SOS Help Feature - add Drop Bank

I like the idea behind the SOS help forum but have found that it is pretty much useless unless you immediately ask for help as soon as the event starts.

Mother please I'd rather do it myself:
Like a lot of other players I like to try to complete an event on my own before asking for help.

By the time I realize I can't finish it because of low drop rate I am limited by the number of drops I can receive (daily gift); whether players have already decided to send their excess drops to someone else; and by whether or not players have already sent their drops out.

We need a change:
I think it would be a good idea to add a button where a player could automatically send any excess drops received from harvesting or from gifts received to a "drop bank" where they would be distributed to anyone who has requested help by clicking on a "help button". The drops would go into the drop bank until the event was 1/2 to 3/4 the way through and then they would start to be distributed to those who have clicked the help button.
If you had the help button clicked you would receive them until you finished and then you would either click the button to have the drops sent to the bank or be automatically by-passed by the system. I would prefer it if the player were automatically by-passed in case they were no longer on line.

 

Although I like the thinking, I suspect this would be too technically difficult as you describe. Also, I suspect there are a lot of people who would just take advantage. Sad, but true.

Maybe just increasing the number of donations people can make would help? Even if we could each donate 2 per person... Maybe something like saying we can donate 1 for the first day, 2 for the second... that would allow people to help and would allow others to get more when they actually need it without necessarily overwhelming the system. Not sure if that would satisfy your idea, though?

 

I think increasing the drop rate or adding buffs that increase the drop rate would help but that has been suggested before.

 

I actually like the idea of the drop-bank, even if technically difficult. It is the idea of helping each other that makes it nice.

Besides, if you've finished the event, you won't get help anymore, and if you don't want to help you don't have to donate.
So no misuse of the drop-bank feature I think.

Increasing drop-gifts for the last two days of an event would also be a great option.

I like both ideas.

Increasing the drop-rate is too much... that would destroy the mechanism now in place perhaps.