The Hay Day Scorched Earth Challenge (ver 2.0)

[Vfrood]

My exact logic as well, but your time is off on rice its 45 minutes to harvest not 75 your time is scarier lol

I was thinking in percentages though writing minutes.... 45 minutes is 75% of an hour. If you write hours in an hour system..... lol

so 525 minutes should be 525/100 hours That's 5 hours and a quarter :P So withing 10 hours :P

[MikeySpeed]

We are a small hood (4) in the CL and so to place (which is what we all want to do) we need to do 10x320 tasks.

We get very few crop tasks (maybe 2 if we are lucky), it's been a few weeks since we got an animal feeding task, we get very few help/mining tasks and most of our production tasks are ones that need several premium ingredients. I just don't think we get enough do-able tasks and the others would struggle to do their tasks if they couldn't do the 'easy' tasks. I think we'd take a real hit if I did this just now and that's not fair on the others.



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In a hood of 4 with only 3 opted in at the moment and achieve it. The major disadvantage we have right now is that I cant stack for production tasks yet. as my barn is 1043/7050 I have 3 visitors served in town and slowly trying to get 42 served with the easiest stuff. so that I can do a train task without sacrificing production goals, yet still trying to get task done and achieve the scarce TEMs.

Positive note I just leveled to 108 and got 10 more diamonds for leveling so upto 22 diamonds, need to get much mor diamonds so that I can achieve goals of 10 diamond rings, 100 diamonds at end and 10 mystery nets. I will make more mystery nets though as will give me a chance for pearl, color lures even those hard golden voucher or golden lures, and other stuff hopefully not deco lol

[MikeySpeed]

I was thinking in percentages though writing minutes.... 45 minutes is 75% of an hour. If you write hours in an hour system..... lol

so 525 minutes should be 525/100 hours That's 5 hours and a quarter :P So withing 10 hours :P

Nice recovery but telling someone that while doing scorched earth is enough to push them over the edge lol. Looks over the edge and see its very big drop :eek:

[Tiggy35]

Been thinking about it for over a year... but I've reached level 100 and am going for it!! Have started Scorched Earth 2.0, Candy Crush Mode... Have decided not to do Metal Illness, but obviously need to mine a little for the Top Hats. Am keeping some of my mining tools as to be able to participate in the Derby, but am keeping track of them, but have sold everything else apart from diamond rings.

Wish me luck - here we go - 8pm on 28 Jan 2016. I must be mad!!
Tiggy

[shepherdgirl]

Tiggy, congrats on starting the challenge, and good luck!!

I also started last night at 8pm, although I'm a few time zones behind you. Am doing utterly ridiculous mode, and Mikey's courage convinced me to also start from 0 coins.

Getting rid of 16M coins was daunting at first, but it's refreshing to start right from scratch again. And I'm now the proud owner of a BRT which I'd been chasing fruitlessly with gift cards since forever. At least it provided me with a good excuse to finally get my tractor, lol.

Tiggy, please let us know how you're doing every few days, or more frequently if you can! I'll be watching your progress with interest.

[SmallChange]

Tiggy, congrats on starting the challenge, and good luck!!

I also started last night at 8pm, although I'm a few time zones behind you. Am doing utterly ridiculous mode, and Mikey's courage convinced me to also start from 0 coins.

Getting rid of 16M coins was daunting at first, but it's refreshing to start right from scratch again. And I'm now the proud owner of a BRT which I'd been chasing fruitlessly with gift cards since forever. At least it provided me with a good excuse to finally get my tractor, lol.

Tiggy, please let us know how you're doing every few days, or more frequently if you can! I'll be watching your progress with interest.

You did that in a quiet & understated way, I've been waiting for you to say you'd started
Keep us posted! I love hearing how everyone's gettng on!

At least building coins will be easier the second time around without all the machinery to buy & ugrade!!

[MikeySpeed]

Been thinking about it for over a year... but I've reached level 100 and am going for it!! Have started Scorched Earth 2.0, Candy Crush Mode... Have decided not to do Metal Illness, but obviously need to mine a little for the Top Hats. Am keeping some of my mining tools as to be able to participate in the Derby, but am keeping track of them, but have sold everything else apart from diamond rings.

Wish me luck - here we go - 8pm on 28 Jan 2016. I must be mad!!
Tiggy

Congrats Tiggy on taking the challenge. Best of Luck to You!

[MikeySpeed]

Tiggy, congrats on starting the challenge, and good luck!!

I also started last night at 8pm, although I'm a few time zones behind you. Am doing utterly ridiculous mode, and Mikey's courage convinced me to also start from 0 coins.

