A little "love" for the town, please!

I'm reviving this thread in the spirit of Perky's request for suggestions for Hay Day's creative team. We had some good ideas going when the thread was started over a year ago. Even if the team didn't choose to use our ideas, I feel that the support for this thread indicated that there was significant interest in having town further developed in some meaningful way.

Historical context: This thread was introduced not long after the Derby (which was not requested..."Hey, SC, can you inject some serious competition in our happy farming game? We're getting bored with being friendly and cooperative and want something to fight about!") arrived and all creative resources were being directed toward "improving" the Derby. Derby was introduced in the big spring 2015 update, the summer update that had appeared before this thread was devoted to the Derby, and the fall update that came a couple of months later was also heavy on Derby. As I recollect, it was when the Leagues were introduced. Other than a new townie Derby task, absolutely nothing new has happened in town since this thread was originally started.

Personally, I still love my town even if I don't appreciate the weirdness of the visitors. I still feel that the way forward is through new ways to interact with town, not just more shops, visitors and land. The rest of the post is what I wrote originally. Items in red have been added in 2016.

I still feel like the town could benefit from some additional features and incentives to "visit". Since it was introduced (before my time on the farm, so I'm guessing) there have been only two productive things to do there: sell to townies and check the treasure chest. Yes, new shops get introduced, you can upgrade assorted things, provide your neighbors with visitors for their PTs, and you can decorate. However, there are a lot of farms I see when visiting through the DD who have fantastically elaborate, high level farms and "scorched earth" towns.

When the Derby was introduced, there was a flurry of interest in upgrading town shops and trains because the town visitor tasks were so attractive. At this point, that interest has fallen off. Right now, I'm "neglecting" my town in favor of filling boats for the current event and doing a "truck" Derby task. Yes, I'm doing exactly what the game intends which is managing my resources. However, I would like to see features in town that encourage me to be active there even if I'm not serving townies. Even if they are just an excuse to check in once a day, that would be nice. A new shop would, of course, be nice; but that wouldn't really add anything fundamentally different. There have been a variety of suggestions, some fairly frequent. Here are some I have made in the past, please chime in with others you may have made...or new ones!

• fishing pier (another fishing location with different fish)
• something like the WoF that can be "played" once a day (my thought is a wishing well or fountain that you toss a coin in and it produces a prize daily)
• town-specific pets (a koi pond, aviary)
• Derby task: serve a particular number of visitors in a particular building (for example, 12 people in the gift shop)
• produce stand: a "shop" that only sells crops
• becjam suggested a stall like Greg's that sells stuff to us once a day
• Mcl659 suggested a NH trading stall (I know we just got the trading feature at the farm, but I think there is still room for something different here)
• kwixi suggested exotic animals in some form and activity on the beach

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

. However, there are a lot of farms I see when visiting through the DD who have fantastically elaborate, high level farms and "scorched earth" towns.

• fishing pier (another fishing location with different fish)
• something like the WoF that can be "played" once a day (my thought is a wishing well or fountain that you toss a coin in and it produces a prize daily)
• town-specific pets (a koi pond, aviary)

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Youve certainly described my style there! Decorated farm which gets my attention, town which has the buildings just shoved around the edge for no other purpose than to make it easy to see who is standing outside a building. IVe only opened two pieces of land in the town, only made it to level 14. Ive not fully expanded my buildings, my main train has only been upgraded once.....I remember when it was introduced, it was so exciting and I was looking forward to opening land, decorating and making my town match my farm. My enthusiasm waned very quickly because I got bored with it. I can go a fortnight and realise ive not been in my town in all that time and my thoughts only go back to town when I get the 'barn full' notification - my town is basically just a way to offload my barn...when I remember it.... So yes I certainly could do with some incentive and enthusiasm for my town once more!

i like the ideas!

Melly, thanks so much for your post! Your situation is exactly what I was picturing...farmers who are active but do not find town engaging. I also agree with your statement that town is a place to offload products in a useful manner when you get the "barn full" notice.

