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I hate to say i agree with most of these posts. Not only have i started playing a lot less, send all my boats away, gave up on the town hungry folks, its just become redundant and im only level 63.
This is the first post I have made in over a month or two, so sad.
And it's another boat event! Heavy sigh!
And so soon after the last ended. Doesn't that seem unusual? Usually we have a few days in between.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiggerr129
that is so stupid honestly! and i thought theres still sometime to go for the truck event. not going to do this one!
A one week boat event...
the most boring event and we never achieved it :/
Sorry, to contradict you, but vouchers are not universally rewarding. I prefer vouchers over yet more useless mining tools or mallets etc, but they don't float my boat. I never fish with them outside of fishing events, because I don't have time to fight with fish that are hard to catch. Give me a red lure any day. While I am a way off joining the 100 gold voucher club, I have enough of all types of voucher to buy pretty much any new decoration or pet without blinking (or even thinking, in the case of those wretched donkeys). So, while they may be better than ems or mining tools, i don't find them particularly rewarding. I'd really rather have the feta.Quote:
Originally Posted by devirris
so here we have a 7 day boating event hard on the heels of the, to me, supremely boring truck event. A whole week of a DD full of eggs, wheat and wool and little else. Another week of shovels flying into my barn only to be thrown straight out to the roadside. After a week of boats wanting crops, suddenly I have a boat wanting three premium items. My apathy is in full flight.
Not happy that we have another boat event. We wont meet this one's requirement, and its so quickly after the last one. I really wish we could get some new events.
Hello! Another person here who hasn't posted for at least a month or so and hasn't played much for a similar time too. I can't sleep tonight so grabbed the iPad and spotted a notification for a new event, opened up the game, saw the flying newspaper and then thought, hang on, it's not Friday! :confused:
I have to agree with a lot of the earlier posts - the bloom is most definitely off the rose here Tiggerr! Your post #47 is spot on. Something isn't right and yes I would love it to be right again. I was totally addicted to the game and got the rest of the family playing as well as friends too. I was a start playing in the morning, last thing at night and every few hours in between too to top up machines etc too. Initially I loved the addition of a new town, made sure new mobile phone met the device requirements so I could have a second 'baby' farm to feed my main farm but I found trying to keep my stocks up in the barn to feed the townies orders blooming stressful and found myself running out of things accidentally. I felt my barn wasn't big enough and the only way I could keep up was to buy diamonds to hire Tom - something I had never needed to do before in the same frequency before the intro of the town. So I gave the town up and stopped playing it for a couple of days to initially restock and then a few weeks later, completely as it was just too stressful trying to keep up and as my barn was full of stuff never asked for! As I now have all the machines except the smoothie (items don't seem to be in demand) I haven't really got any incentive to keep playing except to complete my fish book (I hate fishing) and the town (noooooooooo not going back there!) which is why my play slowed down to an eventual stop. I loved the visitor event when I discovered how it worked, but even now it seems that everyone has cottoned on to that one!
I nearly started a thread before I slowed my play down entitled 'Where have all the lovely posters gone?' as I have felt that the forum has also lost its magic sparkle. The lovely regular posters who alongside Tiggerr and Shealie created a lovely atmosphere with fab posts but also started mini games, helping threads, challenges etc seem to have disappeared or are not posting in the general section. There was always lots of chatter about tips and tricks and ratios and the odd glitch. And posts were always helpful, light hearted, polite in requesting help, thanking others etc and now (with a few exceptions of course :)) seem to be fighty, blunt, demanding and a little bit toxic.
From what I have experienced in my own game since the town arrived and the tweak since, boat orders are AWFUL and far too demanding, axes, saws, dynamite etc are rarer (always was able to get a good supply without needing to use Tom), diamond rings and cotton goods are the new bacon and eggs, jewellery orders were rare on my board and my barn was never big enough!!!
How can we get it back is a big question! Re:apathy for events - I agree they have lost their sparkle. I think there are a few options.
1. Change the prizes.
I think a lot of players post level 50 won't & don't make the effort for prizes such as LEM (not of much use), TEMs (not appealing) axes etc. Thinking back to the birthday event, we all pitched in then for those diamonds (10), vouchers except the green ones are always well received, seasonal decorations (as long as it's delivered before the holiday or event ;)) have gone down well too.
2. Change the format
Why not double the xp and not coins for truck orders for a change - now that would grab people's attention! Do something different with the visitors - why can't they sell something to us for a change and we buy cheap or give us a reward for buying or selling to them? Boats - first make them less awful - but why not have them asking for crates of one, two or three or even more items to contribute to an global event (bit like the cake event if you see what I mean) but of a level appropriate amount - e.g. Say the event is a BBQ then have all boats asking for burgers, apples and woolly jumpers and the success measured by the total number of boats. (I would add that it would need to be an achievable number of items requested on the boat SC!) as for fishing, why not have a publicised rare fish for the event for people to try and catch which will give us 10 diamonds if we get it but make sure enough people can get it though!
Apologies if some of the above doesn't make sense but it's 4am and the cup of tea is wearing off!
It's nice to see several of the posters who became familiar to me as forum regulars when I first joined share your thoughts on this topic. The fact that you've not been around as frequently as in the past & you've cut back on playing HD reinforces, for me at least, it's just as Tigger said... the bloom is off the rose.
Opened HD to find a boat event right on the heels of the truck event...ho hum coupled with not even enough time to restock? Small wonder indeed there's apathy for the events.
Of course this isn't the first time back to back events has happened, but I think the others were after fishing sprees, not right after everything in the barn had been cleaned out by trucks. Maybe SC is having a bit of fun with us, seeing just how far frustration levels can be built up before they send us a dry spell of no events, then sit back to see how quickly we grouse about over full barns! Can't help but think of the saying "be careful of what you wish for"!:rolleyes: