Wishing You A Happy Late Lantern Festival

Well, for starters, since I made tangyuan for CNY this year, I didn’t make it for this celebration... 😅 But here’s a picture of it, just cause.

Now that that’s out of the way, this will be a recap of both of the special Spring Festival events that have been running for the last few weeks.

Yes, the Bright New Year section that was broken into two parts, much like the LOP Anniversary Event is structured. Two different mini games, two different point shops. Bottom line, gotta decide which event you’re dropping more ingots for points on to exchange for the items you really want, with fingers crossed that you don’t suck at the mini game. 😏😅🙈

Of course, that’s what happened to me, right?

Whack-a-golden-rat much easier than meeting the demands of all your ravenous partners. Anyone else with me?

I mean, if I didn’t want Fan Lihua’s skin and upgrade so much, I would’ve just held out for the dinner rush game, but you know me. My love hate relationship with those stupid partner skins. One of these years I’ll get Prince Yi’s. I got one of those brocade boxes from the task driven pot thing that was running during part 2 of the Bright New Year event, but after getting Ling Xiang, I didn’t have enough ingots left to get enough points for nine more of those boxes. Oh well, next year. 🙃

However, I did notice that those upgrades, particularly the ones for patience AND making sugar coating REALLY made it up for my thumbs stumbling around and selecting the wrong fruits to glaze. 😅 I did note something bizarre as I was playing. The game didn’t always follow the FIFO method. (Forgive my accounting inventory jargon here. 😆) For example, you prepared three starfruit sticks for two existing customers and then a third came along with the same request. Instead of giving them to the two that were there first, it evenly distributes them amongst the customers! 🫤 To be honest, it didn’t hurt my scores too much, it was just an odd thing that made the game a little more irksome than it needed to be. That, and there were several times it never registered that I pressed the finished sticks for them to be distributed! 😩 Once again, not the end of the world, just something I hope will be smoothed out, should the game return next year.

Before moving on to the Lantern Festival specific event, I wanted to mention the New Years Journey for this year. This really is one of those things that if you can team up with “big spenders” you’re probably going to rank higher. I think both this and last year my team placed 3rd, and I had more than enough random character tiles and swap cards to get what I wanted as prizes. In fact, this year was much more fun and I just grabbed a ton of random stuff. 😅 (As shown above.) Last year, I was trying to complete prior year outfits and get a new one that had no imagery available outside our regalia closet, and I ended up having to get more swap cards from the main event point shop... It was a hot mess. 😂 However, this is definitely one of those awkward timing things, especially if you’ve been accidentally hoarding and suddenly dropped your stash right before it. For example, if it had not been for the Grandiose Ceremony and me going for Favored shortly before this event I would’ve had WAY more sachets and stamina pills to drop. Like one of my teammates. She had like 17,000+ sachets AND 700+ stamina pills. 🤯🤯🤯 LOP hoarding goals... 🤣

Okay, let’s move on!

Ah yes, they end of the Spring Festival, Lantern Days. You know, I was happy to see the trivia game make a come back this year. 😅

So, two years ago, I went ALL OUT on this. It was my birthday splurge, got the rice ball soup recipe 🤩, both outfits, passed all the pavilions, blah blah blah. It was quite the night. 😅 This year... Well, let’s just say I’m giving myself a chance to recoup funds from CNY. I did really like the outfit, but there was no way I was topping up or would save enough ingots to get it. Besides, I have WAY too many clothes in my virtual closet as it is. Might as well save the ingots for other stuff for now.

I also really liked the design for this event.

The colors really caught my eye. Speaking of which, since I decided to sit this out, I am bummed I didn’t get the avatar frame and chat box. They were both very pretty. However, once again, not something I need more of. I rarely change my frame and chat box as it is. 🙃

So, I think that about wraps this post up. Looking forward to see what next year’s events for New Year will be like.

I’m probably going to ramble about random stuff in LOP and talk about Land in the next post. So stayed tuned for that! 😄