Confessions of a self proclaimed picky player

It's true. And this latest update was the last straw. Fortunately, they nailed it.

True to my word, I bought no more diamonds, waiting to see if the ability to remove followers would appear. It did. But along with it, was the surprise that "friends" who were also raiding my stalls on occasions were reselling, at minimal prices. On closer observation, they weren't even low-level players, they turned out to be "helper" farms. I dumped three of them this morning after seeing them buy stuff that I put out for friends, some of whom ARE legitimate low-level players. Maybe now they'll actually be able to progress a bit faster since they'll have an opportunity to actually buy goods that aren't most likely going to "help" someone "help" themselves.

So I'm saying it, it's a game, and everyone has the right to play the game the way that they want to. Just like I have the right to play the game the way that I want to play, and with whom I choose to play.

So, SuperCell, thanks for this last update.

I get bothered by people who are bothered by high level players buying their premium stuff, attributing bad motives to them, when you really have no idea what they are doing with the stuff and no idea why they bought it. Sure, maybe they really are just trying to re-sell it to boost their "roadside shop max revenue" but that seems unlikely, since you get nothing for that achievement other than perhaps a smile to yourself when you check your farm statistics. It seems more likely that they are themselves trying to help out some of their own lower level friends (a motivation that you seem to find OK when you do it!). Or maybe they just happen to be in need of those items (despite their level), and they think you are a great friend for selling it to them.

Recently I snapped up a bunch of premium stuff from one of my friends at an even higher level than I am, and afterwards I wondered if she would be one of these touchy people who would un-friend me presuming bad motives (she didn't). But what I did with all that stuff was go around and put it in the boats of my other friends--it was all redistributed in less than half an hour to other people who had an immediate need for it.

You are free to friend or un-friend whomever you want for whatever reason, but I urge you not to go through life seeing malice where there is none.

~powdermonkey

Such a good point monkey. When I am working on boats I often will go shopping for stuff other people need for their boats. When my cash is up and no machines to buy at the moment lol

My experience is that people who are helping low level players are also playing themselves, not only reselling to help others. I've watched a lot of friends who were only buying but I couldn't ever seem to find them selling (or producing anything) themselves. When those items they just bought from you are being resold for one coin, I doubt in all sincerety that those are good motives.

I don't sell any of my items for one coin, I round everything down to the nearest five, and it's offered for those people who are actually playing the game. When I go consistently to farms, see no production, only resales of stuff they've bought from me, a pattern has been established. It's not as if it happened overnight, but this one detail in the upgrade seemed to confirm what, for me, was going on.

But thanks for being bothered.

I also do this. But then, I'll go through the daily dirt looking for it, unless I'm pretty sure I know I'm going to need the surplus myself. I figure if it's in the daily dirt, it's open for everyone who plays the game, which is a clear distinction for me, otherwise our stalls would be publicized every day, all the time.

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Originally Posted by Iam

Such a good point monkey. When I am working on boats I often will go shopping for stuff other people need for their boats. When my cash is up and no machines to buy at the moment lol

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Originally Posted by powdermonkey

I get bothered by people who are bothered by high level players buying their premium stuff, attributing bad motives to them, when you really have no idea what they are doing with the stuff and no idea why they bought it. Sure, maybe they really are just trying to re-sell it to boost their "roadside shop max revenue" but that seems unlikely, since you get nothing for that achievement other than perhaps a smile to yourself when you check your farm statistics. It seems more likely that they are themselves trying to help out some of their own lower level friends (a motivation that you seem to find OK when you do it!). Or maybe they just happen to be in need of those items (despite their level), and they think you are a great friend for selling it to them.

Recently I snapped up a bunch of premium stuff from one of my friends at an even higher level than I am, and afterwards I wondered if she would be one of these touchy people who would un-friend me presuming bad motives (she didn't). But what I did with all that stuff was go around and put it in the boats of my other friends--it was all redistributed in less than half an hour to other people who had an immediate need for it.

You are free to friend or un-friend whomever you want for whatever reason, but I urge you not to go through life seeing malice where there is none.

~powdermonkey

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Powder I love your posts!! I now can call you Robin Hood, lol you know I'm only kidding, but I think it works. I help a lot of boats probably about 10 or more a day. I buy up a lot of stuff to do this. I guess you can call me little John. Lol

I forgot to reply to this portion of your reply. Nowhere did I state that malice was involved. What is involved, however, is fairness. Additionally, I find it somewhat inappropriate to suggest to people how they should live their lives. Those sort of statements just don't belong in the forum, no matter how well intended they may be.

In the end, you play the game your way, I play the game my way. I was offering a commentary on one of the new items in the update.

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Originally Posted by powdermonkey

You are free to friend or un-friend whomever you want for whatever reason, but I urge you not to go through life seeing malice where there is none.

