We are a small nh of 9 players with levels ranging from 87 to 46. Town rep levels 30 to 10. I would like to begin placing more emphasis on the town in our nh to possibly help our lower level players advance. I've read others' great suggestions for growing the town, but nothing about rules and etiquette used, if any. Would appreciate any suggestions other nh use to keep things running smoothly.
we don't have any set rules in our NH, since some love the town, some hate it, and some kinda fool with it from time to time.
What do your neighbors think? I would involve them in any rule making. :)
I think it's too difficult to have rules/etiquette for town.
In an NH of your size I would have a couple of (frequently reminded) requests
- to please chuck your eggspress townies onto the track even if you don't play the town
- to please try not to take from a large group of townies when there are smaller ones available. It's either selfish or thoughtless to take 4/12 when you could take 4/4 leaving the 12 for someone with a larger train capacity. Mostly I think it's just thoughtless. Sometimes it's cherry picking & that's ok too if you have 4 specific spaces to fill.
I guess, more specifically, I want to know about personal train etiquette. We have a couple of higher level players that always fill their max capacity trains with all available town visitors, leaving very few for any other players to pick up. Then, even though they themselves have a platform full of town visitors, none are available for pick up. I understand there are no said "rules", but etiquettly speaking, it just doesn't seem fair to other, lower level players. I would appreciate any ideas/suggestions for what others would do in this situation.
What do your neighbors think? I would involve them in any rule making. :)[/QUOTE]
Good idea.
[QUOTE=SmallChange;7649758]I think it's too difficult to have rules/etiquette for town.
In an NH of your size I would have a couple of (frequently reminded) requests
- to please chuck your eggspress townies onto the track even if you don't play the town
- to please try not to take from a large group of townies when there are smaller ones available. It's either selfish or thoughtless to take 4/12 when you could take 4/4 leaving the 12 for someone with a larger train capacity. Mostly I think it's just thoughtless. Sometimes it's cherry picking & that's ok too if you have 4 specific spaces to fill.[/QUOTE
Thanks for these suggestions. Might help remedy our personal train problem.
I always announce in hood chat if I have 10 or more visitors for pick up. Not a rule in our hood, and not everybody announce it, but is a courtesy I do so members whose personal train is maxed to 10 can pick them up, as they do not have to visit every town searching for the max visitors.
We are first-come first served with regard to townies.
The way I do my town is I kick out all my Eggspress train townies and scarf up everybody's available 1-building townies with my maxed personal train. I only work the town during the derby.
I post a peeps on the platform for pick up note in the NH chat too, just to let the town players know I have 14+ on the platform.
I would not see thoughtlessness in scooping up a handful of townies out of a larger cohort waiting at someone else's town. I would see a player picking up available townies for their game.
No matter what your level you can only pick up from one farm at a time. The only advantage some players have (not necessarily higher level, but those who have chosen to upgrade their personal trains) is that their maintenance time is likely to be down to 1.5hrs. You really can't expect them not to send their train out when it's ready, just because other NH members haven't reduced their maintenance time yet. They'll probably be serving all their customers too, hence having fewer for pick ups. They enjoy playing town, you can't really ask them not to because others haven't prioritised expanding in that area.Quote:
Originally Posted by MsCeegee
You could work on some bar swapping plans to help other's ugrade their trains, but others may not be fussed about their towns and may not want to.
I think it's thoughtless because if a player only picking up a few passengers has a choice about picking up from a neighbours with fewer passengers (but enough to fill their trains) doesn't and instead takes them from a platform with more passengers this leaves players with higher capacity personal trains gong home half empty, when BOTH could go home with full trains.Quote:
Originally Posted by PerkyCox
I would only see that as thoughtless if there was communication between the 2 players that one ignored or disregarded intentionally, OR if there was some other known arrangement that was ignored like "no partial pick ups of townies please" or "take all townies or take none" thing at work. Otherwise, who is to know that there were 4 townies when player A picked up from player B, and then Player B dropped 6 more into the platform 10 minutes later?Quote:
Originally Posted by SmallChange
Picking up townies shouldn't be a minefield, in my view. I sometimes pick up my husband's only townie, not because I need THAT ONE but because it helps him. Then he says why did you pick him up? I don't care about the 1 RP and you have 10 seats in your train. LOL
Other times I grab the first 10 townies I see from the first farm I go to. I have had townies sniped from under my nose when I indulged in "looking for greener pastures." I was choosing them, when suddenly they went poof as a faster neighbor got them first. So I start at the L end of the "farmers with townies available for pick up" line and at the first to have 10, I get 'em, no matter if that takes all, or some :) The townies are there for anyone, and the game itself will snarf them eventually if I don't, so y'all get on my train. Ha ha
I Think Life is too short (and my brain cells ar too limited) to remember how many seats everybody has in their PT, or/and survey the NH to ask permission before I send my PT over. And since I'm not a mind reader, I don't ascribe negative motives or harmful intent to players who play the game as it was designed (absent evidence).
But it everyone brings their lenses to the game, and everyone has their desires and druthers. There is a NH for everyone's attitudes and internal player-imposed rules. :) That's the beauty of Hay Day.
*Perky*. I think you're making more of it than it is ;) All I'm saying is that if you know there are people in your NH who have a PT of 10, then if there's a platform of 10 then it's considerate to see if another one has the four you need before just taking a few of the ten. Of course no one knows who is or isn't about to drop more passengers on their platform. I just think, as with all things in life, a little thought & consideration of others goes a long way to making life better for everyone. No rules, no drama - simply a little thought.
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Originally Posted by SmallChange
10 chars :)
We recently added a high level player to our high level heavy nh. We rarely, if ever, posted that we had gobs of townies waiting. She has started asking if anyone has 10+ townies waiting. Some low level players just send everyone off so they will do that and tell her.
Now, another thought is to double check with the problem member that every 6 hours, they are sending away townies AFTER the train leaves to help out other nh members pick up more one stop townies. I know that I have sent people away as fast as they are unloaded and they get back on the train that they came on so there are few to none left.
But, bottom line, making a big deal out of it may not be worth it. And, we have level 50-75 players who do zero prep for derby. But, as we suggest things like filling town with people who need one more visit or stacking the truck board with orders you have everything for them, they learn and see ways around what frustrates them. And, while I have no problem giving a neighbor explosives, I will sometimes ask for some ore back to keep my smelters busy. We try to make help go both ways. If someone is doing a baked potatoes production task, the person giving them cheese or cream may appreciate a few back.