The Cosy Couch: Ask Your TBT Fair Questions Here!

[Chris]

Maybe an odd question, but is it possible to take a second look at the starting time of events? Not to be rude and I love the events, but the US has a small advantage with most of the events when it's coming to the times events start. Especially with the "first one to answer" tickets.

House of nightmares is 5PM US, 11PM (central)EU and 6AM Japan, 7AM Australia
Trivia Night is 7PM US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia
Half past Hoodwinked also 7PM US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia

It's just a suggestion, but why not do different starting times for each round? Some with EU in the beginning of the evening, some with Australia in the beginning of the evening. That way everyone has the same chance to participate and/or bonus tickets Now it's that in the US most people will be at home and in other countries people are sleeping or already off to work.

You have only taken the east coast into account here when considering the US. In Pacific time, where a large amount of our users live, 5pm FT is 2pm and 7pm FT is 4pm. Taking these events any earlier means that they will be unable to participate due to being in school or at work and, as you've pointed out yourself, will be far too early for our friends in Asia and Australia. We feel that 5-7pm FT is the most balanced time when taking our entire userbase into account.

 

[Larsi]

I get your point that people will be in school/work at 2PM or 4PM pacific time, but at the same time people outside the US are now also sleeping or at school/work with the current times and will miss out every round for a chance for extra tickets

Let's take Half past hoodwinked which has 3 rounds. Now it's 7PM (east)US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia. Last 3 groups will have a lot of users who are already in bed or at school/work for all 3 rounds. But what if it will be like this:

Round 1: 7PM (east)US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia
Round 2: 1AM (east)US, 7AM (central)EU and 2PM Japan, 3PM Australia
Round 3: 9AM (east)US, 3PM (central)EU and 10PM Japan, 11PM Australia

That way everyone has the same chances and every country has a round where they will be at home in the evening. And maybe some US pacific time users will only see the round 3 - 9AM (FT) which then will be early in the morning and think it's unfair, but in the meantime house of nightmares also starts every round at 6AM in Japan right now where the chance of being the first one to answer it pretty small.

I know it's too late for now, but maybe it's an idea for the next fair.

 

[Matt0106]

I have a question! For my first session of Switch Stars, I got the acceptance pretty quickly. But now for my second session that was Monday night, it says it's been viewed but it hasn't been accepted yet. Do I just need to wait longer, or did I do something incorrectly?

 

[Chris]

I get your point that people will be in school/work at 2PM or 4PM pacific time, but at the same time people outside the US are now also sleeping or at school/work with the current times and will miss out every round for a chance for extra tickets

Let's take Half past hoodwinked which has 3 rounds. Now it's 7PM (east)US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia. Last 3 groups will have a lot of users who are already in bed or at school/work for all 3 rounds. But what if it will be like this:

Round 1: 7PM (east)US, 1AM (central)EU and 8AM Japan, 9AM Australia
Round 2: 1PM (east)US, 7PM (central)EU and 12AM Japan, 1AM Australia
Round 3: 9AM (east)US, 3PM (central)EU and 10PM Japan, 11PM Australia

That way everyone has the same chances and every country has a round where they will be at home in the evening. And maybe some US pacific time users will only see the round 3 - 9AM (FT) which then will be early in the morning and think it's unfair, but in the meantime house of nightmares also starts every round at 6AM in Japan right now where the chance of being the first one to answer it pretty small.

I know it's too late for now, but maybe it's an idea for the next fair.

While I appreciate the thought you have put into this, it's unlikely to be something we would implement. Aside from it making things more confusing for everyone due to the inconsistency, our team all work full-time jobs on top of the voluntary work we do here on TBT so many of our hosts cannot afford this type of flexibility.

I have a question! For my first session of Switch Stars, I got the acceptance pretty quickly. But now for my second session that was Monday night, it says it's been viewed but it hasn't been accepted yet. Do I just need to wait longer, or did I do something incorrectly?

You've done nothing wrong. Submissions submitted between Monday night and now have yet to be reviewed by the staff member leading that event. Other staff members may look at the submissions but we will not accept them.

 

[Larsi]

While I appreciate the thought you have put into this, it's unlikely to be something we would implement. Aside from it making things more confusing for everyone due to the inconsistency, our team all work full-time jobs on top of the voluntary work we do here on TBT so many of our hosts cannot afford this type of flexibility.

Ah that explains a lot haha, but I was just thinking along so thank you Really love the fair events so far and can't wait to start drawing and destroy my eyes on the nightmares again!!

