What are your hopes for Hay Day for the coming year?

We're approaching the end of the year and there's a lot of griping on the forum about the focus Supercll has had for Hay Day for the past year and speculation regarding whether this is the end ... But we've also been given a peek into how Hay Day works behind the scenes recently and, knowing that brainstorming and planning sessions for the coming year are the focus right now, I thought this would be the perfect time for our own brainstorming session on the forums - a great way to steer our own thoughts to a more positive outlook, share our deepest wishes for the game, help Supercell to see what their players really want, and (if we're lucky) see some of our most desired game elements come to life.

My own perspective to start will be in the coming posts.


Note: this is intended to be a positive brainstorming thread and sharing of ideas. This is not a substitute for the Ideas and Feature Requests forum. If your idea has not already been added to the Ideas forum, please head over there and start a thread about it. After posting here of course ;).

The past two years have had Hay Day bring us ducks and bees, hotdogs, pasta, candles, cotton, pillows, and blankets (and more, but this list sticks out as I remember each of these items being listed in the Ideas and Feature Requests section. We have also seen the town, neighbourhoods, and the derby. These three game-changing aspects of Hay Day have been major focuses the past two years and bear little resemblance to anything posted in the Ideas forum. But they have all three changed the focus of the game dramatically and added a new element of strategy that, in my more positive moments, I am grateful for. We need to keep Hay Day growing and evolving to keep it competitive.

But in the process of focusing so heavily on the latest big and new and exciting way Hay Day could be changed the core of the game - the reason many of us began playing Hay Day, the thing that keeps us coming back day after day, year after year - has been neglected. At its core Hay Day is a farm game. A calming, relaxing, no-stress way to start and end the day. A place where nothing ever dies and where your game play will wait for you in exactly the state it was when you left it to deal with the real-life issues that we all have. My biggest hope for Hay Day in the coming year is that the focus will not be on a big, game-changing strategic element introduction but that the elements already in the game (farm, fishing, town, neighbourhood) will each get some much needed maintenance and attention. Ultimately, we don't need to bring in something huge but we should instead focus on growing and evolving what we have in place.

Let's expand our fish or cultivate pearls or harvest reeds or shrimp or crabs in the fishing area.
Let's have some land expansions and new buildings and visitors in the town.
Let's add new products to the farm machines we already have and integrate the newer and neglected elements with the more established items.
Let's expand our achievements and machine mastery to reward higher level players for basic game-play again.
Let's bring in a new crop or tree or bush without adding a new machine - use the ones we have already.
Let's add options for pet food to bring in a more complex strategy in feeding (right now its a simple either or decision of feeding pets or producing milk/bacon items).
Let's ease neighbourhood communication and add more ways to support neighbourhood members.
Let's add incentives for advertising in the paper.

I'm sure there're more ways to grow our little game, and I look forward to hearing everyone else's perspectives. Please share your thoughts :D

Great thoughts, Becker, but unfortunately, SC said quite clearly in the AMA that they have no plans on the drawing board for new machines or crops or products in the near future. Truly, truly sad.

My wish for 2016 is that SC would stop with the flashy gimmicks that only cause division in our peaceful communities, get back to basics and expand on what is already available and farming related.

I'd actually be glad to see no new crops or products. There's enough variety to store in my barn and silo to keep me quite happy, without juggling new crops or new production. :o

I would love to see increased utilization for existing products. Especially things made on some of the newer machines like the hot dog maker or pasta kitchen, which sit idle most of the time due to lack of orders.

Some land expansion to the town for some new buildings asking for more products would make me really thrilled. :D

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Originally Posted by shepherdgirl

I'd actually be glad to see no new crops or products. There's enough variety to store in my barn and silo to keep me quite happy, without juggling new crops or new production. :o

I would love to see increased utilization for existing products. Especially things made on some of the newer machines like the hot dog maker or pasta kitchen, which sit idle most of the time due to lack of orders.

