Talk:Esther (2016)/@comment-36.78.207.43-20160405121933/@comment-76.102.33.77-20160410085459

Really now ? Let's see.

1. It is also equivalent to Royal Post Office which is just 270K materials, whereas here I've shipped 2+ million materials.

2. The game already has 3 such buildings in store, which takes your total gift count to 110. Plus there are other SO buildings I'm sure. Even if you have 200+ friends, how many of them are really active ? This is more than sufficient to send gifts to active players.

3. It takes up 11 freaking slots which I could use for a different building that I would boost my passenger count.

4. Since I don't need the building, I'm going to sell it off. Prism Express is really puny even for a mid level player (~190). 45 gems are good, but that are the only payoffs of this contract. Why do you need an entire contractor for that. They give out more that that in the seasonal achievements itself. Just look at Sports Achievements. If you are creating an entire contractor, atleast make sure the rewards are respectable.

5. None of the contracts took more than 7-8 hours. Lot of them were done within 5 mins. And mind you, this is with my spare rolling stock. I didn't even take the primary wagons (read : more carrying capacity) off local runs. And I didn't use any bigger locos either. I used locos used in Record Breakers Achievements, I even used steam locos for material transport (so no 40% bonus). All of this was run in parallel with 3-4 other contractors (Bobby, Jules, George, Mahatma and 1 slot dedicated to Giovanni's "bring 1 wagon billion times" contracts).

What I'm trying to say is - it wasn't challenging, it wasn't fun, the rewards were not great and it could have been a better special achievement rather than a full fledged contract.