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My whole neighborhood has noticed this (so it's not just me) and I've been playing for 2.5 years, so I know it's not just the normal "someone got to the item before me". I am lucky to find anything at all that has been advertised, no matter how quick I am. The only luck I've had since the update has been when someone keeps adding goodies. I'm hoping it's just that a lot more people are on because of the update and it will go back to normal soon. Otherwise, the DD is not doing much good. 😔
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Several of of us in our neighborhood have noticed the same thing. Even the eggs and wheat are already sold. Something definitely changed with this update and as a result the DD is now useless!
With the mini-event of double coins from the visitors, I'm thinking that more items are being sold quicker than they used to in hopes the little people ask for those items and the farmer can turn a profit. ;)
It's a joke at the moment, may as well take the mail box off my farm.
Even if I sweat on the mailbox notification I cannot buy anything, not even rubbish like eggs. Let alone an expansion material.
By far the worst thing since the update, Daily Dirt is now mission impossible.
It really isn't that bad. When in Rome...
I can see how the casual shopper can be ticked off with this. Either pick up the pace or wait it out. Explanations as to why this is occurring is provided in the link above.
Thank goodness! No need to call the doctor! I thought something was wrong with me, because I'm usually pretty quick, but lately it's been impossible for me to tap fast enough to get the item(if I find it):saywhat:
Casual shopper?Quote:
Originally Posted by Haystacker
Ok, so this morning I was on for 1/2 hr. Every 2 minutes checked the paper the second it notified it was new.
My purchases in 30 minutes?
10 sugarcane at 130
10 indigo at 200
NOTHING ELSE.
That's 1/2 hr of hardcore shopping and flicking, to get total ♥♥♥♥.
Also have the newest version of iPhone and don't get lag like older devices.
To me it seems like something more than just lack of bots, more shoppers, whatever. I'm successful ingetting the odd thing, but only if it's on page 1 and I hit the ad super fast. It's useless to try for a second ad. And only from my iPad .. iPhone, forget about it, not even worth trying anymore.
its as if SC changed the timing of the DD or something .. E.g., seems like it's refreshing for thousands of shoppers at the exact same time, e.g. Once every 5 minutes at the exact same time for everyone, whereas before it was more staggered. If that makes sense.
Anyway, it's definitely more than just heavy shoppers, something has surely changed at SC's server end and I don't care who tries to explain it differently, I'm not convinced. :cool:
Wow. 30 min for that?? Interesting. A bit of a hyperbole? I'm not saying the DD is awesome at the moment and it's definitely not normal...given the circumstances. Every update will bring back inactive players...and the timing of little visitors event does complicate matters. I've been here for every update since the game was released so this phenomenon is nothing new with the paper. Like I said, give it a couple days for it to die down or speed up the pace of shopping. There's nothing we can do about it. No need to destroy that mailbox.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz258
No hyperbole. Every material I see, click, gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haystacker
Every other item even marginally discounted like my examples above. Gone.
Put in another 10 minutes for 10 pumpkins at 300 X 3.
Yet again the best I can get...
Only good thing is my max wheat and max indigo sells in record time...
I just found this ad. Same ad, same seller, same 4 pizzas. Got the first ad pizzas but too bad they weren't in the second ad. LoL. Now that would have been something huh?
http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/...z.jpg~original
Blazing through the DD is what I usually do but even blazing is too slow it seems. Here's a trick that might work. Instead of flipping through the pages. Pick one RSS and camp out at it. I was able to snag some premiums and expansion items as they were being placed all day today. Had the shop all to myself so to speak. U never know, u might get lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz258
Hopefully the DD will get better when the little visitors event end. After that, we have to hope some players are done with the newness of the update and leave once again. Those are our only hopes.
Yes you are right! Something changed with the update.
Prior to the update all my DD had was eggs and wheat. Not much else ever showed up in it. Anything that did was already sold.
The DD that I have been getting since the update has been really good. A variety of goods available. Expansion goods, muffins, cakes you name it. It all seems to be there and the best part is it is not sold!!! Yipeeeeee
Looks like the paper delivery boy has mixed up our addresses!
