Who Misses the "Good Ole Days"?

Think about it, a few simple months ago...

You log onto hay day, maybe put up a casual "hello there" to your friendly neighbors,

Check your machines, reload production lines for truck orders and townies, harvest and plant new crops,

Have a friendly chat with your friends, asking how their day is,

See who needs what and sell whatever they are missing,

Check out the Daily Dirt for a few minutes and search for some foods or fruits or expansion items for you and the hoodies,

You took time to celebrate the little things like getting a long awaited achievement, or moving up a whole level!

Your neighbors were always fun to be around and you kinda wished everyone was this helpful in real life!

BUT THEN CAME THE DERBY...

When you check the paper now, all you see is wheat, indigo, and the occasional pie, it lacks any diversity.

Bems, Sems, and Lems are scarce as can be,

Now, you come on and load your machines quickly with whatever you can afford to make with your meager amounts of fruit and whatever else the paper is now deprived of,

All the helping that goes on is to FINISH DERBY TASKS,

Members, elders, and Co-leaders alike all seem to run around worrying about the DERBY.

Your normally friendly neighbors now seem very preoccupied with derby tasks 24/7 and only seem to com on for that...

You spend minutes upon minutes cleaning the board for good tasks.

You constantly cannot help but look at the derby board and stress about your score,

Some NHs are being torn apart from all this stress and strain of friendships...


Don't perceive this wrong, i think the original concept for the derby was good, but I also believed the derby had ITS PLACE. I thought it would have been a much better idea to not make the derby a continuous thing over EVERY WEEK. The new derby SC has created, horrid, simply horrid, I now hate the derby with as much passion as the next player, we now participate for prizes, not for FUN. This game has morphed from a fun arm game into a crazy stupid horse race...

The things I personally miss?

* I would load my barn full of hard to find items, and tell all my hoodies that I was having a huge sale, and everyone would show up and share and I just loved making my nh full of friends so happy! I would EMPTY my barn of any and all supplies! To see (and hear) their proverbial smiling faces was a large source of JOY and FUN in this game for me, but sadly those days are now over...

* Another thing? Our weekly organized NH sales, where we had a set date every saturday at 6pm Pacific standard time where everyone from all around the world would come on and EVERYONE would load their shops FULL of goodies for the NH to have first pick! It was such a joyous time, being able to share and laugh and joke with everyone, but those days to, are now a thing of the past...

I just miss the old hay day, and I know others do to...

I do!
Pre-neighourhoods even (although I love my hood) was a nice time. If you didn't log in for two days, nobody to wonder why, you just did it at your own pace (I know you can play alone now but playing alone now isn't the same as it was before neighbourhoods existed). The newspaper was full...cakes, fruit, jam, EMs. I didn't mind giving a stranger my last chocolate cake.
I still play the game and the Derby (we are a relaxed hood) but I only go to/buy from the paper if Ive accidentally filled my bakery with bread, and used all my wheat without really realising, or to buy indigo (I tend not to grow it myself). Things are far from what they used to be.

Yep, my "good ole days" like Melly's, date before Nhs began. While I like that social aspect for the most part, I could do without other people's drama or their begging for stuff. And yes, derby adds a whole new realm of working together. Sometimes, but not most of the time, I yearn for the HD pre-Nhs.

I was just thinking last night that I would have liked to have known of Hay Day before neighbourhoods. I am a very independent player and have always liked sand box style games. I do have a neighbourhood but I only started it so my sister and I could find each other since I play through FB and she GC. In the short time I have been playing the game has changed a lot so I imagine that long time players have seen many more. The game is starting to lose its shine for me as the social aspect seems to be becoming the main push with the derby as is evidenced by the inequity of prizes attainable for single player hoods.

I suspect the social element is where the money is.

Still, there are good and bad ways to do it. I hope SC remembers that other farming game, which lost its shine because it started requiring too much social interaction.

The scarcity of expansion items has less to do with the derby and much more to do with bots. Bots on slave farms scan the DD to buy expansion materials either for the master farm or to sell for real world cash on third party sites.

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Originally Posted by jadd806

The scarcity of expansion items has less to do with the derby and much more to do with bots. Bots on slave farms scan the DD to buy expansion materials either for the master farm or to sell for real world cash on third party sites.

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while bots do surely have a part, the scarcity of expansion items is most likely neighbourhoods. A lot of players sell their excess materials within their own neighbourhoods now

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Originally Posted by Melly2014

while bots do surely have a part, the scarcity of expansion items is most likely neighbourhoods. A lot of players sell their excess materials within their own neighbourhoods now

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Yes -- that's what I do. When I used to get extras I'd trade over in the trading thread, but now I am trading in my NH. I also now know that some of my neighbors ALWAYS need Xs, and so if I don't need them, where I would former,y sell or trade them, now I give them away.

Another derby thread that should have been started in the derby section. Just cause you make the title not have the word derby in it, it's still a derby thread.

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Originally Posted by charliedagg

Another derby thread that should have been started in the derby section. Just cause you make the title not have the word derby in it, it's still a derby thread.

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I disagree. Just because the word "derby" has been used does not make it a derby thread. What is being discussed is just gerneral memories of a more simple game. When we discussed things, traded, got ideas from the forum only. When you logged into the game and checked the flags on friends bar to see who needed help. Scouring the dd for that last elusive bolt. Looking in lock boxes for that stake for your last plot of land. Face palming because you forgot to plant tomatoes once again and there were none in the dd. No nh to ask in for that bolt, stake or tomatoes. You played the game solo. If it wasnt in the dd or friends rss you did without.