BOOSTER STORAGE Shenanigans 😣

[BostonGirl]

Something really needs to be done about the way the Boosters are stored.

1. First we’ve got that three booster limit which is totally inadequate, even giving leeway for SC’s booster revenue.

2. Then, when you win a booster on the Wheel of Fortune (WoF), it isn’t credited free to your boosters even though every other thing on the WOF is credited to player storage without penalty. But not the vaunted boosters. Oh no. If you have three already, you’ll have to pay to keep the WOF booster.

3. And the coup de grace. This little gem just reared its ugly head on my farm. Stay with me while I try to explain.

I bought boosters from that last package. So I have purchased boosters for which you are given unlimited storage. My booster storage was therefore saying: 3/3, 10 purchased (right about now it would behoove us all to remember that unless you’ve got a mind like a steel trap - or are endlessly organised - there is no way to tell which is purchased and which is acquired through game play).

The above storage situation being what it was, whenever I got another booster while playing, in the usual way the game would allow me to trash the booster, swap the booster or pay TWO diamonds to keep the booster.

Then, a huge box kindly opened for me for free (this does not happen often - reason to rejoice). In it were two 5-star boosters. I wanted to keep both. I figured I would swap out one of my stored boosters and then purchase the second booster for 2 diamonds. I swap out the first booster. Things are going great. I then try to purchase the second booster. Up pops the notice: keep this booster for FOUR diamonds.

This......game (that I love, never mind the loaded pause right there!) ADDED the swapped out booster to my regular storage space, and then COUNTED IT AS NUMBER FOUR - so now I’m over my regular space, making it imperative for me to spend four diamonds to store what would be booster number five (as per my regular space).

Come on guys. This can’t be right. Not only can I NOT tell which booster is purchased and which I won, even if I could, how does swapping in this game where swapping is free create a situation where I have to pay MORE for the thing I swapped?

You realise that if I had inverted my action, that is, bought the first booster for 2 diamonds and then swapped the second booster, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation because the swap is FREE and the space ALREADY EXISTS?

I repeat: this can’t be right.

I have paid to keep boosters. More than once. And more than once for 4 diamonds. And for more than four diamonds more than once (don’t gasp guys, it’s very economical if it’s the right Tom). It’s not about the four diamonds...much. It’s the principle of the thing. The booster storage logistics are NOT intuitive or equitable or right and you guys need to look at them. Seriously.

I’m going back to my farm to fume some more and decide whether to pay for that second booster. I am unlikely to. I think it would annoy me more to keep it knowing the situation than to just dump it. Either way I am not a happy farmer right now. Not at all.

The booster storage needs a thorough “look at”. (Yes it bears repeating)

[JemimaPD]

I completely agree with all your complaints about the booster storage system. I hate gaining boosters through gameplay for the same reasons & most often just trash them immediately.

Besides I tend to farm in such a way that I am fairly self sustaining & don't particularly need help from these boosters. I have had Tom boosters since the system began that I have never used. I have used boat boosters occasionally when they've been useful but I probably could have managed without. For these reasons I actually partly resent achieving boosters where there is something much more useful that I could have gotten instead, eg.WOF or red box. And I would NEVER use real money or game diamonds or coins to buy boosters!

[Morrighan]

This is my best of after buying some boosters, then getting boosters from Greg’s advent callendar and some swappings:



And if anyone is wondering, no, I haven’t payed that many diamonds to keep a booster.

[JemimaPD]

I'm in that same situation Morrighan. That amount of diamonds to keep newly gained boosters. The Rose & Ernest ones I get go straight in the bin - I've never used them since they've been around either!

[BostonGirl]

I completely agree with all your complaints about the booster storage system. I hate gaining boosters through gameplay for the same reasons & most often just trash them immediately.

Besides I tend to farm in such a way that I am fairly self sustaining & don't particularly need help from these boosters. I have had Tom boosters since the system began that I have never used. I have used boat boosters occasionally when they've been useful but I probably could have managed without. For these reasons I actually partly resent achieving boosters where there is something much more useful that I could have gotten instead, eg.WOF or red box. And I would NEVER use real money or game diamonds or coins to buy boosters!

I generally farm this way too. I use boosters during derbies and some events which is why my storage is almost always full. I don’t mind spending if it’s worth it to me but what can I say but that this situation has irritated me.☹️

[BostonGirl]

This is my best of after buying some boosters, then getting boosters from Greg’s advent callendar and some swappings:

And if anyone is wondering, no, I haven’t payed that many diamonds to keep a booster.

Oh that’s special. 😄. The most I’ve had (still do) was (is) 100 diamonds on a baby farm with boosters all earned in-game. And naturally, because I don’t use boosters on that farm it gets all the best ones. 😏

[Connemara]

I hate getting boosters too. I try to only keep two in storage. It’s like giving us something with one hand and taking it away with the other

[Hayfield]

I hate getting boosters too. I try to only keep two in storage. It’s like giving us something with one hand and taking it away with the other

This is my strategy as well. As soon as I log on in the mornings I activate a booster. I have often activated a tree or bush booster overnight just to get rid of them. Any faster boat or faster ducks I just toss. Rose annoys me because she always leaves my animals hungry, she makes the food she just won't give it to them. Mean woman.

[SilverRaptor]

This is my strategy as well. As soon as I log on in the mornings I activate a booster. I have often activated a tree or bush booster overnight just to get rid of them. Any faster boat or faster ducks I just toss. Rose annoys me because she always leaves my animals hungry, she makes the food she just won't give it to them. Mean woman.

Have you gone into her (Rose’s) settings and marked the (left) column that tells her to feed the animals and remembered to hit the confirmation button in the feed settings. It took me a while of using her before I tapped the gear in her upper left corner to get to the feed schedule window. There are three settings to choose from.

[WussyPuss]

I love most boosters, however, I have adapted play to utilize the most with the least amount of diamonds.

i would like to be able to activate one NOW to open space for a new one in storage.

regardless, I generally only keep free Tom, Tom less lazy, free rose, free Ernest. I don’t mind the crops, personal train, production or trees/bushes if I don’t have to pay big diamonds to save them. I try to use them right away.

coin, exp, anything fishing hole related get turfed. I would love to keep more, but the temporary storage fee structure is too much