Some land expansion to the town for some new buildings asking for more products would make me really thrilled. :D

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Same here...new machine = new products = new type of tofu dogs and red hats in the DD and more products to hoard. But I understand why some players would want more variety.

I would like to see some tweaks and improvements to the game.

1. Quicker MIN price button
2. Last helpers tab regulated to friends and followers only, not peeps from the DD or change it to 2 days for them to disappear instead of 2 weeks
3. Easier way for friends to see that u need help instead of clicking on the help tab

Who knows what the next new feature will be and how well it will be received. I'm sure something is brewing that will catch us off guard...i.e. Neighborhoods and Derby. Until then, I'd be happy with little changes to the game that will enhance the farming experience for most.

I hope that was positive enough :)

I really love updates with big gestures like the town and the derby. They're exciting. A new area might serve as a counterweight to the derby - which may seem too dominant a feature for some players' tastes. And I appreciate the investment in time and talent that it takes to produce such creative additions to the game. So, I'm hoping for a bold new area of the game unlike the ones we have. But not if it makes the game unplayable on some devices that are officially still supported. That would be a bummer.

I'm not at all tantalized by new products or machines unless it involves a drastically different collection/production process -- like feathers or the honeybees. In those cases, I'd be amused by the new animations at least. Otherwise, if it's just a new crop or a new item on an existing machine .... well, I still get the same relaxation benefits of growing and harvesting wheat. So, I'm mostly good with the stuff we have now.

I really hope we can opt out of appearing on others' last helper tabs and the boat leaderboard. Pleeeeeease make these optional.

Speaking of HD being unplayable on some devices sometimes, I hope whatever updates come, the developers invest a bit more attention to testing and debugging new features. I'm sure they already do significant work on that front, but I think there could be some real improvement there.

While I like most of the ideas that people of posted, some of them are unrealistic. I only have two requests for the upcoming year:

1. The people stop griping about the drops of EMs, because every time they do, SuperCell tries to fix it and makes matters worse.
2. That they fix the diamonds for the boat, so that they lower the closer the boat gets to the docking time.

I just hope I'm not asking for too much. Everyone have a happy and healthy New Year!

Here is a whole collection of small-but-mighty ideas in a thread that Besta started that would certainly enhance farming in the coming year. Meanwhile, I'm coming up with my own 2016 Hay Day Dream List...

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-it-be-nice-if

EDIT: I've added my list of "wouldn't it be nice" to Besta's thread, now here are the major wishes I have for the farm in 2016. A number of them echo other things that have been mentioned here already. They are all things that I have lobbied for in the Ideas and Features forum. If I can find the links to those threads, I'll attach them so others can "bump" the threads if they wish.

I agree that we don't need new machines, but new "ingredients" that require something completely different would be welcome. The best example is the bees; there is no other animal or "crop" that is like them. I suggest a mushroom log with or without a truffle pig and a clam flat in the fishing area that occasionally produces an oyster with a pearl. (Shovels would be used to harvest the clams, and the pearl would go into jewelry)

Town needs help. We need a number of incentives to go there more regularly. Pets that are exclusive to town: a birdcage/aviary and a fishpond. Neither of these would be fed using milk or bacon. A fishing pier where different fish from the usual suspects could be caught. A WoF-type daily game of chance; I suggest a wishing well or fountain that activates once a day. I think town would really benefit from some sort of mastery/achievement incentive for each shop.

Additional incentives to advertise in the DD (something other than wheat).

Events with special deco prizes for holidays from a wider variety of cultures. Since the events have become shorter and simpler, I think this would be fun and much appreciated.

More things available for purchase with vouchers and coins.

Another level of achievements to give higher level farmers something to work for.

Ditch the "last helpers" tab.

Drop the diamond cost for calling a boat early as the time for arrival shortens.

I agree with all above.

Let there be a level 80+ extra thing like an airport or ballooning station. Very expensive and an ultimate goal/reward to get there.

And why not parapainting/waterskiing/boating at the beach? And the pier with new fish :)

Make it expensive (we have enough money) and finally throw in the peanuts.

Thank you for a happy year SC.