Just so you know...lol....I am keeping this paperboy! He is doing a wonderful job.
Finding same here,is it possible the ads are being re-run..whereas they ran,sold then for some reason are coming back as "new" listings but actually are not?
Just a thought,because like others I'm pretty efficient as shopping and it's too coincidental that most ALL items,big or small,are already sold.
Hopefully this will at least be looked into to rule out any possible glitch.
Thanks in advance.
Trish,level 130
I was thinking the same thing, Besta, the only way everything in the DD could be sold out the second it refreshes is if we are getting old ads recycled as new ones. I've picked up the odd purchase here and there, but mostly everything is sold, except the stuff that never sells, before I can open the first ad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bestajunior
I think something is definitely amiss too, and it being more than just the visitor event and resurgence of inactive players. I have also come across the same ads in the paper at the same time. And I've been trying the method of only shopping on the first page. Nothing. Everything is sold, even the wheat. What's more, all the help flags are already taken care of too! Anywhere- wherever I go that has a help flag, it's already gone. That's just not possible. Something is definitely wrong, Supercell!!Quote:
Originally Posted by GladeMaid
Absolutely. Like everyone here, very experienced at DD shopping. The advertised items are gone. Other items in stand might be there, but any advertised item, even eggs, gone. Superhuman shoppers? 🤖
To All Hay Day Player
Please enjoy DD shopping in the situation, some player may leave the game in the future
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Umm, no yingkit- I will not enjoy shopping in this situation. Like I said, even shopping to go after HELP flags is fruitless. It just can't be possible that All help flags are already taken care of in all situations when you open the DD. Perhaps you haven't been plaging very long, I don't know, but something is definitely askew with the DD. Thanks so much for your input though.Quote:
Originally Posted by yingkit2012
everything advertised was sold no matter how fast u try to open them.
sometimes (1 out of 80 attempts), you might still be able to buy them.
something is wrong with the DD, are they repeating ads/filtering wheat/egg ads away by duplicating/repeating old ads?
you have several million bots that aren't advertising wheat. so yes there are less ads being generated every second. since an ad can stick around for up to 3 hours. and the newspaper pulls randomly from the pool every 5 mins Yes you can get stale ads.
If you're really on the ball you might even notice the SAME ad in 2 spots on the newspaper. This was more common back when we could only advertise items every 30 minutes. (it was also back when hayday was ios only so lots less players)
but i thought your ad was supposed to be gone once that item advertised was purchased?
lag between showing bought and removed from server? it would still be in the papers till the next round came out.
Cant get a dang thing. Close the flood gates before you ♥♥♥♥ to many people off.
This is happening to me too. Been farming for over 2 years at level 130. Please fix it hay day. Not feeling the farming anymore:(
I disagree, this is how it should be, not endless ads in the dd for wheat.
It was like this in the dd when HD first came out.
How it should be? Incredibly frustrating making it a race only iPad users with good internet can win?Quote:
Originally Posted by Digger
This version of the DD right now is the worst I have experienced while playing. Going to hate the DD if it stays like this.
Why? The first person to see the item buys it.
If you look at the timer on your ad in the rss, you can work out when your DD will refresh itself, and get a bargin.
That's just the thing, I am doing just that and still arrive at sold out stalls almost every time. I am been as fast as I humanly can and failing time and time again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digger
Terribly frustrating, never been this bad before.
something is definitely wrong.
not only items are being sold no matter how fast you try to click them.
a lot of times they are even cleared, the stall's empty. some might argue that seller might have cleared them.
but there's too many of them, i dont think that's the regular behavior of buyer/seller in the game we should be seeing.
Well you won't have to wait long. When the bots change their programming they will fill the dd with wheat again.
Even the most basic and common items on sale are impossible to buy.
There must be like 10,000 shoppers in one paper add!
I normally carry 2000 wheat in my silo to sell in the RSS, but I can't keep up with the demand which is highly unusual!
what ever tweaks were done, can we have a middle ground as this is ridiculous?
Fewer wheat = the rare items show up to more players = sold immediately. It's the effect of less wheat folks. Nothing we can do about it really. And no, we did not change anything with the DD. It's just how it works when there's less of wheating going on.