Getting rid of 16M coins was daunting at first, but it's refreshing to start right from scratch again. And I'm now the proud owner of a BRT which I'd been chasing fruitlessly with gift cards since forever. At least it provided me with a good excuse to finally get my tractor, lol.

Tiggy, please let us know how you're doing every few days, or more frequently if you can! I'll be watching your progress with interest.

Congrats on starting the challenge and doing at 0 like my crazy self. Best of Luck to You on this challenge, curious to see if you beat your speed record of previous attempts.

[MikeySpeed]

Hi Everyone,

It has been slightly over 200 Hours since I started this endeavor of mine. It has been very interesting and challenging with up and downs, excitement and despair, with sense of pride and achievements on what I have done so far.

Achieved Mastery on Net Maker and Smoothie Maker this week, now just leaving Hot Dog Stand, Coffee Kiosk and Feed Mill Remaining.

I have been struggling to keep up with all Dairy and Sugar to meet production demands. All my machines including lure maker and net maker have max slots of 9. The benefit of 9 Slots for me has been a blessing and a curse at same time for me, while I can set my machines full for many hours unattended, raw materials I can not keep up with sometimes. I am just now finally able to start keeping up with raw materials for productions as Derby is on pause till a couple of hours from now. I found during derby especially first week was very straining on progress, as fields for planting were occupied for periods of time to complete tasks.

I successfully completed 10 Derby Tasks at 320 Points each, Neighborhood Placed First this week in championship league.

1. Harvest 960 Wheat Fields - Was my favorite
2. Catch 110 lbs of fish with lures - helped out for my fish needs in productions
3. Excavate 99 ores from the mine - was able to achieve after 30 minutes had to wheat tools for mining
4. Help farmers 30 times - Was thankful for some fellow traders and neighbors who gave me trees to heal when I could not find more
5. Fully serve 23 visitors in your town - was the most challenging to get 23 (I kept releasing my multi-taskers and picking up my hood mate townies. The first 3 days I was able to serve 1-3 townies out of every 10 I picked up, slowly bur surely I got the 23 I needed. I only served extremely easy ones, and never dairy, sugar or fish items. My logic in doing task was that I need 10 of Each TEMs for challenge criteria and did not want to release townies without a task.
6. Help farmers 30 times - Was easier second time around.
7. Harvest 310 Chilli Peppers - Having 132 fields helped tremendously but tied me up on wheating for tools and expansion materials.
8. Excavate 99 ores from the mine - Was able to do in under a minute second time around as I townies, pets helped tremendously.
9. Harvest 310 Potato Fields - My first planting was hard as I did not have enough on first planting to plant whole field. On second planting I was able to plant fully all my fields with potatoes and finished on 3rd harvest. Took opportunity during first planting to wheat on unused fields to get tools for mining, saws and axes as well as expansion materials.
10. Fully serve 23 visitors in your town - So much easier as it was 3 days after my last train and had time to stack easy townies.

Prizes from Derby:

1. 5 Butter
2. 1 Cherry Popsicle
3. 1 Hammer
4. 2 Shovels
5. 3 Diamonds
6. 2 Stakes
7. 3 Diamonds
8. 3 Planks
9. For Placing First - got 3 Panels, 3 Stakes and 3 Deeds major letdown but can sell them and use the coins from them.

Mining I made mistakes early on in my approach, I kept in my mind the worries that others who had this did challenge about obtaining platinum ores, and was mining as I got tools. Platinum ores and diamonds were all but non existent on that approach. Started to stock and save up a mining task if it popped for hopes of better drop rates. This strategy paid off for me as I got 10-12 Platinum Ores on average from every 99 Ores I mined. Got a few diamonds as well from this approach. Changed my approach on how I loaded smelters as well, previously I used to load my smelters each dedicated to specific ores. Which often times left me waiting for platinum bars or gold to be produced out of those specific smelters. My other smelters were always done before them and often time empty, changed my approach to loading 3 smelters with platinum and gold evenly, while the other 2 smelters dealt with iron, coal and silver. For some reason I get way too much iron ore to my liking.

The biggest help I got was LEMs and SEMs from wheating. Early on I was selling my LEMs that I wheated at Max price in store without advertisement so that players who still need toe expand could get expansion materials. I expanded my baby farm with all the BEMs and SEMs I had the first 3 days as it bought from me at max price. Started selling early on excess SEMs to balance out as I was getting alot of Panels and Screws. These method allowed me to plant fairly early on 30 of each Tree, 30 of Each Bushes except Nectar. This gave me enough to keep up with early on productions and made an achievable number of axes and saws I would need later on to clear them from farm. I kept this approach as I harvested from trees and bushes and planted 2 days ago my entire farm with my usual 500 Trees and 200 Bushes. Did my first harvest of those trees earlier today and sold the excess of what I did not need from harvest. That with the Expansion Material Sales has me at 125,710 Coins.

