If you haven't been randomly selected for the gem roulette yet, I'll explain why it's extremely unfair and will make you lose a ton of resources.

For those who don't know, the gem roulette is being tested by Socialpoint and players are randomly selected to test it for them. It completely replaces Monsterwood, so you will not get the normal Monsterwood rewards that everyone else gets, which is extremely unfair. It even removes other parts of the game, which I will explain below. There is no way to opt-out and support will not do anything about it either.

What you get with the gem roulette:

• Every day when the daily goals change over you get to spin the roulette by watching an ad. You only get two per day, one right away and one a half hour later.
• For each of these spins, you get up to two extra chances to watch another ad and respin if you don't like what it lands on.
• You almost always get only 4 gems per spin since it has a 91.49% chance.
• What got people excited about the gem roulette when it was announced was the chance to get 1000 gems. But this will not actually happen because it only has a 0.01% chance. Thankfully they actually make the percents publicly available:

What you lose because of the gem roulette:

• All resources given out by Monsterwood including cells, relics, gems, etc.
• Since receiving the gem roulette I've missed out on 240 cells that I could have used to rank monsters for battlegrounds and the library.
• I also missed the round of relics that ended yesterday. Another 120 relics I could have used to rank my existing ones, or the chance to get a gold one.
• The food that was given out over the weekend (this is the one resource I personally don't mind missing).
• The worst one yet: Today, normal Monstwerwood is giving out gems. This means everyone in the game will be getting 40 gems per day, while players stuck with the roulette only get 8.
• Ability to speed up farms growing food. This is one of the surprising changes, it apparently affects literally anything that has an ad. When the race started I went to speed up a farm to collect food for a food task, but had to use a gem because this is turned off.
• Last week's speed-up event for hatching and breeding by watching ads. Just like the farms, it didn't allow me to participate in this event.

I have been stuck with the roulette for over a week now, and now that I'm losing gems, the one resource it actually provides, I'm desperate to get it out of my game. It's not fair to force certain players to use this. I wouldn't mind if everyone tested it together, but what's happening is that some people are losing out on a lot of resources and even missing events in the game because of it. The lost resources alone aren't worth 8 gems a day, or even the extra you might get when you're lucky. Now it's even gems on top of all of that. Perhaps some people might prefer to watch fewer ads, but there should be a way to opt-out instead of unfairly forcing it on people who don't want to miss out.

This is outrageous. Just another form of gambling. Give me them feedback saying its rubbish and does not work.

@boris thanks for actually explaining how this new MW feature works. All I saw so far were a few FB posts of players being lucky and getting 25 or 50 gems and I even saw one picture of someone getting the 1000 gems. Obviously the majority of players go 'Oh wow, I want this, too!' However, after reading your post I am glad that I don't have it!!! Let's hope that SP will ditch this feature

Thanks for the post, @Boris. This idea is absolute garbage to begin with, but to force the downgrade on random people is even moreso. Poor, poor customer relations there.

can almost guarantee that the odds above for the gem wheel are also the same odds for the chests that give a monster between rank 0 and rank 5, and give 100 to 740 cells.

@testcyp that thought occurred to me too

Unfair? How about this?

I thought I hit the jackpot. But nothing happens after I claimed it. Gem count did not increase!
After 3 days back and forth conversation, the support finally concluded, that this is a "visual bug" that dev team is working on. He compensated 25 gems to me.
Seriously? is this a joke @Fox ?

@skeelmaster , absolutely outrageous! ...the bogus 25 gems is not going to compensate the relics, cells, gems that you've lost! Bogus beta testings being forced upon players is totally unfair!

Hi @skeelmaster.

Please, look closely at the ss. When you spin the roulette, the winning item is always on the top (12h mark). The visual bug incorrectly highlights a different part of the Roulette.

Anyone know when this friggin thing is going to end?

I'm one of the "lucky" ones selected for this gem roulette wheel.

I think after more than a week the "TEST" should be completed.

so basically you have 0,01% chances to win...and even if you win, it's a mistake.

