Why does Hay Day insist on alienating me?

Seriously? What is up with that??

Two puzzle boats per week. Per week?! What in the world are they thinking? What's the point of that? Super lame.

*Maybe* two puzzle pieces in the derby horseshoes? And *maybe* two permits in the horseshoes as well?? They couldn't even guarantee us them? "Hey, you know what would be great? Let's make this a game where you can't even work towards something fun! Instead we can frustrate our farmers and make sure they think poorly of us! Yeah, that'll get 'em to spend diamonds!" Idiots....

Not to mention the SUPER FANTASTIC <<<sarcasm>>> required booster columns which remove from us the ability to get something we actually want from the derby!?!? I can't pick up my stupid horseshoes this morning because the darn game gave me a dumb tree booster yesterday which I stupidly used and there have been several threads about the detriments of trashing it while activated. Argh!

Do they hate us? If this is a way to get me to spend money, they are really failing. Because I will NOT spend diamonds on the derby. Period. I outright refuse. Not even the tenth task.

Lately I'm thinking it might be time to hang up my hat. What's the point? I might get an elephant in a month or three. Whoopee????

<<<insert eye roll here>>>

Stupid game....



PS -- fwiw, I am in a rather grumpy mood this morning (clearly)....

Well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. :p

My only suggestion is that you stop dwelling on the impossible tasks. Just play for your other goals and let the PPs and Permits come naturally. I know how you feel and I feel the exact same way. I didn't get any PPs in my derby prizes this week and I will not shuffle.

I make a habit of not checking my prizes until monday so I can be surprised. I was so excited for my PPs that I literally dreamed about getting them last night. I was majorly disappointed when I found out there were none. :(

I really hate how HD give us no way to gain them other than waiting. They don't even allow us to spend diamonds to buy them.

I say just take a breather quit the game in protest and come back in an hour because your honeycombs are ready. :)

Yea, it might be time for u to take a break. I've never seen the word "stupid" used so many times by one player in various threads to describe this game before.

I don't get why a "bonus" item such as a booster is causing so much grief for u. Keep the top 3 boosters or 4 and trash the rest. They all can't be of equal value, right? The booster column is apparently set at the moment for everyone...grab the one u want and farm on.

Puzzle pieces and permits? Everyone is in need, not just u. It's meant to be a long term goal. Think of it as an achievement.

I personally enjoy the booster columns from the derby since I don't seem to get boosters anywhere else. Love my Tom nap reduction boosts

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Originally Posted by Haystacker

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Puzzle pieces and permits? Everyone is in need, not just u. It's meant to be a long term goal. Think of it as an achievement.

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To spend hundreds of diamonds to open red boxes or to wait months to get all permits or puzzle pieces are no "achievement" for me. ;-)

That annoys me. But not much.

So clumsily I do not let myself be tempted to buy diamonds. There I am stubborn and activate my patience. ;-) ;-)

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Originally Posted by Elfriede

To spend hundreds of diamonds to open red boxes or to wait months to get all permits or puzzle pieces are no "achievement" for me. ;-)

That annoys me. But not much.

So clumsily I do not let myself be tempted to buy diamonds. There I am stubborn and activate my patience. ;-) ;-)

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Fair enough :)

Permits and puzzle pieces are purposely designed to get players to spend more. No doubt about that. Opening lock boxes, spinning the WoF, shuffling derby prizes, puzzle boat event...the choice is ours. SC is banking that players will use diamonds to reach the finish line quicker but then what? A new animal will probably come out and the cycle begins again. As long as the current model is bringing in the revenue and is well received, u can bet SC will capitalize on it. Giraffes, hippos, elephants aren't the only animals in their plans :)

So I went to work and feel a lot better now. I am still irritated with these same aspects of the game, but not feeling like everything is so darn "stupid". Well, that's not true, it's all still stupid -- including my reaction. ;)

I'm just tired of being ignored by SuperCell. These last two updates were not so great, in my opinion.