Oh ja. Throw in the make something events, but make a calculation first what one can do without Tom and Diamonds and base it upon that. The Christmas event with clothing wasn't at all possible to realize without keeping awake for 6 days and making extensive use of Tom. Get a nice price and goals which can be achieved. :)

I have also posted on the other thread... http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-it-be-nice-if

additionally, if we are to get a new feature, maybe a fairground attached to the town would be good. It could sell produce at stalls as well as have multiple rides which visitors could go on. Some achievements attached to it would be nice too.

A natural extension to the mine and smelters would be an oil-well and refinery, maybe across the river. This could lead to production of gasoline (for the truck?) and plastics, feeding a balloon-maker and toy machine, both to feed the stalls at the fairground! Just a thought...

I speak as a supposed high level player (everything expanded, bought, caught and mastered with just the last 2 Derby achievements to complete)

1. I would love to see some use for excess deeds, markers, mallets and maps ~ I just keep giving them away as they have no use, give some more land, fishing or sea area to utilise?

2. Something to use excess vouchers for ~ I've caught all the fish and have all the pets but I can't even give away my 3,500+ extra vouchers ~ possibly find a way to trade or sell them?

3. Once you get to reputation level 38, there is no use for the hammers, stone blocks etc.... So again I just keep giving these away too...give us some more land space here with some new buildings to expand?

Come on Supercell give us higher level players some interest back

These are not fun additions to the farm, IMO.

The soup kitchen, hat maker, and candy maker look like refugees from Barbie's Playhouse -- not like working farm machines at all.

And the itchy wormy farting puppies are simply gross.

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Originally Posted by GladeMaid

Great thoughts, Becker, but unfortunately, SC said quite clearly in the AMA that they have no plans on the drawing board for new machines or crops or products in the near future. Truly, truly sad.

My wish for 2016 is that SC would stop with the flashy gimmicks that only cause division in our peaceful communities, get back to basics and expand on what is already available and farming related.

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So if you took all that away, what do you have left? A circus train for the town, oh wait, that was off the table too. But seriously, IMO they are a few things that needs to be addressed.

1. Players having too many coins and vouchers—have some new things: mini games, new deco, and new buildings for the town, that take coins and vouchers to buy.
2. Supply and demand—Simple more demand for the common items, wheat, red hats, tofu dogs etc. Well just look in the DD you will see them. Have a container freighter come to the farm. You would fill it with bulk items, like 500 wheat or 200 tofu dogs etc.
3. The fishing area-- has no access straight from fishing area to another friends fishing area. Have the barrel in the water work like the tool box and sea chest. Add a doc for a fishing boat to come up so you can fill orders. Help your friends and hood mates with the orders. Add a boat that comes up in the area that works like the WOF. Add animals you can buy and work like the cats and dogs on the farm. Maybe a braver or mountain goat. You feed them and you get XP etc.

Bulletin board for neighborhoods, with a space for nh rules and policies, and another for communicating to all members any immediate announcements. As it is in our hood some players have kik, some dont want it, we chat a lot so chat space is constantly rolling, we are international with many time zones, so getting a message out is difficult.

Bumping an old thread :)

I thought this was nice to read back in December 2016.... Go further on this thread and do 2 things:
1. Have your wishes come through
2. What are those for 2017...

Be able to move some of the machines into the town. The icecream maker, hot dog stand, sandwich bar etc are more suitable in a town than on a farm, it would free up a BIT of space on the farm. Perhaps the townspeople could buy from them.

I'd love to lose the mine and smelters, they do not belong in a farm!
also, a sticky board for the hoods. On so many hoods there are wildly different time zones that it's maddening to leave a simple message.
also, as mentioned before, a more relaxed game. Seems nowadays ppl are either frantic with derby or with a derby hangover.
different events, everyone must be tired of the same old, same old
And the town, of course. As it is the town looks like "Brigadoon" (anyone remembers that? For those that do not, it is a film with a town that only wakes up every 500 years), or alternately " the land that time forgot"

Maybe supercell could add gene kelly and cyda charisse to town visitors?

