Maybe we could use this thread to list positive suggestions for change for the next Puzzle Island...after all, SP did listen to some of our feedback from the Fruit Puzzle Island and made a few adjustments already for the Far West Puzzle Island. When the new survey comes out, we could refer SP to this suggested changes thread where they could see all of our suggestions in one place.

I could start with my suggestion to allow moves awarded for breeding to be similar to the 10 free moves per 8hrs ... maybe 1 to 1-1/2 moves per hour of required breeding/hatching time. (ex. Primal/Dark breeding = 12hrs...moves rewarded should be 12-18 for the breed...plus the additional 17hrs time needed for hatching should award 17-25 moves; total moves awarded should be 19-43 for breeding and hatching a Primal/Dark combo.)

Hmm my suggestions...

1. NO nodes with quest requirements more than 2.
2. Breeding nodes should be counted by the number of breeds not the elements and perhaps none lower than an hour should count. Or maybe those could be a large number...say 25 needed.
3. Again like the breeding, hatching should be done by the total number of hatches not the hatching based on elements.
4. No feeding requirements should be higher than 500,000 which is still too high, max 200,000 would be more doable. The feeding requirements were beyond ridiculous. 1.5 million when you can only grow 1.75 million in 24 hours!!
5. The farming is the same, again the max that should be required per node is 140,000 and that is still too much because it would take 9 hours to grow that using all farms at 10,000 each.
6. Again with the large number of arena requirements. Do I need to say it? Ok, I will there were just tooooooo many of them, every other node were arena fights, they should have been a max of 10 at the most, not 15 or more.
7. More gold collecting nodes should have been added.
8. This is the important one The type of requirements should have been better distributed, the arena fights should have been in the bottom that gave the higher moves and either the breeding or the hatching should have been higher with the fewer moves.
9. The rewards on this puzzle was also horrible, they were not worth moving and certainly not worth buying moves to progress forward. Obviously you thought the Fruit puzzle was too easy, but you went to the opposite end of the spectrum with these rewards.

There was NOTHING enjoyable, fun or productive about the Far West puzzle, in fact I stopped actively playing it do to the ridiculous amounts of food to feed and the small amounts of moves given. Even with the free moves my progress was only far enough to get Grove, a horrible consolation prize.

@nynaevelan ... LOTS of good suggestions! THANKS for the thoughtful input with great rationale!!

I would suggest again (as I did last time) that if elements are required for breeding or hatching, only one element be required. Having 2 elements is too time-consuming. And for crying out loud, requiring conflicting element combos like nature/electric is just cruel and should not be repeated in a third event.
I have only been toddling along. Haven't spent a cent or a gem on this event. The tasks arent worth the rewards.

The requirements for each node scale up FAR too much as you progress. When a single node later in the event needs 400-500 tokens collected (they probably actually go up higher than that), and on a REALLY good day you might be able to make 100 moves without spending money, the mismatch is obvious. Just getting through all the nodes for Far West would be challenging if they were all a similar cost to the first, with the scaleup it looks like you'd need more than 10x what can actually be reasonably accomplished.

Similarly the mission requirements scale up much too fast and far.

The three lines need to be move at more similar speeds. Somebody who actually gets to Far West would probably have gone through the bottom line 2-3 times at least.

You shouldn't lose out completely either on tokens you collect when there isn't an active node for them, or when you collect more in a single move than are needed for the current node.

Powerups hit by other powerups should go off themselves, not simply vanish.

Powerups should not go away when the puzzle level advances.

Having a quest requiring the ultimate prize dragon show up with a third of the event left to run, instead of after the event, is ridiculous.

Also, there should be lower dragons at the start and strong ones at the end. One look at how far it is to get Desert is enough to understand my point.

One more:

Don't have tokens go straight into the nodes. They should go to a bank instead, and you can buy the node from the bank when you have enough. Tokens in the bank can be converted into others at a loss of efficiency. For example, 2 wheels for 1 hat which are on the same line. Or 3 stars for 1 hat, since those are different lines. This would allow people to focus effort if there are particular things they're going for, rather than forcing everyone to proceed along all the lines at essentially the same rate. One person might decide that they're going to focus exclusively on the top line, another might shoot straight for a timed reward, another might deemphasize a line containing dragons they already have.

