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Hi everyone,
I am Level 23 and have just 1 friend and 2 followers. I am wondering what your thoughts are on repairing my boat dock to fill boat orders? I am thinking it may be a waste since I do not have a large following and it would be difficult to fill orders. I hear others talk about the boat orders being hard/impossible to fill, so I am hesitant to spend the gold on it.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Do you have all other machines which you can have at your level ? Then by all means repair the dock. Boats are fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
You can get plenty of Game Center neighbours on this forum. Stockpile a few of everything you can make and have fun. Try to figure out what works for you, such as if you fill a boat and have time left then don't send the boat away but use the time to recover. Your boats won't be asking for ice cream or jams yet as you are not up to that level yet.
One word of advice if you do open the boat dock and start doing boats. Try to get the captain III achievement as early as possible because it will become much harder in higher levels.
Thank you for your quick response!
So far I have all my machines, just wasn't sure as a "loner" (lol) if I could fill ANY boat orders by myself! Didn't want to spend the gold only to have a boat as a decoration! :p
Thank you for the tips and advice....much appreciated!
I was in the same "boat" as you... LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
I didn't know until later that the boat only would ask for items that you can make... or I would have made it as soon as I had enough money.
I actually wished I would have saved the money by not opening the mine or getting a smelter... (the boat does not ask for ore/ingots just FYI)
Do it. It's good for gold and xp, plus you get vouchers. And you would be shocked how fast you can make gamecenter friends via hay day!
~Timbo
GC: timbo_slice79 (<- add me)
Yes you can fill boats by yourself but it is a little more difficult.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
Also you can put the ask for help sign up and advertise in the newspaper every 30 minutes. Maybe someone will also check the boat and help out.
If you add friends in Game Center (a standard application on any Apple device) they are automatically a friend in Hay Day if they play the game. All over the forum you find people's GC ID's and you can send requests in Game Center. Or you can add your GC ID in this thread: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...Game-Center-ID and people will send you requests. The only thing you have to do is accept requests.
When you have purchased the dock start saving your gold again for the next big purchase. By the time you reach the level for opening the mine / buying smelters then don't. Go for juicer and ice cream maker first. With those it is much easier to earn lots of gold again to but the mine and smelters later. Any truckorders coming in the mean time for metal bars you can just trash by tapping the trash can, a new order will appear in 30 minutes.
The first post in the Guide Book thread below tells you the prices of those machines.
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...278-Guide-Book
Ok...well, I've been out cruising people's farms since I posted (ok, who are kidding, I admit I do it regularly), and I'm seeing the boats do not seem to pay very much for items that I can sell in seconds (literally) at max price. Does the farmer get a "reward" or something that helpers do not? Or do they just get the coins and xp that the helpers do?
I am off to search the forum now to see if I can learn more about how the boat orders work.
Thank you both for your responses!
-ChickenLittle
The biggest advantage to completing boat orders is to get the colored vouchers, plus its a challenge that gives you something to work towards. I was getting board just harvesting items and selling...Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
Each boat gives you a random colored voucher. You redeem a certain combo of vouchers to get pets, unique decorations or horses.
Once you have the pets a few times a day you can click on them and they give you XP plus sometimes a bonus gift (I just got a land deed from my cat)
Yes the gold that you earn from filling a crate is not what you would earn if you were to sell that item at your stand for max price... 3 ice cream gets you 518 gold at the stand vs 290ish for the boat crate (plus xp)
Hope that helps.
And if you are one to play for achievements, you can get more xp and diamonds by completing the captain challenge
Cap 1 (3 boats in a row complete)
Cap 2 (6 boats in a row complete)
Cap 3 (12 boats in a row)
Those are all consecutive, so if you get all 12 boats w/o missing one, you get all 3 achievments.
Hope this helps some.
~Timbo
Hey, no worries. I am a "loner" too. I opened my dock when I was at your level and it wasn't that hard to fill. It helps a bit when you advertise on the newspaper so that people can come into your farm. The most challenging part was when it asked for sugar but nothing is impossible. I was lucky that I didn't get a double sugar order because nobody sell sugar in the papers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
Well, the draw back is now that I have completed my Captain III, I kind of lose my motivation to play anymore.
Anyway, the boat does add a lot of fun.
Good luck!
The money is less but if you add the money and the xps it totals the max you can get for anything, just pays you in xps which if you want to go up a level is good, not so much if you're trying not to go up which has it's advantages in some of the challenges.Quote:
Originally Posted by timbo
Thanks to all who contributed their input and advice. The general consensus is YES, buy the boat dock (or repair it, whatever)...although I am hesitant, I probably will. My other choice currently (now level 24), is the mine. I've read many posts on people saying its not the best investment (juicer is better) but still see them open and operating on almost every higher level farm.
Thank you all again. This is a fun little game. Much more so, to me, than &$!@ville, that's for sure. The goals seem more reasonably spaced, not so far apart it takes weeks, months to accomplish the next level or unlock new things.
I play a LOT (too much to actually admit, even under an alias! Lol!), so you're advice is very much appreciated.
You really are better off going for the dock/boats before the mine.. I did not and I regretted it. Once you get the mine opened, you then need "mining equipment" (shovels, tnt, dynamite) to use on the mine to get ore. But in order to do anything with the ore, you also need to buy the smelter. You need 3 ore of a metal to smelt it into an ingot, and the truck orders usually take more than 1 ingot to even do. So short term it is not productive or profitable.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
Do the dock!
~Timbo
Thanks Timbo! Will do! :cool:
Yes I do have both too. It is best to get around to the mine and smelters later. Because it is much easier to make lots of gold fast with a juicer and icecream maker. I opened the mine before the juicer and wish I bought the juicer first. I did write a "small" numbers essay on it in another thread and don't know if you read that...Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickenLittle
Found it:
I would advise you to wait with the mine and smelters untill you have bought the juicer and icecream maker. If you think the cake oven is expensive, just wait for those to unlock. If you want to know how expensive they are just read the first item in M1ndkeeper's thread called "Guide book".
If you want to open the mine you need the smelters too. The first one isn't that expensive, but the 2nd is over 20k, the third over 30k and so on. Smelting takes a very long time and the finished product - the metal bars - don't have high prices.
- Silver bar, 8 hours max price 118
- Gold bar, 12 hours max price 147
- Platinum bar, 16 hours max price 176
Compared with the juicer:
A list of juices, production times and max price for 1 juice:
- Carrot juice: 30 minutes / 46 gold
- Apple juice: 2 hrs / 129 gold
- Cherry juice 2h30 / 216 gold
- Tomato juice 1h30 / 162 gold
- Berry juice 3h / 205 gold
Conclusion in 8 hours you can make 1 silver bar for 118 or 16 carrot juices that sell for more than 736 (10 of something sell for a slightly higher price than 10 x the price for 1). And you would have used at least 1 piece of mining equipment (shovel, TNT, dynamite) to get the silver ore te produce the silver bar. For example you could have sold the shovel for 108. If you do decide to go for the juicer and ice cream maker first then save some mining equipment but sell whatever you don't need yet en start saving by the time you are considering opening the mine.