I want pomegranate trees :(

In the RSS a little picture of what was sold in the corner near the person who has bought it. Sometimes you forget what was in there & may want to help the person/friend who bought it by supplying more if you've a surplus.

Simple: EXPANSION

Appreciate my requests are focussed on higher level players

Open up more land areas over the road and/or up the cliff - something to spend our useless LEM's on
Additional fishing areas and some new fish
Expand the town area - perhaps into the sea for which Nick had some 'amoozing' ideas for over 2 years ago - something to use maps on
New town buildings - something to spend our useless excess TEM's on
Some new animals to spend our useless vouchers on.

I am not sure I'd call all those expansion materials useless. Our surfeit provides a source for low level newly started farms to find materials.

In the old days pre neighborhoods the DD wasn't full of eggs like now, or wheat, or indigo, whatever is the current mass item. It had good stuff in it including expansion materials. Then came the neighborhoods and all those materials disappeared because people were trading them or donating them to each other as they together leveled up.

These days with the derby, neighborhoods have now developed into places where low level farms aren't as welcome as they were when they started. Meaning low level farms tend to be together and thus can't avail themselves of trading much amongst themselves.

If we take the surfeit of our materials out of the equation then those low level farms simply won't see them.

Also to be truthful, I don't see a need for much more land. What are you going to put on it? More trees? More bushes? Plus do you remember how many items it took to open up that corner piece? I can only imagine what barn busting amount they would assign to land on the cliff or on the other side of the river.

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Originally Posted by 00becker

But in the process of focusing so heavily on the latest big and new and exciting way Hay Day could be changed the core of the game - the reason many of us began playing Hay Day, the thing that keeps us coming back day after day, year after year - has been neglected. At its core Hay Day is a farm game. A calming, relaxing, no-stress way to start and end the day. A place where nothing ever dies and where your game play will wait for you in exactly the state it was when you left it to deal with the real-life issues that we all have. My biggest hope for Hay Day in the coming year is that the focus will not be on a big, game-changing strategic element introduction but that the elements already in the game (farm, fishing, town, neighbourhood) will each get some much needed maintenance and attention. Ultimately, we don't need to bring in something huge but we should instead focus on growing and evolving what we have in place.

Let's expand our fish or cultivate pearls or harvest reeds or shrimp or crabs in the fishing area.
Let's have some land expansions and new buildings and visitors in the town.
Let's add new products to the farm machines we already have and integrate the newer and neglected elements with the more established items.
Let's expand our achievements and machine mastery to reward higher level players for basic game-play again.
Let's bring in a new crop or tree or bush without adding a new machine - use the ones we have already.
Let's add options for pet food to bring in a more complex strategy in feeding (right now its a simple either or decision of feeding pets or producing milk/bacon items).
Let's ease neighbourhood communication and add more ways to support neighbourhood members.
Let's add incentives for advertising in the paper.

I'm sure there're more ways to grow our little game, and I look forward to hearing everyone else's perspectives. Please share your thoughts :D

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Well said!

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Originally Posted by GladeMaid

My wish for 2016 is that SC would stop with the flashy gimmicks that only cause division in our peaceful communities, get back to basics and expand on what is already available and farming related.

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Yes! SC, you have an amazing product that we all already love! don't spread yourself too thin...perfect the gem you've already created!

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The best example is the bees; there is no other animal or "crop" that is like them. I suggest a mushroom log with or without a truffle pig and a clam flat in the fishing area that occasionally produces an oyster with a pearl. (Shovels would be used to harvest the clams, and the pearl would go into jewelry)


Town needs help. We need a number of incentives to go there more regularly. Pets that are exclusive to town: a birdcage/aviary and a fishpond. Neither of these would be fed using milk or bacon. A fishing pier where different fish from the usual suspects could be caught. A WoF-type daily game of chance; I suggest a wishing well or fountain that activates once a day. I think town would really benefit from some sort of mastery/achievement incentive for each shop.

