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I don't know about you, but I am finding the boat orders have become much more difficult since the update. I used to turn away maybe 2 or 3 boats a week ( that were sugar/ dairy laden). But now I'm turning away 2 or 3 on the run, and that's around 15 per week.
is anyone else finding this or is it just coincidence ?
Probably coincidence. But also as you get higher level, the quantities just keep getting larger as well. So everything just gets harder. Hang in there! I rarely ever see fruit boats any more. Ah, I miss those days... Being a lowbie was great when all you needed was some corn, soybeans, and sugarcane to fill a boat. Good times.
i think i agree though im not entirely sure. i just know that i keep getting all sorts of ♥♥♥♥ boats like 2x jam, or popsicle AND ice cream or butter AND butter popcorn. i think in order not to send away boats we'll need to keep like 99 pcs of each item in our inventory made during our free time then we'll probably have enough lol
Well sadly, some things in the way boat works is just by default defunct. Jam orders are one of them. I had a boat asking for Raspberry Jam the other day, 3 crates of 3 each. That's 9 Raspberry Jam, which will take 63 hours to produce. And the boat is there for 16 hours and then a couple of hours advance notice. That's doesn't even make half sense.
Anyway, with regard to OT, I'll second what Qpdaquiri said, that sounds like a reasonable explanation.
I think this game expects us to have a good stock of supplies and if we don't, we're supposed to send away the boats. But of course many of us would rather not! Especially those who are still working on their captain's achievement or want boat points. It's just a method to slow down our progress as far as I can tell.Quote:
Originally Posted by alcibiades
I think there's something fishy about the rasp jam orders. Past few days a LOT of people's boats been asking for them, seemingly all at same time too. Right now my jam maker is only queued with rasp jam to replenish my supply because that's getting used up like mad filling my boat as well as others.
Hi, Suggest you look at new thread 'Boat Orders need to be Changed Immediately' in ideas & feature requests. Your input appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by alcibiades
Attachment 10592Check out this little beauty! I know where that's going - straight down the river! Sent so many boats away lately. They've been ridiculous!
I think I have picked up on a boat order pattern but I'm still tracking it to be sure. It seems as though whatever items are flooding the DD is exactly what I will need two boat orders away. For example, earlier today there was a large amount of blue sweaters being sold in the paper, and now I am needing blue sweaters for my own upcoming boat order although blue sweaters have now disappeared from the DD. I figure it has something to do with time zones around the world. Right now hamburgers are listed in greater numbers in the paper. Are the people in other parts of the world ( I'm in central US) getting rid of their excess hamburgers after filling their boat orders and in my corner of the world withholding blue sweaters to prepare themselves for their own boats?
I have already sent two boats away today and the next one coming wants cream, white sugar and carrot cake. I'll be sending that one away too.
Can't say I have ever seen DD flooded with Jams or Ice Creams or anything like sugar, cream etc., so bang goes that theory in my case anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supernovaonfiya22
No, those items take too long to produce so no one is going to have excess after filling the boat much less enough to sell in the DD. I am talking only about the more common items. While awaiting my boat to arrive, I couldn't find plain popcorn at all for about 10 issues of the DD but just after a neighbor helped me fill my popcorn crate and I sent away the boat suddenly there was plain popcorn for sale in abundance. Now that my plain popcorn queue have caught up I have an excess of the stuff that I will sell in the DD. I'm thinking others are doing the same which is why the items trend or cycle through the paper. Did the folks in Europe or elsewhere just finish filling boats of pumpkin pies, goats milk, and hamburgers? 'Cause at the moment the paper is flooded with those items. My next boat order, due in 3 hours, is for carrot juice, carrots, and pancakes...all of which are normally in abundance but scarce at the moment and will be until after I finish filling the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaraphet
Yes boats are really more difficult lately. I've been keeping track since my original post and I've sent away 75% of my boats, when it's usually 20%.
each order has either jam, cream, cheese or sugar as at least one of the the items.
and I've noticed all my neighbours asking for help with jam or cream!?.. Which I don't do.
C'mon SC. . . Sort it out!