Cheers,
Nick
Actually Nick, I think the update seems to have changed a value in the DD postings. It appears as if ads that are bought which normally dropping out after they are bought, are staying in the DD for a few more cycles. It's a hard thing for me to prove, but it shows all the patterns of it. I don't even know if programming can verify it as fact.
There has to be, somehow stagger paper releases or something. It feels like 1000 people are trying to buy the 1 thing at the moment. It's a very painful experience right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick[Supercell]
I'm not normally one to moan, but seriously... I can't even get in first for basic things like wool or potatoes!
Hallo, ich spiele auch schon lange, aber das mit der Zeitung kann nicht stimmen. Ich bin wirklich schnell, aber man hat keine Chance! Andere Mitspieler können schon etwas früher in die Zeitung schauen, anders kann man das nicht erklären. Das ist mein erster Beitrag überhaupt, weil ich bis jetzt super zufrieden mit dem Spiel war. Wenn das mit der Zeitung so bleibt, kann man es vergessen!
For those of you who can't read German, I translated it for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kanimono
newspaper
Hello, I play for a long time, but that the newspaper can not be right. I'm really fast, but you have no chance! Other players can look a little earlier in the paper, otherwise you can not explain. This is my first post at all because I was super happy with the game so far. When staying with the newspaper so you can forget it!
Well it's back to normal now.
Visitor Event ended almost an hour ago.
Yesterday I found some success by waiting patiently for the newspaper to wiggle and then when opening it if I flipped to page 2 I had about a 50% chance of getting to an item before it was bought.
Even then it was like playing Wak-a-Mole at double speed. ��
More than once I bought goat milk instead of eggs but I'm putting that to good use today too.
I understand why there are people who hate visitor events but I had a ball.
Fun too watching my own items disappearing from my shop before I finished posting them.
The newspaper since the update is RIDICULOUS. ...and no its not because more ppl are playing and no its not because of the event that ppl are buying more...its haydays update that needs addressed immediately you cant buy anything anymore PERIOD!!!!
My prediction is:
Before the update bot farms where working.
With the new update their software is not compatible with the game. So all bot operation is shut down until they create a compatible bot. Fingers crossed that it'll take long but i fear they are already working on it intensely.
Game designers have tweaked (long before the update) the ads that you can have in your newspapers. So that you could see something other than wheat in your DD versions. So in order to have some variety in the news paper, for example one wheat ad showed up on DD of 3 people, whereas a carrot, soybean and sugarcane ad showing up for 10 people. And more premium adds for 20+ people.
Now since the bot wheat is gone and there is nothing to show on DD other than normal stuff (what people usually sell: chili popcorns, pumpkin pie, wooly chaps etc.) is showing up more and rare stuff is showing even more. Consider instead of 20 people, you are racing with 100 people to get that plank. That means you will win 1 out of 10 times if you are one of the best shoppers in game.
Also add the fact that phone users have TERRIBLE DISADVANTAGE over tablet users, you have NO chance of winning if you are competing against a tablet user, even with a slower connection and incompetent hands, a tablet user has always the first dibs on.
Unless: the add is on the first two pages of the paper where phone user do not have to flip pages, AND the stuff is placed on the first 4 slots of the shop where a phone user do not have to scroll down on the shop.
It is really silly to keep the phone the layout where phones have 5.5" or 5.7" of screens with QHD or even 4K resolutions. This game still works on a layout that worked 4 years ago. :facepalm::facepalm:
I agree, something more than the bots going is affecting the DD. Even full price wheat sell immediately & no one buys that unless your totally out of wheat & need a quick boost !!. It took me 2 papers to buy eggs so buying upgrade materials is impossible.
Like others have said, it's like a thousand people buying from one paper & it doesn't matter how fast you are, you won't get them. I'm play on an brand new iPad Air & I'm not slow either but I have no chance.
I have played pretty much from day one & if this carries on there isn't much point in playing as I don't have the time to hunt for eggs/veg let alone upgrade items.
Also, I realised about 2-3 weeks ago that I hadn't seen a bot farm for weeks & the DD was fine, but since the update...NOT !.
