Rant: Get me off the Last Helpers list! -_-

This is getting stupid. I can't put up sales for my neighborhood anymore, people I helped in the paper wipe out my shop constantly, often before I'm able to fill it to even tell anyone I have a sale up.

It irks me that there's nothing I can do to stop these people. I don't even have the ability to go to their farms and return the 'favor'. At least I have the power to remove followers. At least I have control over when I place ads to willingly put my RSS up for public display.

I don't even know who this person was, I probably helped them with something stupid like hamburgers, and in return they walked away with my full shop of soups, raw sugars (which I was specifically putting up for the higher level members who are always in need of it), ice creams, juices, etc. That is NOT acceptable.

And, yes, I'm aware that the obvious answer is to simply never help anyone in the paper anymore, which is frankly equally ridiculous. The system design is flawed. I enjoy helping boats. Browsing the paper and filling crates was probably my #1 favorite pastime in Hay Day and now I'll have to cease it full stop unless I want to -- and I don't -- continuously deal with people who should have NO interaction with me outside of sending a gift card.

At least add an option to check for "Never appear on Last Helpers" or add another social tab where YOU can see the people you helped and can remove yourself from their lists the same way you remove followers. Please do something. This is really not cool. The way it is now feels like no good deed goes unpunished. >:(

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I know this is a frustrating issue for many...they like to put certain items in their RSS thinking/hoping that certain friends or NH mates would like or need those items, and then someone you previously helped from the DD swoops in and grabs the goods.

You think the idea of never helping anyone in the DD to eliminate this problem is ridiculous, but essentially, it really is the only way to make sure this doesn't happen. Therefore, you either continue as you have been and take the chance, or stop helping strangers from the DD.

On occasion, when I've had to create ads and also happened to have an ! up for some help and was helped by a stranger from the DD, I would visit their shop to see what they might be selling...and maybe I got lucky and found something I wanted/needed. Since you like to put out premium items, this stranger is probably doing the same thing and figuring they hit the jackpot...over and over again!

I wouldn't call this system a flaw. Think about those who don't have many friends and the only way they may get help is from those like you who help via the DD. And since they don't have many friends, your RSS provides another place to shop, on top of the DD. For those people, this system really helps them with their farming.

As you know, one way to stop this problem is to stop helping strangers from the DD. Another is to essentially not put anything out for about 2 weeks so that you hopefully fall off their Last Helper list. You could also try sending them a message by stocking boring stuff...B&E, cornbread, wheat, corn, etc....at full price.

If you really think it would be a good idea to have a button to click indicating not to allow yourself to be put on one's Last Helper list, maybe you should suggest it in the Ideas section.

You will fall off the last helper tab in two weeks, whether your leech gets help from other players or not.

IMO, that's too much. That's a long time to have to put up with it, and it IS discouraging people from helping strangers through the paper. Which is really a pity.

I think this is a flaw. Either you should fall off the last helper tab faster (1 day?), or you should have the ability to remove yourself from others' last helper tabs.

It's creepy, because as you note, it's one-sided. They can buy out your stand 50 times a day, and you can't even visit their farm to see what it looks like.

This has become much worse since the neighborhood and town updates. People are desperate for premium goods to feed the greedy townies, and there's much less in the newspaper and their friends' stands, because people have less to give, and are giving what they have to their neighbors.

IMO, SC needs to take this change into account, and give us more control over the last helper tab.

Well, dang! I never thought of raiding my "last helpers" RSSs! There are still a bunch of the finer points of farming that have yet to show up on my radar.

That being said, based on the experiences all y'all are having, it sounds like there is an unintended consequence between the "help" and the "RSS" use of the "last helpers" tag. YOU go to their farm generally to help fill boat crates or revive trees...THEY come to see what goodies they can score in your RSS.

Does anyone know if the "!" appears on farms on the "followers" or "last helpers" lists? I never see them. Occasionally, I go to a farm that has done me a big boat-crate favor to see who they are and if they need help. However, it's basically a useless tab for me.

I agree that the individual farmer ought to have control of who is on ALL those tabs. We invite other farmers to visit through the RSS ads. If we don't advertise, random farmers should not be able to visit. I've never used my boat leader board, but I understand that is another way that random people can find your farm.