~powdermonkey

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Sorry but sounds to me like you just need to.middle your neighbors. Way. Down if you don't want anyone buying your wares

For the record, I don't care who buys my stuff or why, as long as it gets bought. If I want a particular person to get it, I kik them or pm them and ask them if they want to arrange a sale. I don't bother with actual trades unless you consider trading for coins a trade. I figure that if I see someone who mentions needing deeds, and I have space to spare, I'll hold on to a few and arrange for a sale. Then if I need a couple bolts, I can ask them to sell me some and they usually do (thanks Wendy)
even if they are still expanding. Heck I don't even get mad if someone nabs my trade. Eventually one of us will get another and try again.

So if you like to buy everything you see, but also sell yourself now and then, add me and we can buy and sell to our hearts content. But be warned, I am addicted to wheating ;-)

Tigg

I'm not following what you're saying. I removed them as friends.

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Originally Posted by Iam

Sorry but sounds to me like you just need to.middle your neighbors. Way. Down if you don't want anyone buying your wares

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I'll send a f/r. I have a couple friends who do the wheating. No problem.

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Originally Posted by Tiggerr129

For the record, I don't care who buys my stuff or why, as long as it gets bought. If I want a particular person to get it, I kik them or pm them and ask them if they want to arrange a sale. I don't bother with actual trades unless you consider trading for coins a trade. I figure that if I see someone who mentions needing deeds, and I have space to spare, I'll hold on to a few and arrange for a sale. Then if I need a couple bolts, I can ask them to sell me some and they usually do (thanks Wendy)
even if they are still expanding. Heck I don't even get mad if someone nabs my trade. Eventually one of us will get another and try again.

So if you like to buy everything you see, but also sell yourself now and then, add me and we can buy and sell to our hearts content. But be warned, I am addicted to wheating ;-)

Tigg

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I don't get the part where it's a problem if the person is reselling at a lower price. After all, you are the one who got the high return in coins, certainly not the person who bought your stuff and then lost money on that item. I don't raid stalls but I do buy stuff at a premium and then turn around and resell it at a significant discount. I lose money on nearly every purchase however I help so many others by doing this. I guess I don't understand how altruism equates a selfish and malicious intent? If you were on my friends list you would be the recipient of my shopping prowess.
If the items are purchased from the newspaper then it's up for grabs by whomever got to it first.
All that said, I do get annoyed as well when someone comes to my store to buy unadvertised goods, buys every item for sale (including the diamond ring for 1 coin in the trade bin!), but never sells anything but full-priced bacon and eggs in their own store. If it happens once I'll let it slide. If it keeps occurring? Yeah, that kind of action is grounds for immediate removal from my list.

I genereally dont care either who buy as long as they gets sold. But it irked me once in awhile when i am trying to help my friends boats and i'll be just lacking that one item to fill a crate. So i'll paged through my friends list trying to buy that one item hopefully before i hit the newspaper and alot of times i couldnt find much cept a bunch of friends that is actually selling.

Theres a few people on my list that i have noticed a pattern. I always sells goodies and restock throughout the day, some of these people, they never sell a thing, i go around buying alot so i take notice. But these people always swoop on my goods and what flabbergasted me sometimes is that i see their machines have all the masteries on it and yet they open boat after boat of dairy and sugar.... I can fill my own with my mastered sugar and dairy machine why are they opening theirs? But what do i know...

I am not to judge what they do with their stuff but we are only human and sometimes we get frustrated and hence conflicts and suspicion happens. Im only level 40 need all the gold i can get so i dont mind people swooping down on my stand. Its even okay if you are a wheating neighbour too, but it be nice if these wheating neighbour actually sells more than wheat for once and dont just buy up people stuff that some people that actually sells more than wheat might actually need.

I sell alot so people can fill their orders even if i cant fill theirs be it through finding that one ice cream through my stores yada yada, but its frustrating when i get players thats way higher level than me with masteries, cleared my stand out i just filled and does not even bother reviving my trees....

In the end, complains aside, to each their own, if you can tolerate players like that, do it, if you dont, delete them. Nobody is paying for anybodys game cept our own.

I have used the new feature to remove inactive farms only. The rest, they can do whatever they want. As long as they are active players, they stay in my followers tab, I do not really care for anything else. Saves me the headache from assuming what others' intentions are.

