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Holy Crap - where did my money go?

I just hit 2 million currants on Monday night - now my balance is 872,814, and my imagination hasn't changed. Even if my imagination DOES change, that's quite a hit to my bank balance...

Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Unless the cost of stuff has dramatically dropped - we've just all been robbed!
    Posted 7 months ago by Loupin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yep mines gone down too
    Posted 7 months ago by Swoooo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Maybe they converted a portion of currants to imagination before taking the converted currants away? My other thought was that it was related to houses, but I guess not.
    Posted 7 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had 1mil, and I have 527k. That means you took a MUCH bigger hit than I did.
    Posted 7 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i honestly feel quite screwed and everything i have to sell has just tripled in price if not more
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's part of the imagination change. It's happening to all of us, like the level drop, so really we'll all be in the same place relative to each other. Just think of it as an economic stimulus package.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lilith Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thiefs are on the loose, they stole 1/2 of my 1 million plus stash *calls glitch police*.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same thing happened to me. Had 1.3 million currants, now I'm sitting at just over 600 thousand currants. Staff, please fix this or at least explain in detail when able. For now, I think I'll try buying things on auction before I go broke.
    Posted 7 months ago by Sir Lagsalot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • they did say a while back that some of our currants would be used towards the new imagination - I've lost a lot too (will be something to work towards again i guess :)  1.5mill to 723k
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had 2,844,653 now I have 1,152,182
    Posted 7 months ago by Glitch E Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had almost 9 million and it is now 3,239 million currants. oh well.
    Posted 7 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If I recall correctly there was something about currants + level + other mischief = Imagination.

    It stands to reason that if currants are used to give you imagination, they go poof as part of the conversion.
    Posted 7 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm pretty sure this was one of the things that they said would happen ages ago, as part of the rebalancing.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aeralis Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just had 200,000c go poof. I'm not overly worried though... I'm assuming they're fiddling with wires and switches behind the scenes and it will balance out somehow.
    Posted 7 months ago by Laerwen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Walruz, I took a similar hit like you did, had almost the same exact number of currants as you did before and after. Seems like the more currants you had the bigger the hit you took.
    Posted 7 months ago by Omnika Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had 5,480,000. Now I have 45k.

    Just kidding, it was 45k before.
    Posted 7 months ago by Crrrystal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I went from 328k to 252k, which is not a lot but it's still 24%, almost 1/4th of my total 'wealth'.

    Thank god they haven't touched our friend lists..
    Posted 7 months ago by Princess Sarah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's because of Stephen King's op-ed about taxes.
    Posted 7 months ago by Golden Retriever Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I lost 56k, 278k to 222k
    Posted 7 months ago by Polly Nomial Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ooh napabeth, ouch! My hit was only a little over a million in loss. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Avery♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Progressive tax rate!

    And when they said a portion I wasn't quite expecting 1/2 to 3/5.
    Posted 7 months ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It sounds as if they converted some currants for people who had a lot but left currants alone for people with less? That would be in line with what they said about trying to "flatten" the advantages of older players before exiting beta.

    I don't remember what I had before the change, but it was not much more than what I have right now, about 260k.
    Posted 7 months ago by Dotcom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL I don't think in the past year, I've ever had more than 52K currants. I think I had about 14K and now I'm down to 9K.
    Posted 7 months ago by Jarhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Had a tad over 551K and now 374099₡ in the bank. Can't wait to hear the explanation for this..
    Posted 7 months ago by Kerlick Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have to admit though, if we had have been given the choice to buy imagination with our currants I probably would have blown half of them doing so anyway! This has to be more cost effective than those bloody cubimal boxes HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have lost almost 50% of my currants. I am not happy.
    I wish I hadn't signed in today.  ;(
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had 3,324,310 and now I have 1,323,899. Deflation!
    Posted 7 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kerlick, we knew before the changes happened that a portion of currants would be changed into imagination.  That's why I've been busting a gut the past 6 weeks or so to get my money up : )
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • for those who wish to hoard your wealth through these tumultuous times, now is the time to pray to your ayn rand dolls...
    Posted 7 months ago by AwesomeStu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • what i dont get is, is if it removes on a curve, do we get more imagination because of it? I lost a lot of cash.