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Mini makes excellent points here and her suggestions are so creative, so out of the box, really quite genius! I've said this before- SC, get this woman on the payroll lol!

Theres already too much to do. Some days i dont even get to hayday because it takes 30 minutes to restock and collect everything after a 10 hour night sleep...and 30 minutes is alot.
More land is the only thing i ever wish for.

but im aware that hayday is a bussines and that high levels players are not the main crowd. Its about bringing in new players and making sure they stay.

we in the level 100s want more and more but think what its like being a new player... Its extremely frustrating having to start from the bottom with 10 times more work to do than we had back when we started playing hayday.

if new plays stop playing because they are getting no where then hayday will close its door and itll all be our fault for asking for more...

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Theres already too much to do. Some days i dont even get to hayday because it takes 30 minutes to restock and collect everything after a 10 hour night sleep...and 30 minutes is alot.
More land is the only thing i ever wish for.

but im aware that hayday is a bussines and that high levels players are not the main crowd. Its about bringing in new players and making sure they stay.

we in the level 100s want more and more but think what its like being a new player... Its extremely frustrating having to start from the bottom with 10 times more work to do than we had back when we started playing hayday.

if new plays stop playing because they are getting no where then hayday will close its door and itll all be our fault for asking for more...

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On the flip side, those addicted-higher leveled diamond purchasers who's been playing this game for years will probably play less, spend less and move on if there's no new content.

It takes a certain amount of commitment and passion for this game for a player to reach level 100+. Everyone was level 1 once. U find out very early on whether u want to chug along or throw in the towel. We didn't get to the level we're at overnight. Without progress to this game, there wouldn't be a fishing area, NHs, a town, a derby. If we didn't have those things, what would be the difference between this game and any other farming game? "More" got this game to where it is today. Who wouldn't want more? I'm all in for more :)

Newer players have it pretty easy compared to older players, IMO. One reason: the NH.

And don't forget Rosie and Ernesto lol. I had the biggest dairy bottleneck early on...but it all added to the fun of resource management

You all have interesting ideas!!

My wishes for 2017:

- Searching for a new HD is too unfriendly, would be great to implement categories so you could just tick boxes and have a more refined search. For example, how do I find a French speaking derby focused NH with more than 25 players? It's impossible :unsure:

- A bigger variety of events. I liked the hard board event we had no long ago with a big reward at the end, that was really a challenge!!

Any update is always welcome :) I do not need Rose and Ernest but some players do enjoy them. Remember that you cannot always have an update that works for you, different players different needs.. :) Some of my hoodies would love more land, just like some of you here, but it is not something I particularly want. Some of my hoodies do not see the point in the in game friend system whereas for others it was badly needed.

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I am not sure I'd call all those expansion materials useless. Our surfeit provides a source for low level newly started farms to find materials.

In the old days pre neighborhoods the DD wasn't full of eggs like now, or wheat, or indigo, whatever is the current mass item. It had good stuff in it including expansion materials. Then came the neighborhoods and all those materials disappeared because people were trading them or donating them to each other as they together leveled up.

These days with the derby, neighborhoods have now developed into places where low level farms aren't as welcome as they were when they started. Meaning low level farms tend to be together and thus can't avail themselves of trading much amongst themselves.

If we take the surfeit of our materials out of the equation then those low level farms simply won't see them.

Also to be truthful, I don't see a need for much more land. What are you going to put on it? More trees? More bushes? Plus do you remember how many items it took to open up that corner piece? I can only imagine what barn busting amount they would assign to land on the cliff or on the other side of the river.

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^^This is so insightful and true!

Also, if there isn't already one. I hope we can have a function where we can temporarily close off an rss store except for someone invited, so people won't have to accuse other people of stealing their items.

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I am not sure I'd call all those expansion materials useless. Our surfeit provides a source for low level newly started farms to find materials.

In the old days pre neighborhoods the DD wasn't full of eggs like now, or wheat, or indigo, whatever is the current mass item. It had good stuff in it including expansion materials. Then came the neighborhoods and all those materials disappeared because people were trading them or donating them to each other as they together leveled up.

