you have got to be kidding me...

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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1

Haha true but I was actually very happy that Tom is such a lazy bugger. I hired him for 10 days once and had a lot of barn space when I started. Halfway through those 10 days stocking up shovels, rings and jelly beans my barn was bursting and it was more and more difficult storing all the goodies he fetched. I actually hired him to supply both my and hubby's farm with these items and it was still difficult to store it all but we managed of course.

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I'm with you. If Tom is less lazy, it is so UNFAIR for those who cannot hire Tom. That would be definitely "force player to buy diamonds".

Next time just cast it away if you don't want to or can't fill it....well in this case its impossible to fill! :)

I would say send it off, but...

new update make boats to have at least one of new products to fill in, which is very hard to get, so let say from last 7 boats I was able to fill up one, rest of them I did cast off..

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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1

Every now and then there are boats that ask for the same thing or all items from the same machine on the entire boat. It can happen but usually doesn't happen that often. In my opinion (as a player) I would love to see a boat like that needing all wheat as that would be one of the most easy ones I could think of.

In my opinion it eould be quite boring if every boat was very easy as it would hardly have any challenge. It's just that much more fun when you see the preview of your next boat and it's an easy one. Something a player would never experience if every boat was very easy.

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I disagree. It wasn't boring at all when we were allowed to open all our crates on the boats. Boats were finished quickly, both our own and neighbors.

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Originally Posted by cinio23

I would say send it off, but...

new update make boats to have at least one of new products to fill in, which is very hard to get, so let say from last 7 boats I was able to fill up one, rest of them I did cast off..

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I've had many boats since the update that did not have new items available. It is not guaranteed that you will have the new items on your boat, but they do seem to show up frequently.

This is so interesting...I have the strawberry jam and the red scarves, but haven't had a single boat requesting them yet. I've seen one neighbor who had the scarves flagged for help on their boat, so was able to fill one of those, but other than that I haven't seen any of the new stuff (that's available to me) on a boat yet.

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Originally Posted by drdolittle

Agree with CheddarLimbo. I remember reading about SC fixing the amount of sugars in each crate. Apparently they used to ask for astronomical numbers (way higher than currently). Hopefully they will change the soy sauce.

I have decided to treat them like jams. I will cast boats that ask for it off and use my stash to help neighbors.

I do wonder though, how come I have not seen or gotten boats asking for red scarves or strawberry jams. Have you seen any? Maybe SC forgot to add them to the programming.

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I also agree with ChedderLimbo that this is an oversight due to the massive amount of code and will be fixed just as the sugars were. Even with the absurd amounts on sugar boats, having a triple order is extremely rare, especially as max per crated, yet this is the third triple order of soy at max per crate in just two days that I've seen. So far, I've only seen I've only one double order of sushi at 2 per crate, that's more in line with regularly get with any item, further convincing me that this impossible soy boat is not what is intended.

I don't remember if I've seen red scarfs, but I think I may have seen one, though not sure. I do know that I've had two neighbors open crates for strawberry jam and I cast off a boat asking for it myself.

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Originally Posted by dubazg

@cheddarlimbo - well you have a right to your opinion and so do i to my own ;)
i really don't think that's an error in code because ships like this one are nothing new.

we all know that diamonds are what gives SC their bread. and i really don't think it's malicious to assume they want people to spend more diamonds. but no one is forcing anyone to do so. you don't have enough soya sauce to fill the entire ship with it? cast it off. or you really want to fill it and you have more then enough diamonds (or enough money to buy some more diamonds) to produce 40 or so sauces in no time? it's entirely up to you.
if SC would disable the option to cast off ships, then i would call them greedy. as the things are, they are giving us the options and i love it.

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Well said. Please remember people that this happened with the lobster/soup kitchen update. It leveled out as it always has. I haven't received an all lobster soup boat since that update came around. I imagine they still happen but no one posts pictures of them anymore. They cast them off and go on or fill them and collect. I do think the look especially horrendous because the look so 3D.

No is forced to buy diamonds. Nothing bad happens if you don't buy them or even never find them in toolboxes. You can still advance without them. One of my friends is now a level 89 and she hasn't bought a single one. Her Barn is an astronomically large one and continues to help lots of us every day I used to play a game where in order to complete a quest, you absolutely had to buy the premium currency and you couldn't cast off that quest unless you paid a penalty with that same premium currency. There is nothing you can't do in this game without diamonds except to buy decorations that are OPTIONAL. Even then if you want them bad enough you can hope to find diamonds in toolboxes, on the wheel, or from leveling up or even in the mine. Yes the diamond ring and the mystery net require diamonds but you don't have to make them in order to master the jewelry machine or to fish.

The computer randomly puts up the boat requirements and if the game was too hard or too easy, no one would play, at least not as long as most of us play.

Do I think SC is perfect? I do not. I think it takes way too long for an answer to a problem ticket. I think a diamond confirmation button is essential and needed. But, I believe them when they say they are testing it, and if they say "sorry it didn't test well and we are abandoning the attempt", i think they will have made a major mistake. I believe others who say they have gotten replies to their trouble tickets and that they are backlogged. If that backlog never breaks, that too will be a mistakes in my book. But outrageous boat orders?, that is a minor blip in the game with an obvious answer. Cast it off and wait for the next one. the end.

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Originally Posted by dls881

I disagree. It wasn't boring at all when we were allowed to open all our crates on the boats. Boats were finished quickly, both our own and neighbors.

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I think you might be alone, or in a very small group with this belief. It has been my experience that people WANT to fill their own boats. As a member of the Captain's achievement group, I remember many times having candidates who wouldn't open any crates for us to fill even if it meant the boat would go the full time. They might ask us to sell them an item (we usually sold at default price), but only after they couldn't find it themselves in the DD even at max price.

There were a few who seemed to want everyone else to do the work for them. They wanted the captain's hat but didn't want to buy the machines to make the products appropriate to their level and they wanted to purchase all the boats requirements instead of taking the time to make the ones they could make, but they were few and far between.

If we could always open all crates for help, then the achievement would belong to our helpers and not to ourselves. what's the fun in that.

I prefer it this way, but to each his own.

♥♥♥♥ wow that's ludacris man!! Anything to make more money!!! They've completely lost their minds...I'm not a high enough level to make the products yet but even I know that's insane!!! -_-