Jeepers Creepers...

These two are going to drive me insane! :D:facepalm:

I hadn't used my Ernest & Rose 'Free Trials' because I really couldn't see how they'd be anything but a hindrance (as a player who plays too much, stacks & does the Derby solo), but I thought that I'd give them a go when I'm on holiday in the summer and too busy drinking fancy drinks in the sun to care!

However, I've had a few R or E Boosters which I had to trash (because if I used them I'd lose the 7 day Free Trial) so I thought I'd bite the bullet & let them loose on the farm.

Well, I set Ernest's levels and he went and pinched stuff I'd already made, cheeky wotsit! Then I went to load my sugar machine and got quite a surprise to see his face beaming out from a bag of sugar, then the dairy, the idiot has loaded cheese! CHEESE?! It's cream time, not CHEESE time! I'm playing, I can load cream!

Then he's on the driveway demanding sugar cane. It was GROWING. Patience Grasshopper, the sugar machine was full bar one slot.

Then I just went back to the farm & my cows and chickens are waiting to be fed. They've never in their little lives had to WAIT for food. If she keeps starving them I'm going to have to report her for animal cruelty - there's FOOD in the barn FGS, I don't care if she uses it, just don't leave them hungry you daft mare! I haven't even looked at the feed mills, I can only begin to imagine what chaos she's creating there.

As far as I can tell it's like having toddlers 'helping'. All very sweet, but actually a pain in the proverbial!

Once the Derby starts, they might both be on Gardening leave.



Oh cripes, now she's moving feed around the farm and staring at me.

It's CREEPY!!

...but I haven't laughed this much in ages. I feel like I've got no control over my farm at all!

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1: Rose has a strip of animal feed pictures along the botttom of her 'in stock' screen (she's clearly pinched them from my silo, fine...) so why isn't she feeding the hungry animals!? I though her feeding them was either turned off or optional though? So if it is, why is the feed listed there?

2: How do I choose whether to use their stock or mine? Or do I have to use all mine up first?

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

QUESTIONS:

Rose has a strip of animal feed pictures along the botttom of her 'in stock' screen (she's clearly pinched them from my silo, fine...) so why isn't she feeding the hungry animals!? I though her feeding them was either turned off or optional though? So if it is, why is the feed listed there?

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Have you adjusted her settings? There are 3 options, to take account of Derby tasks, so you can stop her from feeding if you have a feeding task.

Tap her house - tap her and you should see a cog wheel. Tap that and choose the option.

Hope this helps!

I have yet to figure out how to use these "helpers" the way I really want them to work. I stack a lot too, but when I need a bit of space to pickup feed or gather from the animals, I often put eggs up for sale. That only makes them shift from their stock back to your barn. Also, I like doing my feeders the way it's been for almost forever - chicken and cow feed on one and pig, sheep and goat on the other. SmallChange, I agree, cheese in the middle of the day?!? Whatever was Ernest thinking?? You only cook cheese at bed time.

I surely hope it doesn't throw your derby into a tizzy. I just don't see myself using this buggers again. Not sure if this old dog can be taught any tricks to using them.

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Originally Posted by Cowslips

Have you adjusted her settings? There are 3 options, to take account of Derby tasks, so you can stop her from feeding if you have a feeding task.

Tap her house - tap her and you should see a cog wheel. Tap that and choose the option.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you :) I think the tears of laughter had obscured the cog wheel! I'm not sure I've made the right choice, but hey ho, I'm sure the world won't end!


My farm looks like they're playing Quiddich on it!



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More of a statement really. I'm skrewed re feeding my pets 'The Myso Way' aren't I?? I just went to feed them, but of course all the farm animals have been stripped of bacon, milk etc.

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Originally Posted by Momscar

I have yet to figure out how to use these "helpers" the way I really want them to work. I stack a lot too, but when I need a bit of space to pickup feed or gather from the animals, I often put eggs up for sale. That only makes them shift from their stock back to your barn. Also, I like doing my feeders the way it's been for almost forever - chicken and cow feed on one and pig, sheep and goat on the other. SmallChange, I agree, cheese in the middle of the day?!? Whatever was Ernest thinking?? You only cook cheese at bed time.

