How about an option to lock the stuff you are selling unless people help your boat or revive your plants. So many people take your stuff but never help!
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How about an option to lock the stuff you are selling unless people help your boat or revive your plants. So many people take your stuff but never help!
What about people who stop by from the leader board or via the dd? If a farm doesn't need help, they could not buy.
Farms dont always align on their need for help. i have some new friends who never seem to need help. I go to their farms multiple times a day, and can't find a thing to do for them. They have helped me...I feel terrible about the inequity, but what can I do? I just keep hoping one of these days I can repay the favor. Or that they will come buy some good stuff from my farm.
if you have friends or followers who are burdensome, maybe get rid of them and find more even minded friends who play from the same time zone as you do, and followers who have to be involved to maintain follower status. That is a wonderful thing about the last update, we are not stuck with anyone except the folks whom we have helped, and that is temporary.
But I think you should have an option of which items you want to lock, for example you lock the nice items such as building materials that can only be bought if you help ect. Because I sometimes place items in my market to attract people to help but then to lot of the times no one helps.
I don't like this idea. I don't always need help with a boat. I fill my boat myself 90% of the time. Besides, I have over 250 friends and they can't all help me. I want what I sell available to all of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeckyM
I did have a few that raided my shop and didn't sell anything in their shop. That's what the unfriend button is for ... they have been unfriended.
Buying your stuff isn't "helping"?
NO! They're just TAKING the stuff and paying for it with money! That's the worst!Quote:
Originally Posted by Holidae
I'm not certain if this was sarcasm but I had a good laugh nevertheless.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheddarLimbo
Thank you.
This comment made me ask myself what the original concept of the game Hay Day was. I am dumbfounded by it so I decided to look up what propaganda Hay Day’s creators used to lure us in.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeckyM
“Get back to nature and experience the peaceful, simple life of working the land and rearing chickens, pigs, cows and sheep. Make a name for yourself by harvesting crops and building bakeries, sugar mills and dairies that turn your fresh produce into wholesome goods you can trade with your friends at your very own Farmer's Market.”
I imagined myself in a market place and stopped by your shop. As I was perusing the options available to me, I saw a sign that said:
“If you do not help me….”pack some creates, water my plants” (fill in the blanks here), you cannot shop here because you not only pay for my goods, you must work for the privilege to pay for my goods.
I think the concept of the game has been lost here. Filling crates and watering the plants for your neighbors is a courtesy, not a requirement within this game. The kindness of some of your neighbors help you to reach your boat achievements, help you gather much needed vouchers, help you get one more crop from your trees and bushes. They do this because they want to not because they have to.
As a real everyday farmer, if I were to make the people that buy my grain get on the combine and harvest it, get in the barn and clean up the cow’s poo, I would have no customers. Not even my friends or family would consider buying my goods and I would be out of business pretty fast and no friends or family who would speak to me again. (I jest here as my family and friends are great but you get the idea).
Not only that, when I do haul my product to the markets, I carry the crates alone, set up my booth and sit there for hours smiling & chatting throughout the long day as people, who have no idea of the work involved in producing that beautiful zucchini they are holding, buy it for a nominal price.
Thankfully Hay Day is a game and there is no poo to clean up (getting kicked in the head because you moved behind the cow and startled her) and harvesting is a breeze, not something that takes you into the dead of night, combining in the dark, and grain dust in your lungs…
But there is nothing like standing in the field with the breeze blowing…I love the farm!
But that’s how I see it….
GC: Goobster1963
Level 48
I also was dumfounded by this post when I first saw it hours ago. After much contemplation on how to respond and coming up with nothing due to being so stunned, I said forget it. Now that Goobster has so eloquently said all I couldn't figure out how to put into words, all I can do is say I agree with Goobster completely.
My opinion may seem rude but if the OP doesn't want to sell to anyone who won't help them first then the OP is playing the wrong game. This is a social, laid back, sharing, give and take if you can type game. YOU play in any style you wish but you have no control whatsoever on the actions or playing styles of other farmers.
If you don't want strangers to buy from your shop without a guarantee that they will help boats or trees first, than don't advertise...you can't force strangers to help you.
If you have friends that you feel aren't helping you as much as you think they should, than unfriend them. No one is forcing you to keep connections with folk you don't feel are sharing a two-way relationship.
If you want to up the chances of someone helping you when they shop, DON'T put anything into your shop UNTIL you have a boat or tree that needs help, and first move all plants in need by the market stall or newspaper where they will be seen immediately, and change your market sign to "please help boat".
I have to agree with Goobster and Cricks. This is supposed to be a fun, laid back game :) I have just over 300 neighbours and it would be impossible for them all to help, just to buy my goods...as I have said many times, whatever I put in my shop, I put out for everyone to buy :) and if you wanna buy everything I'm selling....well, go right ahead :)