Has Supercell lost interest in Hay Day??

[prasanna]

Aha! A clue.

Beanbag machine!

Hahahahaha!!! 👍👍

[Nick[Supercell]]

Yes it does 😔

What assurance can I give my friend though, that she can just shop without fearing being banned?

What assurance are you prepared to give us that simply playing the game, buying and selling through the DD, will not get us banned through no fault of our own. How can SC ban people when it's impossible to tell if you are buying from a BOT or not, not to mention the fact that it's really not a players responsibility to monitor the DD & other farms?

Well, like in your example you said that the RSS was immediately filled after a purchase. Just stay away from such. If someone finds a farm that acts inhumanly, just leave it be, or report it. Don't just use it anymore. The game doesn't ban based on occasional purchases.

Cheers,

Nick

[Vfrood]

Thanks for answering so far.... beans... green.... GOLLUM?

I didn't realize we asked for GOLLUM We already got a ring... no vulcano though I really wonder if this is it

To put a real question here: Are you already playing on SC servers with the new update and are you HAPPY with that?

[Nick[Supercell]]

To put a real question here: Are you already playing on SC servers with the new update and are you HAPPY with that?

We sure are playing developer builds each day! That's a part of game development.

Cheers,

Nick

[matig]

We sure are playing developer builds each day! That's a part of game development.

Cheers,

Nick

I should try to send an application form to SC ! What a greeeaaaat job!

[Bestajunior]

I should try to send an application form to SC ! What a greeeaaaat job!

I was thinking the same thing! I would love to try out new features before release.

[snakiddy]

On page one of this thread:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...fed-drop-rates
you said, "To my knowledge the only thing we have "nerfed" is the drop rate of maps, since it became a problem in the DD.
No other materials should have been tweaked (unless someone made a change while I was on vacation and I wasn't informed)."

So, I said, "It's downright impossible for anyone who works the town to not KNOW that drop rates for town tools were lowered into almost non-existence in mid-November.
[stack of links]
Nick, you don't play your town? You must not. hmmm. It's interesting that you don't work your town. And you don't read the forums?"

Yet today you say, "Like I said, I read them and report new bugs & issues to QA. I don't think there's a single bug which has been overlooked. We take all reported bugs seriously and they are all noted."

We can't have it both ways.
We can't have it that a bug reported repeatedly starting in mid-November was not seen / unknown / news to you in mid-January AND there are no bugs overlooked.

Earlier I said this is awful. Well this is offal.

[LynnK2015]

Not sure why it's so hard to turn off "winter" theme. It's just reverting back to the original theme. They are not adding any major content, just bringing back the settings prior to the seasonal change. All the app games I'm playing already got rid of their Xmas theme (yea, they call it Xmas, not winter ) back in early January. If other games can do it, why can't SC??

...I'm expecting a HUGE update now...since they're apparently too busy to turn off the snow

In contrast, the Clash Team released a major update in December and then an optional update so Clashers may turn off the snow storm which was distracting as we raid bases for resources.

...Who said coders are travelling? In our team we have client coders, server coders, artists, game designer, community manager, game lead, QA and support rep. Obviously the required peeps for launching an update will not travel...

The above information is very reassuring and I'm delighted that the HD Team has learned from the recent mistakes made by the Clash Team. When Clash released the major, controversial Townhall 11 update in early December, there were some bugs and an optional update was released a few weeks later. New bugs were reported but the entire Clash Team already left for vacation during the Christmas holidays.

A mod informed us that some teams would return in mid January but he didn't know when the Clash Team would return and address the new bugs. Nick, I don't remember if your counterpart on the Clash Team was on vacation as well. Luckily, you were on vacation or Supercell would've deployed you to the front lines aka the Clash subforum to placate the angry Clashers flaming away daily. The mods were overrun and overwhelmed.

Sadly, Godwin's Law was invoked several times.

...To put a real question here: Are you already playing on SC servers with the new update and are you HAPPY with that?

We sure are playing developer builds each day! That's a part of game development.

Nick, I noticed you didn't answer Vfrood's question completely, so please allow me to ask a followup question: Are you happy playing the new update on the developer builds? Thank you.

[Nick[Supercell]]

On page one of this thread:
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...fed-drop-rates
you said, "To my knowledge the only thing we have "nerfed" is the drop rate of maps, since it became a problem in the DD.
No other materials should have been tweaked (unless someone made a change while I was on vacation and I wasn't informed)."

So, I said, "It's downright impossible for anyone who works the town to not KNOW that drop rates for town tools were lowered into almost non-existence in mid-November.
[stack of links]
Nick, you don't play your town? You must not. hmmm. It's interesting that you don't work your town. And you don't read the forums?"

Yet today you say, "Like I said, I read them and report new bugs & issues to QA. I don't think there's a single bug which has been overlooked. We take all reported bugs seriously and they are all noted."

We can't have it both ways.
We can't have it that a bug reported repeatedly starting in mid-November was not seen / unknown / news to you in mid-January AND there are no bugs overlooked.

Earlier I said this is awful. Well this is offal.

I do play my town as I play my farm and fishing area. We nerfed the drop rate of maps due to the "map-gate" we had. Then, we noticed that we nerfed it too much, and upped it a notch. The drop rates etc. get balanced all the time, when we see a need for it (based on our own findings, or reports from the players).

What is your point? I am completely lost in what your main goal/point is with your remarks?

The above information is very reassuring and I'm delighted that the HD Team has learned from the recent mistakes made by the Clash Team. When Clash released the major, controversial Townhall 11 update in early December, there were some bugs and an optional update was released a few weeks later. New bugs were reported but the entire Clash Team already left for vacation during the Christmas holidays.

A mod informed us that some teams would return in mid January but he didn't know when the Clash Team would return and address the new bugs. Nick, I don't remember if your counterpart on the Clash Team was on vacation as well. Luckily, you were on vacation or Supercell would've deployed you to the front lines aka the Clash subforum to placate the angry Clashers flaming away daily. The mods were overrun and overwhelmed.

Sadly, Godwin's Law was invoked several times.

Nick, I noticed you didn't answer Vfrood's question completely, so please allow me to ask a followup question: Are you happy playing the new update on the developer builds? Thank you.

I am sorry but I don't know about Clash stuff as I have my hands full with Hay Day. I have no idea what's happening in the Clash forums, since I rarely read them.

The new update in our internal builds is very nice! Just 10min ago I gave it a go to test some changes.

Cheers,

Nick

[SmallChange]

Nick

Re the BOT situation...

What do you expect players to do/check on each farm & how much time do you expect them to spend checking out a farm before buying from their RSS?

When my friend buys wheat, she will buy loads because she's trying to fill her very large silo. She does this on a daily basis, several times a day. She only buys wheat in vast quantities and would not buy tools like this.

But she can't carry on spending so much time checking out each farm, it's really getting her down. She's a good, straight up, farmer just wanting to buy wheat without risking losing her farm. She needs some guidance as to what you expect of her, beyond 'stay away from obvious BOTS' because most of them are NOT obvious and she's getting very stressed by the situation.