I miss the days of new crops and new machines and having new stuff to do! Instead, it's the same old, same old. Sigh.

i'd suggest you maybe should just stop caring about it so much.

when the expansion permits came out, i was thinking 'man this is going to take forever'. i decided that 'they will come when they come' and didn't go out of my way to collect them. no locked boxes, no shuffling just for them, etc. now i have 1 plot left, and am almost done!

same thing for sanctuary. i didn't go all out like some others did, i don't see it as a very good investment of diamonds for more animals that just sit around, eat twice a day, and ♥♥♥♥ out a crappy reward every 10th feeding or whatever. now i'm 2 away from the hippo!

given that we cannot actually 'actively' work toward either of these, except for investing a prohibitive amount of diamonds to try to expedite the process slightly, this is the approach i have adopted. i find that now that i'm not stressed about either of these (permits or puzzle pieces) it's more of a surprise when i get one or complete an achievement (plot or animal).

It's a very good approach Shady! I was trying that, but just got fed up this morning. No permits in my horseshoes, only one puzzle piece and a booster dilemma (I refuse to spend diamonds on the boosters as well).

Rough day, I'm going to be early tonight. Maybe I'll care about the game tomorrow, and then again maybe not!

Not to mention the useless Rose and man with the moustache (I don't even remember his name) and the Tom boosters only valid if you spend diamonds in Tom.
Please, SC, it is very easy: more crops, more trees, more machines and less useless features.

Oh gosh, I'd forgotten about Rose and Ernest. I have never hired either of them, even the free trial. No thank you!

But I recognize that a lot of people do like R&E, and they were last year's fail, so they aren't high on my list of irritations. Especially since they sit nice and calm up on their hill and leave me alone! (Plus those are GREAT boosters to trash!)

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Originally Posted by shadyacre

when the expansion permits came out, i was thinking 'man this is going to take forever'. i decided that 'they will come when they come' and didn't go out of my way to collect them. no locked boxes, no shuffling just for them, etc. now i have 1 plot left, and am almost done!

same thing for sanctuary. i didn't go all out like some others did, i don't see it as a very good investment of diamonds for more animals that just sit around, eat twice a day, and ♥♥♥♥ out a crappy reward every 10th feeding or whatever. now i'm 2 away from the hippo!

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I have to agree with this approach 100%... only because I did them both. For expansion permits, I took the "they come when they come" approach and I finished expanding that area this past week. For the sanctuary, I took the drive hard and spend a ton of diamonds to try to get them all (with the hope of having more would lead to better rewards... risk vs reward) and was left underwhelmed. I got 5/6 animals now. I know I will have the 6th in about 5 weeks... but then I will have nothing really to look forward to again other than the normal farm and town stuff.

I like you ;)

I do not see the permits and puzzles as a way for supercell to get more money, I see it as a desperate bid to let them breathe a little. As it was, they'd come with more machines and crops and whatnots and in 30 days we were "what's next, give us more". So they gave us something that no easy diamond spending can get, and we are all roaring because we want our sanctuary or wxtra plots now, so that we can begin complaining nothing new happens in about, say, 2 days?
are we so bored with life, generally, that the only exciting thing that happen in our life is a new hayday machine?
this game has been changing so much over the 4 years I have played it ( imo for the worse). When I started playing, almost everyone sold stuff in dd, now they keep it for hood or neighbours, complain of people finding their goods, want to have exclusive rights rs, refrain from helping non neighbours afraid of an intrusive alien dare to follow them ( even if most of the time they only sell wheat, red hats and soy dogs), publish they will only accept requests above level 60 or so, etc.. ad nauseum.
Supercell has not helped, as it needs to get cash it is catering to high spenders. But all and all, we bear the burden for twisting this game. we were supposed to be a global thing, we reduced our ciew to our neighbours. Do not complain when are asked for fingerprints before being allowed to buy something at your store.
And it is changing. I used to havesome 400 game center friends. Half of them are gone. Six months ago a "help" flag was filled in 10 minutes, niw, with moat of my " friends" being from the new add friend feature I have gone 7 hours without help, wven for plants, it seems nobody cares for anybody. The game writers follow our lead
I am very close to stop playing Hd, not only because of SC, but because of other players

I'm not anywhere close to quitting the game, but close to quitting this forum due to the constant whining and complaining. Exhausting.

