Who Misses the "Good Ole Days"?

At our hood I decided to de stress over the derby.. Everyone does what they can, everyone can delete tasks, do one do five..who cares. The prizes for 1/2/3 are not worth the effort and stress they cause. They way supercell has messed with the derby to make it fair for everyone means we have no chance being anywhere near top, we used to at least have a chance(. 1/4/1 trophies) but we always manage to get 5 horseshoes. we help each other regardless of wether it's a derby task or not.. We are a hood of high and low levels, young and old players....

The good ole days of the DD trick...man, those were good times! :smirk::o


Miss u, buddy :(

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Originally Posted by Cbt

It would be so easy for Supercell to address this issue - simply spin off Hay Day into Hay Day Solo - the exact same game without neighborhoods or the Derby. They could either allow you to migrate your current farm or make you start from scratch. Either way, everyone goes home happy. You could even have it both ways by keeping your current farm in the current game and starting a new one in the solo game.

(Then they could spin off Hay Day Solo - Derby version, adding a single player Derby version. Now they have three games churning out revenue in place of one.)

Otherwise, one of the other farming games is going to clone the original (there are close imitations now) and suck up all the players who remember how peaceful it used to be.

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Why would SC need to do that and go through all that extra work when you already can do exactly that in the current game. You can play solo or be in a 1 person NH. Every version would still have the possibility to add friends through GC and or FB and people would still be selling items unadvertised so they can have first pick. This option wouldn't make the DD any better.

The items you want to but most are the ones you probably aren't selling either right ? And like you many others are looking to buy but not many are selling.

Maintaining so many versions also means having to submit the same number of builds each time an update is ready. Meaning much more work and less frequent updates. Seems to me it's not worth the effort for something that is perfectly possible already.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

Remember also that the DD is shown to you by level, so that lower level farmers get editions with other lower level farms, and these farmers are selling lots of butter, cheeses, sugars and even EMs, because that's all they can make or hold. :)

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Yes that is very true and a good point! Since players can't buy items they haven't unlocked yet they won't see the ads for something they cannot buy yet. So where I might see an ad for olive oil a lower level might see an ad for BEM.

They can see the items in the shop greyed out with a unlocks at level x across it if something else it advertised but a level 30 something won't see an ad for jelly beans for example. At very low levels there aren't that many products you can have so or store.

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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1

@Willow,
Part of these delightful memories such as people helping out of kindness especially when there were no gift cards yet I also share however I also remember the darker side. Discussions about shop raiders and even RSS stalkers go back since very early on. Oh how much we wanted to be able to remove followers back then. Some may not remember but we haven't always been able to delete followers. Discussions like people stealing trades or people not doing their end of a trade etc are not exactly new either. So it wasn't all sunshine around the farm in the "good old days"

In a large community such as Hay Day there are all sorts of people from all walks of life. People with different ideas and opinions, people with different approaches to the game, people who find certain elements extremely fun or not so much. These things will show in NHs where there is conflicting playing styles especially where the derby is concerned so its important for a group of "like minded" players to find each other.

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Ahhhh, yes, shop raiders, RSS stalkers and trade stealers have been around for quite some time to be sure, and are still around; though it is definitely advantageous to now have the ability to delete problematic followers, there are still FB riders, NH jumpers, and last helpers with whom to contend should they decide to play that way.

I am sure when I bask in the sunshine of my early Hay Day memories (the first snowflakes were a trip), a portion, maybe the largest portion, of my love for the game at the time was because I was new, my farm was small and needy, and i focused on the wonder of it rather than on any darker side i encountered. Or maybe I was so new or so enamored i could not even see the darker side. I just remember it was sweet. At any rate, it is fun to reminisce with others who share the memories of Hay Day past. Kind of wish I would have kept a HD journal. :)

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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1

Why would SC need to do that and go through all that extra work when you already can do exactly that in the current game. You can play solo or be in a 1 person NH. Every version would still have the possibility to add friends through GC and or FB and people would still be selling items unadvertised so they can have first pick. This option wouldn't make the DD any better.

The items you want to but most are the ones you probably aren't selling either right ? And like you many others are looking to buy but not many are selling.

Maintaining so many versions also means having to submit the same number of builds each time an update is ready. Meaning much more work and less frequent updates. Seems to me it's not worth the effort for something that is perfectly possible already.




Yes that is very true and a good point! Since players can't buy items they haven't unlocked yet they won't see the ads for something they cannot buy yet. So where I might see an ad for olive oil a lower level might see an ad for BEM.

