theonlysaneone wrote:
If you get 3 pieces every day, use them to complete maps, and sell the completed maps for 660K each, you can make about 35-36 MILLION NP every year.
No way. How did you come to that number? First of all, only a few maps sell for that much -- I'm lucky to get 450k for Tyrannia. Neopia Central is even cheaper. And if you look at _knight_general_'s WC prize pages, many of the other maps are hard to complete and very few of them were actually completed and sold last year compared to the "easier" (read: cheaper) maps, so there's no way people were doing one per week. Secondly, you can't just complete one map per week anymore because of all the doubles and the lack of people who want to trade for them (a big enough problem with Tyrannia, and probably much worse for the Maraqua or Krawk Island players because there are even fewer of them). I started over at Tyrannia 1 four days ago and I've earned 12 pieces, only 8 of which were "originals" and could go into my map. The rest are sitting in trades and not getting any bites. Several pieces of that map (1,18,20) are more common than others and I just keep earning those over and over.
Before the change, I played the World Challenges a lot. Pieces were unrestricted and I probably did complete a map every week, and I didn't make any multi-million NP purchases or anything, but I still didn't even come close to 35 million NP. I doubt any WC player did.
Edit: THEY JUST MADE VOLCANO RUN A LIMITED GAME. I am so angry right now... words can't even express... that game was plenty popular until just last week, and you know why no one is playing it anymore? BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID 3 PIECES PER DAY RULE, TNT! Forgive us regular players if we don't want to sit there for hours playing the game just for the scores when we're not earning any NP or picture pieces!
They might as well just scrap World Challenges entirely now, as far as I'm concerned. They just keep getting worse and worse. Way to drive away your loyal longtime players, TNT.