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I'm not anywhere close to quitting the game, but close to quitting this forum due to the constant whining and complaining. Exhausting.

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Whereas I feel your pain, I think a forum just being happily high fiving the game would be infinitely more boring

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Originally Posted by Raelet

It's a very good approach Shady! I was trying that, but just got fed up this morning. No permits in my horseshoes, only one puzzle piece and a booster dilemma (I refuse to spend diamonds on the boosters as well).

Rough day, I'm going to be early tonight. Maybe I'll care about the game tomorrow, and then again maybe not!

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and ya know what, right after i posted that - i got an expansion permit from a sea chest. when i 'wanted' them, it seemed like i never got any. it seemed ironic that right after i explicated how much i don't care, boom! same went for puzzle pieces. i didn't get any for a while when everyone was saying they were getting them. it bugged me because i play as much or more as the next guy. when i stopped caring, then they came. or at least it seems that way ;)

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and ya know what, right after i posted that - i got an expansion permit from a sea chest. when i 'wanted' them, it seemed like i never got any. it seemed ironic that right after i explicated how much i don't care, boom! same went for puzzle pieces. i didn't get any for a while when everyone was saying they were getting them. it bugged me because i play as much or more as the next guy. when i stopped caring, then they came. or at least it seems that way ;)

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this is like:

You are looking for hours for the solution for the bug. Nothing.
At last you get up and ask colleagues. That is embarrassing. But you do.(!)
You take a deep breath and save the post in the support forum - At that moment, you find the solution.

This is the miracle of asking and annoying.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Elfriede

this is like:

You are looking for hours for the solution for the bug. Nothing.
At last you get up and ask colleagues. That is embarrassing. But you do.(!)
You take a deep breath and save the post in the support forum - At that moment, you find the solution.

This is the miracle of asking and annoying.:rolleyes:

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'a watched pot never boils'

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It's a very good approach Shady! I was trying that, but just got fed up this morning. No permits in my horseshoes, only one puzzle piece and a booster dilemma (I refuse to spend diamonds on the boosters as well)...

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Raelet, I empathize with you. My hood gets an average of 6 to 7 horseshoes per derby. Sometimes I get 1 Expansion Permit (EP) or 1 Puzzle Piece (PP). And sometimes I hit the jackpot like last derby in which I got 2 PPs and 2 EPs from 4 out of 7 horseshoes.

The derby, it's feast or famine. :)

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I'm not anywhere close to quitting the game, but close to quitting this forum due to the constant whining and complaining. Exhausting.

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Whereas I feel your pain, I think a forum just being happily high fiving the game would be infinitely more boring

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I understand both views, but would much prefer to see the happy moments someone had in the game, or that someone received much needed advice or help with their farm.

For me, I try to remain positive, set goals that will take me farther in the game, and just enjoy what I have.

There are too many real life issues most need to worry about than when the next puzzle piece will be found.

Since I have been playing the game for years, waiting a couple or even 6 months is no biggie for me. The sanctuary animals are not all that useful for me, and I plan to be playing the game for years to come. Something to eventually get.

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Originally Posted by Momscar

I understand both views, but would much prefer to see the happy moments someone had in the game, or that someone received much needed advice or help with their farm.

For me, I try to remain positive, set goals that will take me farther in the game, and just enjoy what I have.

There are too many real life issues most need to worry about than when the next puzzle piece will be found.

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Excellent post

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I understand both views, but would much prefer to see the happy moments someone had in the game, or that someone received much needed advice or help with their farm.

For me, I try to remain positive, set goals that will take me farther in the game, and just enjoy what I have.

There are too many real life issues most need to worry about than when the next puzzle piece will be found.

