Take Back the Derby: Making Derby Fun Again!

[Simulatingdiva]

Vegan warm and picnic gee what planet are you on? All I see is strawberries goat cheese a nd more strawberries. Oh there were a few apple juice tasks. Some people in the hood got ice cream tasks but considering it’s a large hood and most still have six tasks to do or more it’s all a bit insane!

[Klash_Finder]

Vegan warm and picnic gee what planet are you on? All I see is strawberries goat cheese a nd more strawberries. Oh there were a few apple juice tasks. Some people in the hood got ice cream tasks but considering it’s a large hood and most still have six tasks to do or more it’s all a bit insane!

What planet am I on??

[Tahoe]

What planet am I on??

Whatever planet we're on, I can guarantee you it's the same one!

[Klash_Finder]

Whatever planet we're on, I can guarantee you it's the same one!

Gracias amiga!

[mdcfc]

What planet am I on??

Yup same one as me!
5 picnic, 2 vegan and 1 warm basket among my 10.

[LynnK2015]

What planet am I on??

I'm hoping you're playing HD on a planet outside the Milky Way Galaxy so Supercell may claim HD is an intergalactic game.

Indeed.

[Glottis]

My guess: It‘s the windsurfer sign (seen on Greg‘s farm)

Thanks Bender!

If this is the prize though, it's pretty lame, and no wonder SC was so secretive about it. Not worth the extra task, IMO. The trees were a much better prize last time!

[Momscar]

Maybe now that the issues of the Summer Derby have been thoroughly beaten to death, we can get back to the original topic of this thread - Take Back the Derby: Make it Fun Again

It would be great to hear how NH’s are changing the rules for their derby in order to keep more of your hood mates engaged in play. Maybe leaders should ‘reward’ those players that come back to play with 5 or 10 of their own EM’s, is just one idea.
What else can you think of?

Is that pixelated gold trophy that cannot be displayed anywhere but here in your signature worth losing great players? For me, there are too many other real stresses in life to constantly feel the need to win.

[Kaptain Kat]

Sorry Momscar I’m going to drag it back off topic a little again.
In my humble opinion there’s only so much a hood can do to try and make these special derbies fun again, what really needs to be done is that these derbies need to be more fun.

For me I’ve had it and the current derby really takes the red berry cake in the boring department. Take this summer themed derby for example which features fishing amongst other things. We just finished a fishing derby for crying out loud! And thankfully the angler and day trip tasks went MIA but still.. just too soon after the previous. As for Thebes rest of the featured items they’re all dreadfully long and boring tasks with mostly production. Why not add a beach café task in the mix. Seems to fit in with summer theme for me.

These kinds of special derbies really aren't special at all with their frequency. And they’re mostly boring production and long tasks there need to be some more variety or faster tasks in the mix.

I do love the idea of themed derby but certainly not the way they’re executed as of late. And I do enjoy the mystery derby or blossom derby but these endless boring production derbies, bah if I don’t see one for another year I wouldn’t miss it.

Furthermore if for example you choose these special products..For Special derby 1: vanilla ice cream, chili popcorn and carrot cake
For special derby 2: red berry cake, tomato juice, feta pie
For special derby 3: cotton shirts, tofu dogs, apple juice.


Then you do NOT get 3 different derbies but you get 3 of the same derbies with the same bloody warm, vegan and picnic tasks. So yes I am starting to really dislike these production derbies. And I’m a player who has always enjoyed derby and only missed a very few of them since they were introduced. These special derbies need to be way more divers, task selection needs to improve and they should have significantly better prizes more often and they should be more special (rare).

and that’s just my 2 cents worth.

[Thistledew]

These kinds of special derbies really aren't special at all with their frequency. And they’re mostly boring production and long tasks there need to be some more variety or faster tasks in the mix.

Good point Kaptain Kat. They do lose their "specialness" when they're week after week after week.

I agree that the biggest issue is the lack of variety in tasks, along with the high appearance rate of slow tasks (production, strawberries, goat milk, etc.)

I also want to add that I just got off a long chat with some long-term hood mates who are thinking of quitting the game altogether because derby has become such a chore. After seeing some of the other posts here, I realize that other NHs are hearing the same thing.

FYI, we also have a new hoodie who is a very new player. She's a lower level than most of us but is friends with one member and we're glad to have her on board. But after just 3 weeks, she's ready to quit because it's too much work.

I think that's a big warning sign for SC -- or at least it should be.