Not a happy bunny
Hello my neigbourhood had als that problemen afther the update we hij want tot buy something it is already sold the paper is turning als very slow we have very different tablets old new so that van,t be the problem pleasse help it,s nog fun anymore
Thank hij for lissen sorry for mistakes my english is not verry good
Since the update there's a greater variety of goods offered in the dd. And the bots are gone *fingers crossed it stays the same. Yeah, products sell very fast, but maybe it's simply because people see other goods than wheat only and so they are quicker to get them. When the dd was flooded with (bot) wheat, people had to open every ad to see whether there's anything else in the rss - that takes longer.
I don't have big problems catching some nice goods from the dd when it's just refreshed. 10-15 seconds later it's nearly impossible to get anything, but I think it's because everyone is trying to catch anything fast which is not wheat (or even wheat as there are no bots at the moment).
I can never understand why people are selling those bolts by the dozens. They're in a full NH with plenty low level players and yet they just prefer to sell it on the DD. That said, I had some luck with those bems if the ad was on the first page of my paper, else no.
I'm seeing bots returning now - just one per paper so far (as opposed to the 8+ there were before the update). I imagine wheat will start overtaking other products soon enough.
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Originally Posted by 00becker
Haven't seen one yet but the quality of ads seems to be back to normal. More eggs and wheat ads today. I spent 50k picking up premiums and expansion items yesterday :( The biggest amount I spent in one day in months. It was hard racing against so many shoppers...but it wasn't undoable. Guess I got this shopping thing down pretty good :smirk::o
iPhone 6
But but but, you are at a terrible disadvantage!:D:):smirk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Haystacker
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Originally Posted by snakiddy
Au contraire, my friend. I can carry my farm in my front pocket anywhere I go. Can iPad users do that? XD:cool::p
uhhh, I do have some overalls that have a big front pocket!XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Haystacker
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Originally Posted by snakiddy
Touché!
Mental note: Must remember to buy overalls for new iPad XD
Same here none of my hood can get anything useful from the DD unless you are super super quick ~ there's been a definite change since the rubbish update can supercell allude please?
If it's a case of less sellers more buyers.
Maybe let us advertise every 2 minutes instead of 5?
Let the paper restock more regularly to try have less people viewing each ad.
The odds are heavily stacked without wheaters.
I have noticed some relief post visitor event but still worse than pre update.
Daz, it used to be every 30 minutes before they lowered the timer to 5 minutes. The only people that really need the timer lowered to 2 minutes are wheaters. It will just encourage them more. I think the 5 minutes is just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz258
Hmm, might be right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillieBDare
But the end of the visitor event has eased things, managed to get a plank earlier and more often things like SugarCane, Eggs, Chilli Popcorn again which feels a bit more normal.
I know visitor events have caused a spike before, but the last one hit insane levels.
...guess it just proves how much bots have taken over and shifted the balance. :/
even with the botters gone.
they funny thing is a lot of times, you dont even see the "advertised item" in the RSS anymore when u open that ad.
i dont meant seeing them as sold items, they dont even exist on the RSS.
with less botters, so many players are being so efficient in clearing and renewing their RSS now?
That is the extension too all the wheaters not in the paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by yulia33
With all the bot wheaters active as previously lets say there are 500 people putting an ad up, and 1,000 people flicking through the paper. Essentially that is 2 people viewing every ad at any one time.
With bots temporarily? dead, there may only be 200 people putting an ad up, but still 1,000 people flicking through the paper. Essentially that is 5 people viewing every ad at any one time.
With more shopping and less selling the chances of getting to a RSS before another player [especially if that player is using iPad with a good connection]. Well, your pretty much screwed.
