So, are we all loving our new chat titles??

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July 5th, 2016
XYZZY

As for the trading feature itself, here's how I think about the whole feature: what if the ONLY way I could trade with people was through this new feature? No RSS where we do the little wheat-then-product dance. Just this trading birdhouse. Would I ever have played the game this long?
July 5th, 2016
daz258

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Originally Posted by XYZZY

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.

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?

Even referring to trophy records isn't the same as something you carry with you every single time you post. It isolates and labels every individual player every-time they post, ask for help or ask for donations*.

*Which is really what this is, a poor mans version of the Clash of Clans donation system. While somehow SuperCell consider it as 'neighborhood trading'. Yeah...nar nice try SuperCell.

Anyway, back to the point. Nothing else Hay Day has ever done to differentiate hoods and players is that intrusive. At least in my time playing.

That is where I see clear a distinction between this and everything else Hay Day has done. And I do believe it has crossed the line.
July 5th, 2016
daz258

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Originally Posted by XYZZY

As for the trading feature itself, here's how I think about the whole feature: what if the ONLY way I could trade with people was through this new feature? No RSS where we do the little wheat-then-product dance. Just this trading birdhouse. Would I ever have played the game this long?

Without the proper trading ways we have developed there is no way I would still be playing today.

Trading is a crucial part of the Hay Day gaming experience, at least for me anyway.

SuperCell need to embrace evolution.

If this system we have now is all we had to exchange goods; I'd be playing some other game right now.
July 5th, 2016
LynnK2015

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Originally Posted by XYZZY

...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...

Do you see the pattern here? HayDay is full of little peer-pressure queues. It always has been.

IIRC, HD Game Designer Cami revealed the following in a recent AMA on Reddit: They don't want to make it too easy for us to find the plants which needed to be revived so we may explore the whole farms. Maybe it is the "peer-pressure hints" you stated so we want to emulate the farms by buying more decorations.

I wonder when farmers visit me, will they be motivated to clear cut their land and fill it with colorful orchards? :)

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Originally Posted by XYZZY

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

Welcome back. I wonder if the generosity titles were vetted by Supercellians who are familiar with English-speaking cultures. The lead developer of Clash of Clans is an American. Are there any Americans on Team Hay Day? "Run of the mill" has a negative connotation in American culture. I cannot think of a positive connotation for it at this time.

ADDENDUM: Apparently, the above phrase is offensive in Spanish per this poster.

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ive-in-Spanish
July 5th, 2016
ejarvis226

just me, but i believe that the purpose of SC using the titles is to prevent people from using this feature as a Tom replacement. i have to say that i don't like the titles but at the same time i see a couple of my hoodmates using this feature just so and it's irritating. it irks me that i'm on the same side of a company shaming others to hold on to their money but at the same time i don't like greedy playmates....torn.
July 6th, 2016
Midori669

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

Feeling very "run of the mill" here. Not!

No. Cuz can't chat. No one to chat with. My neighborhood leader, the only other person in the neighborhood, can't play.
July 6th, 2016
SmallChange

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Originally Posted by Midori669

No. Cuz can't chat. No one to chat with. My neighborhood leader, the only other person in the neighborhood, can't play.

Midori, please, for the love of little fish, do something about that, or stop complaining about it. We're not your Mom and she's not your big sister, we can't make her play with you!!

We have given you loads of suggestions how you can fix this...why won't you implement any of them? If you don't want to, fine, but you can't keep complaining about every single thing in Hay Day because you are CHOOSING to play solo.
July 7th, 2016
Hestess

Most of our farmers in my hood are light traders, except one, she is ASPIRING TRADER.
It would be great if SC made a clear rank list
July 7th, 2016
Cowslips

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Originally Posted by Hestess

Most of our farmers in my hood are light traders, except one, she is ASPIRING TRADER.
It would be great if SC made a clear rank list

"Aspiring Trader" is the new title that our member who was "run of the mill" is now showing. Much better!

I don't know any other titles yet; the rest of us are Light Trader, which hasn't changed.
July 7th, 2016
PerkyCox

I also am an ASPIRING TRADER, which is funny because I've only been trading on this forum for THREE YEARS

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