I feel Trivia is in dire need of a rebalance for its unit output.
For starters, Trivia suffers from what many games suffer from- WAY too low of a payout.
In general, I think far too many things in TU just give no meaningful reward for playing them. This compounds even more with the other main issue:
One of the reasons that there’s an imbalance in player attention, throughout TU, is that people will prefer to play games which reward them for playing them single-player, mostly because that makes them a more reliable game. This is a significant reason why the casino, the arcade, and minigolf are so appealing. I think the change to ball race to allow you to earn points from melons in singleplayer was a fantastic choice, and more changes like that should be made to as many games as possible, because generally, people prefer simply joining a game to just hopping in and waiting to try and find other people.
So, here’s how I’d change Trivia.
For starters, the ‘thanks for playing’ payout should be proportional to the amount of time the game takes to play, and trivia is not an especially short game. This should be 500 units.
Beyond that, you should receive units for each question you get right:
Easy → 400 Units
Medium → 500 Units
Hard → 600 Units
These units are within a pretty short range because frankly the question difficulty is unbalanced, but that’s not especially important.
Additionally, for getting every question right, you receive a bonus of 5000 units.
I would honestly raise the payouts even more than this, but you also have to consider the possibility of people to cheat. I don’t think that’s a reason to nerf it into the ground though, it’s frankly not particularly easy to cheat, and moreover, the game needs to give a higher payout more than it needs to protect itself from cheaters.
I made this post because of the Trivia event; frankly, I feel like events should make a given event strong enough to compete with the best methods of making units in the game, at the VERY least- it’s a limited time event, so I feel like really cranking up the payout to like 3x would still be totally justified. I also don’t really know why it doesn’t give more EXP; I know trivia has way less milestones than any other game, but I still don’t even have the podium with how rarely I play it. In my eyes it can never really hurt to buff one of these game events (unless it’s for something that doesn’t need a buff… minigolf…)