They can see the items in the shop greyed out with a unlocks at level x across it if something else it advertised but a level 30 something won't see an ad for jelly beans for example. At very low levels there aren't that many products you can have so or store.

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If you would take the time to read the responses, you might understand that the nature of the game has changed completely with the introduction of the Derby and neighborhoods. You can jump up and down and make the corporate overlords happy by insisting that black is white, but you're wrong and a solo player does not have the quality of experience than used to be possible.

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Originally Posted by Cbt

If you would take the time to read the responses, you might understand that the nature of the game has changed completely with the introduction of the Derby and neighborhoods. You can jump up and down and make the corporate overlords happy by insisting that black is white, but you're wrong and a solo player does not have the quality of experience than used to be possible.

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I missed it so I'll ask, what's the "nature of the game" now versus then?

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Originally Posted by Cbt

If you would take the time to read the responses, you might understand that the nature of the game has changed completely with the introduction of the Derby and neighborhoods. You can jump up and down and make the corporate overlords happy by insisting that black is white, but you're wrong and a solo player does not have the quality of experience than used to be possible.

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Sure the nature of the game has changed because of the neighborhoods and the derby is a feature for neighborhoods. Just like the town is. It's pretty easy to ignore the town but you can still play it without a NH. But what you want is a version without the NH. You can get that by quitting your NH, ignore the town and ignore your derby house. You can play farmer all you want without a NH and you get your hay day solo. The only problem is nosiness. Some how it's really hard not to check what you are missing by not doing the derby. But if you want to play solo you certainly can. I do it all the time. After I finish my derby tasks, usually within the two days, I spend my time working my farm. I can go all day without even seeing anyone in chat because I am active when they are not. If I want to talk to someone I make sure I come on when they are active. Nothing else is different. I still shop from my friends list and I can get expansion materials by playing and shopping.

So yes the derby has added an element that is different from just a farm game. If you don't like that part, don't do it.

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Originally Posted by Cbt

If you would take the time to read the responses, you might understand that the nature of the game has changed completely with the introduction of the Derby and neighborhoods.

You can jump up and down and make the corporate overlords happy by insisting that black is white, but you're wrong and a solo player does not have the quality of experience than used to be possible.

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IMO, Supercell designed its games to attract us to play them daily but the eventual goal is to motivate us to join groups where we share common values and provide mutual support.

Last year, it was the neighborhood and now it's the derby which identified competitive players who wants to win at all costs.

Here's an except of the Wall Street Journal article in which the Supercell CEO was interviewed in 2013.

Mr. Paananen has been fond of saying the company has been "incredibly lucky." He also noted that "Clash of Clans" and "Hay Day" are social games, meaning players invite other players, creating a snowball effect. Users who compete with friends online tend to spend far more on in-game purchases than solo players.

https://www.facebook.com/PCGamesDownload.org/posts/568502973255857

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Originally Posted by Cbt

If you would take the time to read the responses, you might understand that the nature of the game has changed completely with the introduction of the Derby and neighborhoods. You can jump up and down and make the corporate overlords happy by insisting that black is white, but you're wrong and a solo player does not have the quality of experience than used to be possible.

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First of all I started off in this thread saying I am just a normal player like anyone. I am only a volunteer and not employed by SC I play the exact same game everyone here is playing.

Has the game changed over time and with many updates ? Yes it has. As for the game taking a U-turn not really.
Is it still possible to play completely solo ? Yes it is and in fact now even more easily then it was in the good old days.
Would the experience be any different in a solo version ? No it would not.

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Originally Posted by Kolonistje1

First of all I started off in this thread saying I am just a normal player like anyone. I am only a volunteer and not employed by SC I play the exact same game everyone here is playing.

Has the game changed over time and with many updates ? Yes it has. As for the game taking a U-turn not really.
Is it still possible to play completely solo ? Yes it is and in fact now even more easily then it was in the good old days.
Would the experience be any different in a solo version ? No it would not.

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And more to the point. Do we once again need to ask Supercell for something we already can do ourselves.... Definitely not. They leave so many options open for us so that we can play the way we want. Do I wish some things were different? Sure. Over the years I have commiserated with everyone over one change or the other. My Aspie brain doesn't like change. But even Aspies adapt eventually. We just do it kicking and screaming. And the things I used to question have grown on me and I realize, I can usually adapt the game to fit me. If I can do that surely you neurtyls can.