I surely hope it doesn't throw your derby into a tizzy. I just don't see myself using this buggers again. Not sure if this old dog can be taught any tricks to using them.

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I stack all machines, all the time, so there's quite an art to collecting products, feed, raw ingredients etc and Rose is oblivious to all of it.

I have pig & cow food in one feeder, chicken feed in the other with goats & sheep at set times. It works for me. God alone knows what Rose will do!

Essentially I think I'm too much of a control freak for their 'help', it just feels 'out of control'. I'm going to embrace the madness until the end of the week (when I'll need to stack properly for the Derby) if I can...we'll see.

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Originally Posted by Momscar

I have yet to figure out how to use these "helpers" the way I really want them to work. I stack a lot too, but when I need a bit of space to pickup feed or gather from the animals, I often put eggs up for sale. That only makes them shift from their stock back to your barn. Also, I like doing my feeders the way it's been for almost forever - chicken and cow feed on one and pig, sheep and goat on the other. SmallChange, I agree, cheese in the middle of the day?!? Whatever was Ernest thinking?? You only cook cheese at bed time.

I surely hope it doesn't throw your derby into a tizzy. I just don't see myself using this buggers again. Not sure if this old dog can be taught any tricks to using them.

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Momscar, you can choose to sell your eggs from your barn or theirs from their storage, however, if you use eggs, it will be the helpers eggs first.

I still haven't used my original trial and have been throwing out boosters for R&E. I think I'll keep going with that plan...

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

Thank you :) I think the tears of laughter had obscured the cog wheel! I'm not sure I've made the right choice, but hey ho, I'm sure the world won't end!


My farm looks like they're playing Quiddich on it!



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More of a statement really. I'm skrewed re feeding my pets 'The Myso Way' aren't I?? I just went to feed them, but of course all the farm animals have been stripped of bacon, milk etc.

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I had a good giggle over this... reminiscent of the chaos first created.

I love the free trials and I enjoy the different "system" I have to use when they are hired, but we all farm differently.

Our hood does not even talk about them, but I know 2 hood mates have them hired 24/7.

I understand they are not everyone's cup of tea:smirk:

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Originally Posted by Wussypuss

Momscar, you can choose to sell your eggs from your barn or theirs from their storage, however, if you use eggs, it will be the helpers eggs first.

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Thanks Wussypuss, I guess my brain is just wired to my way of playing and don't have time to train R&E to do it right. (My right, that is).

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

I still haven't used my original trial and have been throwing out boosters for R&E. I think I'll keep going with that plan...

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I like your plan. Think I'll put that in my bag of tricks. :)

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Originally Posted by Wussypuss

I had a good giggle over this... reminiscent of the chaos first created.

I love the free trials and I enjoy the different "system" I have to use when they are hired, but we all farm differently.

Our hood does not even talk about them, but I know 2 hood mates have them hired 24/7.

I understand they are not everyone's cup of tea:smirk:

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I must confess that I have slipped into using them both all of the time. It took me a while to learn how to use them, but I've mastered it now (most of the time!)

I have better supplies than ever before on the dairy and sugar front, and that has cascaded down to other products now.

I now just let them get on with it, unless I need to adjust because I've taken a Derby feeding task, for example. They do mess up animal feeding, though, but I haven't used Myso's feeding plan for a while now, mainly because my animals are really spread about on the farm.

I don't use R and E on my two smaller farms, though, so I have an additional challenge in remembering where I am...

Oh Lord,,this brings back the nightmare of' The introduction of Rose & Ernie' !!She held my feed mills hostage & made PIG FOOD in my chicken food mill!!!!,,,,never letting those bandits loose again lol

You really need to adapt your playstyle, and moreso 'relax' your playstyle for them to be of value.

If your strict with your myso pet feedings, want control over putting faster items in machines first (cream & brown sugar), want to keep your silo stock well managed they are more harm than good.

It wasn't until the third 3 day trial after a full 7 (or was it two seven day trials due to the first bugged Rose?) that I finally learned to 'let go' and allow them to help.

If you can adapt, they will build up some extra handy stock that keeps your barn free - but it takes time to learn to love them.

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

I still haven't used my original trial and have been throwing out boosters for R&E. I think I'll keep going with that plan...

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Smart move my friend!

