Newspaper alert ! - not such a good idea
When I first read that the newspaper ads would now include an alert symbol for those farms needing help I thought what a great idea. Right away I saw that it wasn't such a good idea. I used to help a few dozen farms every day by leisurely scouring the newspaper for farms in need. This assured me of my 5 gift cards per day. Now I can't find a single farm needing tree or boat help. By the time I tap on an ad and get to that farm the alert is gone. Suddenly finding a bush to water is like finding a coved expansion item. It's an all out race to get there first and I almost always come up short.
I'm kind of tired of playing a game that depends a lot on a period of frantic racing to be the first or you're out of luck. It's a little too nerve racking for me. It has become impossible to find expansion materials so I have resigned myself that I will just have to depend on the mystery boxes and harvesting to get what I need (and help from my wonderful friends that put unadvertised goodies in their shop). Now that I can't find farms to help that means no gift cards which means no tractor (I'm not spending a million and a half dollars). This was yet another good idea that wasn't so well thought out by Supercell. Funny they claim to be "testing a diamond confirmation button" for months and months but other ideas seem to pop right out of their heads and go into the game without much thought or surely no test period on how the game would be affected. Too many people frantically fighting over too few coveted items...kinda feels like Black Friday shopping. No thanks. Not for me. On the other hand I do love the shaded out ads that are visited. That does make using the newspaper easier and faster.