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Topic created : 23 August 2011, 13:54

Last time edited : 23 August 2011, 13:55

bobby_brown

Tomorrow my contest for managers comes to an end. I am leading by far, but today I received a message that my qualification in Management is to low to be awarded points. There is no way in the world I can increase my qualification during one update.

Now, I didn't know the rules, my bad. I won't complain about it, although I am quite pissed. However what's the point of this message being send during the last day of the contest when it is too late for a player to react? Such a message should be sent in the very beginning of the contest since building up your qualification to 10 points during the first month of playing requires quite a bit of planning.

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24 August 2011, 09:46

Last time edited : 24 August 2011, 09:50

Mike1

Moderator

Mico Inc

I share your disappointment of not winning !

Now lets appreciate that you learned something really useful: its a good thing to read rules before participating in a contest !

24 August 2011, 16:10

bobby_brown

Well, I have won as you can see from my badges.

And no patronizing remarks are necessary. I know that one should read the rules and I even think I have read this one before, I just forgot about it because of the sheer amount of information one has to absorb when beginning to play.

My point is that this game is so overwhelming for new players that system messages should be as helpful as possible. They should remind about the most important things at the most appropriate time. The timing of this particular message makes it as useless as it gets. It should be changed for the sake of future players.

24 August 2011, 22:18

Melchior2008

RoMa Inc.

This happens all the time. I also missed the level of management to get me a plantation as a reward. But it wouldn't have been an orange plantation, so it doesn't matter So-so

6 October 2011, 10:16

shlomiag

shlomi industries

The qualification is so annoying I might stop playing just for that.
With the update tomorrow, I have 9 quaification plus a point I can spend on any qualification other than management

8 October 2011, 22:59

pesslon

Animal Farm

The contest for managers is quite pointless, imho. My management needs ~4 turns to improve by 1 point when everything is running at 100%. Thus in ideal scenario I would need 40 days to meet the reqs to be given the prize, so afaik it`s impossible to be given the prize without buying points and spending them in management. What I`m trying to say is that if this contest is meant to encourage newbies to try harder and better then it is a fail, on the contrary - it pisses me off, and seems that I`m not the only one.

11 October 2011, 07:17

Borello1

Good to hear I'm not the only one. Before making this new account I had the same problem when I was first starting, however, after about 6 months of playing I couldn't play and went inactive. So here I am again at the bottom of the pile and now I have a new problem with the contest for managers.

I haven't been put into the contest for managers at all. I don't know why, but every time I go to the contests page, I can only see the contest for presidents. Any ideas?

13 October 2011, 07:30

caesarcipher

Caesar Cipher

@Borello1

I think they put the contest based on the date when you register the account, not the date when you make the company.

I also miss the contest, since I retried many times in my first month. In the end, I didn't won anything from any contest Not so

13 October 2011, 15:46

Last time edited : 13 October 2011, 16:59

Dutchsmurf

Smurf International

Where can you find the rules of the contest anyway? I tried looking anywhere, but I can't find them. Which probably means they are at a very obvious place, but...

never mind, found them Well

13 October 2011, 23:28

Last time edited : 13 October 2011, 23:29

Salto

It seem accepted that same persons have more then one account. So follow rules like no VIRT transfer between it looks ok to have a company to learn and make another to use it

4 November 2011, 19:22

RFHolloway

it is technically possible to achieve management 10 by day 30 - (I saw a note somewhere on the forum as to how to do it without spending points - it involves setting up 4 offices with 2 employees on the first turn or something - basically ensuring that you max out the total office workers for the whole 30 days) but it is so difficult without spoilers that new people may as well not be included.

I would suggest

1) that the 30 day contest be for game cash and remove the management 10 qualification, and then the second contest be for points (lots of people winning something would be more encouraging)

2) the maximum number of employees be shown in the user interface

e.g. in an office

- management skill 4 (57)
- total employees for offices 34 - minimum safety factor

or in the qualifications

- managment 4 gain 27% +14% employees (34/57)

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