The only thing I don't like is the leaderboard. The leaderboard is stressing me out. I could look at my candy and say, "Hey, that's a lot of candy! I'm probably gonna get a great prize!" And then when I look at the leaderboard and I see people with 2,000 more prices of candy than me, I begin to think, "Wow, I'm probably gonna get a sucky prize, and all those people with x amount of candies are probably gonna get super awesome stuff."  

Posted by CM CM

The only thing I don't like is the leaderboard. The leaderboard is stressing me out. I could look at my candy and say, "Hey, that's a lot of candy! I'm probably gonna get a great prize!" And then when I look at the leaderboard and I see people with 2,000 more prices of candy than me, I begin to think, "Wow, I'm probably gonna get a sucky prize, and all those people with x amount of candies are probably gonna get super awesome stuff."

Unlikely. The leaderboard people are the obsessive types. It's unrealistic to think that you need anywhere near that much candy to claim the top prize (unless you're able to get more than one prize bag, but I don't think it works that way). The only reason to collect that much candy is for the trophy. I don't know exactly what number the best goody bag will cost, but I don't think it will be anywhere near 2-3000.

And as far as giving candy, it's been made clear that that number only matters in the case of the trophy. I know I'm not going to be anywhere near the top 6 (or even top 200), but I'm still giving out candy (yes, more than just the free bowl) because it's kind of a **** move to collect and not give.  

Brenda(tadhana) also has a cool haunted house.  

Posted by Narcosis

Unlikely. The leaderboard people are the obsessive types. It's unrealistic to think that you need anywhere near that much candy to claim the top prize (unless you're able to get more than one prize bag, but I don't think it works that way). The only reason to collect that much candy is for the trophy. I don't know exactly what number the best goody bag will cost, but I don't think it will be anywhere near 2-3000.

And as far as giving candy, it's been made clear that that number only matters in the case of the trophy. I know I'm not going to be anywhere near the top 6 (or even top 200), but I'm still giving out candy (yes, more than just the free bowl) because it's kind of a **** move to collect and not give.

Yeah, I'm probably just gonna start giving out candy now. Right now I have around 1,000 pieces of candy. I'll probably end up collecting 1,000 more pieces of candy so I have 2,000 pieces in total and then I'll stop. Hopefully I still get something good from that.  

Tonight I'm goin to get my mind right,then just get another 1000 to get 2k .maybe push for 2500-3000

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Look at this house, holy turtles!!!

The owner is named Hiro, hiro has graal zone app logo head hahha  

Posted by Thallen

Why? Not everyone can afford a second bowl after their first free one. Forcing people to pay to participate in a non-essential part of the contest that they aren't even required to participate seems weird.

A second bowl is only 500 gralats.. The rule is essentially, you are allowed to take candy as long as you are willing and able to give candy. If you honestly cant afford 500gralats, thats unfortunate; but you could go spend 10min doing pyrats and afford 2. And I was able to collect 300ish candies before my first bowl ran out, so its not like your giving and taking equal amounts. Its not like anyones forcing you to advertise your name and status that your house is open with candy either  

I think its pointless to give candy unless u want to trophy
ive given 200 candies and i dont stand in graal city ssyn enter house i just enter other peoples houses and grab candy

i only have 400 candies saving for 500

unless u have absoloutly no plans for this week going anywere or doing anything
dont expect to get on the leaderboards if your doing anything because some adicted players are on 24 hours a day  

see that? that ruins this event to a great degree.

Not to say this event was really good but it was something nonetheless.
I feel like their should be a script in place that can detect if the bowls of candy are atop of bushes and the what-not, so they get a decrease in "luck" when they pick a blind-bag. That's just so annoying. I also agree with the fact that this event isn't really a competition in the traditional sense - But I am rather fond of the social aspect. More events that incorporate this social aspect, like the Easter-egg hunt, or even this is really nice. At its core, Graal is a social game. Even though most of the time I'm not generally fond of socializing with graalians. I'd say that when competitions like this, or the egg hunting, that amount of socializing with others is really neat, and can make or break an event. In this case, I'd more or less say that the socializing kinda ruined this event. Why? Well lets see...

1.Example in picture, of people making others pay for candy.
2.The fact that you don't really get anything from giving candy so their isn't an incentive to give, disregarding the trophy, (you'll never get ahead of them with such a large lead.)
3.As Thallen had mentioned. The housing script that makes you wait before entering another house, thus stopping EVERYTHING and halting your progress.

All and all, this event kinda ruined itself. I mean, its not super bad, but seeing the leaderboards, with all those candies, i really think that will also make the blind bags expensive, Unless you turn in all your candy for one blind bag, which seems kinda unlikely, but eh, ya never know.  

At least nobody takes your candy dropped from a ghost.
This also gives a chance for newbs to be in the leaderboard.
They don't necessary have to be good at anything.
However they do need to no life candy hunting LIKE last year.  

