Why I stop Playing Hay Day...

Why did I stop Playing Hay Day... and why I'll play again if you fix some stuff.

The game is cool, I've played many months.
You have implemented many new things, Fishing, the train, great! It was a pleasure to test these new things.

I'm pretty advanced.

But at the same time it becomes more and more complexe!

- Two minutes to watch the video.
- You spend 20 minutes to fish your fishes.
- You spend 25 minutes to feed your passagers, to more them in an activity.
- You spend 30 minutes to fill in your farm, to stock and collect your items.

You do it the morning, the evening. At the end you spend 2-3 hours on this game if you want to move on.

So adding stuff is cool! The train was amazing... but at the same time it take more time... so people start to be feed-up by the game! The game is boring... and don't need to be boring.

So please could you add a way to automatize some tasks. Fishing every day is not that fun anymore after a few months!

I would love to see some options to optimize my time. And I would come back... Don't ask money for these options are you are loosing some users.

Fishes (Should take 2 minutes)
1) Fish all fishes in one click.
2) Collect all items, and automatically fill in the order stack (as they were before.)

Train(Should take 2 minutes)
1) One click to collect the item from all passagers.
2) One click to give an activity to all passagers.
3) One click to give food to all passangers.

Main area
1) An option to collect all items at once. Clicking 100 times on the the different items is just boring after some time!
2) An option to fill in build stacks.
Ideally I would love to be able to configure something like "Build all the items until I get 5-10 of each of them".
An item is only built if I have all the ressources needed to build it!
3) Collect all fields, all animals in one click.
4) Give them food in one click
5) Plant seed in your fields
You have an option of defining how many crops you want. Example: I want 100 of them, and autmatically corn, tomatoes, etc... are planted.
6) Revive all your trees and cut the old one (if you have a saw.)

These options should of course be a manual action! You still have to "earn" your work.

Value of the game is not the time we spend on it! It's the fun we have. You were amazing in finding the right balance! Please balance this aspect too....

The good news about Hay Day is that everything can wait patiently. If you can't do everything every day, do what you can each day. Take breaks from the game if you need to. I hope you don't give up on Hay Day...

There's a lot of taps that could be avoided with some interface adjustments.
Picking townies when using the personal train is the worst offender...
The game now remembers our last paper, why not also remember our current zoom? our sale price preferences (min/max/default)? if we want an ad placed automatically or not (when available)? The last item we bought from the in game store, specially trees? The direction of the last placed bush or tree? The last page visited on the paper?
There should also be a quicker way to look in our NH and followers shops!
And talking about followers, why not add them to the "help needed tab"? (this could also be a user setting)

I understand your frustration and on some levels agree. Why should it take so long to do the littlest thing. But it everything you stated happened within a few minutes then everything would be done too quick and move forward too quick and would therefore get boring quicker. Maybe instead of waiting 5 hours for jam, maybe half an hour- an hour not half a day!
The one click option would be quicker. But i think seperate clicks should be an option too. Sometimes i dont have enough space to collect all at once

This is exactly the reason why I'm getting tired of HayDay. After playing for many months the game has naturally lost a bit of its lustre! Now, as you say, when I jump on in the morning, or if i get a change during the day, there is just soooo many things to do that it literally takes me 20mins in the morning to get everything going and sometimes I just cannot be bothered anymore! If it was quicker and I could just zip about getting everything set up for the day, then I wouldn't get as board.

Now with the township, it takes even more time!! Arghh. Especially if you are missing a simple thing for a township order like 5 milk, you have to then get on the newspaper... and sometimes you have to spend an hour looking for common things like milk, even though other times you can find simple things like that immediately!! It's just toooo much!

and at the end we stop playing :(

I still love the game, but as soon as I open it I'm feedup with all the actions I need to do.

So I close the game almost immediately.

But I'm a bit sad as it was my favorite on-going game :(

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Another solution would be to allow some scripting in the game.... To allow people to develop add-ons to automatize some tasks. All these add-ons must be started manually of course (otherwise you screw up the game!).

Example:
I open "scripts" => "feed all animals."