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Originally Posted by knitgal2

You think the idea of never helping anyone in the DD to eliminate this problem is ridiculous, but essentially, it really is the only way to make sure this doesn't happen.

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The developers have given players no tools to deal with the aftermath of a random 'act of kindness', so the only current solution is to completely withdraw from participating in an activity. I call that ridiculous.

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I wouldn't call this system a flaw. Think about those who don't have many friends and the only way they may get help is from those like you who help via the DD. And since they don't have many friends, your RSS provides another place to shop, on top of the DD. For those people, this system really helps them with their farming.

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Except at that point I've become an unwilling participant. Helping a player with a crate (and I only ever do one crate per farm) is not an invitation for them to assume me as a sponsor.

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Originally Posted by Janilee

Either you should fall off the last helper tab faster (1 day?), or you should have the ability to remove yourself from others' last helper tabs.

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I agree with everything you said. Although, I'm not sure even a 24-hour turn around on the list is enough, especially for someone like me who used to fill many crates on a daily basis.

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It's creepy, because as you note, it's one-sided. They can buy out your stand 50 times a day, and you can't even visit their farm to see what it looks like.

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Yes, which is probably my biggest gripe. The person who fills the crate assumes all the risk as there is none for the person who flags it. They can remove anyone who followed them and the ad bringing people to their farm in the first place will be gone in 3 hours at the latest. Maybe that is what the timer on last helpers should be, 3 hours. :P

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

Does anyone know if the "!" appears on farms on the "followers" or "last helpers" lists? I never see them. Occasionally, I go to a farm that has done me a big boat-crate favor to see who they are and if they need help. However, it's basically a useless tab for me.

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They do. It's the only time I ever use the last helpers tab, actually. If someone helped my boat with a difficult item I'll check to see if they need help with anything and return the favor. That is a good use of Last Helpers, but I get the impression that's not common. :(

I would rather just see the last helpers list go away. I don't think it adds anything to the game.

i totally feel you! im being stalked by someone too, not via last helpers but via liking my farm on facebook. the person was extremely smart. she followed me after buying all 80 deeds i put up then when i removed her from my followers list she liked my farm immediately. after that, not a day of peace! i wish we could have more control over who visits our farm, or who buys our stuff. all these requests pertaining to "stalking" has fallen on deaf ears. sigh

its not all that bad if that person has found your farm via last helpers. in 2 weeks time, like what janilee mentioned, your farm will fall of that person's list. its much much worse if that person has liked you on facebook or found you via the boat leaderboard.

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

Does anyone know if the "!" appears on farms on the "followers" or "last helpers" lists? I never see them. Occasionally, I go to a farm that has done me a big boat-crate favor to see who they are and if they need help. However, it's basically a useless tab for me.

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It doesn't work very well for me. I think it's supposed to show a ! if they've flagged a tree or crate. But for me, I don't see it until I visit their farm. Then, if they've asked for help, I will see the flag on the followers tab. Otherwise, I don't.

I think it's a bug. IIRC, it used to work. Now it doesn't, at least for me.

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

its not all that bad if that person has found your farm via last helpers. in 2 weeks time, like what janilee mentioned, your farm will fall of that person's list. its much much worse if that person has liked you on facebook or found you via the boat leaderboard.

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Seems like you have some recourse with the boat leaderboard. Your boat score changes every time you fill a crate. Seems like if you also changed your name, a stalker would have a hard time finding you.

The Facebook thing is beyond creepy. Not to mention unfair, because it only works for iOS users.

I am filling crates in the newspaper all the time, never noticed raiders.

I never had the idea to go visit peeps on the latest helper list. It sounds like another great option for finding needed items. Sometimes I can't find common items like wheat, sweaters or burgers because the DD doesn't show them to you if you don't have any already.

BTW, strangers finding me in the DD are constantly helping fill my empty crates I need for boat orders. SO MUCH more so then my neighbors. I'm not going to begrudge them because they took a few BEMs or TEMs I have on sale.

Happy farming. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Hayday!!!!

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Originally Posted by Janilee

Seems like you have some recourse with the boat leaderboard. Your boat score changes every time you fill a crate. Seems like if you also changed your name, a stalker would have a hard time finding you.

The Facebook thing is beyond creepy. Not to mention unfair, because it only works for iOS users.

