The little people

As I have said in another thread there is a way to control them and I thought I'll share my strategy with everyone.

The little people only buy the items you have most and second most or not at all in your storage. They never ask for metals. they offer low prices but that is relative.

Ok. You can easily keep at least one of each item in every storage and they will never ask for it again.

You keep easy to produce or very cheap to buy products on high levels, like eggs and bread, wheat and corn respectively.

From here onwards it is just mathematics to keep production running and control their demand. If you are in danger to fall low with the product you have at highest level, play with the item you want to have at third level and you dont mind selling cheaply if worst comes to the worst.

Make sure you dont pile up what you do not which to sell to them... Can be tricky task when saving for boat orders. But hey, then just send Greg away this one time :)

Selling to them gives 5 xp, so that is a nice bonus.

They are robbing little so and so's...!! lol. My way of controlling them is to send them all away empty handed...

John.

Hehehe, those wheating for hours (and therefore at the same time getting flooded by eggs) learn to desperately wait for them sometimes :)

They take care of all my wheat (silo size 1450) and eggs when I have too much barn space.

I prefer selling milk and bread at the shop, the profit is way better.

They ask for saws CONSTANTLY, but I just send them away. Every now and then they'll ask for a machine item, but I send those away too. I always sell eggs to them as I never sell eggs in the RSS, and to keep my fields in production (and harvesting tools) I regularly sell the easy crops to them, i.e. wheat, soy, etc. Gives me a reason to keep planting and harvesting. I pretty much make them work for me, rather than the other way around.

Welcome to the club Shealie :D

They only ask for saws and such, if you have plenty (number 1 or 2). I will therefore deliberately harvest lots of trees and bushes, to keep the amount in storage at a reasonable level, and sell excess for max price. Double gain: storage space and coins :-)

Forgot to mention that never ask for animal feed either.

Terrible loss but i buy strawberries, eggs, bacon & eggs and sell it to them. Keeps them happy.

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Originally Posted by CEMFF

Welcome to the club Shealie :D

They only ask for saws and such, if you have plenty (number 1 or 2). I will therefore deliberately harvest lots of trees and bushes, to keep the amount in storage at a reasonable level, and sell excess for max price. Double gain: storage space and coins :-)

Forgot to mention that never ask for animal feed either.

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I need to start harvesting trees more and using those saws up so they'll leave me alone then. I always yell at them to do just that - "Leave me alone!!"

They never listen. :)

We hold them HOSTAGE!! If you ask them to wait, they will wait FOREVER

So pick the two you think will best decorate your farm and tell them to wait a moment. Then just leave them alone until the visitor event comes along :)

We keep the little girl and the pretty girl. They seem to get along well with all our pets and are not too freaked out by the spider trees. Oh, they may look a little bored but wouldn't you if you had to wait 6 weeks for soybeans and axes??? ha ha ha

Our cats and dogs DO NOT like the spider trees AT ALL. Suck it up, cat-o!

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/...ps080a1406.jpg

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

We hold them HOSTAGE!! If you ask them to wait, they will wait FOREVER


Our cats and dogs DO NOT like the spider trees AT ALL. Suck it up, cat-o!

http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/...ps080a1406.jpg

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Perky, that's a great picture. I had one dog sitting on the shelf of one of my machines. When he finally moved, I expected him to step DOWN, but he just walked of on thin air. Messed up my equilibrium for a moment there. They also stand guard over fish hunter's toolbox. Almost makes you afraid to kick it open.

Love those animals!

Tigg

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Originally Posted by Tiggerr129

Perky, that's a great picture. I had one dog sitting on the shelf of one of my machines. When he finally moved, I expected him to step DOWN, but he just walked of on thin air. Messed up my equilibrium for a moment there. They also stand guard over fish hunter's toolbox. Almost makes you afraid to kick it open.

Love those animals!

Tigg

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We have 8 pink vouchers to go to get our last pet -- the 2nd Andalusian :)

Hehehe, great idea Perky :-)

Two of my horses love my popcorn machine and go in there all the time, and those are really tight quarters because I have it (and all of my machines) surrounded by fruit bushes. If I tap on them they just kind of move around in place, so I'd have to move a berry bush to let them run out until I decided to leave them in there and fend for themselves, and sure enough, when it became time to eat they figured out how to get out. Just wanted to make the Head Farmer jump through hoops, I guess.

Lol, one of my horses loves to live with the sheep :)

@shealie54 - or you can use whistle, they'll come running no matter where they are. I do that when some of my animals get stuck somewhere.

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Originally Posted by dubazg

@shealie54 - or you can use whistle, they'll come running no matter where they are. I do that when some of my animals get stuck somewhere.

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one of my horses got stuck behind its stable, in the upper corner of the farm, no matter how much I whistled. Filed a report about a missing horse.... Then I moved the stable and found it :)