Well my paper this morning is nothing but tofu dogs and cloche hats so things are back to normal 😂😢
I noticed the same thing, and lots of wheat and sugercane that's already sold.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowkoby
Right now it is a wheater's paradise, it flies out the door
Could a sharp decline in players be causing it? :confused:
Auction House as in a majority of the large MMORPGs It would balance itself and be fair to everyone. I agree with the majority here. It's a broken system. I'm very fast in DD as most people and you only have a very slim chance of getting what your after. If you scan through once the rest is dumb luck. I'm sure someone will want to tell me how great its working for you now but save it please. This game has a mass of players probably from 5yrs to 85yr olds. (Dont reply to tell me about your kid who is younger than 5 or your grandparent who plays please). The fact of the matter is, its incredibly unbalanced and has been since launch. I'd love to hear any opinions a past or present MMO player has experiencing an AH and why or why not it would or wouldn't work. I apologize for my bitter tone but....I just left the DD for the 20th time w 90% garbage. I don't find camping a slow turning ad fun..
A sharp decline in ads been generated is causing it I believe. Which are those wheat bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGrace99
Basically the more players advertise, the better the chances are of someone getting to make a purchase.
It has already happened last year. After an update, the DD wasn't useful anymore. Shops raided, stuff gone. Please SC do something.. It's really frustrating..:(
If this has to do with bot farms, please find another way to fix them..
I know it can be frustrating.
Just as all those wheat ads were frustrating.
But its kind of like real life in a way. Everything IS available. It's just that we may not be prepared to pay the price for some of these things.
I think for a lot of players actually paying for any of these items is incredibly easy. When your coins are stacked in the millions paying for lobster soups or strawberry cakes makes so little difference to our cash balance that it's like paying for something with pennies in the "real world".
Sure we'd like to buy everything for pennies.
But in a game where the DD is created by the players, most of whom prefer to keep their stuff for themselves or their hoodies and many of whom prefer to buy rather than sell these items, there is no fix that will suffice.
The paper is what it is and works well enough if you're looking for some items like wheat or indigo. Other than that, there is paying for items with diamonds, making your own or relying on your hoodies.
I dont see anyone complaining that anything is hard to sell. Interesting, yes?
You know it's bad when you chase after a milk ad as if it were an EM😬
I don't think that everything is available, and the cost of it doesn't sway me too much when shopping for basic essentials such as crops. Just last night, still being only about five days after the update, I had to shop the paper for about ten minutes to get some wheat! I still think something is very amiss-- at least twice last night after the paper having just refreshed, I opened it and went into an ad. After looking for about a half a second at the shop I went to open the paper again as everyone does when shopping, and the paper was wiggling and opened up to the first page again- it was a new refreshed paper after just that half a second. Hmm. What?! I remember the previous comment in this thread about how we should enjoy shopping in this situation or some players may leave the game. I still say 'Ha'- I'd think it'd be more likely for people to get so frustrated about this situation and give up trying to get anything they need and leave. And I agree with what someone else has said, too, that the newspaper is a core part of the game. To be able to "go shopping" for needed crops, etc, and at least have a fair chance. But there hasn't been much of a chance at all lately! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparkly888
My point, which perhaps didn't come over as well as I thought was that everything IS available and many of us don't want to pay the bigger price. The bigger price meaning diamonds rather than game cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by mybluemitten
My point was that if you want it bad enough you can have it. Although very few of us want to pay diamonds for these things.
No, I don't think that SC is creating a sellers market on purpose.
I think that paper is, was and always has been a reflection of what people want to SELL rather than what people necessarily want to buy.
Perhaps if more people got frustrated with trying to buy stuff rather than get frustrated with the game decide to fill the paper instead of boats, trucks or townies. Is there really a difference? Boat points maybe? XP maybe?
I for one am having a ball selling selling selling.
Im just saying that when it's a sellers market this person knows which end to play.
:D :thumbsup: :heart: I'm still not quick enough to get my hands on any darned tomatoes though!! :facepalm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparkly888
It really hurts to run out of tomatoes! Those things take so long to grow.
Good luck.
Have you ever used one? The DD is outdated. Sure people love to sell.. let the rarity and demand grow the price in an auction setting. You list your items as Auction or Buy. Price it. Done. Then any time of the day all over the world ( you don't have to have gamer thumbs to try and beat a 1000 people for a wood panel) you go to the DD or Auction House and shop, pay what you want, when you want. Not everyone wants to pay to play this game and some play once a day or once a week. So then how in world....are they ever going to expand?! I know..I know....I'm just suggesting a tool, that's out there and been out for over 15yrs in large game settings that has proven itself successful. Instead of a lot of low level people here it would inspire longevity to this game.
