what is new about the special costum event this time is ... this half-day distance between the end of the costum/items gathering and the beginning of the actual costum event
this time margin is surely made to prevent the double bonus training discount in the transition between the 2 periods ( adding event items just before the beginning of the costum event )
but you know, there's an inequality between the speed servers and normal servers in this point
in normal speed servers
1 pumpkin gives 1 hours bonus
that means if a player secceed to get the training bonus by 13 pumpkin , the result is 13 hours and he'll get the double training discount
not to mention that the player can add as well some bunnies to extend the time , not only pumpkins
but in the speed servers x5
1 pumpkin = 12 minutes only , and the player would never make it to the costum event
so in my opinion this change only hurts the speed servers players ...
what do you think