second failed event...better prizes please

I would like to see a mixed event which required different actions at different levels -

Lev 1: x trucks
Lev 2: y boats
Lev 3: z town visitors served
Lev 4: feed # cows or other farm animal
Lev 5: harvest # of x crop

Level prizes can be premium vouchers (pink, gold) or boosters, or PERMITS, or decos, or players choice as in derby horseshoes prizes

My hood also went from 23 very active players to only 4 active, 3 occasional and the rest just gave up, after more than 2 years playing. Also noticed too many of my neighbours, and there are hundreds of them, are less active or simply inactive. Many lower levels I befriended give up in weeks. I was surprised at the small number of help flagged for this last event. Even though I have been playing for almost 3 years I am considering stopping too. The tool drops are tweaked out of control - so many mining tools I have to sell, as all of my hood members are swamped by them too, the trucks, on higher levels asks for ridiculous orders, the town folk ask for lobsters, jams, cheese stuff and then graciously give you an axe.
i never liked boats, but generally go along for the whole world community thingie, but it is getting harder - shovels, saws and axes for sending away boats loaded with jams, cheese etc??? 5 diamonds??? Also, even though they stopped asking for similar stuff in same boat, they keep asking it in sequence, this event: goat cheese then feta pies, then feta toast, then goat cheese again, then tomato soup. Last event, fish pie, fish, fish burguers,seafood salad, fish again.
Also, derby changed a lot of the dynamics of the game. Most people who do derby disappear when they finish their tasks, coming back only when the new derby starts.
Anyway, it went from "yey, an event" to "oh darn, another event". It is high time the creative team do some serious brainstorming about the subject. There are plenty of good suggestions in this thread, specially the catalogue, which will satisfy more people.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by anagfm

My hood also went from 23 very active players to only 4 active, 3 occasional and the rest just gave up, after more than 2 years playing. Also noticed too many of my neighbours, and there are hundreds of them, are less active or simply inactive. Many lower levels I befriended give up in weeks. I was surprised at the small number of help flagged for this last event. Even though I have been playing for almost 3 years I am considering stopping too. The tool drops are tweaked out of control - so many mining tools I have to sell, as all of my hood members are swamped by them too, the trucks, on higher levels asks for ridiculous orders, the town folk ask for lobsters, jams, cheese stuff and then graciously give you an axe.

i never liked boats, but generally go along for the whole world community thingie, but it is getting harder - shovels, saws and axes for sending away boats loaded with jams, cheese etc??? 5 diamonds??? Also, even though they stopped asking for similar stuff in same boat, they keep asking it in sequence, this event: goat cheese then feta pies, then feta toast, then goat cheese again, then tomato soup. Last event, fish pie, fish, fish burguers,seafood salad, fish again.

Also, derby changed a lot of the dynamics of the game. Most people who do derby disappear when they finish their tasks, coming back only when the new derby starts.

Anyway, it went from "yey, an event" to "oh darn, another event". It is high time the creative team do some serious brainstorming about the subject. There are plenty of good suggestions in this thread, specially the catalogue, which will satisfy more people.

---

It is SO GOOD to know I am NOT ALONE in this: right now, I have nearly 900 mining tools -- 199-239-268-185 -- AND I DON'T MINE!!! I save these for my NH, for use on mining tasks which have all but completely disappeared since the introduction of basket tasks. This is actually down -- I was at 1200+ tools 2 weeks ago :0

I am at level 113, and bored with the events. They are always the same. The prices are cheap, but that seems to be the nature of the game. I have done 10 boats, because I want the golden tickets.

Someone asked for new ideas so SC know what players want. I have seen much great ideas, mine favourite is the events with all kind off little targets like the basket task in tje derby and the catalogue for the prices. SC tweek the events!

I am getting bored with the game, I play less and less. I have set some goals such as get all machines in 3 stars, but I take it very slow.

My english is not so good because I am dutch.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kaptain Kat

Oh don't get me wrong me please. That phrase was part of a whole post to make a point, it is more fine to discuss these things however reading a few posts saying they don't care about the 5 diamonds while discussing it and making a point of it that is 2 things which kinda contradict itself.

Personally I would also like the idea as mentioned in this thread where it would be possible to have some choice in the rewards. I would still like to hear ideas for new events.

---

No, it's not contradictory. We don't care that we didn't hit the target because 5 diamonds isn't a big enough prize to care about, if the prize was a cool bit of Deco or Catalogue Points, then we'd care. We want to care, we want to have fun, we want a prize that inspires us to participate.

We don't want these age old events & we don't want the global prize to be 5 diamonds.

You're entirely missing my other point. What is the actual point of listing Events we'd like to see AGAIN when there are already numerous threads about it. Hundreds of posts listing Events people would like. All gathering dust because no one does anything with them.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Kaptain Kat

Well yes sure that's their job however if the community never requested things we'd be playing a totally different Hay Day today. Throughout the years so many small and bigger things have been added, tweaked and changed based on community requests. The list is almost endless if I had to name them and frankly I've lost count.