Also covers my points above about not losing tokens, and the differential speed of the lines (since you could convert stars/cacti into others once you get through the bottom line once, for example).

These are AWESOME everyone! Keep them coming ...

Something else that should be changed: For example when I have 100 moves and need 50 hats... That should be easy to get, right? But nope. They stop coming. I had that several times that only not needed items appeared a lot. Annoying.

Arena Battles should allow use of all dragons available to a DragonMaster to use as they feel they need to use in whatever combination they choose to use them.

Example: current arena battle is for primal only. I have only 3 dragons with primal: Lv 25 Epic (C-), Lv 16 Legend (Not yet rated), Lv 7 Epic (Not yet rated) ... was just pitted in first battle vs Lv 20 Legend, Lv 8 Epic , Lv 20 Heroic (forgot to catch their ratings); lost this round so no reward towards mission. Next battle is vs Lv 25 Heroic (A+), Lv 25 Heroic (C), Lv 21 (C-) ... will lose that one also based upon Levels/Ratings. This has been an obstacle for me during this entire event especially in that the primal only requirement has occurred at least twice now and lasts for about 8hrs each time preventing any progress towards this type of mission.

During a puzzle event, all battles in the arena should be set to allow the use of all dragons available to the DragonMaster; no elemental restrictions...and evenly matched strengths should be programmed in as well.

Wait time between Quest battles should be much shorter...2-3hr wait might be fair. (ex. Wait time after 1st battle of a quest during puzzle island event was 11hrs...mission required completion of 4 quest battles...wait time to complete mission would be 44hrs...way too long to earn reward of 10 move tokens.)

Also ...Quest battles during an event should not require a dragon that needs to be earned during the event; this requires time necessary to ...

1. obtain the dragon during the event plus
2. time to hatch the dragon (depending upon the particular dragon, this could be a couple of days just to hatch the dragon) then
3. would need to insure enough food was available to get the dragon to the required fight level [have seen Quest battle requirements for dragon need to be at level 10+] ... which, during an event there should not be a requirement for the dragon to be at a certain level, especially 10+

All of the above requires time before being able to even begin the quest that may last only 2-3 days.

I think SocialPoint must have read this post seeing as the Fireworks Puzzle is very good. I got Firefighter and Firecracker in the first 15 minutes of the event showing up.

@_thespacebeing_ I agree! This event has been fun and generous so far, and I’ve gotten the same prizes you have.

I don't know how SP think it is right to use Gems to skip a node, it should be gold, just like arena, gold, food then gems and much lower. SP make enough money. This puzzle overall is a bit better than last ones.

I like how they have put all the dragons on the top row since we can focus our attention on them.

Now I have Barley and I am going to focus my full attention to the Uppercut seeing as he ends tomorrow and I have a chance at getting him.

Ugh. Another stupid puzzle island.
They still have 2-element breed/hatchings, so nothing I already had going was useful. I have 3 breed/hatch tasks now and a minimum 12 hours waiting. And not enough quests so I'm waiting 6 hours there, unless they add another at reset in half hour.
Only improvement I see so far is amount of gold and food needed n tasks isn't too outrageous. Yet.

@kevin-n-scott I agree. I think only gold was required to skip in previous puzzles. I will not use my gems to skip. There's nothing I want bad enough to use them.

@dragonista It was gems the whole way through. It was never Gold.

It has always been gems but should be gold,to start with at least. I now have 3 hatch, breed tasks, I won't waste gems on this.

@kevin-n-scott said in Next Puzzle Island-Suggestions for Changes:

It has always been gems but should be gold,to start with at least. I now have 3 hatch, breed tasks, I won't waste gems on this.

I think if we have to use gems we should at least get a little something for it. For example 1 move per gem.