the Trisphee server was having a LOT of problems keeping up with the load, so I did as much as I could to minimize how much work the server would have to do in order to manage the event. The timer is a very cheap way to do it in terms of database access because it only has to do a tiny amount of extra work per-page-view and can save the expensive stuff for when you've made a successful click. (Oldbies will be able to tell you how bad the first Taskal War was in terms of lag.)



Actually I DID mean moving around the screen. And it was going to be slow, and they'd have a pretty forgiving hitbox.

It didn't show up on ALL of the subsequent pages, but the probability was fairly good that it would reappear soon.

If they are moving around the screen you should have another rare gold one that is uber rare and can be redeemed for a large set of prizes. But I don't mean rare as in lke every other second event currency we had, I really mean RARE. 1/1000 chance to see spawn. And making them self redeemable for another set of prizes rather then be currency themselves. :O


Oh but one thing. Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have a scoreboard for the event to make things interesting this time around for the most dragonflys caught? So the event is somewhat interesting.