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Enough with the Sarcastic Gameshow Tickets!!

With so many good developments lately, I am baffled and confused that one of the big changes we've seen is that about 75% of the time, Gameshow tickets from shrines and chickens just give you another frickin' gameshow ticket.  How does this waste of time improve the game experience?  I also think the prizes have gotten tougher -- I've been getting a lot more beans and 5c booby prizes -- but that is fine, that is not a complete waste of time.

Posted 8 months ago by Tomorrow's Man Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • few things are more frustrating when hitting the cubimal box on a gameshow ticket, only to open said cubimal box and find a piggy cubimal.
    Posted 8 months ago by CleverCharacterName Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "The prize is - - - Terrible."

    ;D
    Posted 8 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love it when I get a ticket...4 times in a row lol
    Posted 8 months ago by phelps.mike Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's a change? Odds have been at least that bad for me for as long as I've been playing...
    Posted 8 months ago by Pancake Batfish Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree that the Gameshow is mostly a waste of time, but it doesn't seem to be worse now.

    I suggest making the tickets 4x rarer and getting rid of the booby prizes.
    Posted 8 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like that the game show tickets can be good or bad or both in the case of receiving a cubi and getting yet another chick lol. It adds a certain unpredictability and I think the booby prizes are a bit of fun, and are another part of the quirkiness, dad joke and wit that really epitomises the play of this game. 
    Posted 8 months ago by Oristia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you don't like losing the game show, stop playing it. 
    Posted 8 months ago by HeyGabe Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've been playing quite a long time now and think Gameshow tickets are about as useless as a CA lottery ticket.  They're just a thing.. doesn't bother me since I really have no expectations in the first place.
    Posted 8 months ago by Joni Mitchell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think I've ever gotten another ticket from a gameshow ticket... or if I have it was so rare that I forgot about it. To test if this changed recently, I just played 3 that I got from tending herbs, and the prizes were a musicbox, 45(I think?) currants, 45? currants.
    Posted 8 months ago by Omnika Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whenever I got a gameshow ticket from the spinning wheel, the prize would always be mediocre.

    Use rubeweed. 
    Posted 8 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think I got 5 in a row once.  I was about to throw something...
    Posted 8 months ago by larky lion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Randomness confuses our minds; I suspect the odds haven't changed at all, it's simply a matter of running into a streak, which is perfectly normal when something's being randomly determined.

    Me, I've not seen an increase in tickets, either, and have yet to receive a cubimal despite having spun that wheel more than a thousand times. I didn't even know you could win one until someone mention it a couple of months ago.
    Posted 8 months ago by Credulous Ralph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Since you don't buy them and they don't cost energy to use, they are basically a free bonus, I don't see the peoblem.
    Posted 8 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Honestly, I love the game show music so much that getting to hear it is what the tickets are about for me. I don't even pay attention to the prizes anymore.
    Posted 8 months ago by Pancake Batfish Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Sisyphean nature of the game show appeals to my sense of the ludicrous. WHEEL 4 EVAH!!!
    Posted 8 months ago by Georgia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pancake, it's been a while since I've listened to all of the musicblocks, so I'm not 100% sure, but I think one of them plays the same music as the game show wheel...
    Posted 8 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You're correct, dm. One of them does. I don't remember which... maybe one of the orange triangle ones.
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think I was level 25 or so before I realized the wheel ever gave anything except 1 bean, 5c, or another ticket. The only reason I even bother is that they take up inventory slots, dropping them somewhere feels like littering since they are worthless,  and I am NOT wasting an SDB on the stupid things.
    Posted 8 months ago by Frogger The Mad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I get musicblocks reasonably often.  The wheel comments are funny too!
    Posted 8 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • to weigh in... i strongly dislike the gameshow tickets. they hardly ever give anything of value and quite frankly the music is annoying :)

    i'd love to see the eliminated
    Posted 8 months ago by Snowpuff Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As noted above - if you hate the gameshow tickets DON'T PLAY, just drop them and someone else will pick them up.  I think they are fun - and funny.  I don't count on getting anything valuable, it is purely for the fun of spinning the wheel. How would eliminating them make the game better?
    Posted 8 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree with Kookaburra. If you really hate it so much, drop em for someone else to find. At least they'll like it. Who cares if you don't ever get something super valuable? It's just for fun. :/
    Posted 8 months ago by SeerQueen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for rarer game show tickets.
    Posted 8 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just in case anyone's wondering, here are the odds http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/18606/
    Posted 8 months ago by Sloppy Ketchup Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i love spinnign the wheel , but i , too, have the worst luck with the wheel. i almsot always get a booby prize even when i remember to try chewing rubeweed before i spin. i would like to keep the golden tickets- but it'd be nice if i was luckier.... ;P
    Posted 8 months ago by serenitycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • serenitycat, I spun 200 tickets with the rubeweed buff and 200 tickets without and the yield was actually slightly higher without the buff.  save your rubeweed for chicken squeezin'!
    Posted 8 months ago by Sloppy Ketchup Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I personally love the game show tickets!  I almost never win anything more than the bean or the 5c, but it's fun to try :)  I get so excited when a chicken gives me one!
    Posted 8 months ago by Clarabelle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • being fairly new, i enjoy the game show tickets. i'm sure most of you have been playing for some time. what you must realize is that the game is not only for you, but also for new users. if TS eliminated everything you don't like, new players would miss out. just my humble opinion.
    edited to add...if you don't want/like to play your tickets ..save them and give them to new players when the game goes live. i'm sure those players will enjoy them
    Posted 8 months ago by CatoriTala Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I really like the tickets. Getting them is the annoying part XD.
    Posted 8 months ago by Ambillina Subscriber! | Permalink