I think the lowest number I've ever saw any user get was in the high 300's, so while I'm sorry the change is necessary, it makes a lot of sense! Thanks, Firn.

Firn wrote:

Epic Wild Tiger wrote:b]You wouldn't have a decrease in active users if there was more ways to obtain knuffels or if the knuffels costed less than the thousands. Some of us just get on here to feed and play with them and don't bother lurking in the chats and making all the food points it takes to get the knuffels in the stores and the wild knuffels. Hell I only got mine because a user was kind enough to donate the amount needed in order to get one. Most of the inactive users are inactive because the time it takes to afford enough to get a knuffel is too long and they can't just go posting all over the site in different forums because the topic hopping so common of forum sites is considered spamming here. So until you find more ways to get food points or lower the ultimate price of the knuffels themselves you're gonna get a decrease in interest from users who don't want to make the massive effort to play the limited flash games and chat in only one place at a time. Sorry but you said there's a decrease in active users and I'm telling you that's why. Lack of interest and patience.

That's a strange way of logic you have here: You say that you can't be bothered to be active in the forums, and that's why you are inactive. So, making Knuffel easier accessible would make you more active in the forums?
I don't think so.
According to your logic, I don't really see how activity would profit from cheaper Knuffel. How many Knuffel you adopt and how much you feed and play with them, has no impact on anything here at all, expect for how much server performance you take up with your actions. (And of course, since you earn food from leveling your Knuffel, it would have an impact on inflation, assumed you would trade with other users) It does not raise activity in the forums, nor does it help pay the site's bills.
Now, there is nothing wrong if playing and feeding your Knuffel is all you want to do on this site. That's completely up to you. I just don't see how the site would profit from you playing and feeding with even more Knuffel.

Even if people buying Knuffel were to somehow benefit the site, it actually isn't that hard to get a Knuffel. You can get up to 1k per day by submitting your score on a game. It's pretty easy to do that on Memory. I'm not sure if you can get 1k per day per game, but even if you can't, you still only need to play for three days before you get enough for a Knuffel; if you join a couple of hours before server midnight, then only two. And since we get Trial Knuffel nowadays and you get to dig with them, if your Trial Knuffel finds any food points during this time, this time limit gets shorter, too.

If we wanted people to buy more Knuffel, then what we need is not to lower the price but to make it more common knowledge that getting up to 2.5k actually isn't that difficult.

Thanks for the update!

@Ziaheart: You could also get a wild since they can get really cheap like 1.1k and then dig with them. That way you can earn the 2.5k faster then in game. I don;t think the issue is the price. i just think the issue is feeding. It take way to long to feed and people got way too many knuffel to feed. The pills help a lot in this but it still take a lot of time. I don;t think there a solution to this so no point in bringing it. I just want to point out that if there an issue it would be the feeding over the price.

I agree the reduction of wild knuffel is good.

I understand, it sounds reasonable :3

FlowerRuby wrote:@Ziaheart: You could also get a wild since they can get really cheap like 1.1k and then dig with them. That way you can earn the 2.5k faster then in game. I don;t think the issue is the price. i just think the issue is feeding. It take way to long to feed and people got way too many knuffel to feed. The pills help a lot in this but it still take a lot of time. I don;t think there a solution to this so no point in bringing it. I just want to point out that if there an issue it would be the feeding over the price.

I agree the reduction of wild knuffel is good.

Actually, you can't dig with a Wild which is why I didn't bring that possibility up, but yes, you can buy a Wild for a lot cheaper and then sell the Knuffel items it gives you every 10 levels. I don't think it'd make it faster than 3-day time limit I suggested since while getting to the first 10th level isn't that hard, Wild Knuffel items aren't really all that worth much from what I've seen.

But yes. I do agree that the price really isn't the problem here; the only reason why I addressed it is because since Epic Wild Tiger seems to think that that's keeping users from being active in the forums.

It's sad that there are fewer users than before, so I think it's a good idea! ;)