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Thank you for the link! I thought that you were "light trader" when the total amount of requested and donated items was under 100 but it seems that the amount of requested items AND the amount of donated items must BOTH be under 100... I really understood something today! ;) Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by LetTheMusicPlay
I agree on the points made about it being naming and shaming. So many rules against that here on the forum; and yet the game decides to discriminate against players.
Which is especially ridicious if somoene only ever requests crops - where you can ask for 10 at a time.
If you have one that always requests them, and another that always requests tools; just 3 at a time the one requesting crops is going to look more greedy?
Such a ridiculous concept, the idea of neighborhood trading is great. But the crazy lopsided restrictions and chat titles make it more trouble than it's worth.
With all this rubbish attached I wish we never got it.
Why can't SuperCell just listen to us for once; we wanted neighborhood crates in our shops. Not this complex, discriminatory mess.
At the very least the game should give leaders the option to turn those titles off from chat. Lack of leader ability is, and always has been my greatest dislike in SuperCell games.
Geezer category here. I'm not a fan. But we will be told to just live with this new feature like we're told to learn to like the new chat. So yes, geezer would fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by MiniGardener
About as much use as a chocolate fireguard!!
Items requested 10 wheat,items donated 10 wheat,,,,that's it for our neighbourhood!
Best way to be given how poorly designed it is right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostindorset
This was brought up in my current hood but didn't end up being successful. :(
This is why the "generosity" titles amuse me: Is it possible that a non-native English speaker came up these titles? I think something got lost in translation. And those kinds of accidents make me laugh.
This game and the marketing around it is so earnest. They're never sarcastic or subversive. They're not gonna to try to shade their players on the sly. But that's what they did. They [inadvertently?] called a whole bunch of players basic. XD
With "Run of the Mill," maybe the game was trying to go for something that conveyed "business as usual" while evoking a "mill" on the river floss/farm or whatever. A trader that goes with the flow. Whoever came up with it might not have realized it can come off kind of disparaging.
It reminds me of Support. I think they've been told to congratulate players on their game levels. So, for a while, they were congratulating you on your "hard work" but simultaneously insulting the game itself. :D They would say things like Hay Day "isn't everyone's cup of tea" or other things that gave the impression that playing/leveling up in Hay Day is an unpleasant exercise. And good on you for reaching level ## despite the intense discomfort of actually having to play this game!
If Hay Day is going to clap back at their players, I'm rooting for them to go all the way. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by LynnK2015
You're welcome! Well, your first instinct might be right. This was just my interpretation. A lot of times, I think something's going to go one way in this game, and the complete opposite happens. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LeChatFermier
I cannot fathom how it's 'naming and shaming'.
The "no naming and shaming" rule is a thing for the forum. I haven't noticed those words anywhere in the game. But more to the point, I don't think this is the least bit related to naming and shaming.
HayDay is full of little peer-pressure "hints". When you visit a farm you see their level. If you feel inadequate when looking at a peer's level number then that's you. If you feel somehow superior and ♥♥♥♥y when visiting a farm lower level than you, well, that's you. That's not naming and shaming, it's just peer pressure. It's no different than driving by houses in the real world: if a big house makes you feel inadequate, that's about you, not the house. If a little house makes you feel superior, that's about you, not the house.
Ditto for showing boat points.
Ditto for showing town level.
Ditto for showing stars on production machines.
Ditto for showing how many beehives we have.
Ditto for showing truck deliveries per day.
Ditto for showing likes count.
Ditto for showing followers count.
Ditto for showing roadside...
Do you see the pattern here? HayDay is full of little peer-pressure queues. It always has been.
Now, having said that, here's what I think of the new trading feature:
It's horrible. It's clearly built by people that don't play the game, at least not to the extent as the people here. Nick's comments about trying to make sure it's not abused are (to me) completely insufficient: they read as "we deliberately built a crappy product because a useful one...". Hey, let's build a car that can't go over 1 mile-per-hour so that people can't get speeding tickets!
The labels in the chat window that people are discussing in this thread (e.g. "Light Trader") weren't well thought out. They apparently were translated by people that were incompetent (either in terms of skill or in terms of pride in a job well done). That they were jammed into the chat where they consume valuable screen real-estate shows that SuperCell no longer has much of staff overseeing HayDay, instead just people implementing a bad feature can jam their bad user interface into something unrelated. They could have just put the numbers somewhere on the little birdhouse, and been less confusing by showing two numbers (products requested, products donated).
Yeah, I hate it.
And yeah, I'm back :p
I see what your saying, but disagree with your argument. Every other situation you have cited is perceived. Not one of those items you listed directly labels you like these new tags do. Well maybe the exception of level; but that is more an indication of how long someones been playing. That doesn't offend anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by XYZZY
And if you have seen some of the other topics the titles are even worse in some other languages, to the point of insulting.
Why the game would go out of it's way to leave players carrying around insulting badges is beyond my comprehension.
I originally said the new town task is the worst addition in the new update. And I take that back, the horrible way this trading system is designed is by far the worst addition.
But totally agree with the rest about disliking it. Love the link between making cars inferior so they can't speed. XD
i agree with you but....those items you listed basically show what we do for OURSELVES. Not what we do for others. There is a big difference there. Farm stats were usually a motivator for me rather than something that made me feel inferior. This new title stuff is not a motivator.Quote:
Originally Posted by XYZZY
Kind of reminds me of the great flag debacle...
I see the label as an obfuscated "Requested 75, Donated 87". In other words, they could have simply said "75/87" and been done with it. That would be a factual number. Look beyond the English (or Spanish or...) labels and it's just a number.Quote:
Originally Posted by daz258
Ok, maybe my Farm Level analogy wasn't spot on. How about derby awards. I'm in a neighborhood with 20/15/4 derby cups. If that information causes somebody to be insecure or domineering isn't name and shame. I think after a while most people stop caring and move on.
Or maybe to put that another way: weren't people insecure back when trophy records were posted? Didn't they get over that? Are the English labels on contribution records just more of the same?