    I also did not get squat for imagination, so im really not digging this at all.
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't explain it yet Elf, hopefully TS will do in more detail.  It probably helped me that my currant balance was pretty healthy but I'd also maxed out my level to 60.  Maybe they're still tweaking with the figures (will keep my fingers crossed for you in any case).
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it looks like everyone lost around half of their currants? I had just over 3 million and now I have 1,212,015-with no change in imagination...yet. 
    Posted 7 months ago by rach.the.emobear Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My imagination was added before the currants were removed.  Maybe the imagination was phase one, then removing currants was phase 2.
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No, I didn't lose half. I went from 428,165 to 311,899.
    Posted 7 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just went from 2.8M to 1.1M. I should have invested in golden eggs.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think that its the revenge of the chickens! They been on about revenge for the squeezing for ages,  and they grabbed their chance and stole our currants while we can't get in the game!
    Posted 7 months ago by Pippette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh no, the currant market crashed!

    I lost 100,000 which is pennies compared to some of you who lost quite a bit more but, but, but...
    Posted 7 months ago by PittyPat is sad Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 3.5 to 1.3m for me.
    Posted 7 months ago by Sooriyan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah I think it's on a curve as someone above said LMG.  I went from 700k-odd to 400k-odd and someone in the other thread hasn't had any of their 6,000 currents switched.  As someone above says, stimulus package!
    Posted 7 months ago by Golden Retriever Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i hope everyone hoarded some goodies, cuz everything is going to go up....I can see it happening, at least..
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Only a little more for me than Walruz, but damn it!  I worked Hard for those currants and I don't Want the playing field to be "leveled"  !!!

    *stomping feet*

    *takes back the aged bottle of scotch from Stoot*
    Posted 7 months ago by Li'll Missy Brenda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You get extra value to your imagination from the currants, this will almost definitely be more valuable to you in game than the currants were, it will allow you to do more from the starting blocks than others who didn't have that money. Plus what you learned has also been accounted for. This is why I got 997k imagination and some of my currants cut at level 47 but I learned everything. Someone else who had all money and same level would get more imagination than me, if they have not learned as much they may get about the same. It's a huge balancing act and I trust TS to make it fair for all.
    Posted 7 months ago by jiva Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would be ok with it if it were actually converted to imagination. As it is now, I seem to be screwed because I was at level 60.

    ETA: And no, I did NOT get extra value to my imagination.
    Posted 7 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Same Audaria.
    Posted 7 months ago by Li'll Missy Brenda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Audaria - that's probably why they didn't do the lvl to IMG and currants to IMG at the same time. I expect the currants that we lost will become IMG soon.
    Posted 7 months ago by Avery♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here's the explanation from Stoot per Metra's link:

    Imagine three players before the conversion: Fred, who is level 10 with 1,000 currants; Mary, who is level 30 with 50,000 currants and Sally, who is level 60 with 1,000,000 currants. In the example, Mary has 50x the currants that Fred has, while Sally has 20x more currants than Mary and 1,000x more currants than Fred (the differences in levels seem less, but because each successive level requires more XP, the ratios between their levels are actually similar to the ratios between their currant balances).  After the conversion,  rather than 1 : 50 : 1,000, the differences between them might be more like 1 : 10 : 100 or even 1 : 5 : 10 (it depends on the curve and we have a lot more math to do before we'll decide that). Bottom line: if you are ahead now, you will be ahead afterwards, but not as far ahead.

    www.glitch.com/forum/genera...
    Posted 7 months ago by Golden Retriever Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Audaria, people at level 60 have reported different levels of imagination.  How do you think you've been screwed? 
    Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How do you know it wasn't converted Audaria? Wait and you will see.

    I know it's not nice to have change but it's not all done yet.
    Posted 7 months ago by jiva Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also didn't get any added imagination for my currant loss. Still at 2,131,519 imagination from the original conversion from level 60. I'll wait and see if it changes.
    Posted 7 months ago by Glitch E Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I seem to have and extra 100k imagination more than many of my level 60 counterparts!
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
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