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Originally Posted by Wussypuss

I had a good giggle over this... reminiscent of the chaos first created.

I love the free trials and I enjoy the different "system" I have to use when they are hired, but we all farm differently.

Our hood does not even talk about them, but I know 2 hood mates have them hired 24/7.

I understand they are not everyone's cup of tea:smirk:

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No, they'll sit alongside the decaf after this I think 'pointless & irritating!' ;)

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Originally Posted by Cowslips

I must confess that I have slipped into using them both all of the time. It took me a while to learn how to use them, but I've mastered it now (most of the time!)

I have better supplies than ever before on the dairy and sugar front, and that has cascaded down to other products now.

I now just let them get on with it, unless I need to adjust because I've taken a Derby feeding task, for example. They do mess up animal feeding, though, but I haven't used Myso's feeding plan for a while now, mainly because my animals are really spread about on the farm.

I don't use R and E on my two smaller farms, though, so I have an additional challenge in remembering where I am...

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Sorry, I can't remember, are you a 'stacker'? I think that makes a huge difference.

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Originally Posted by Lostindorset

Oh Lord,,this brings back the nightmare of' The introduction of Rose & Ernie' !!She held my feed mills hostage & made PIG FOOD in my chicken food mill!!!!,,,,never letting those bandits loose again lol

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Wise move, the daft mare is making sheep feed in both mills now. SHEEP FEED?! ...when I'm not sleeping AND in the cow/pig feeder?! What IS she thinking?!

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Originally Posted by daz258

You really need to adapt your playstyle, and moreso 'relax' your playstyle for them to be of value.

If your strict with your myso pet feedings, want control over putting faster items in machines first (cream & brown sugar), want to keep your silo stock well managed they are more harm than good.

It wasn't until the third 3 day trial after a full 7 (or was it two seven day trials due to the first bugged Rose?) that I finally learned to 'let go' and allow them to help.

If you can adapt, they will build up some extra handy stock that keeps your barn free - but it takes time to learn to love them.

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I think I could leave them to it if I didn't stack, but I've just been trying to make some space in the barn in the usual way, but I couldn't because I was seemingly using their stock.


It's fun messing around with it.

daz, sadly, I will never feel the love,,,,my farm,my feed mills,,,,,MY RULES! Rofl

SmallChange, I'm going to pour myself a drink& come to your to watch you pulling your hair out,put a chair out for me please xxx

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Originally Posted by Lostindorset

SmallChange, I'm going to pour myself a drink& come to your to watch you pulling your hair out,put a chair out for me please xxx

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...it'll soon be time for 🥐☕️

Got mine now,,on holiday having a late night in!!

And I thought I was an anomaly.... I have not used my free trial yet either.

I keep thinking one weekend I will try them out see how it goes and then I visit a farm to help, and see those two roaming around and change my mind cause they do creep me out.

Good name for this thread =)

Hehe.
I find Rose and Ernest work better if I give them simple tasks.
Rose-- collect just the eggs and feed all the other animals after I collect from them. I also always have a good supply of animal feed in my barn already so Rose doesn't even touch the feed mills.
Ernest-- make white sugar and butter. The rest of the cheese, cream, brown sugar etc I'll put in the queue myself.

Now I have peace with R &E a tip is Dont have them do everything : I have E to to do cream ,butter , and Suger , cheese and syrup I put in that way he dont collect or put any off that in . (And he only use one room so I can put it in near bedtime )
R I have do 18 egg 15 pork 15 wool and then remaining cow milk . no goat milk and to feed all and have stock , I have got that to work very well .
and a question : is ther a maximum how much R&E can collect they do 160 on my farms , is ther a maximum or do they do 300 on a level 300 farm ? and if you wish to here them do they cost the same for the low level , me and the high level players ?

Gave them a try during free trial period...didn't fit my style of play. Never used them again. All Rose and Ernie boosters trashed.

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

I still haven't used my original trial and have been throwing out boosters for R&E. I think I'll keep going with that plan...

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I too have been discarding the boosters. I tried Rosie at first and it was a disaster😂😂. Ernie's off is still there but I a. Not planning to use him anytime soon.😁

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

I stack all machines, all the time, so there's quite an art to collecting products, feed, raw ingredients etc and Rose is oblivious to all of it.