It could still be that you are on an unlucky boat run at the moment. Personally on my farm I haven't noticed boats getting more difficult. Most boats I get I do fill and I certainly don't send away so many boats lately but I have seen such unlucky runs in the past too. Most time I spend on boats is waiting for the next one as boat filling is usually just a couple of minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaxhida
One of the things that do come into play is that at higher levels it is kind of expected you have a bigger barn and the stock levels that match that and almost every boat you see has 4 of each crates to fill.
Anyway I will definately pass the feedback on to the team.
suddenly i'm see an influx of flagged crates asking for nothing but cream! and they're all between 9-11 per crate. i'd just send them away if it were me. some of these already had the crates flagged for like 10 hours and nobody has filled them yet. i think if they gave more incentives like 3-4 wheel points people might be more motivated to fill them. i'd rather fill a crate of 85 wheat for 3 points than a crate of 11 cream for one!
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Originally Posted by kaylinpickles
Hard to say really whether there actually is an influx because you are bound to see more boats needing cream then boats needing easy stuff. Boats needing cream tend to sit on your ! tab forever while it's very easy to miss boats needing easy stuff. Lot's of my neighbours have easy boats who just are on that tab just a few seconds. Look away for a minute and you never see that boat. Easy boats aren't on that tab for long while it's likely you see all the difficult ones.
For me filling crates isn't about wheel points anymore since I have completed the Boat Score hunter achievement. For me it's just about xp and helping neighbours now.
Yes wheat crates give 3 wp but those are the crates much harder to find as a lot of people don't open those. Most of the time I open one crate of each item on my boats for my neighbours.
i'm seeing those crates via the roadside shop and not my friends' farms. i think many people usually advertise stuff deliberately when they have crates to fill so they can get people to visit their farms. but anyway yes i agree, i'm *still* doing my BSH II and its taking forever :( and i am like you, i always only open 1 of each :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kolonistje1
Yep I also think a lot of people advertise when they have crates to fill although when they have a cream crates they probably need to advertise more. If they have easy stuff it's possible their neighbours caught it earlier or other visitors beat you to it. If someone asked for help and it was filled already you can see that when you tap the dock even though you don't see the crate for needing help there.Quote:
Originally Posted by kaylinpickles
I only got BSH III recently it's not that easy and does take time. Having a lot of active neighbours really helps as you see many more boats to fill. and it's much easier at higher levels as you have more products you can help with and higher stock levels to fill more crates.
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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1
Lets hope so!. . But it's impossible to fill 4 boats on the run asking for either cherry or raspberry jam with the time it takes to make them. But hey-ho. . , I just send them away... . . I'm just conscious of tha fact I'm not earning as many vouchers, and the fishing is eating away at my stash.
OMG my next boat!!
i dont know how long it has been since I got a boat like this, probably when i was level 17.
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Originally Posted by kaylinpickles
Wow! Happy days!
last 2 boats were nice, but the third is blackberry jam,. . Still, at least I got a break :)
my next one! how cool is this?
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You want difficult??? Screen cap my daughter sent me today! LOL!
I had the same boat yesterday.... Triple chocolate ice cream
I was not pleased with that one!
I just cast off the first boat of the event. It was asking caffe latte, brown sugar and potato bread.... Pretty much impossible if you don't have massive stock of sugar.
Likeise I just cast off the first one too, a dairy one!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Avastra
I would consider myself lucky if I get this boat.I have tons of sugar and don't feel pressure to send boat full within 15 minutes after it arrives. I know that after you once filled boats like this it requires a lot work to fill your stocks again but you can always call for Tom's help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Avastra
I hate popcorn bats. Only on rare occasions after i upgade barn I have enough space to store popcorns and when I have more than 15 I never get order and have to sell them in my shop.
I have had that one too, and saw it at one of my neighbor's places as well. I don't think the boats are random.Quote:
Originally Posted by Capital2
~powdermonkey
Cosmo, if you get a popcorn boat, just open the crates, and I will take care of them for you. I keep up to 100 in stock.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosmo2503
~powdermonkey
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Originally Posted by Zaraphet
Powdermonkey you are so sweet and kind. I was step away from my capetain III achievement when I got popcorn order and cast off boat without even trying to call for help. I guess, now that I am at level 43, I'll never get achievement.