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Originally Posted by Tiggerr129

For the record, I don't care who buys my stuff or why, as long as it gets bought. If I want a particular person to get it, I kik them or pm them and ask them if they want to arrange a sale. I don't bother with actual trades unless you consider trading for coins a trade. I figure that if I see someone who mentions needing deeds, and I have space to spare, I'll hold on to a few and arrange for a sale. Then if I need a couple bolts, I can ask them to sell me some and they usually do (thanks Wendy)
even if they are still expanding. Heck I don't even get mad if someone nabs my trade. Eventually one of us will get another and try again.
So if you like to buy everything you see, but also sell yourself now and then, add me and we can buy and sell to our hearts content. But be warned, I am addicted to wheating ;-)
Tigg

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Tigg,
it sounds like we play pretty much the same way. I'm addicted to wheating also! :o

I'll be open and honest about it, I'm one of those "raiders" who comes by people's shops and buys the things they sell. Sorry guys! I tried to stop, but it's in my nature.

*swoop* *swoop* *swoop*
*raid* *raid* *raid*

We can never be HD friends. Our lives are over, right? :p

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Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

I'll be open and honest about it, I'm one of those "raiders" who comes by people's shops and buys the things they sell. Sorry guys! I tried to stop, but it's in my nature.

*swoop* *swoop* *swoop*
*raid* *raid* *raid*

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Originally Posted by DeezerQ

We can never be HD friends. Our lives are over, right? :p

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I'll be ingesting a lethal dose of arsenic at 11:45 pm CST tonight in case anyone else wants to sync up with me. ;)

It isn't necessarily at a lower price that bothers me. What I find unfair is that the people I unfriended had no farm activity for a period, or maybe just one thing that runs, which we really don't know what it's from, either they're producing or there are finished goods waiting to be collected (neither was sugar or dairy). But when they buy my sugars and dairy products and then resell at one coin to the same person, I get irritated. I usually keep my sugars at 50 each, in case someone needs sugar boat help. It took me awhile to get to these levels, including barn storage, but in most cases I can fill my own boats and help others with theirs and pick up some of the slack they may be experiencing from trying to bake goods that also use sugars. For me, that's the challenge aspect I like, meeting the balances required. So I try to look for other players who play similarly, which makes me a picky player.

Like with your wheating, you're hoping to score expansion materials, and while I only have a couple of wheating friends, they do sell stuff, they're actually running a farm that produces and sells.

And you're alluding somewhat to what I'm talking about in your second paragraph.

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Originally Posted by Supernovaonfiya22

I don't get the part where it's a problem if the person is reselling at a lower price. After all, you are the one who got the high return in coins, certainly not the person who bought your stuff and then lost money on that item. I don't raid stalls but I do buy stuff at a premium and then turn around and resell it at a significant discount. I lose money on nearly every purchase however I help so many others by doing this. I guess I don't understand how altruism equates a selfish and malicious intent? If you were on my friends list you would be the recipient of my shopping prowess.
If the items are purchased from the newspaper then it's up for grabs by whomever got to it first.
All that said, I do get annoyed as well when someone comes to my store to buy unadvertised goods, buys every item for sale (including the diamond ring for 1 coin in the trade bin!), but never sells anything but full-priced bacon and eggs in their own store. If it happens once I'll let it slide. If it keeps occurring? Yeah, that kind of action is grounds for immediate removal from my list.

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That's one of the reasons I like that new feature of seeing who's bought something. You can tell if they ARE selling stuff.

But I think we agree that everyone is entitled to their feelings on game play and choosing their game play friends.

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Originally Posted by mzmflo

I genereally dont care either who buy as long as they gets sold. But it irked me once in awhile when i am trying to help my friends boats and i'll be just lacking that one item to fill a crate. So i'll paged through my friends list trying to buy that one item hopefully before i hit the newspaper and alot of times i couldnt find much cept a bunch of friends that is actually selling.

Theres a few people on my list that i have noticed a pattern. I always sells goodies and restock throughout the day, some of these people, they never sell a thing, i go around buying alot so i take notice. But these people always swoop on my goods and what flabbergasted me sometimes is that i see their machines have all the masteries on it and yet they open boat after boat of dairy and sugar.... I can fill my own with my mastered sugar and dairy machine why are they opening theirs? But what do i know...

I am not to judge what they do with their stuff but we are only human and sometimes we get frustrated and hence conflicts and suspicion happens. Im only level 40 need all the gold i can get so i dont mind people swooping down on my stand. Its even okay if you are a wheating neighbour too, but it be nice if these wheating neighbour actually sells more than wheat for once and dont just buy up people stuff that some people that actually sells more than wheat might actually need.

I sell alot so people can fill their orders even if i cant fill theirs be it through finding that one ice cream through my stores yada yada, but its frustrating when i get players thats way higher level than me with masteries, cleared my stand out i just filled and does not even bother reviving my trees....

In the end, complains aside, to each their own, if you can tolerate players like that, do it, if you dont, delete them. Nobody is paying for anybodys game cept our own.

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I have a friend's party to attend, otherwise I'd be down. ;)

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Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo

I'll be ingesting a lethal dose of arsenic at 11:45 pm CST tonight in case anyone else wants to sync up with me. ;)

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