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yes i've been stalked so many times throughout the 1.5 years i've played its really sickening. though i dont recall ever being stalked via the boat leaderboard im keeping my fingers crossed it wouldnt happen since i hardly do boat orders or fill crates.

yes i hate the facebook thing. if we like a farm it should just be within the game and not linking to some crappy social media.

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Originally Posted by SAGE214

I am filling crates in the newspaper all the time, never noticed raiders.

I never had the idea to go visit peeps on the latest helper list. It sounds like another great option for finding needed items. Sometimes I can't find common items like wheat, sweaters or burgers because the DD doesn't show them to you if you don't have any already.

BTW, strangers finding me in the DD are constantly helping fill my empty crates I need for boat orders. SO MUCH more so then my neighbors. I'm not going to begrudge them because they took a few BEMs or TEMs I have on sale.

Happy farming. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Hayday!!!!

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maybe you dont understand OP's concern. its hardly a few BEMs like you said. maybe its because you've never been raided before. let me add you in the game and try doing that to you. i will live on your farm 24/7, disrupt your trades, buy you out the whole freakin time for a few weeks straight then you can lemme know if it sounds like a big deal or not. just sayin'

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

yes i hate the facebook thing. if we like a farm it should just be within the game and not linking to some crappy social media.

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You really have no control with the Facebook thing. You can be disconnected from FB. You can delete FB. You can never have ever been on FB. Doesn't matter. The person liking your farm has to be on FB to find you again, but nothing you do has any effect. No bueno. :(

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

maybe you dont understand OP's concern. its hardly a few BEMs like you said. maybe its because you've never been raided before. let me add you in the game and try doing that to you. i will live on your farm 24/7, disrupt your trades, buy you out the whole freakin time for a few weeks straight then you can lemme know if it sounds like a big deal or not. just sayin'

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that sounds like a huge bummer...:(

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

i totally feel you! im being stalked by someone too, not via last helpers but via liking my farm on facebook. the person was extremely smart. she followed me after buying all 80 deeds i put up then when i removed her from my followers list she liked my farm immediately. after that, not a day of peace! i wish we could have more control over who visits our farm, or who buys our stuff. all these requests pertaining to "stalking" has fallen on deaf ears. sigh

its not all that bad if that person has found your farm via last helpers. in 2 weeks time, like what janilee mentioned, your farm will fall of that person's list. its much much worse if that person has liked you on facebook or found you via the boat leaderboard.

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One question. If I have no facebook and the farm likes my farm, can the farmer still follow me?
Does anyone know this?

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Originally Posted by beeny

One question. If I have no facebook and the farm likes my farm, can the farmer still follow me? Does anyone know this?

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Originally Posted by Janilee

You really have no control with the Facebook thing. You can be disconnected from FB. You can delete FB. You can never have ever been on FB. Doesn't matter. The person liking your farm has to be on FB to find you again, but nothing you do has any effect. No bueno. :(

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DanielHan, same here. They have been following me FB style since December last year.

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Originally Posted by GirlMixALot

DanielHan, same here. They have been following me FB style since December last year.

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Thanks for highlighting. :)
I missed out that post.

It is great that you want to help people by filling their crates, but having them "raid" your shop after is a bummer! How could they, how dare they buy the things you are putting in your shop to sell! After all, you want to sell the things in your shop. So, how dare them! How dare those people for giving you coins for the products you put in your shop to sell! What on earth are they thinking?!

Oh my goodness people! Why do you put things in your shop? For them to sell. Does it really matter who buys them? Does it really matter how much or how often they buy things? Flip the coin over ... You sold your stuff and made coins!

if you only want your neighbors to have what you sell then don't fill crates of those you do not know. There you go, problem solved!😎😎😎

This is why I simply don't help people with anything.

I was trading with a person in my neighborhood and someone I helped in the past swooped in and bought it all up. So, now I just don't help people which fixed that issue.

For the same reason, I also don't allow GC friends or followers. It has always been a one-way relationship. They only sell things like eggs and hats, meanwhile I load up my RSS with SEMs, TEMs, and LEMs. They swoop them up, but don't ever post anything of value themselves. Good bye, you can find someone else to leech off of.

