It used to be platinum for me now it is the stupid tape:mad:
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It used to be platinum for me now it is the stupid tape:mad:
It seems to be for me that the most of what I have in my barn is the stuff I get without fail. I need the duct tape so bad, but can I get some? No.
I've decided to try an experiment regarding this. I am going to try to get the tape I need to upgrade but I'm NOT going to upgrade. I am going to upgrade each time I have enough to upgrade x 2.
Normally as soon as I can upgrade, I immediately do . Near the end when I have only a few duct tape needed, they start coming fairly fast for me. Then I'm back to desperately needing duct tape again once I hit the upgrade button. This time I'm going to wait and see if the duct tape starts rolling in when I have 50+ in my barn already. Right now I need 50 of each item to upgrade. I have 48 of the planks and bolts and 2 duct tape. I'm going to hold on to everything from today onward until I have 100 of each before I upgrade.
Since I'm bored of the game, this gives me a new challenge to try to keep playing. I'm always out of room in my barn but hey, who isn't? That's a Hay Day farmers life. So it's not like it's a surprise. I try to have 15 of every product in my barn but I'll cut that down to 10 to accommodate the extra barn expansion items. Granted, getting another 48 duct tape is going to take some time but once I get it, I'm going to see if this theory has any merit.
If the theory of SC programming withholding that of which you desperately need holds true, then the duct tape will not become a desperate situation. Since I WILL have enough to upgrade - BUT - I won't and the items remain in my barn and my expansion items numbers will be relatively high (compared to my measly 2 out of 50 duct tape ratio here at the moment) the programming will not recognize this as an item that I'm desperate to have.
An example of this for me is the axes and saws. Currently I have 107 axes and 105 saws. All I get are axes and saws when I'm harvesting (used to be deeds). Anyway, I have no TNT, dynamite or shovels, I NEVER get any when harvesting - none, nada, zip. But I used Tom for the first time and set my alarm for every two hours - that was tough - and acquired 106 shovels through him for that 24 hour period. Now, when I am harvesting, shovels are coming up continuously. I believe it's because they are no longer a hot commodity I'm struggling to get. I have plenty. BUT, I never get dynamite or TNT. Hmmm. If I had no axes or saws (I sell them in batches of 5 when I have more than the trees/bushes to use them on) I doubt I would get any when I am harvesting. This gave me the idea that there could be some merit to this all.
Does this make any sense to anyone? Or am I finally losing my reason from playing Hay Day too long?
As soon as I get 50 duct tape to upgrade, I'm going to post again and then I am going to start to record the results of the duct tape caper and see if they start rolling in. At least I feel motivated to play a little again. It's been really tough picking up my iphone and getting my animals fed and tended to. I've just lost a little bit of interest.
Wish me luck!
Goobster1963
Level 51 (still!!!!!)
I think you might be right. I dunno, maybe it's totally random and we're reading patterns where there are none...but it really seems to me that Hay Day gives you more of what you already have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goobster1963
I noticed it with saws and axes. I was saving them because I don't like dead trees and bushes around my farm. It seemed like all I got were saws and axes after awhile. I sold off a bunch of axes (going from 60 to 20), and suddenly I wasn't getting any axes any more. Just saws. I actually had to leave dead bushes around for awhile.
I sold off a similar number of saws, and then I started getting more axes again.
I am now very high in nails and planks (via trade - I almost never find them around the farm). And I swear I'm getting more of them, now that I don't need them.
Goobster, I hope you will keep us posted how that works out. I couldn't do it. Once I am close to upgrading, my barn is so full I can barely play the game anymore. I can't even imagine having double the amount materials.
Me either. I am getting close to a barn upgrade now and it was a relief to help my husband upgrade his silo so I could get those items out of my barn. But my barn is straining at the seams now and I still need 15 or so more items:rolleyes:
Bwaaaaaaa! Where are all the bolts? My teeny tiny barn is buckling under the strain. Ya, I know, back to the fields to grow some wheat or corn.
All the bolts are at my farm. They breed there, like coathangers. ;)
Bolts and panels are always abundant at my farm. Planks and nails are always scarce.
It's the duct tape and screws that interesting. Usually they are fairly plentiful, but every once in awhile they get scarce. Usually when I need them.
I know that feeling!!!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Janilee
Good Luck! I think your experiment will work. Last night my barn was filled to the brim, and as usual I could not expand it because I was missing planks. I had been selling off bolts(I get these no matter what I do)all day and they kept coming but no planks. A neighbor of mine had put a trade up in the trade thread after I had sold off all my bolts and was looking for bolts and had planks to trade. So I shorted myself 6 bolts to get those hard to get 6 planks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goobster1963
While waiting for more bolts(they always come no matter what)I did some cropping and what do you know, 10 planks popped up in boxes on neighbors farms, in cropping, in feeding animals and in boxes on my farm.
Now I would have kept going since these planks were coming, but I don't have your barn capacity(yes I am jealous). Right now in order to have enough room, I can't keep both silo and barn expansions at the same time, so I can't see being able to keep double sets of barn expansion materials, maybe after a few more expansions.
The only part I can't figure into this, is I have 2 things I get tons of no matter what. Silo would be nails and barn would be bolts. I have tried selling them all off, I have tried getting to the amount for the next expansion and selling off excess as soon as I get them. Back at a lower level, I tried hanging on to enough bolts for 2 expansions, in hopes they would quit coming, but they still came. I've tried keeping bolts at zero, until I get enough planks, but they just still keep coming. Point being I think there is something in the program that makes you stuck with an overload of 1 silo and 1 expansion item, no matter what.
I think that's right. For me, it's bolts and panels. I'll trade down to 0 on those, confident that I'll get them all back, and more, in a couple of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gamof3