Kingdom of Knuffel

Epic Wild Tiger wrote:I guess I'm not the only one who's not too jazzed about the posting part of the event. I too lurk and I wish it was all just popups and digging, but even the digging I can't do for long because I only have two knuffels and one is a wild so he can't dig. Been kinda hard to keep up and I've skipped a lot of the tasks because of it. Maybe the events should get a revamp to where they're like games we can play, or flying things around the screen we can catch, or even make a trick or treating option. I know this site has been around a very long time yet nothing has really been changed or updated much, so it's basically still an interactive forum site with sprites. Gotta get with the times guys and start updating to flash stuff because other sites are way ahead of you on the event front

Other sites might have enough income to hire staff to do the work though. Since all the coding is done by starkad alone (who has a RL job and is also an university student at the same time!), this will never happen for us and other sites will stay ahead of us forever. Though I have to admit I am not sure which other sites you are talking about. Gaiaonline is obviously a million business and not comparable.TinierMe was shut down because it wasn't making enough money, Roliana has been struggling for years and didn't have any events for a long time at all, Menewsha also cut down on the events years ago, as they could not afford them, Zantarni never had any flash components to their site at all, as far as I know. If I look at forum based avatar sites comparable to our sizes, they don't really seem that much ahead. Some even seem rather behind.

Also, even if it was possible: What you ask for would require months of coding. Just the event we already had required a lot of time to draw and code and personally, if someone tells me he is not willing to spend an hour a day on a task (every few days, since some tasks only required 5 minutes of work) because he considers it too much work, I don't really feel too willing to put even more work into this, so he has even less work. Just doesn't seem worth the effort to spend even more time and work on this event for us, just so users can spend even less time on it.

So, even though your feedback is appreciated: It is just not possible for just one single person do make fancy flash games for just one event in his free time. As soon as one event is over we basically start working on the next already. That is how long they take us, there just isn't any spare time for more while also attending to the regular site updates. So even if we wanted, we could not offer any of the things you are requesting.

Firn wrote: So, even though your feedback is appreciated: It is just not possible for just one single person do make fancy flash games for just one event in his free time. As soon as one event is over we basically start working on the next already. That is how long they take us, there just isn't any spare time for more while also attending to the regular site updates.

Firn wrote:Other sites might have enough income to hire staff to do the work though. Since all the coding is done by starkad alone (who has a RL job and is also an university student at the same time!), this will never happen for us and other sites will stay ahead of us forever. Though I have to admit I am not sure which other sites you are talking about. Gaiaonline is obviously a million business and not comparable.TinierMe was shut down because it wasn't making enough money, Roliana has been struggling for years and didn't have any events for a long time at all, Menewsha also cut down on the events years ago, as they could not afford them, Zantarni never had any flash components to their site at all, as far as I know. If I look at forum based avatar sites comparable to our sizes, they don't really seem that much ahead. Some even seem rather behind.