They do have a team working on improving our game experience constantly however they do need to pick focus points and work on one major and/or a few minor aspects for each update. Take something like last update which brought boosters. From initial first rough idea to having it in game is a long road. From coming up with the mechanics and how they will work to the artwork and coding, the balance and bug testing etc etc. Think of it a little like remodeling a house you end up doing lots of work which is invisible when you see the end result.

Events were once fresh, new and exciting but have become stale and repetitive. If they start to think "oh let's revamp events" they could start from scratch basically and try and come up with stuff on their own or (partial) ideas from the community can be a starting point. Just like improving prizes then it's good to hear what people think.

And yes lots of ideas are also not possible as they dont want to break the game either. There is a delicate balance to be maintained and reasonings we don't always fully see however that doesn't mean they don't listen. Like I said I've lost count on how many things were changed or implemented which were requested by the community and yes that's why I ask for ideas because well the simple "we need better events" can only be met by an "ok, noted" response.



I love most of these ideas, thank you for sharing!
I have always loved the idea of seasonal products but it would need a seperate storage I think of some sort or at least a solution you won't get stuck with seasonal stuff in your barns/silos. Nevertheless where there's a challenge there's a solution.

As for drag and drop part of the fun is also helping people by selling to them when you've done your own. There were whole threads on the forum helping people meet their goals. By having a rule it needs to be made you also exclude buying and getting credit that way.

As for 5 I'm not sure. It might be really harsh if you constantly run into visitors you just cannot serve in 1-2 particular buildings.

I've also always liked the saving up catalogue idea even though it seems somewhat similar then vouchers and gift cards.

---

See above re lists already existing.

I'm really not getting at *you*, but SC. Things we have constantly asked for, changes we have constantly requested get mentioned in AMA's or whatever and they come as a complete surprise to Nick et all. It's clear the ideas threads are largely ignored. Then when things are implemented it's not what we asked for (we wanted NH crates in RSS & we got the irritating donating system).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MsFleurDeLis

Totally agree, no brainer!

---

Thanks.

I already posted here, but forgot 2 things, first, there are very devout muslim ladies in my hood that have no problem playing during ramadan, one of them does not play because she is very fragile and sleeps during the day due to the no drinking liquids during it.
the second is a Haystacker moment, when I say I pay to play hayday , and expect the people who are paid to create it to come up with new ideas. We might suggest and they are risking their jobs not listening to it. Maybe not tomorrow, but sooner than later. We sure complain enough and from what I read new players are giving up quick enough. And as someone else noticed earlier in this thread, ppl who went for scoreboard did not rise to expectations. Also somewhere here it was mentioned clash of clans, which is more succseesful rewards more, and it feels like us farmers can just cope with being milked dry. The writing is on the wall.
I got another game to distract me while I waited to trash derby tasks and now I prefer it to hd, even if they are not the same

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by anagfm

I already posted here, but forgot 2 things, first, there are very devout muslim ladies in my hood that have no problem playing during ramadan, one of them does not play because she is very fragile and sleeps during the day due to the no drinking liquids during it...

---

Fascinating. Thank you anagfm for sharing the above. Like others in this thread, I also wondered if Muslims are allowed by their religion to play video games during the holy month of Ramadan. Since your Muslim hoodmate sleeps during the day, she must eat and drink after sunset and before sunrise.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by anagfm

...Also somewhere here it was mentioned clash of clans, which is more succseesful rewards more, and it feels like us farmers can just cope with being milked dry...

---

In a recent CoC update released a few weeks ago, we clashers got to build a mine which gives us one gem per day, more if we continue to upgrade it by winning battles. We farmers have been getting diamonds from the mine, but less than one per day. :)

In our hood we have an indo who does not farm during Ramadan, another who Only sneaks in a little, a Thai who farms all night long and a Saudi couple who also farm at night. All about individual choice, I suppose.

[QUOTE=LynnK2015;10385892]Fascinating. Thank you anagfm for sharing the above. Like others in this thread, I also wondered if Muslims are allowed by their religion to play video games during the holy month of Ramadan. Since your Muslim hoodmate sleeps during the day, she must eat and drink after sunset and before sunrise.

you name it lynn, in our hood we have brazilians very lax catholics like me, norwegianprotestants, indian budhists and a smathering of muslims, we used to have an eastern orthodox catholic an orthodox jew and an atheist, but they stopped playing, you name it we have it :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by anagfm

I already posted here, but forgot 2 things, first, there are very devout muslim ladies in my hood that have no problem playing during ramadan, one of them does not play because she is very fragile and sleeps during the day due to the no drinking liquids during it.
the second is a Haystacker moment, when I say I pay to play hayday , and expect the people who are paid to create it to come up with new ideas. We might suggest and they are risking their jobs not listening to it. Maybe not tomorrow, but sooner than later. We sure complain enough and from what I read new players are giving up quick enough. And as someone else noticed earlier in this thread, ppl who went for scoreboard did not rise to expectations. Also somewhere here it was mentioned clash of clans, which is more succseesful rewards more, and it feels like us farmers can just cope with being milked dry. The writing is on the wall.
I got another game to distract me while I waited to trash derby tasks and now I prefer it to hd, even if they are not the same

---

"A Haystacker moment" -- LOVE THAT PHRASE!!! LOL