I have pig & cow food in one feeder, chicken feed in the other with goats & sheep at set times. It works for me. God alone knows what Rose will do!

Essentially I think I'm too much of a control freak for their 'help', it just feels 'out of control'. I'm going to embrace the madness until the end of the week (when I'll need to stack properly for the Derby) if I can...we'll see.

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i think I like the control too. My husband uses them frequently and is happy although he Feels Ernie is slow😁

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Originally Posted by Lostindorset

Got mine now,,on holiday having a late night in!!

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Not at all jealous. No. Not one bit....:saywhat: Hope you're having a lovely time x

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Originally Posted by whoapixie

And I thought I was an anomaly.... I have not used my free trial yet either.

I keep thinking one weekend I will try them out see how it goes and then I visit a farm to help, and see those two roaming around and change my mind cause they do creep me out.

Good name for this thread =)

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They pop up in the weirdest places and are quite demanding when you're running low on something. I might have been heard growling 'I'm only running low because the way you work lacks all logic!'

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Originally Posted by Sparkly888

Hehe.
I find Rose and Ernest work better if I give them simple tasks.
Rose-- collect just the eggs and feed all the other animals after I collect from them. I also always have a good supply of animal feed in my barn already so Rose doesn't even touch the feed mills.
Ernest-- make white sugar and butter. The rest of the cheese, cream, brown sugar etc I'll put in the queue myself.

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Yes, I've tweaked them again this morning.

I was TRYING to feed the pets, creating some space for tools and the +1 feed (Myso feeding) but Rosie kept nabbing stuff and filling the barn up! It was a race against the help...that's really NOT helpful! :facepalm:

My feed system works well for me & stacking, but I rarely have feed in the barn. I don't take wool or goats milk from my animals very often, so I just put on feed at certain times and when it's at the top of the pike I get wool & gm and feed them. Rosie's strips them immediately & puts on feed. Or did, I've taken her off that task too. She'll be left with sweeping at this rate!

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Originally Posted by Lyngby

Now I have peace with R &E a tip is Dont have them do everything : I have E to to do cream ,butter , and Suger , cheese and syrup I put in that way he dont collect or put any off that in . (And he only use one room so I can put it in near bedtime )
R I have do 18 egg 15 pork 15 wool and then remaining cow milk . no goat milk and to feed all and have stock , I have got that to work very well .
and a question : is ther a maximum how much R&E can collect they do 160 on my farms , is ther a maximum or do they do 300 on a level 300 farm ? and if you wish to here them do they cost the same for the low level , me and the high level players ?

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Yes. I think choosing carefully what you ask them to do helps a lot.

I'm level 119, they do 100 on my farm - I presume they just keep increasing without a limit. I haven't paid for them, so no idea about the cost.

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Originally Posted by Haystacker

Gave them a try during free trial period...didn't fit my style of play. Never used them again. All Rose and Ernie boosters trashed.

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I thought I might as well use the Rosie boosters overnight to get milk/bacon & feed the cows/pigs. It's only a few hours, so pretty harmless. This 7 day trial however....

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Originally Posted by Gymgirl4a

I too have been discarding the boosters. I tried Rosie at first and it was a disaster. Ernie's off is still there but I a. Not planning to use him anytime soon.

i think I like the control too. My husband uses them frequently and is happy although he Feels Ernie is slow

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I won't pay for them, but I'll use the Ernie boosters as 'back up' if I need cream or brown sugar overnight (instead of cheese & syrup) and Rosie boosters for milk & bacon overnight. I'll just have to make sure I have feed in the barn.

Lol....yep they are crazy! I remember when we all used our free trials when they were first introduced.....it was chaos.

I adjust Earnest to do only one dairy item and one sugar item at a time. The first time I used him he put cheese right at the end of my cream production - during the day!......I was not impressed. He's handy for night time cream and butter making.

Ernie: cream and butter during the day. Cheese at night. Sugar during day, syrup at night.
Rose: milk set at 110, bacon set at 60. No eggs, wool, goats milk.

Always keep a stock of crops for feed ready. If I had to choose between the two I would choose Rose. Ernie is sort of useless most of the time. He just gets in the way of production.