These days with the derby, neighborhoods have now developed into places where low level farms aren't as welcome as they were when they started. Meaning low level farms tend to be together and thus can't avail themselves of trading much amongst themselves.

If we take the surfeit of our materials out of the equation then those low level farms simply won't see them.

Also to be truthful, I don't see a need for much more land. What are you going to put on it? More trees? More bushes? Plus do you remember how many items it took to open up that corner piece? I can only imagine what barn busting amount they would assign to land on the cliff or on the other side of the river.

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I agree, if I don't need it I sell it, knowing that someone else will be glad to have it. I'm trying to get more low level farmers as friends so that I can help them along.
I also have plenty of land and am glad to be done with collecting land expansion items.

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Originally Posted by rbcrewser

I am not sure I'd call all those expansion materials useless. Our surfeit provides a source for low level newly started farms to find materials.

In the old days pre neighborhoods the DD wasn't full of eggs like now, or wheat, or indigo, whatever is the current mass item. It had good stuff in it including expansion materials. Then came the neighborhoods and all those materials disappeared because people were trading them or donating them to each other as they together leveled up.

These days with the derby, neighborhoods have now developed into places where low level farms aren't as welcome as they were when they started. Meaning low level farms tend to be together and thus can't avail themselves of trading much amongst themselves.

If we take the surfeit of our materials out of the equation then those low level farms simply won't see them.

Also to be truthful, I don't see a need for much more land. What are you going to put on it? More trees? More bushes? Plus do you remember how many items it took to open up that corner piece? I can only imagine what barn busting amount they would assign to land on the cliff or on the other side of the river.

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Very valid points. I sell or give away the LEM and TEM at present as I do not need them. No doubt when more land is available I will be scrambling for them but for now am happy to help lower level farmers. I try to follow a few and put the EMs in the rss hoping they will get them. We have a couple of lower levels in our Nh too. I always appreciated help from higher levels when I was starting out.

What I'd love to see how is just minor improvements to make what we currently have better.

This last update was fantastic, keep the momentum going with another update in 1-2 month with just minor stuff. Such as those we all voted on recently.

While continuing the gradual rollout of new machines & food at higher levels. As such we might need another small land expansion too. OR allow us to plant trees/bushes in our Town. That would free up a lot of farm space.

Although most people don't want it, but I'd like new machines for the farm (crayon maker and toy maker, for the non-food/hobby machines; and a soda maker and ... for food and drink machines). As well as new land.

In the town, I would love to see new buildings: an ice cream Shoppe that sells not just ice cream, but also has smoothies and candies, and everything sweet. It could be called a Sweet Shoppe (with 2 "p's" and an "e."). Also a toy store (if there is a toy maker on the farm.) Although most farmers don't want these either. Plus more land in town.

A school or daycare center, where you also see kids playing jump rope, or hopscotch, or playing with a ball on a playground outside of the school; some kids reading a book sitting on a bench outside. They need nutritious nacks, etc so we give them that from our farms (???). Although other farmers may not like this.

And more fishing spots.

I'm level 135 farm and level 39 town. I have been playing hayday for 2 and half years. When I first started playing, I played every day and quickly leveled up. It was always exciting to get to the next level to get something new such as a new machine, products, pet, etc. There has been times when I would begin to grow bored and I cut back on mine playing time but then we would get an update and I would begin playing more. Since I started playing updates have included bees, ducks, derby, puppies, kittens, at least 6 new machines and lots of new products, edit mode, helpers, and now a friend's book, plus many small things and small changes that have improved the game.
My wish for 2017 is too keep adding new stuff for higher level players. Now new stuff is added up too level 88 bananas trees and I think to level 94 for one of the new products. Hopefully one day new stuff will be added after level 100. I would love to get something new every level even if it was just a new decoration or some small thing. Adding new stuff encourages high level players to keep playing because they don't get bored.
I'm not picky. Just keep adding new stuff for us higher level players please.