@grnxnham I hope it ends soon and before the next round of cells. I already missed out on so many from two weeks ago. The gems were the worst though. We're given gems as our reward, but then everyone else starts getting a lot more gems than us on top of what we've already lost out on.

The only thing I ever look forward to with MW is the chance to get a gold relic. I would much rather it stay as it is than to have this gem wheel.

@monsterbath it’s part of the overall plan to reduce rewards. They lowered rewards in the dungeons and gave us gambling cave. I’m sure this is part of same plan. Overall you get less and gamble more

@testcyp yes and that's when I and many others stop playing. Greed is not good

@boris my thoughts:

1. I like the gem wheel, but it shouldn't be there all the time. SP should include it in their normal rotation scheme, meaning that sometimes you get the gems, sometimes relics, cells, or other goodies. If this happens, Im fine with it. And I dont mind being part of the betatest as long as it is temporary.
2. Of course, there is no reason to remove the 'skip 1hr of breeding/hatching', just because you have the gem wheel. These features are not interconnected. Linking them doesnt make any sense.
3. I agree that the cave absolutely sucks, especially for younger players. It adds more casino style to the game, and should be removed. Totally unethical...
4. It is outragious that they didn't give the player his 1000 gems. It was their mistake, so they should face the consequences. To give the player 1,000 gems costs SP NOTHING.

Even any casino would give 1000 gems (and player would gamble it and his own money anyway and casino would have a profit)

@tom13 said in The gem roulette replacement for Monsterwood is extremely unfair and you should be able to opt-out:

It is outragious that they didn't give the player his 1000 gems. It was their mistake, so they should face the consequences. To give the player 1,000 gems costs SP NOTHING.

This! I am pretty sure that 99% of other companies would have honoured the 1000 gems. As you said, it costs them nothing, yet refusing to honour this costs them A LOT more. Do you really feel like giving a company that behaves like this any (more) money???

@tom13 I think the gem roulette is fine if everyone in the game has it at the same time. But it's not fair to force people to test it while everyone else is getting tons of resources and even more gems.

@boris oh well, boris, I think you should take it easy. If the test phase takes some more days, maybe another week or so, I am fine with it. In the long run, the r or e cells that we missed, the level 1 or 2 runes, or even the lost gems, will not destroy our game. Its the companies right to do tests like that, and we will survive

3 years ago SP divided all players into 3 groups to test how much players would spend based on different speedup cost. One group could speed up stuff for bugger all, I think a legendary breed cost less than 10 gems, another group was charged heaps extra, like the 2 gem surcharge for speeding up hatching and building now (but even more!), except it applied to everything, including recovering monsters for war and the third group enjoyed 1 gem per hour as normal. This went on for over two weeks. I was in the expensive group, my son in the cheap group. Support was lying through their teeth all this time telling me that all is normal....

....this is SP. They give an huge F about their customers and it has always been this way. So this is really no surprise. I was always hoping things might change one day, but over three years later, I have given up on that thought!!!

@tom13

It's Legendary cells, not R or E cells. Epic and rare cells aren't even given out in Monsterwood. Neither were level 1 or 2 runes during this period. Please check the first list in my post. There were also more resources given out since I made this thread.

If you like this better because it means you can watch less ads, that's fine, but it's not right to force a small group of people to be left out of a large part of the game. That's why the people they choose to test it should be allowed to opt-out, which would be perfectly fair.

Secondly, the reason complaints like this are brought up is because we enjoy playing the game and want to see it succeed. When something bad happens, it doesn't help anyone to keep valid complaints silent just because it's the company's right.

Luckily, after over two weeks and thousands of resources lost, the gem roulette is finally out of my game.

Assuming you are very unlucky and you have 2 spins a day it would taken 5000 days, as 100%/.01% is 10000 and when divided by 2 is 5000. I can get 20 videos twice a day during happy hour. 1000gems/40 gems=25 days. This is clearly robbing our gems. Sorry I have to divide by 2 since you technically get 2 more chances but still 5000/2 is still 2500 which is more than a year

@bwang487 2500 days is more than 6 years not just 1 year