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Originally Posted by Thrilled
I am not sure this would work, as demand growing the price overrides the game's maximum price and that's currently ruled out for the time being. That's what you mean, right? Or is the price one can set within the max price we have now? I'll put the link to the must read sticky from IFR, in case you want to see what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thrilled
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...s-and-requests
There already exists two ways to get the tools you need really fast. One method is with diamonds. Need that last plank? Pay 8 diamonds to get it. Now, that's not always possible though with some players, since diamonds are hard to come by. In that case, there are two trading threads here on the forum. One for tools and one for foods. Or you can always ask in your NH and check FB and/or GC friends farms.
The idea of an auction house is one that has been requested by many players for some time now. So far, nothing has been implemented.
Anyways, I just wanted to mention those things.
:)
I don't know what Team Hay Day tweaked in recent update but I have enjoyed shopping in the DD again.
To my delight, I don't need to mine the past few days because I bought all the ores I need. And I was amazed to find different kinds of candies in the DD too.
Thank you THD for improving the DD. For all you do, this Bud is for you. :)
http://rs27.pbsrc.com/albums/c185/Ch...tled3.jpg~c200
The DD has slowed down alot now, wheat isn't flying out of the RSS.
Yep, DD is starting to feel more normal again. More wheat in the paper, some goods not flying off the RSS as quickly and have half a chance to buy again.
Guess it really was just a combination of an update spike, bots catching up and that visitor event ate everything. Or possibly a tweak SuperCell tried also that didn't work.
Note to SuperCell, after future updates wait at least a week before doing a visitor event ok?
I'm losing my patience with this game real fast. It's a struggle to even buy eggs sometimes. Finding basic crops has been challenging, other than corn and wheat. SC needs to tweak something real soon, because the fine line between a little bit of a challenge and down right stressfull and frustrating has become too thin for me. It's not right that half of the players have found Utopia with the DD and the others a barren wasteland.:unsure:
I've been pretty much ignoring the paper as of late. It's just fruitless and a waste of time. My next concern is for the derby- when everyone's shopping frantically to try find the things they need to fulfill their tasks. How is all that going to go down?!
I don't know what DD you are looking at, but as long as I'm willing to pay full price, I can get all the eggs I want.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGrace99
Maybe I should have been a little more clear in my previous post. The items are in the DD, but they have already been purchased. I have camped out at my little mailbox waiting for it to do its happy dance. When it starts, I hurry in a style that would make Superman look twice at me, but I'm still too late. This a.m., when I commented earlier, I was looking for eggs, but they were already purchased or I get that little message-the items have already been purchased. I'm so happy that some of you are loving the DD, but maybe you all are getting first dibs, you never know. Something could be off. I'm just hoping things change soon. One more thing, price is never an issue. If I need it I buy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillieBDare
Much agreed, SouthernGrace! That's why I've (temporarily, hopefully) given up. It has also made me play the entire game much less. Too frustrating. The possibly good new- tofu dogs aren't being bought up as quick anymore! :rolleyes:
I hear what your saying about opening up rares. So let's say you use Hay Day max price, either way we can find something we need, that's rare. Right now is the equivalent of Wal-Mart putting Pepsi on sale, then filling their store with toilet paper and putting one 8 pack of Pepsi on the back shelf and unlocking the front door to 1000 people....then rinse n repeat every 3-5 min. It doesn't even make sense no matter how cute the AD is. I'd guess most people...leave this game in the 30-40 level range. You really need Tom for one, whose parent will buy him for their kid??!! Then let's say this game attracts people who love the concept of managing their farm. Kids check out when it gets too busy and who blames them bc now while I'm waiting 8hrs for jelly my kid can do 15 more apps similar to this one. I think you're leaving a huge hole on the table to profit more with an auction house. I'm not suggesting paying for it or the game either. People's natural instinct will want them to maybe??? get some diamonds if there is a chance they can keep playing in the time frame they set aside to play rather than fill shops, fill machines n leave for hours, days, weeks. That's what I'm suggesting. So now a few people find ore, big deal the rest of the world wants to expand too.Quote:
Originally Posted by ilovehayday
They would have to find a way to get a cut of it and that would just add a new complication to how the game is run for them. I don't think that idea is going to fly. It's not worth their time and energy for the trouble it's going to cause.