Posted by Yami

1.Example in picture, of people making others pay for candy.
2.The fact that you don't really get anything from giving candy so their isn't an incentive to give, disregarding the trophy, (you'll never get ahead of them with such a large lead.)
3.As Thallen had mentioned. The housing script that makes you wait before entering another house, thus stopping EVERYTHING and halting your progress.

Well for one, you're not really paying anything, they are just earning gralats. And realistically they aren't even earning gralats, unless somehow 100 people lifting that bush will produce a gralat with a value of 500. I dont see what the problem with that is at all, if anything it seems like the intelligent thing to do.

And two, considering this event is still running very well that definitely isn't a problem, maybe if this event was a month long I could understand that, but when its about three days the event isn't really harmed by anything.  

@ people saying its pointless to give candy: Is it pointless to focus on giving more than collecting? Yes. Is it pointless to spend gralats to keep a stocked bowl (if you can afford it)? No. If everyone decided not to pay at all and only use the free bowl, then on average everyone would have 100 candy. Most basic principle of an economy. There's nothing to take if no one is willing to give.  

Posted by twilit

@ people saying its pointless to give candy: Is it pointless to focus on giving more than collecting? Yes. Is it pointless to spend gralats to keep a stocked bowl (if you can afford it)? No. If everyone decided not to pay at all and only use the free bowl, then on average everyone would have 100 candy. Most basic principle of an economy. There's nothing to take if no one is willing to give.

Do u think they would make you buy something for an event and not reward you for it and using it?  

Posted by twilit

@ people saying its pointless to give candy: Is it pointless to focus on giving more than collecting? Yes. Is it pointless to spend gralats to keep a stocked bowl (if you can afford it)? No. If everyone decided not to pay at all and only use the free bowl, then on average everyone would have 100 candy. Most basic principle of an economy. There's nothing to take if no one is willing to give.

Agreed. The absolute worst are the people who put "PM ME IF YOU HAVE CANDY" in their names and/or statuses, and have their houses closed. Selfish jerks. If you have the word "candy" in your name, you damn well better be putting it out. Because, like a lot of people, when I'm quickly going through names to find houses, that's a word I'm always on the lookout for.

I enjoy giving out candy, just because it's in the spirit of the event, and I wouldn't feel right about taking without giving (especially since it's such an easy thing to do and candy bowls are only 500 gralats for 100 people). Also, I enjoyed setting up my house for it. I blocked off most of the house (because it's still a work in progress), but it was fun setting up a little area near the entrance, using some old Halloween furniture to decorate it a bit. I've seen some houses with clever decoration work as well.

In regards to the people putting candy on bushes, or behind a set of bushes, so what? Like someone already said, they aren't profiting anything (they're not going to make anywhere near the amount they spend on the candy bowls), and anyone who has the nerve to put their candy behind a very long gralat maze, I don't bother wasting my time, I just move on to the next house (unless there's a spot I can exploit and bomb glitch through, which I have done many times, even just to get by a single set of bushes. God it feels good not giving them any gralats). Then there's some people who purposely put candy in an unreachable spot. Ok, maybe it's fair to have some "trickery" given that this is technically trick or treating, but again, I've managed to get to many of these bowls using bomb glitching and the like. I don't even mind spending the time to do it, I just like the challenge. I even managed to do this in the house of a well-known Graalians members (heh heh).

All in all, this is fun. I didn't play during the Graaloweens with the candy ghosts, but I hear trying to collect candy was a chore, given the amount of people fighting over it. This, however, I'm enjoying. As are many people. It was a well-executed idea. We have yet to see how the gift bags are dispensed, but I'm sure it'll be a fair system that rewards what the average Graal player is able to collect (and not just the hardcore players on the top 25 list).  

Agreed. The absolute worst are the people who put "PM ME IF YOU HAVE CANDY" in their names and/or statuses, and have their houses closed. Selfish jerks. If you have the word "candy" in your name, you damn well better be putting it out. Because, like a lot of people, when I'm quickly going through names to find houses, that's a word I'm always on the lookout for.

I have out like 1k candy on the first day and I ran out of money and collected like 500. So I'm not selfish imo, and I actually really regret wasting all my left over money on it.... (Had 4k left after buying some furniture and a head)  

So here's my opinion the event. After a few days of this event going on, I would have to say that I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I did when we had to get candies from the ghosts. Like a few players who mentioned above, the event wasn't as fun because of the mazes. It seemed like people were more interested in gaining free money rather than giving out to the community. Around half of the maze houses that I have entered didn't even have candy but they still end up putting signs like, "Enter house for more candy" so that players could grab their bushes. I still think the idea of this event was great, but it ended up different than what I expected. I loved the idea of giving so it was nice that it got implemented into this event but like Michael said, players should at least have a bowl of candy if they want to participate. No one wants to enter houses just to farm for other players (:. It ruins the point of Halloween, which is to get caaaannndyyyyy. In the end, it might be fun to some players but I think the rest of us already know that this event wasn't as fun as the previous Halloween events. It would be nice if they could add in the ghost candies back next year so that the rest of us could enjoy finding candies through both ghosts and houses. Thanks for the great work you've brought to us though @ the staff team. #stopmazehouses