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Okay, looks like this is just not worth it, cooking yourself I mean. I now have a level >400 cook, got a new char to level 20, and only spent a couple gold and mats that were just sitting in my storage anyway -- probably recouped the cost selling all the products from leveling cooking anyway, so a wash. But to actually make 150 of the cheapest of these foods, the Scoop of Mintberry Swirl Ice Cream, means you need 15000 Snowflakes which are going for 1.5 silver on the top right now. So at the least, an opportunity cost of like 225 gold? And that doesn't include all the Candy Canes and other stuff you need too. Haha. So I guess I'll spend the 8 gold on the tp to directly buy the Scoop of Mintberry Swirl Ice Cream. Not too mad though, I have a cook now, and I'm hungry. Edit: Yay, got my Mini Gift Box Gordon, and I happened to pass 4000 acheivement points, woo!

Nevermind, I figured it out finally! You have to have one of the foods in your inventory already in order to even see the option to donate it. Sheesh this game has so many secret hidden things. >_< Edit: Ah geez, it looks like it's a minimum of ~8 gold if I just buy off the trading post to do this acheive. I was going to level a cook anyway I guess, so.... I'll just go that route. Thanks all for your attempts to help, even if it turned out to just be the game hiding options.

Yes, that is where the ho ho tron that takes a copper, a silver, or a gold. Which one takes food, I don't see the option?

I did see you could purchase the right foods from the trading post; I suppose for a one time acheivement it's not that bad. But who do you give the food to? The only ho ho tron I've found just takes a copper, a silver, or a gold.

Is there some alternate ho ho tron that takes food? Where do you get the food?

Thanks, I'll try to ignore them then, haha. I agree on the idea behind it though -- one arrow as you run by is not exactly participation, heh. Maybe I can find a chat checkbox that'll just mute those; otherwise I'll just have to suppress my worrying tendencies.

Doing it today as well, just got "Due to inactivity, you are no longer participating in Slay the veteran Mordrem vinetooth." which I'd already killed and got reward chest from minutes before, and had already completed a different event after. I feel like it's something I'm doing wrong but I just don't know what. Could it be a network error of some sort? Everything else in game seems fine, ping is almost always <100. Maybe game file corruption? /shrug

I keep getting these messages the past week or so and I really wasn't getting them at all before -- at least that I had noticed. But now, I get them while I'm actively participating, lol. Or, even better, I've gotten the message minutes after the event was long finished and I was already in the middle of another event. Am I losing loot/xp/whatever when this happens?

Ah, got it, pretty standard outlook here, yeah. TBH, and I guess it's kind of implied since I am here and I am still playing, that I'd much rather play GW2 without the skyscale than go through that slog [for me, I realize many, even most, enjoy it]. Just a personal choice, and the consequences are mine own to deal with. Mostly the consequences are just a bit less loot for some metas or whatever. But I will continue to chime in on these threads when I see them to let these poor folks know they really aren't the only ones out there, and for the entertainment value. In the end, this all just playtime, don't get too serious or too frustrated! 😃

I didn't think you meant what I interpreted it as -- sorry, tone doesn't always come through in text. I was trying to figure out what you meant by, "You can become a majority too, ya don't have to stay and be the minority". Are you saying to leave if you don't like the Skyscale acquisition? And how does that make me a majority?

I really care so little about this subject at this point, sorry, but I did find this part quite amusing. I can become a majority by leaving? You mean most have left?

Yep, mentioned in my first reply in this thread. Majority rule sucks when you're not in the majority. Haha.

Might make one wonder if it's a frustrating issue for a lot of players?

Sorry OP, there have been many threads made by people who feel the same as you, but it would seem most feel things are fine as they are. Sucks, and I'll also probably never have a Skyscale. Thems the breaks, as they say, majority rule can suck when you're not in the majority. [Edit: I love how the Confused emote is just a Reddit downvote these days, lol. Thanks.]

Fair enough, I said what I wanted to say. Enjoy your the rest of your day.