Well I typed a massive reply why it would, should and could work. Explained how they are losing money. How they could recoup money by writing the code and implementing it. Why I care so much. Why most people quit. Hit submit and it said I wasn't logged in... So, yea supercell just give up, its too hard I guess to keep more active players. I quote"people have suggested auctions before" because it would work and this game would dominate the competition and keep more active players, longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillieBDare
Thrilled, I must ask, what level are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thrilled
I saw the auction idea, but as a lower level player that would just plain suck.
We are struggling for coins as it is, such things would make it much harder for us to get our hands on expansion items.
If you make it much harder for lower levels to progress, they may find the grind too challenging and not want to play.
SuperCell always keep the interests of new players at heart, because without them the game cannot grow.
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Originally Posted by daz258
I can't see the Auction idea taking off, far too complicated to implement.
Everyone gets the option to sell for 1 coin or max coins as it is.
The complicated part thankfully means SuperCell will likely never do it. Not to mention it compromises their pricing scheme; they aren't going to go out of their way to make it easier to alter their pricing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digger
However; if it did exist, I actually think it would take off.
Example, low level players without many coins. Currently sell surplus goods in the paper at 'max' to offload them to free barn space and boost their coin balance. This gives players of all level equal opportunity to purchase them.
However, under an auction system a low level player could put them up, let's say 10 bolts, at 10,000 coins [1,000 each]. Let high level players have a bidding war making the low level player rich.
But as such, taking a lot of those parts out of the paper; which as a low level player especially you'll never find them anymore.
And also gives the low level player coin relief, so would no longer need to be tempted by Tom to help make them money.
Lowers SuperCell earning potential and reduces quality of the daily dirt. Yeah, thankfully SuperCell would never do something crazy like that.
Cami put a great link on another thread about game balance that covers auction houses: https://gamebalanceconcepts.wordpress.comQuote:
Originally Posted by daz258
To me, there is too much disparity between longer term players and newer ones to have open auction work well. 100 tape for a million coins? Sign me up, I got another 53 million laying there, so bring it on, more. But that would not be fair to those newer to game, to remove that quantity that might have instead been in DD for many to buy some. Why should I get massive advantage with no strategising for it, just for playing longer and not happening to be into decor?
The DD works fine the way it is. Some people loath it, others love it. It's always been about speed and quickness. Being at the right place and the right time. The DD was never intended to be easy. U want to find the items u need in the paper?...u put in the time and the effort. As someone who camps out in the DD more often than on my farm...u tend to pick up on little tricks to give urself a slight advantage over other shoppers. Bottom line, the DD has always been a place where anything can be found with enough patience and persistence.
Search function and auction would change the dynamics of that aspect of the gameplay. Like others have said, auction would give a massive advantage to the coin rich. Why make it easy? Doubt SC will change a system that has been in placed for the last 3+ years. Frankly, I'm glad they won't.
It is the lower levels who suffer more for barn and silo space and therefore need the EMs most.
However also the ones who will have very little space to hold many EMs or cash with which to buy them.
Shortage of of barn and silo space was the one thing that nearly made me quit early.
So to have to bid, or more importantly outbid those with nearly unlimited cash would be less than useless.
As for bidding for shepherds pies or syrup to finish a boat to get a green voucher?...........uh huh. 😁
Right now, I see a huge wave of tofu dogs flooding the DD 🌊🌊. All available, if you need some LOL
:cool::facepalm:XD
Cool. Now I just need a machine that accepts tofu dogs and magically morphs into whatever product you need.Quote:
Originally Posted by bender018
LOL.
Well that would be super awesome :caticon: Think about all the boat orders *swoosh* done. next please.XDQuote:
Originally Posted by ilovehayday
That would be fun! ;) Plus we could upgrade our barn like 10+ times in a row with our newly-made BEMs. We'd need that big barn too, because we'd need a lot of tofu dogs to feed into our machine. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bender018