WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL That doesn't make sense tho. Look closely at the numbers. He bought 500 ss and that also gave him 1000 bonus ss. Seems like his 500 ss is still untouched, but he used 290 bonus ss of the 1000 bonus ss he got, thus now he has 710 bonus ss left. So how could he still have check in bonus left? Even if he had check in bonus, he should have long used them all. So there should be nothing left to expire other than the 1000 bonus ss he got. Do you understand? He is even using from his 1000 bonus ss. Before you dismiss someone you should take a better look...

Unless... somehow the system is using from the 1000 bonus ss he got now instead of the daily check in bonus he got 2 months ago? That would still be a problem of the system tho. It should use the bonus he got 2 months ago from check in, then proceed to use the 1000 bonus ss he got later.

      It seems to be a bug. I am asking the backend colleagues to locate the problem.

        N0xiety What are u talking about?... Let me make an assumption here. He used to have 0 SS at alk, and he bought 500 then. We gave him another 1000 bonus SS. After that, he spent 295 bonus SS later on. Then, he just checked in or vote (highly pssoible is vote wchich gives him 5 bonus SS).,In that case, he will have 1210 SS including 500 real SS and 710 bonus SS. 705 bonus will be given by the purchasing with 90 days expire date. However, the 5 is given by vote which has 30 days epxireation. I guess that's it.

        Then, for the further tracsaction, the 5 30 days expired bouns SS will be consumed first, then using the 90 days, and use real SS after awards.

            WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL However, the 5 is given by vote which has 30 days epxireation

            To be clear, do the Voting Bonus Spirit Stones have a 30-day expiration?

            Previously they were 90 days. It's a non-issue for me since I spend more than 10 spirit stones a day but it would have been nice to have seen an announcement about such changes.

                checkm8 WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL But voting bonus still have 90 days of expiration date as far as i know? When did it become 30 days? Atleast that's how it is for me right now? I'm pretty sure i have 90 days since i can keep at about 1770 ss right now. If you calculate it avarage 20 ss per day, 90 * 20 = 1800. So yeah it's normal for me to be able to keep at 1770 ss with the expiration and new ss coming in, it's balanced. It doesn't grow nor decrease at this point. Or did you guys changed it in a sneak update and i will start to lose double the ss in a months time or something?

                      I can confirm today. When I voted for the next novel, the spirit stones awarded are set to expire in 30 days.

                        really? im new here so im gonna spend it before it expires?

                          WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL Oh i see, so you are trying to reduce peoples hoard of ss right? People who have stuck with your site from start? Great move... So you reward people who were loyal and watched every ad you throw at them to hoard ss with this? Great move indeed! It was 90 days before! That's why i was able to collect up to 1800 ss... If you turn it to 30 days, i guess i should expect my ss to start expiring rapidly soon right? Thanks so much! It would be strange if you didn't reduce peoples hoard of ss, since now that you are transitioning into premium, you can't have people like me having 1800 ss hoarded waiting to be used when novels turn premium right? I shouldn't have watched your ads! I should have foreseen that you won't even let hoarders off right? People were stupid to watch your ads to hoard ss....

                              WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL What?!
                              Daily check-in SS has always been valid for 90 days.
                              That's what was written in the book of answers and that's what I've seen in my Spirit Stone history since last year !!

                              Oh my god, I thought I've been helping guys in the forums, telling them that the bonus SS expire after 90 days... How embarrassing !!!

                              We can compromise and have the SS earned through power and energy stone votes expire within 30 days, (since its a newer method of earning Spirit Stones) but for the daily check-in, we should be able to keep them for longer !!
                              We've abided by the rules for a long time, we didn't even make a sound when the daily check-in SS was made into variable amount instead of a fixed rate.

                                  Veldora Don't you get it? They need to reduce the ss of hoarders like me. They can't stand people like me who have 1800 ss hoarded now that they are transitioning into premium. So they gotta reduce that before more of their novels become premium. If they reduce the expiration time to 30 days, that would mean people can only hoard 600 ss at most. So people like me who have hoarded ss by watching ads are pretty much fked. Hoarders like me watched their ads and they reward us for watching their ads like this. I really shouldn't have bothered to hoard by watching their ads... It's my fault for not foreseeing that they would do something like this. I expect my hoarded ss to start expiring rapidly very soon. Like 60 ss drop per day kind of expire till it drops down to 600 and stabilize there........

                                      Veldora The daily check in and vote bonus were designed for skipping ads. On that note, there were no premium chapters at all. People were unable to spend that much before the SS expired. Currently, we have introduced the premium program in which people will be able to use their SS properly. That's why we have change d it to 30 days.

                                      Aside from that, let me explain why a short expiry is necessary. On an economic basis, too much cash supply will lead to inflation which is leads to an economic crisis. Even in a virtual currency market, inflation will reduce the value of benefits of people who paid real money.

                                      If all users paid bonus SS and spend nothing real to unlock premium chapters, then translators, editors, and authors will lose their motivation in the long run. Frankly, all gifted SS is essentially harmful to the benefits of all creators. The reason why we still promise to keep giving out bonus SS is that people who are unable to afford to pay can have a chance of enjoying the story. But again, it is financially negative on the authors' and translators' side.

                                      Summing up both reasons, we need to always monitor the bonus SS holdings of the entire market, to balance benefits among creators and readers who are paid and unpaid. It's not an easy job.

                                      I can fully understood your concerns and demands from purely a reader's perspective, but the real world does not exactly work that way. Please calm down and try to put yourself in the shoes of the authors and translators, then you might understand why we did so. Please trust us, we have tried our best to give all readers a way to read for free, but we cannot ignore the benefits of paying readers, translators and authors.

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