The wandering around my farm is a bit of a distraction and a nuisance. But I have grown used to them. The flying up of products, milk etc is not something I will get used to. Just quietly put them away. Why announce it by zooming items around my farm. ��

I am strongly opposed to letting R+E take over my farm. I never used the original free trials, and I never will!

(big time control freak, I am)

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Originally Posted by VickyD

Lol....yep they are crazy! I remember when we all used our free trials when they were first introduced.....it was chaos.

I adjust Earnest to do only one dairy item and one sugar item at a time. The first time I used him he put cheese right at the end of my cream production - during the day!......I was not impressed. He's handy for night time cream and butter making.

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I know. CHEESE - in the middle of the day?! He's really got a few loose screws! I don't sleep very much so I load it with cheese or feta cheese and it never runs out and I make cream & butter in the day. I can totally see how he could be great if you don't have access to the game for long periods, but otherwise...?!

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Originally Posted by Bestajunior

Ernie: cream and butter during the day. Cheese at night. Sugar during day, syrup at night.
Rose: milk set at 110, bacon set at 60. No eggs, wool, goats milk.

Always keep a stock of crops for feed ready. If I had to choose between the two I would choose Rose. Ernie is sort of useless most of the time. He just gets in the way of production.

The wandering around my farm is a bit of a distraction and a nuisance. But I have grown used to them. The flying up of products, milk etc is not something I will get used to. Just quietly put them away. Why announce it by zooming items around my farm. ��

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I'm not sure Ernest can be of any use to me outside of travelling & so not having access to the Farm. I've now set him to cream & white sugar, he can't do too much harm with those, but given I can normally keep them running 24/7, nor can he help much. I'm still tinkering with the levels for Rose.

My feed stock levels are worse than normal because she keeps putting sheep feed in (I've turned wool off now). Does she take it from an outside stack or do I need it to be in the barn?

I dont mind them wandering around, but the Quiddich playing is a bit irritating. Still I suppose it reminds me that the spaces I just created to collect something have just been filled :sigh:

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Originally Posted by Raelet

I am strongly opposed to letting R+E take over my farm. I never used the original free trials, and I never will!

(big time control freak, I am)

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That's the thing isn't it, they don't work for all of us, but all we have to do is leave them alone on their bench if we don't want them. No harm, no foul.

I think I'd like a bee keeper instead!

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

I think I'd like a bee keeper instead!

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I was thining that the other day! Now THAT I would pay for. Or even giving Ernest or Rose the job of harvesting the bees. Maybe Rose could harvest them and Ernest could work the honey extractor?

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Originally Posted by VickyD

I was thining that the other day! Now THAT I would pay for. Or even giving Ernest or Rose the job of harvesting the bees. Maybe Rose could harvest them and Ernest could work the honey extractor?

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I quite fancy a dude in the full Bee Keeping outfit!

They are a great help for players like me. I like playing many times a day normally but it's nice if you don't have to do all and can just focus on doing derby tasks or a few things. I'd like a helper for fishing and one that would plant my crops. They are a bit expensive though in my opinion so I've only been using the free trials and boosters. I used a Rose booster last weekend when I was on a trip and love coming back to 150 milk in my barn. Now I have only an Ernest booster and I don't think he would be very helpful on his own. I'd have to log in to collect milk every hour or he'd run out of stock quickly. I just feel like controlling all aspects of the game every day is a little too much work.

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Originally Posted by VickyD

I was thining that the other day! Now THAT I would pay for. Or even giving Ernest or Rose the job of harvesting the bees. Maybe Rose could harvest them and Ernest could work the honey extractor?

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And Angus can do my fishing for me and get feathers and lobsters. He can load the lure and net makers however he wants to and just deliver the goods to my dock. That I would definitely pay for!

When their concept was introduced I did freak out a bit simply because I like having everything in control. When their trial started, I just couldn't figure out how they worked even though I had understood the instructions. Ernest would claim there was no sugarcane or Rose would say the wheat stockpile is low, when each could have created lots of products. I couldn't wrap my head around both of them. Now this week there's been the opportunity to use both helpers for free for three days, and now that I've changed my gameplan, Rose has been helpful. However, she's been making cow and pig feed which I didn't request her to do yet on the bright side I don't have to worry about making them. All in all, I have very mixed thoughts about both.