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what Momscar said

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and ya know what, right after i posted that - i got an expansion permit from a sea chest. when i 'wanted' them, it seemed like i never got any. it seemed ironic that right after i explicated how much i don't care, boom! same went for puzzle pieces. i didn't get any for a while when everyone was saying they were getting them. it bugged me because i play as much or more as the next guy. when i stopped caring, then they came. or at least it seems that way ;)

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I have found this to be my experience as well. And despite my sadness at lack of tapes and deeds [because I, like many of you have pretty much figured I'll find deeds and puzzle pieces whenever] I found 30 in my friends' roadside shops over the last 2 weeks!

I also find I get more helps when I give more. So I have even been filling some dairy and sugar boats. That IMHO is the benefit for me of Rose and Ernest.

I do like that we can all play this however we want, and that SC seems to be trying some different things [although with varying degrees of success] to make the game different.

And I'm glad that we have each other to talk about this, because all I hear from my hubby is "what, are the potatoes not harvested yet?"

:caticon:

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I understand both views, but would much prefer to see the happy moments someone had in the game, or that someone received much needed advice or help with their farm.

For me, I try to remain positive, set goals that will take me farther in the game, and just enjoy what I have.

There are too many real life issues most need to worry about than when the next puzzle piece will be found.

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Since I have been playing the game for years, waiting a couple or even 6 months is no biggie for me. The sanctuary animals are not all that useful for me, and I plan to be playing the game for years to come. Something to eventually get.

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i too have been playing for a long time and agree with both of you. Hay day is a game not my life😂😂

The biggest problem is they don't seem to be listening to us.

The fact the boosters never got fixed in the last update is a huge concern. Instead we got a 'community requested' derby mess and a bunch of animals we have next to no interaction with.

There are so many things the players are asking for to make the game better, but what we want and what the developers want are often poles apart.

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i too have been playing for a long time and agree with both of you. Hay day is a game not my life����

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Same here. I play way more than I probably should but I don't lose sleep over stuff in the game. I do find myself playing less and less. I set small goals for myself to accomplish and go from there. It's a game I started as a distraction and have continued to play. When I get annoyed with it I don't play. If it bothers someone to be playing and they aren't happy, go to the at store. Plenty more fish in the sea there.

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Originally Posted by Bestajunior

Same here. I play way more than I probably should but I don't lose sleep over stuff in the game. I do find myself playing less and less. I set small goals for myself to accomplish and go from there. It's a game I started as a distraction and have continued to play. When I get annoyed with it I don't play. If it bothers someone to be playing and they aren't happy, go to the at store. Plenty more fish in the sea there.

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I play far more than I really should too😱😂. This week I have opted out of the derby as we have a lot of other things going on and am tempted , because of the scrolls to change that I know it will just make everything way more stressful and I am not getting stressed over a game. Plenty of time to finish the land later😀. By the way, great rss this morning Besta😘😘

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I'm not anywhere close to quitting the game, but close to quitting this forum due to the constant whining and complaining. Exhausting.

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I see the forums similarly to the news. People come here to complain, ask about issues they are having etc. - same with the news (at least mainstream news), which are predominantly bad. Reporting about happy stuff doesn't seem to sell. The forums would be dead if not for complaints.

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The biggest problem is they don't seem to be listening to us.

The fact the boosters never got fixed in the last update is a huge concern. Instead we got a 'community requested' derby mess and a bunch of animals we have next to no interaction with.

There are so many things the players are asking for to make the game better, but what we want and what the developers want are often poles apart.

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I agree with this. These days everything we say seems to go into a void - unless I'm looking in the wrong places, there is no acknowledgement or feedback from SC. I don't know if I'm just suffering from a case of nostalgia, but I'm sure it used to be more of a two-way street...

This seems to have started when nick went on his extended vacation. Prior to this, Supercell was providing feedback in the bugs section and ideas and requests on a regular basis as well as some feedback in general, etc

i don't see that anymore.

