Mississippians Community Event

DragonGaming wrote:

GroxInvader wrote:

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

Indeed, I just hope that this doesnt become a norm, avatars and cosmetic symbols worked because they dont majorly if ever impact the gameplay, but for a 50 dollar game that is currently not in a state worth its price, locking out  a entire culture with its own special unit/building and bonuses, behind a time limited event is something that should only be done once, maybe twice.

Hey! Thanks for turning my positive post into a negative! You guys will really take every chance possible to bash this game huh?

I don't normally like leaving negative posts about games, so often I don't, but with this event I did because I felt the devs were being unrealistic about what the community was able to accomplish. So I left a comment venting my frustrations and despite being upset tried to leave some, what I felt, was constructive criticism about ways to better implement community events. But you know what? I was wrong! And I owned it, making a post pointing out the fact I was wrong and tried to make an over all optimistic view of things to come. It's not helpful to constantly bash the game for being "unfinished" or "unworth its price tag" and it can't help the dev team getting things done. 

These are human beings with deadlines that are often out of their control and bills to pay. They clearly care a lot about this game, and I think it shows, the community events are fun and engaging for concurrent players, whether or not you specifically care about them, their Cultures of Africa DLC was, I think, reasonably priced, and they constantly try to be helpful with streams and by responding to people's question comments. 

If you're upset that the game is unfinished, fine, wait a few months for more quality of life updates to come out. I'm just really tired of seeing everyone be so pessimistic about this game. It's not constructive and participating in the narrative it's "not a good game" just because it launched early with a few bugs is going to do nothing but ensure no one plays this game and it gets sunk.

I for one really enjoy this game. I think it has quite a few refreshing takes on a much beloved game genre and I really look forward to how Humankind continues to evolve and grow.

Deckress2747 wrote:

its been unlocked now but can we play with it? I cant find it in the medieval tab anywhere 

All unlocked rewards will become available with a future update and be free for everyone who owns the game.

Congrats to all comrades who partecipated , hope we keep doing this type of events but not like this where all community could risk to lose an additional gameplay feature (maybe make them available for everyone if we complete the goal, but if we don't succed at least allow us to buy it from a dlc)

And now we find out if Stadia players get it too

its been unlocked now but can we play with it? I cant find it in the medieval tab anywhere 

I'll join other guys at 'eating own words' table, then.

Much respect and fingers crossed devs will mark that one as a success and keep returning to it every once in a while to bring more interesting one-off cultures.

We're almost there!!! Such hype, just a few more stars and those Cohokian mounds are ours for the building

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

DragonGaming wrote:

GroxInvader wrote:

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

Indeed, I just hope that this doesnt become a norm, avatars and cosmetic symbols worked because they dont majorly if ever impact the gameplay, but for a 50 dollar game that is currently not in a state worth its price, locking out  a entire culture with its own special unit/building and bonuses, behind a time limited event is something that should only be done once, maybe twice.

There seems to be some confusion about this, so let me be very clear:

Playing during the event is NOT a requirement for playing the culture once it releases. The goals of this event are to unlock the culture for all players, just like with the Community Challenges we ran for the Endless games.

Even if you don't even own Humankind yet, you will get the Mississippians after they release. The Mississippians will effectively be a "FreeLC" (Though I don't know whether they will be listed as such or just integrated in the base game data).

ah, I see, Its just that I was worried that due to how previous events were made, this one would have also gone down a similar path.

Evolena wrote:

GroxInvader wrote:

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

Same, it seems that for the Lunar New Year it was the cultures participating for the stars goal that were too restrictive (inducing some replay fatigue I guess), not the global amount of stars needed.

Another thing that helped for sure is the "you can play modded" in this event. I'm pretty sure I contribuited a grand total of 0 stars to the LNY event because I basically only play modded nowadays, but could help this one

DragonGaming wrote:

GroxInvader wrote:

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

Indeed, I just hope that this doesnt become a norm, avatars and cosmetic symbols worked because they dont majorly if ever impact the gameplay, but for a 50 dollar game that is currently not in a state worth its price, locking out  a entire culture with its own special unit/building and bonuses, behind a time limited event is something that should only be done once, maybe twice.

There seems to be some confusion about this, so let me be very clear:

Playing during the event is NOT a requirement for playing the culture once it releases. The goals of this event are to unlock the culture for all players, just like with the Community Challenges we ran for the Endless games.

Even if you don't even own Humankind yet, you will get the Mississippians after they release. The Mississippians will effectively be a "FreeLC" (Though I don't know whether they will be listed as such or just integrated in the base game data).

I feel there is a big unhappyness about Community Events (one way or the other, whether it is "simple" community challenges like this or the individual events). 

I also understand that devs want to bring content that really gets people engaged, with a new culture being a really cool goal. 

But I think maybe it would make sense to hold a poll on these things? What people would like to see as events, which rewards, what time-limits etc. 

GroxInvader wrote:

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

Same, it seems that for the Lunar New Year it was the cultures participating for the stars goal that were too restrictive (inducing some replay fatigue I guess), not the global amount of stars needed.

Is there still no real release date for the new update?

It's looking like I'm going to have to eat my words, seems like the community has really come together on this one. 

Very excited for the new content and I hope we get more events like this to shine a light on other interesting and unique cultures.

zhree1 wrote:

Is anyone else getting the message "No Event Available" from the Events option when first starting the game? I was able to see my progress for the Da Vinci event, and briefly for the Mississippian event, but for the last few days, I get the message instead. I've confirmed my accounts are linked - but if anyone has any suggestions (and you can still see the event) - please let me know what I might be doing wrong. Thanks!

The "event" on the menu is tide to the Individual challenges (like Da Vinci), that is the reason on why this event section is not displayed in the game.

Is anyone else getting the message "No Event Available" from the Events option when first starting the game? I was able to see my progress for the Da Vinci event, and briefly for the Mississippian event, but for the last few days, I get the message instead. I've confirmed my accounts are linked - but if anyone has any suggestions (and you can still see the event) - please let me know what I might be doing wrong. Thanks!

I'm actually surprised we got this many stars already, so I might have to trust the process. Here is my strategy for earning fast points: I play on a small map, blitz mode and nations difficulty. I don't advance until I have all the builder stars, after that I advance as soon as possible. A game lasts me about 1.5 hours this way.

Please make one for the Philippines <3

This event should've been held as Bolivar went out of beta when people are eager to come back and try the big new update. 

Hard to believe how poorly these events have been handled. Oftentimes the unlocks don't even work properly, this event can't be tracked from within the game not to mention the baseline awfulness of dangling bits of content above our faces offering it in exchange for grind and turning the game into a job.