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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay

Oh my goodness people! Why do you put things in your shop? For them to sell. Does it really matter who buys them? Does it really matter how much or how often they buy things? Flip the coin over ... You sold your stuff and made coins!

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Keep in mind that many of us could not care less about coins. We have far more than we need. When we put things in our RSS, it's for reasons other than wanting to earn coins.

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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay

if you only want your neighbors to have what you sell then don't fill crates of those you do not know. There you go, problem solved!😎😎😎

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That is in fact what many people are doing. What I'm saying is that this is not a desirable state of affairs.

You cannot control what other people do, and should not try. But you absolutely should have the right to disengage from someone whose style of play doesn't fit with yours.

I like helping people through the newspaper, and several times this has resulted in them following me, and my being happy to have them as followers. Other times, the experience has been so bad I stopped helping through the paper for weeks afterward.

I think it would be better for everyone if we just had the ability to take ourselves off the last helper tab. There really isn't any drawback.

I don't mind helping a homeless person with a buck but I wouldn't want him to follow me home and raid my fridge. Harsh analogy...but that's the way I see it. I stopped helping farms in the DD a long time ago and it's a shame because there are so many farms I can help easily but I don't. Don't need the unwanted headache that may come with helping a total stranger in the DD so I just buy and leave.

Deleting ourselves off of someone's last helpers tab is a great solution and will solve a lot of problems. But since we don't have access to someone else's last helpers tab, how about just allowing friends and followers to show up on it, not random strangers? SC needs to implement this.

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Originally Posted by Darcelle

It irks me that there's nothing I can do to stop these people. I don't even have the ability to go to their farms and return the 'favor'. At least I have the power to remove followers. At least I have control over when I place ads to willingly put my RSS up for public display.

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You can remover followers from YOUR list but are you removed from theirs too? I do not think so.

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Originally Posted by Glencolmcille

You can remover followers from YOUR list but are you removed from theirs too? I do not think so.

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Sure you are. You can delete followers, and they will not see you on their friends tab any more.

This is a change SC made. Originally, you could not delete the people who were following you.

They saw the light, and realized that people who wanted to get rid of followers should be able to. That is why I'm hopeful they will eventually do something about the last helper tab.

The thing is. The last helpers tab was implemented so you could see who helped you and then visit their farm to like it or help them. And originally you helped a farmer by buying from their RSS. We had a limited number of slots in the shop and it was helpful to have someone buy your stuff so you could put more up. I don't think supercell envisioned many people buying as many extra slots with diamonds or they might have charged more.

Anyway as the game became more social with the forum and with neighborhoods and also with the success of the game, more and more people are playing well past the normal "shelf life" of the game. We have made more friends and expanded our desire to help to include more ways to help the folks we have become real friends with. As was pointed out more people play to the way high upper levels and the un intended consequences are that coins are irrelevant. What matters is helping a friend.

I never was a fan of doing away with the last helpers tab because I took into account the needs of newer players and players without the ability to have many friends and neighbors. If someone is not a member of this forum, I am sure they think they are truly helping and paying back the kindness of the guy who helped them with that last boat. They don't know why you put those premium goods out, they just know they need them and wish to purchase them.

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With all that being said though, since Supercell did create this forum and added the NH concept, I think it might be time to alter this concept. Perhaps a way to visit your helpers farm on a one time only basis by clicking the avatar that shows who helped you and a "visit" button could pop up like it does in the Chat window. That way you could show your appreciation by reviving a bush or filling a crate and yes maybe making a purchase. But the way it is now is turning a good deed into a burden for those who are happy just to get the thank you note and want no other thanks.

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Originally Posted by Spartan1

For the same reason, I also don't allow GC friends or followers. It has always been a one-way relationship. They only sell things like eggs and hats, meanwhile I load up my RSS with SEMs, TEMs, and LEMs. They swoop them up, but don't ever post anything of value themselves. Good bye, you can find someone else to leech off of.

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I've been fortunate to not have much problem with my followers. I've only had to remove one. However, you are exactly right. The few times I've checked my followers' shops they were either empty or only contained low level, highly common items, so I don't bother anymore.

I never sell *EMs though. Neither my farm or town are fully expanded yet and I doubt I'll ever stop trying to increase my barn or silo. I do trade with people in my neighborhood though and this last helper nonsense has made me paranoid about doing that.

