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I'd like to know why some items are almost impossible to get and others are overflowing? I have managed to get 5 marker stakes to extend one tiny bit of land, but now am getting no more. I get dozens if nails, screws, planks and duct tape that I have to keep selling to stop my barn overflowing but marker stakes and bolts are as rare as hen's teeth? Also, I never get any orange tokens? What's that all about?
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Originally Posted by Gina
Join the club, it is the same for me also. When you look at the trade page and see how many items people are hoarding it is quite a surprise. I sell items expansion items and silo items everyday because there is not enough room in my barn. Some barns are enormous.
It is different for everyone. One person may be struggling in planks while someone else has way too many but is in need of bolts. That's why the trading thread is so useful to forum players.
The game itself is set up this way, there seems to always be an item that is in short supply-whether it be deeds or mallets or stakes, or duct tape or planks or bolts, same with the silo expansion pieces. These items rotate as to what is the hard to find item at any given time-right now it appears that bolts and deeds are hard to find for some people. Watch the trading threads and you will see this to be true. Also-different game servers have different items as the hard to find item, I might not be able to find bolts-while at the same time another farmer can't find planks.
I also used to think it might be because people with huge barns are hoarding them, but it's not always the case, yes you could say if more people sold these items-there would be more available, but the number of people that hoard/inside trade are really very small to the number of players.
The game is set this way for one of two reasons-IMHO-either so farmers will use diamonds to purchase the things they need to expand-or so there's something to continue to do. For some farmers it becomes a quest to find that last bolt or plank. If all items were available all the time-let's face it-that might become boring rather quickly.
I for one tend to like the way the game seems to be set up, others have different opinions, which shows another way this game is so neat-we have choices on how we play. I do some small trading-but have never traded so I receive any barn expansion items-I almost have my barn at 1000 (just a few bolts to go) and have done it all with pieces my farm dropped, or I bought from the DD or neighbors stalls. This doesn't make me better then someone who trades more often, they probably think I'm nuts (for this and other reasons, lol) to wait a month for a bolt. On the other hand-I get nervous when I'm almost out of axes, and will trade for those at the drop of a hat.
Awwww-see how much I've grown, LOL!
Gina....add me on GC charliesugar101 level 64 (soon to be 65) and I will happily trade expansion items for your nails,screws planks and tapes.
I have some marker stakes and Deeds right now in fact.....;)
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Originally Posted by Gina
Gina, I too will be happy to trade Land Expansion Materials for barn upgrade items GC Jean Sewell sewellgandj@ hotmail.co.ukQuote:
Originally Posted by Gina
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Originally Posted by Kendra1168
i agree...last month there was a shortage of planks, but this month its bolts, so guess whats next month? :P
Same here.
Before the last update, my farm was like all about planks, for whatever I harvested. After update, zero planks, overflowing panels. =_=^
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Originally Posted by sylviaycheng
Start stockpiling tape! LOL
No one should get mad at your opinion, if they do-chances are they know their trade offers lean to the extreme!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluesgirl32
I will say, I used to feel exactly like you do, but I have to admit-some days I now want to be the person with 220 planks, LOL. Because first off, that means my barn might be big enough to hold them. 😄
I got my barn to 1000 finally without trading for barn expansion pieces. And as you know the number of pieces needed to further expand is huge! I'm not sure if I'm going further, but I will probably change my mind later today. 😉
I do have to add this though, there has been a lot of debate lately in the trading thread about posters trade offers. It all got deleted (as it probably should have been) but I still think one thing I posted about.
If someone needs an item-and they are willing to pay someone else's terms-that trade is no-ones business but the 2 traders.
Please-please do not think I disagree with your post-I like how you put it-you choose not to trade with the traders that do offer "unique" trading terms. But if I need something quickly-(not barn items) I might pay with another piece I don't need.
Of course there are new traders that don't know any better, and get ripped off. But I am really still a new trader, but before I dipped my toes into it, I lurked in the trading thread for days watching ratios-until I found a "base-line". Perhaps that info should be added to the first post in the trading thread that explains how to trade-if it isn't already there.
And I admit, I've been very lucky with forum friends trading with me-I'm an axe junky-and everyone knows it, that's basically all I trade for-saws also.
LOL-just my thoughts!