Need some advice

Hello. I've been needing lettuce for so long. It's never in the paper and I don't have Tom anymore, nor do I have the diamonds to re-hire Tom. I'm afraid of doing third party trading, as I was told that wasn't allowed.

Oh, and I left the neighborhood i was in, because the member, the neighborhood leader, left the farm and can't return, even if she wants to. So I can't do neighborhood trading. Been reading of complaints of people entering other's farms to go into their neighbodhood trading and then leaving the neighborhood. People say they are stealing. So afraid to do that.

I've even tried going to Greg's roadside shop. No lettuce.

Any more things to try? Thanks.

How often have you tried Gregs shop and the DD? I've often got lettuce in both of them before.

In your place I would go fully focused on a lettuce campaign to get myself out of it. Starting now, use none and plant it all, then replant it, and replant it. Don't use any until you have at least 50, don't plant other things when you could plant lettuce. It will grow exponentially once you get over the initial small amount, doubling every 3 hrs 30 mins. So the stricter you can be about not using any, the faster you'll get out of it. It will cramp your style as it means stop doing some other things, but that's over soon. If you had just 1 lettuce in stock and were able to log on 4 times in a day to plant lettuce and used none in that time, then in just 2 days you can turn that 1 into 128.

how many lettuce do you currently have?

lucy

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Originally Posted by Midori669

Hello. I've been needing lettuce for so long. It's never in the paper and I don't have Tom anymore, nor do I have the diamonds to re-hire Tom. I'm afraid of doing third party trading, as I was told that wasn't allowed.

Oh, and I left the neighborhood i was in, because the member, the neighborhood leader, left the farm and can't return, even if she wants to. So I can't do neighborhood trading. Been reading of complaints of people entering other's farms to go into their neighbodhood trading and then leaving the neighborhood. People say they are stealing. So afraid to do that.

I've even tried going to Greg's roadside shop. No lettuce.

Any more things to try? Thanks.

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What do you mean by Third Party Trading?

You can definitely use the Trading Thread here, under General. You could offer BEM/Sem for lettuce.

It's ok to go into a 'anyone can join NH & request lettuce, just be sure to make a comparable donation while you are there. or ask in chat, offer to swap for tomatoes or something.

I presume you haven't started your own NH yet then? What's your current plan? There are Advantages & disadvantages for starting one or joining an existing one, which do you think you'll do?

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Originally Posted by Midori669

Hello. I've been needing lettuce for so long. It's never in the paper and I don't have Tom anymore, nor do I have the diamonds to re-hire Tom. I'm afraid of doing third party trading, as I was told that wasn't allowed.

Oh, and I left the neighborhood i was in, because the member, the neighborhood leader, left the farm and can't return, even if she wants to. So I can't do neighborhood trading. Been reading of complaints of people entering other's farms to go into their neighbodhood trading and then leaving the neighborhood. People say they are stealing. So afraid to do that.

I've even tried going to Greg's roadside shop. No lettuce.

Any more things to try? Thanks.

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I can give you some lettuce. If you are on Android you can add me on FB. I don't have GC.

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

What do you mean by Third Party Trading?

You can definitely use the Trading Thread here, under General. You could offer BEM/Sem for lettuce.

It's ok to go into a 'anyone can join NH & request lettuce, just be sure to make a comparable donation while you are there. or ask in chat, offer to swap for tomatoes or something.

I presume you haven't started your own NH yet then? What's your current plan? There are Advantages & disadvantages for starting one or joining an existing one, which do you think you'll do?

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I agree with what SmallChange said about joining a anyone can join nh. And what third party trading were you going to use?

My ideas:

--make a FB account with phony name (like really phony, nothing tied to you at all). Use it to trade and add new friends. I know you might not want to do that, as you're trying to find a job and don't want a FB account. Can you make one of your own and not put anything on the FB page just use it to link to FB to add friends? Potential employers will just think you made one and never use it.

--check the stands of those who follow you and those you follow. Do they have any lettuce?

--Join a NH either permanently or temporarily to get lettuce.

--Do as Tomville suggests above

--Check the leaderboard. Go to the bottom of the board and click on the farms near your score. Maybe they have lettuce.

--Maybe someone here can let you temporarily join their NH and sell you lettuce. There are lots of trustworthy people here on the forum.

You'll need to figure something out for both now and later. You aren't leaving yourself many options if you get into a jam. No Facebook makes it hard but there are NHs or followers.


And ya, what's third party trading?

I'm with Tomville. If you even have one lettuce in the silo, you can restock. I accidentally got myself into that position with cotton recently. One cotton left when I usually have close to 100. Like tomatoes, cotton is one of the crops that I always have at least 8 plots growing. I got side-tracked with a bit of wheating and after loading my machines a number of times discovered that I was nearly out.

I immediately planted that one last cotton boll and stopped using cotton for anything. It didn't take me long to build back up to a "safe" level. I am in a neighborhood, and I asked for a donation of 10 cotton using the NH trading feature. Those 10 cottons helped me speed up the process.

Joining an "anyone can join" NH would allow you to use the trading feature for crops, if nothing else. People in that NH would get XP and points toward the achievement.

Since you are hesitant to start a FB page for gaming and leary of the trading threads, your best bet right now would seem to be joining a NH to see how it feels. You can always leave. Our NH has had several people join who left within a few weeks because it wasn't a good fit. Good luck!

Best advice indeed Mini. :)

(Being in a neighbourhood has helped me too :) Several times last tomato or potato used.... And DD doesn't work for you then.... )