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Originally Posted by Janilee

Keep in mind that many of us could not care less about coins. We have far more than we need. When we put things in our RSS, it's for reasons other than wanting to earn coins.

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Exactly. If I only cared about money or even just barn space I would put an ad on a premium item and watch everything disappear within 10 seconds -- by choice.

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Originally Posted by Haystacker

I don't mind helping a homeless person with a buck but I wouldn't want him to follow me home and raid my fridge. Harsh analogy...but that's the way I see it. I stopped helping farms in the DD a long time ago and it's a shame because there are so many farms I can help easily but I don't. Don't need the unwanted headache that may come with helping a total stranger in the DD so I just buy and leave.

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Interesting analogy. The one I was thinking of yesterday is you're hosting a block party, you've made things that you know your neighborhood will like, you place them all on a table by the street and beam happily knowing they're going to love it all. Except then, an out-of-towner you spoke to once, who you didn't know was going to be there, drives by the spread and starts snatching up everything on the table. You watch in horror, but there's nothing you can do about it.

Said person keeps a mental note that you're an excellent cook, that you semi-frequently hold block parties, and keeps checking back for more stuff to take because they apparently think it's a foodie garage sale. Then you just stop cooking. You quit throwing parties since that seems to be the only way to deter strangers from coming to your house. Your neighbors starve and have to beg in the streets for food. Chaos!

Anyway, no offense to my neighborhood, but they always flag crates for the worst stuff. It's almost never anything I can spare. Ads in the paper (the few that aren't sugar or dairy) are usually much easier to fill. So, if I quit filling paper crates then I'll very rarely get to fill anyone's crates at all. :(

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Originally Posted by Darcelle

Interesting analogy. The one I was thinking of yesterday is you're hosting a block party, you've made things that you know your neighborhood will like, you place them all on a table by the street and beam happily knowing they're going to love it all. Except then, an out-of-towner you spoke to once, who you didn't know was going to be there, drives by the spread and starts snatching up everything on the table. You watch in horror, but there's nothing you can do about it.

Said person keeps a mental note that you're an excellent cook, that you semi-frequently hold block parties, and keeps checking back for more stuff to take because they apparently think it's a foodie garage sale. Then you just stop cooking. You quit throwing parties since that seems to be the only way to deter strangers from coming to your house. Your neighbors starve and have to beg in the streets for food. Chaos!

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Lol! I like ur analogy a lot better :D. Very descriptive and makes total sense!

Moral of the analogy: don't talk to out-of-towners, not even once...or continue to have the block party, serve nasty food and hope that person finds another party to crash :D

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Originally Posted by Haystacker

Lol! I like ur analogy a lot better :D. Very descriptive and makes total sense!

Moral of the analogy: don't talk to out-of-towners, not even once...or continue to have the block party, serve nasty food and hope that person finds another party to crash :D

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I should have said given a food sample to once, which was apparently so good they followed me home. :P

I leave all the nasty food in the paper, hah, but that's a fun idea. My shop just remains barren during these times.

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Originally Posted by Darcelle

It irks me that there's nothing I can do to stop these people. I don't even have the ability to go to their farms and return the 'favor'. At least I have the power to remove followers. At least I have control over when I place ads to willingly put my RSS up for public display.

And, yes, I'm aware that the obvious answer is to simply never help anyone in the paper anymore, which is frankly equally ridiculous. The system design is flawed. I enjoy helping boats. Browsing the paper and filling crates was probably my #1 favorite pastime in Hay Day and now I'll have to cease it full stop unless I want to -- and I don't -- continuously deal with people who should have NO interaction with me outside of sending a gift card.

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I never ever help anyone in the dd anymore since the last helpers tab reared its ugly head. Its really too bad because lots of times i would like to fill crates and water trees for xp, but i know where that leads.

I love the block party analogy. Sums it up perfectly.

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Originally Posted by DanielHan

i totally feel you! im being stalked by someone too, not via last helpers but via liking my farm on facebook. the person was extremely smart. she followed me after buying all 80 deeds i put up then when i removed her from my followers list she liked my farm immediately. after that, not a day of peace! i wish we could have more control over who visits our farm, or who buys our stuff. all these requests pertaining to "stalking" has fallen on deaf ears. sigh

its not all that bad if that person has found your farm via last helpers. in 2 weeks time, like what janilee mentioned, your farm will fall of that person's list. its much much worse if that person has liked you on facebook or found you via the boat leaderboard.

