How Do You Find the Valley Experience?

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Originally Posted by PaulF

How on earth this was tested I don’t know

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We ARE the Beta (oops, Alpha release) testers. There is no real in house testing, other than the few devs, coders, and other employees.

Went to the valley yesterday and promptly broke down. Went to the valley today and promptly broke down. Left the valley. Just ... left it.

All I can say is that was the big update? Wow. Bunch of stuff already have and land permits are behind a goal that is basically unattainable. Plus they ruined the derby in the process.

This post has made my day!!! Thank you Eddie, and all points are soooo true

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Originally Posted by Eddie00

We are in maintenance again and my dinner is cooking so here’s my two cents on the valley.....

• Love the idea. It seems like a cool addition and it’s connected to primary farming. It’s also cooperative in principle. Bravo.
• It’s too hard. I grew sugarcane for 3 straight hours, and filled 24 boat crates to get fuel only to generate enough tokens that would buy me 1 shovel. 1 shovel !!! Are you kidding me? Guess what, I got 2 shovels, 2 bems, 3 mining tools, and 7 axes while growing the sugarcane, I would have gotten more if I was growing corn like I usually do. Seriously. There’s a perspective problem with the reward/activity ratio. Make it worthwhile or no one will bother. Tomorrow I’ll be growing corn. Not lettuce.
• Meanwhile, I want those permits. Everyone does. But it’s not clear how to get chickens or how if it’s taken me 6 hours to get 4 of them I’m going to collect 46 more in 2.5 days. If I don’t get those permits, I’m not bothering with the valley. End of story. You need to make it clear how chickens are acquired and what exactly needs to be done to get them faster.
• The clouds are dumb. You can’t see the buildings to complete quests, you can’t plan your fuel stops, you can’t see broken trucks or screaming chickens (group tasks). Just make it go away.
• The delivery task is fine but it’s weird not knowing how far away you have to go.... like the delivery guy is like sure I’m in Turkey, I’ll take any job and then you’re like ok, drive to Beijing. Not cool.
• There’s no inventory link....I realize most of the buildings are asking for 1 of the item but what if that is your last one?
• The building tasks don’t regenerate even when the timer is up. Fix this glitch
• The sudden stops like stuff found on the side of the road or broken truck use up fuel and you don’t get it back. Fix this glitch.
• You can’t help a farmer with a broken truck if you can’t see any other trucks. See above - get rid of the clouds.
• Sun points should be CUMULATIVE. You shouldn’t have to spin as soon as you reach a threshold or lose anything after that. Especially if sun tasks are things like feeding and planting. How many farmers dropped multiple nets and duck traps only to find they only needed 2 and the rest were lost until they spun first ?

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I really tried to play the valley.

first try - spun the fuelwheel 2 times. Got some fuel and visited a few houses . All with the info that new request was aviable in 0 sec.... ran out of fuel .

second try. Spun the fuelwheel and got 8 fuel. Found a shop to visit with a task available. Ok go for it. OOOhnoo - your truck broke.....
want to repair it for 20 diamonds. Eehhh nope.


I wonder how many players that would still play the game if everything worked like that?

examples:

taking a 320 point trucktask- ohnoo my truck broke. Want to repair it for diamonds?

feeding my pets - ohnoo your chickens is sick . Want to call the vet ? Special price 54 diamonds to save/ cure a chicken....

serving my townies in town - ohnooo your trolley broke . You cant get back to your farm. Want to repair it? Only 99 diamonds...

producing items in my machines - oh no your farm has a power out.. no machines can run. You want to call the electrician to repair it?
special price 77 diamond - or you can wait 24 hours until your machines start working again....



Doesnt it sound fun?

One thing I'm finding really annoying is how it constantly spams you when you've earned a spin on the fuel wheel. Seriously, once is enough. It doesn't need to pop up continually until you go to the valley and spin the wheel.

I want to like it.
All of my buildings are regenerating tasks, they will be ready in 0 seconds or 29 minutes..... apparently in the Valley time has frozen, because it has been like this most of the last 24 hours. I can get one order done then everything goes back to "refreshing". I am a bit discouraged.

Well now I’ve broke down 4 times in under 24 hrs

Well, I've made some deliveries, even managed to catch a chicken and somehow managed to collect enough tokens to buy some much needed mallets. I fully expected the mallets to not show in my barn, but they did, so yay, a small win because I've needed one more mallet to open up a piece of land for weeks (ridiculous, but that's a whole other subject).

But overall I'm still not sure what I'm doing/what I'm supposed to be doing, where I'm going, what the overall goal is, etc. I'm apparently part of a group doing a group order, but I can't see the whole order or any info about the group. I don't think my truck has broken down yet, but then again, would I even know if it did? :unsure: 20!!! diamonds to repair a truck sounds very disappointingly extortionate.

It’s not funny. No, seriously it’s not funny. Not “I spun the wheel, got 6 fuel made one stop and broke down. Game over” funny. It’s ridiculous you made me do this sort of thing three days in a row, but it’s not that sort of “not funny”.

It’s not funny in the way the rest of Hay Day is funny - the daft ducks in the salon, the sheep jumping and running at loud noises, the pigs grinning at you. The town wasn’t all that funny but the town visitors are amoozin’ if you like that sort of thing.

It’s not funny. You’ve had a sense of humour by-pass.