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This seems to have started when nick went on his extended vacation. Prior to this, Supercell was providing feedback in the bugs section and ideas and requests on a regular basis as well as some feedback in general, etc

i don't see that anymore.

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Wussy, I have to disagree with you there.

Nick didn't reply any more than Frisco has & I think Frisco has actually, albeit quietly, fixed more issues & been more open in his communication. I hope when Nick is back he will be focussing on the Forum changes & Frisco will keep looking after HD...but, with even more communication & I hope SC has another session of fixing the little things that make the game less frustrating...we can certainly give them a list!

The thing that that annoys me the most is that I used to get 5-10 diamonds a week just from the derby horseshoes. But as Supercell kept adding new stuff to the game, the horseshoe prizes became boring and less shiny.

The interesting thing about puzzle pieces? I don't want to collect them because I want the sanctuary animals. I just want the baobabs that come with the elephant! :facepalm:

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I'm not anywhere close to quitting the game, but close to quitting this forum due to the constant whining and complaining. Exhausting.

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I understand what you're saying. However, Raelet's original post, and other similar posts, might actually make the game better for all of us, if Team Hay Day reads them and decides to do something about it. Raelet clearly isn't complaining facebook-style. Have you ever read those nasty comments on Hay Day's FB page?

Good morning everyone! A much needed good night's sleep has helped my *crazy* a lot. I'm feeling much better now. While I still feel the way I did in my original post, I'm not so angry and frustrated now. You are all right -- this is a game. I'm going to just let it all go. I'm stuck with the boosters, so just deal with it. The dribble of permits and puzzle pieces isn't going to change, so just accept it and move on. And someone said it -- the sanctuary doesn't really net me anything much. So why care?

I have excuses for yesterday's meltdown, but that doesn't excuse my poor behavior. I'm going to just move on, probably play a bit less, and continue to hoard my diamonds for those decorations I have not yet acquired!

Thanks for listening and I apologize for the moment of insanity!

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Good morning everyone! A much needed good night's sleep has helped my *crazy* a lot. I'm feeling much better now. While I still feel the way I did in my original post, I'm not so angry and frustrated now. You are all right -- this is a game. I'm going to just let it all go. I'm stuck with the boosters, so just deal with it. The dribble of permits and puzzle pieces isn't going to change, so just accept it and move on. And someone said it -- the sanctuary doesn't really net me anything much. So why care?

I have excuses for yesterday's meltdown, but that doesn't excuse my poor behavior. I'm going to just move on, probably play a bit less, and continue to hoard my diamonds for those decorations I have not yet acquired!

Thanks for listening and I apologize for the moment of insanity!

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We all have our foot stamping moments. No harm, no foul. I hope today brings many happy hayday moments. Or whatever. LoL. Sally Sunshine here. LoL

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Originally Posted by Glottis

The interesting thing about puzzle pieces? I don't want to collect them because I want the sanctuary animals. I just want the baobabs that come with the elephant! :facepalm:

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...and the acacia tree and iceplant with the lovely purple flowers. Those iceplants will look fabulous in my flower beds. Unfortunately, those come with the yellow giraffe and the bulk of the puzzle pieces I've gotten go toward the beige giraffe which comes with nothing I want ((short palm tree with blue-ish fronds and a small rock pile (sandstone, not granite--sigh)). Since I can't select which animal to dedicate my puzzle pieces to, it's going to be a long while before I get any iceplant. They aren't tempting enough for me to spend any diamonds or farming time on the quest for puzzle pieces.

I still wonder why we were not given control over which animal we want! We can choose land and water parcels and pets and what to plant etc. but we have no control over which animal to collect PP's for. The giraffe came first and now I just get my 2-4 pieces scattered randomly amongst all the puzzles. I feed it, woohoo! I can't even decorate the sanctuary with the cool deco items until I get the animal. So I have this ugly sanctuary that I don't even want to hang out visiting, never mind the few town visitors that make their way over there. I am in the mindset of just ignoring it until they fix the problem and make it more interesting. It's the only way to save your sanity and relax.