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The horror of that like button. Whats up with that thing anyway? Just brings trouble in my opinion. You are right, they can follow you forever with that feature. Only option is to change your farm name and hope they forget what date it was. Sigh

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Originally Posted by BrightSunnyDay

It is great that you want to help people by filling their crates, but having them "raid" your shop after is a bummer! How could they, how dare they buy the things you are putting in your shop to sell! After all, you want to sell the things in your shop. So, how dare them! How dare those people for giving you coins for the products you put in your shop to sell! What on earth are they thinking?!

Oh my goodness people! Why do you put things in your shop? For them to sell. Does it really matter who buys them? Does it really matter how much or how often they buy things? Flip the coin over ... You sold your stuff and made coins!

if you only want your neighbors to have what you sell then don't fill crates of those you do not know. There you go, problem solved!������

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Amen to this. A huge point of this game is the social aspect. Why do people play social games if they don't want to be social in the first place??? I don't get it.

Then again I don't understand the stalkers either. They ruin it for everyone as expressed in the intense bitterness in this thread.

Love Hay Day.

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Originally Posted by SAGE214

A huge point of this game is the social aspect. Why do people play social games if they don't want to be social in the first place??? I don't get it.

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I do want to be social, which is why I'm complaining. The problem is easy to solve: never help strangers in the newspaper. I have enough friends, followers and neighbors that I can get all the gift cards I want just helping people I know.

But I would like to help others, and as I said, some of my best friends in the game started out through the last follower tab.

If you're dealing with real people, you have to have way to control who you interact with. 99% of players are fine, reasonable people. It's the other 1% that are driving people to quit helping anyone.

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Originally Posted by SAGE214

Amen to this. A huge point of this game is the social aspect. Why do people play social games if they don't want to be social in the first place??? I don't get it.

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How exactly is Last Helpers promoting being social? I cannot visit the farms of the people I helped.

I'm not a FB user. I have an account because so many things (like Hay Day) seem to require one these days. I don't even know how I would go about adding someone as a friend or why I would want to add a stranger to a social media I never use.

There's actually no need to ever be social in Hay Day. It's entirely possible to be self-sufficient. I certainly never downloaded Hay Day with the intention of being social first and playing a fun farming game second. As I see it, being social is there as a convenience, not a necessity.

This is probably just a problem to those who enjoy their neighborhood, I don't really care about my NH so not a problem to me, I sell my stuffs to anyone who want it. Relax people!

Well, I resurrected Janilee's post in Ideas & Features Requests: The Last Helper Tab needs updating. No point in making a new thread when a perfectly good one already exists. :) I did add some suggestions & feedback. Anyone else who is equally unhappy with how the current system is implemented please feel free to reply and offer your own.

you be social because you want to, not because the game requires it. and as with all, or at least most social media platforms with the ability to follow and like (including this game), there should be a block or opt-out function, simple as that. if someone wants to follow me, i will have the choice whether or not i want to be followed. giving us no control like this is not cool. SC probably thinks they have done a fantastic job giving us a delete follower function afterall but really, the job is only half done. when they designed the game at first they probably think most players would be children who dont have such "problems" but the truth is, lots of adults play it and the issue on raiding and stalking is very real. its not just one or two people who think its an unpleasant experience. its high time SC acknowledges this issue.

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Originally Posted by HogFan

I would rather just see the last helpers list go away. I don't think it adds anything to the game.

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I personally like the last helper's list because I like to go visit those who've helped me to say a quick "thanks!" by buying something in their shop, but I do agree people should fall off after a few hours (or a day) instead of hanging around for two weeks.

I personally would like for the boat leaderboard to go away, the part that shows the rankings of the whole world. I don't CARE what the whole world ranks in points, but it opens up a pathway for the more aggressive players to come find me when perhaps I don't want to be found by anyone other than my GC friends and neighbors. Oh, and my NH neighbors too. I think SC needs to close that nasty loop PDQ.

