Game lags, everyone (doesn’t) need help, everything SOLD in paper

[Cugie]

My game is taking forever to load, and longer to visit other farms.
just about everyone of my friends (don’t really) need help, but are showing help is needed.
and just about everything in the paper is sold.

now with the community game, it’s annoying to try to do it when no one needs help!

[abb3w]

just about everything in the paper is sold.

This seems likely a game balance question; the new truck and town help effectively makes for more (global) demand chasing the same goods.

In the short run, the truck coin-bonus event yesterday and help event for the next few days seem likely to prolong this aspect a little longer. However, such daily and multi-day special events often have an impact on the supply and demand balance in the Daily Dirt. I consider finding strategy to adapt to such changes part of the game. (Note, for example, the universal crop boost expected on Sunday, which will probably trigger a crop glut and machine-product shortage in the Daily Dirt.)

Personally, I expect the effect will naturally fade further in the long run. Players only have so many resources to help with, and there are only so many catalog gift cards available each day and so many help tasks in derby each week to incentivize access to those resources; and special events only run just so long. As those events end and as more people realize they tend to get more benefit (coins and such) from selling items via the roadside stall to people who want to be helpful than benefit from being helpful themselves, demand should revert to something more normal.

[Jenjen8880]

I contacted support about the lagging etc and they have blamed it on my WiFi and having more than one app going......it’s funny how everything was running smoothly before the update and because it’s now lagging it’s a WiFi fault and I always close my apps down before starting another