 

[jo_electric]

Edit: Saw Jeremy’s post!

 

[JellyBeans]

accidentally forgot to add in the round number when submitting my hoodwinked answer! got too caught up in trying to be the first (I was way off). would someone be able to alter it?

 

[Karmahri]

If we placed during trivia night, will the tickets be distributed later? (as in not during this round of distribution?)
Also for dreamy dresser, are held items (i.e. wands, tools, etc) considered part of the outfit?

 

[Mairmalade]

accidentally forgot to add in the round number when submitting my hoodwinked answer! got too caught up in trying to be the first (I was way off). would someone be able to alter it?

This has been adjusted.

If we placed during trivia night, will the tickets be distributed later? (as in not during this round of distribution?)
Also for dreamy dresser, are held items (i.e. wands, tools, etc) considered part of the outfit?

Placement tickets for Discord Trivia will be distributed in a future batch. They were not included in today's round.

As for Dreamy Dresser, held items can be used but wouldn't add to your entry - only actual clothing items equipped in your wardrobe/dresser would.

 

[Katzenjammer]

I'm just curious, but I didn't get the amount of tickets (just participation with the events listed that tickets were awarded for) I thought I'd be getting and I don't know what entries counted for me at this point or if one of them got left out or needed to be fixed or what. I know one still says needs updating but I had followed instructions and even went back and asked again if I needed to do anything differently. Was one of them not counted for some reason? I'm so sorry, I'm very easily confused x_x;;? Many apologies and thank you for reading!

Edit: Did a lot of my entries just not count? I'm so confused ;-;

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Will there be a second mass ticket distribution? Or will the end of the TBT fair be the last batch?

 

[ivelostmyspectacles]

Alright big dumb question here too: how are you all getting the cute graphics on your sidebars? I totally forgot about the fair and just came back to it last night and here I am. Scrambling to catch up and being confused xD

 

[Aus]

Alright big dumb question here too: how are you all getting the cute graphics on your sidebars? I totally forgot about the fair and just came back to it last night and here I am. Scrambling to catch up and being confused xD

If you're referring to those behind your profile picture, you can get them from the store! But I believe they only last for the duration of the fair

 

[ivelostmyspectacles]

If you're referring to those behind your profile picture, you can get them from the store! But I believe they only last for the duration of the fair

Yep, that'd be it, thank you! Now to decide if I should spend the tbt on one of 'em...

 

[Chris]

I'm just curious, but I didn't get the amount of tickets (just participation with the events listed that tickets were awarded for) I thought I'd be getting and I don't know what entries counted for me at this point or if one of them got left out or needed to be fixed or what. I know one still says needs updating but I had followed instructions and even went back and asked again if I needed to do anything differently. Was one of them not counted for some reason? I'm so sorry, I'm very easily confused x_x;;? Many apologies and thank you for reading!

Edit: Did a lot of my entries just not count? I'm so confused ;-;

If you could give me a list of the events you expected to receive tickets for I can look into it for you.

Will there be a second mass ticket distribution? Or will the end of the TBT fair be the last batch?

There will be more ticket distributions. As before, we will announce when they will happen and what events we are distributing tickets for in that batch.

 

[Sheep Villager]

So I had a post auto-merge with my entry and now it says I've edited it due to said merge. Do I need to resubmit my entry?

Here is a link to the entry in question. I noticed a question someone had earlier on in the thread and it was relevant to my entry as well so I commented about it but totally forgot that would merge the entry post with the reply post. The edit + merge timestamps match so maybe that will be good enough so I don't have to re-enter?

I hope this is the right place to ask about this since I didn't want to post in the event thread to cause yet another auto-merge.​

 

[Chris]

So I had a post auto-merge with my entry and now it says I've edited it due to said merge. Do I need to resubmit my entry?

Here is a link to the entry in question. I noticed a question someone had earlier on in the thread and it was relevant to my entry as well so I commented about it but totally forgot that would merge the entry post with the reply post. The edit + merge timestamps match so maybe that will be good enough so I don't have to re-enter?

I hope this is the right place to ask about this since I didn't want to post in the event thread to cause yet another auto-merge.​

You will not be penalised for this, so please don't worry about it.

 

[toadsworthy]

will there be restocks (I'm sure someone has already asked this... but, I didn't see anything on the OP)

mainly looking at white frags and celeste plushies

 

[Marines]

Hiya! I have been participating in a few events and was wondering when we would get the tickets? Thanks!

~Marina♥

 

[Meggy124124]

If I had the tickets, could I buy something but transfer the prize to someone else as a gift?