On the topic of boat preferences or etiquette

The only beef I have are players who only open up crates containing dairy or sugar products. The moment I see those, I'm on to the next boat.

There are certain situations where I will help on a sugar, dairy, or jam boat. First if you are a candidate going for the Captain Achievement and communicating I will put everything I have on their boat. Second is my closest circle of friends that I will put most of my stock on. Third would be those who are clearly trying to complete the boat and have been producing and filling some crates. For those who fill all easy crates and leave only sugar and make no effort to help their own boat I say they should have to watch it sit there with the timer running out for a day. There are very few boats that I can't complete and still cast off boats that require "too much". I open all crates and anyone wanting wheel points are welcome to them. After 5-10 minutes I will fill the remainder and send it away.

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Originally Posted by Swisspie81

fair enough, but:
What about those of us who need the "make so much money by filling your own boat achievement"?

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I already have the achievement. So it makes sense to open all crates only after the " filling own boat achievement has been met". I wish more people would read this forum. Thanks Swisspie for the comment!

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Originally Posted by haymen

The only beef I have are players who only open up crates containing dairy or sugar products. The moment I see those, I'm on to the next boat.

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Not only "on to the next boat" but I head over to GC and trim up the friends list. I'm just saying. Saw one of the captains helpers today who did that and was sorry I had to let her go. LOL

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Originally Posted by Swisspie81

fair enough, but:
What about those of us who need the "make so much money by filling your own boat achievement"?

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Back when this achievement was added to the game, it wasn't possible to fill other people's boats. They probably forgot to change the description.

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Originally Posted by SarahLou

Evidently what I was thinking did not quite portray in what I typed!

What I meant was when a boat comes in, player clicks ask for help as a matter of course, then fills the crate(s) within a very short space of time. In the meantime, the player willing to help (ie me!)starts production on those items (which can't then be cancelled) or scours the newspaper. Whilst I appreciate that another player may fill the crate before I can, I don't appreciate it being the person I was trying to help out in the first place-it just feels like a bit of a wasted effort :(

I think as a happy medium, there should at least be a time delay to when a player can then fill a crate on their own ship when help has been requested:o

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Can you please give a few examples of the items you're talking about? I'm really curious. And how long exactly is "a very short space of time"?

Good question pink. You get bonus ladder points for shipping fast. Looks like its 16 points for immediately. I wonder when it decrements to 15 or 14 points? That would be the reasonable amount of time in my mind.

The latest update has caused me to change my barn inventory. I used to only keep a couple of chili popcorn, blue hats, sweaters, wool, etc. in the barn because I knew I could get in paper in fairly short order. Now I keep about a dozen each of the easy-to-find items in stock, because when boat stalking, I better have those items in stock! LOL. If I happen to have jam, cakes, pies in stock and someone is near to their boat shipping time, then I will load them. It's frustrating to me that you get 1 point for 2 apple jams, and 3 points for things like wheat or milk. That's just plain nonsense and whoever came up with that point scheme either doesn't play the game or has a sadist mentality. I refuse to load apple jam as a result unless its a captain III candidate.

I used to stock my shop with hard-to-find items, but do so less now. I think others are doing the same thing as the paper has MUCH LESS good items (or that's my observation at least).

Well, time for Tom to make a run. He's so glad I don't do sugar dairy boats anymore. Now he gets to go for things other than white sugar and feta cheese! :)

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Originally Posted by PinkStarbelly

Can you please give a few examples of the items you're talking about? I'm really curious. And how long exactly is "a very short space of time"?

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Originally Posted by Neicy57

Good question pink. You get bonus ladder points for shipping fast. Looks like its 16 points for immediately. I wonder when it decrements to 15 or 14 points? That would be the reasonable amount of time in my mind.

The latest update has caused me to change my barn inventory. I used to only keep a couple of chili popcorn, blue hats, sweaters, wool, etc. in the barn because I knew I could get in paper in fairly short order. Now I keep about a dozen each of the easy-to-find items in stock, because when boat stalking, I better have those items in stock! LOL. If I happen to have jam, cakes, pies in stock and someone is near to their boat shipping time, then I will load them. It's frustrating to me that you get 1 point for 2 apple jams, and 3 points for things like wheat or milk. That's just plain nonsense and whoever came up with that point scheme either doesn't play the game or has a sadist mentality. I refuse to load apple jam as a result unless its a captain III candidate.

I used to stock my shop with hard-to-find items, but do so less now. I think others are doing the same thing as the paper has MUCH LESS good items (or that's my observation at least).

Well, time for Tom to make a run. He's so glad I don't do sugar dairy boats anymore. Now he gets to go for things other than white sugar and feta cheese! :)

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Just now, 42 minutes in before boat was completely filled, I still got 16 points. I remember another bost that took a bit over 1 hr went down to 15 so I'm guessing each hr a point will be deducted. Make sense sense as maximum is 16 points and the longest time a boat can get is 16 hrs.

Thanks for the info. Sounds right. So seems like after 45 mins or so, it would be acceptable to finish filling one's boat and hit send.

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Originally Posted by PinkStarbelly

Just now, 42 minutes in before boat was completely filled, I still got 16 points. I remember another bost that took a bit over 1 hr went down to 15 so I'm guessing each hr a point will be deducted. Make sense sense as maximum is 16 points and the longest time a boat can get is 16 hrs.

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Originally Posted by Neicy57

Good question pink. You get bonus ladder points for shipping fast. Looks like its 16 points for immediately. I wonder when it decrements to 15 or 14 points? That would be the reasonable amount of time in my mind.
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If you can fill your entire boat as soon as it hits the dock and then send on its way, you get 17 extra. But it's gotta be quick. Less than 30 seconds? I've done quite a few en route to my Boat Score III I achieved this afternoon.

Also' I am guilty of opening sugar boats by accident. I got so caught up in getting a boat that I had a huge amount of product for that I didn't see the brown sugar lurking, or I just fell asleep at the wheel and got stuck with a sugar boat. I did however either try and fill it myself, or send Tom on a scavenger hunt.

one thing I noticed though being inside the top 20 was that it didn't make a big difference in time it took to fill. It was almost always filled within the hour. I did open some syrup boats on purpose because I had a bunch of syrup but I would go on a boat help hunt, and before I could get back to my own boat, it was filled.

I filled a lot of my own crates because I also wanted the XP points, but I ALWAYS try to fill as many neighbor and followers crates as I can, including those needing butter, ice cream, syrups, sugars and jams. :)

great thread, and I love pink's photo! :)