I think the Town has definitely become a Hay Day stepchild. There is no room to really expand, and you get all the buildings early on. Nothing really exciting happens after that. There are enough other demands on our attention, like the Derby and global events that it is easy to neglect the Town. I love my Town, and I would love to see an update that focuses on the Town. More land, new buildings, and decorations specific to the Town.

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Originally Posted by MiniGardener

I still feel like the town could benefit from some additional features and incentives to "visit". Since it was introduced (before my time on the farm, so I'm guessing) there have been only two productive things to do there: sell to townies and check the treasure chest. Yes, new shops get introduced, you can upgrade assorted things, provide your neighbors with visitors for their PTs, and you can decorate. However, there are a lot of farms I see when visiting through the DD who have fantastically elaborate, high level farms and "scorched earth" towns.

When the Derby was introduced, there was a flurry of interest in upgrading town shops and trains because the town visitor tasks were so attractive. At this point, that interest has fallen off. Right now, I'm "neglecting" my town in favor of filling boats for the current event and doing a "truck" Derby task. Yes, I'm doing exactly what the game intends which is managing my resources. However, I would like to see features in town that encourage me to be active there even if I'm not serving townies. Even if they are just an excuse to check in once a day, that would be nice. A new shop would, of course, be nice; but that wouldn't really add anything fundamentally different. There have been a variety of suggestions, some fairly frequent. Here are some I have made in the past, please chime in with others you may have made...or new ones!

• fishing pier (another fishing location with different fish)
• something like the WoF that can be "played" once a day (my thought is a wishing well or fountain that you toss a coin in and it produces a prize daily)
• town-specific pets (a koi pond, aviary)

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I like these ideas. I don't neglect the town but would be nice to have more to do there

I once made a suggestion that it would be nice to see a little cwa stall in the town similar to greg, but it sells finished product like cakes, pies, sandwiches, candles etc at a lower price with 6 products a day.
That would encourage ppl to go to their town once a day but my idea didnt get much love except for someone to say as long as it was loaded with everything.

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Originally Posted by becjam

I once made a suggestion that it would be nice to see a little cwa stall in the town similar to greg, but it sells finished product like cakes, pies, sandwiches, candles etc at a lower price with 6 products a day.
That would encourage ppl to go to their town once a day but my idea didnt get much love except for someone to say as long as it was loaded with everything.

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This is a great idea! It's exactly the sort of thing that the town needs.

This is a great thread!

And for the sake of your players please add a ✨300+ pts townie serving task✨ (May be for 30 townies?)

I loved the town and all i did was town with a few exceptions. I worked hard to upgrade my buildings. Now that the derby is introduced, the town has become a disadvantage. I need to help with my nh mates' boats, trucks and stuff (i'm one of the leaders so i need to help with all boat tasks, all last minute truck tasks, all mining tools. imagine that!) and i even did a boat task this derby myself. So no room for feeding my townies!

Keep it at 305-310 range so your big spenders will keep speeding up boats if they want to complete that 320 pts boat task. But its such a shame that after all the effort we put in town we get a 281 pts task. Even wheating or collecting eggs gives you better points!

I loved the town event personally. And please take your players' ideas into account with the derby as well.

Madeleine, your experience with helping others with Derby tasks (and doing your own) is exactly what prompted me to start this thread. Recently, I've found myself doing things around the farm that were "chores"--things I didn't really want to do--rather than actually managing my farm to make everything run smoothly. Between Derby tasks that require the resources I would have used for townies and events overlapping with Derby tasks, my town gets neglected; and I am one farmer who likes filling townie orders WAY more than boats and trucks.

I agree that there should be a 300+ point task for the town. Maybe it needs to be for a huge number of townies so that it is a real feat to "stack" them all. Maybe it's for serving only one shop--serve 15 visitors in the B&B. Somehow there must be something Derby related that can draw more attention to town.

I think serving *any* 30 townies for 300+ points is quite fair without any other specifications. We worked on our personal trains to pick multiple passengers so why wouldn't we be rewarded in return? Town is not as easy as it looks. You need to collect a lot of metal bars for the trains and most townies ask for candy machine goods, pillows and blankets. Plus you cannot turn them away so easily as you need to wait hours till you can pick up new ones :)