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Originally Posted by Shealie54

I personally like the last helper's list because I like to go visit those who've helped me to say a quick "thanks!" by buying something in their shop, but I do agree people should fall off after a few hours (or a day) instead of hanging around for two weeks.

I personally would like for the boat leaderboard to go away, the part that shows the rankings of the whole world. I don't CARE what the whole world ranks in points, but it opens up a pathway for the more aggressive players to come find me when perhaps I don't want to be found by anyone other than my GC friends and neighbors. Oh, and my NH neighbors too. I think SC needs to close that nasty loop PDQ.

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the boat leaderboard will never go away. those hardcore showoffs spend a ton of diamonds to get to where they are, how do you think the one at the top could be at the top for years? they're the main source of income for SC.

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Originally Posted by Shealie54

I personally like the last helper's list because I like to go visit those who've helped me to say a quick "thanks!" by buying something in their shop, but I do agree people should fall off after a few hours (or a day) instead of hanging around for two weeks.

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It's interesting that you buy something as a thank you. I consider the XP + gift card enough thanks. That and <corny> the joy of helping someone. </corny>

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I personally would like for the boat leaderboard to go away, the part that shows the rankings of the whole world. I don't CARE what the whole world ranks in points, but it opens up a pathway for the more aggressive players to come find me when perhaps I don't want to be found by anyone other than my GC friends and neighbors. Oh, and my NH neighbors too. I think SC needs to close that nasty loop PDQ.

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I've never tried to find anyone on the boat leaderboard, but surely it's not that easy? I mean, in my case, I don't even have my boat points achievement. I can't imagine the amount of newbie/lowbie accounts you'd have to sift through.

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Originally Posted by Darcelle

It's interesting that you buy something as a thank you. I consider the XP + gift card enough thanks. That and <corny> the joy of helping someone. </corny>

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You're exactly right, the xp and gift card ARE thanks, but it's my way of also saying a brief "hi" to my GC friends and neighbors, especially the ones who regularly pop up to water trees or help my boats. It's the only way to add the personal thanks to a helpsie. I don't do it all the time, just if something is for sale that I want or need. Or if they're selling produce, then I'll buy a single crate - "hi and thanks, neighbor!" :)

Daniel, you're right - those folks want the world to know they're at the top of the heap. :D

that effing tab is nothing but rubbish, got raid several times bcos of it, im really tired of it, i wont help anyone outside the hood, its ridiculous man, the social part is dead from my part, well done! :slow clap:

A topic worth bumping, it's crazy how SuperCell has let this loophole exist for so long.

If you try to be generous with your neighbours by selling decent products, this feature does nothing but punish you.

At least the Neighborhood Request board now helps make sure you and your neighbors can exchange items you need.

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Originally Posted by JJ48

At least the Neighborhood Request board now helps make sure you and your neighbors can exchange items you need.

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Not sure if serious or trolling.

Sure, you can exchange items via that feature; but it's terribly limited.

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Originally Posted by daz258

Sure, you can exchange items via that feature; but it's terribly limited.

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Yes - I wonder why on earth we can't request expansion materials? Some high level players in my NH have plenty of them that they are willing to simply give to noobs like me, but as we can't request them, we have to wait until everyone is online at the same time, then hang out at their shop and hope like hell that no people they helped are currently stalking them.

Serious. I'm not claiming it's the single solution for everything, but merely saying for anything other than expansion materials (usually trying to fill boat and truck orders quickly), it's far more reliable than putting stuff up in the shop (no worries about other people taking stuff and no having to make sure you're both online at the same time).

I can understand them not wanting to make expansion materials too easy to get, but maybe they could have a separate request just for them, limited to 3 of the same item, once per day, or so.

I would really like an option to turn off the last helper tab.

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Originally Posted by JJ48

I can understand them not wanting to make expansion materials too easy to get, but maybe they could have a separate request just for them, limited to 3 of the same item, once per day, or so.

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That would be great.

I like helping farms as it keeps the boat score from stagnating, boat orders as with most aspects of the game lately have become all about the diamonds spent to complete the tasks. I also like the gift vouchers earned. The draw back is unfortunately the stalkers one may pick up along the way, I have made peace with this and just stop putting in premium items till they either bored or move off my list. If I can get them to help my farm and there by get access to their farm then I stalk their store right back, often times the stalker gets the message and leaves my farm in peace.