Boat Global Event - Wanted the 8 Diamonds and vouchers for challenge achievement. Had some easy boat but also had some dismal boats, I was able to complete 8 Boats for event and booted perhaps maybe 10 boats not sure. I flagged 4 trays every time and had neighbors and fellow traders fill my boat trays that I could not fill. One player filled 3 trays of 5 feathers each for my 40 excess SEMs, another trader filled butter popcorn for me. If it were not for those 4 trays that I could flag for help I would maybe been able to fill one boat only. If I had known in advance what prizes I would have gotten I would have stopped at 3rd milestone. Prizes I achieved from boat were:

1. 1 Bolt - eh
2. 2 Panels - eh I get Panels as m highest SEM
3. 3 Gold Vouchers - Woohoo need only 17 more
4. 4 Mallets - Heart Break on this one, but good for coins
5. 7 Axes -Major disappointment after 3 Gold vouchers on 3rd milestone

Production Progress:

• Sandwich Bar - 10 of Each Items Completed
• Hot Dog Stand - 10 of Each Item Completed
• BBQ Grill - 10 of Each Items Completed- Baked Potatoes are currently under production and will be completed within 3 hours
• Sushi Bar - Eggs Sushi and Fish Sushi Completed, Lobster Sushi 5 Completed have to make more soy sauce
• Juice Press - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Popcorn Maker - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Coffee Kiosk - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Smoothie Maker - - 10 of Each Items Completed
• Ice Cream Maker - 10 of Each Item Completed except for Strawberry Ice Cream which will be completed in 3 Hours.
• Candy Machine - 7 Jelly Beans Completed 3 Loaded, 6 Chocolate Bars Loaded, still have to make all the rest of the candy items.
• Bakery - 10 of each item completed, just loaded my final 4 Fruitti Di Mare Pizza, Cheese is hard to keep up with
• Pie Oven - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Cake Oven - 70 out of 90 completed or in production - Butter, Cream, Sugar and Goat Cheese hard to keep up with.
• Pasta Kitchen - Finished 10 Gnocchi and 10 Veggie Lasagna still need to do lobster Pasta when I have more cream and tomatoes.
• Soup Kitchen - Completed 10 of Each Soup except 6 Tomato Soup
• Pasta Maker - 20+ of Each Items Completed
• Salad Bar - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Sauce Maker - Numbers are all below 10 as production has yet to allow me to have a minimum of 10 steadily yet
• Sugar Mill - Have 10 of Each Completed at the moment
• Hat Maker - 10 of Each Items Completed or currently in production
• Loom - 10 of Each Items Completed or currently in production
• Jam Maker - 3 of Raspberry and Blackberry, all other are in production
• Jeweler - 4 Iron Bracelets, 5 Bracelet, 3 Necklace with 6 in Production, 0 Diamond Rings
• Smelter -
  
  • 14 Iron Bars in Production 11 Completed.
  • 1 Silver Bar Completed 4 In Production.
  • 6 Platinum Bars Completed
  • 17 Gold Bars Completed
  • 3 Coal Bars Completed with 6 in production
  
  
• Feed Mill - 10+ of Each Items Completed
• Dairy - Depressing to look at and give current numbers
• Sewing Machine - 10 Blankets Completed, 5 of everything else completed or in production. Cotton and Feathers hard to keep up with at the moment.
• Candle Maker - 20+ of Each Items Completed
• Honey Extractor - 20+ of Each Items Completed
• Lure Work Bench -
  
  • 3 Golden Lures
  • 7 Purple Lures
  • 5 Blue Lures
  • 8 Green Lures
  • 65 Red Lures
  
  
• Net Maker - Have 10 Each of Ducks and Lobster Traps Only.
• Crops and Berries - Have 100+ of each
• Mining Tools - 10 Pick Axes and 30+ of all others
• Saws & Axes - 50+ of each
• LEMs - 0 been selling for coins
• Vouchers - 0 been using for Lures Requirements, this definitely looks like it will torture me for weeks.
• SEMs: 10+ of each
• BEMs: 10+ of each
• TEMs I am shocked have been dropping nicely for me:
  
  • 10 Hammers, Stone Blocks and Tar
  • 9 Bricks
  • 6 Paint Buckets
  • 4 Drills
  • 6 Maps

As you can see progressing on everything except Vouchers and Diamonds.
Current Level: 108
Current Diamonds 26

Hopefully this week I can progress on Candy, Jams, Jewelry, Dairy, Sugar, Sauces and Vouchers. Not sure about Town this week as they are starting to ask for crazy stuff that I don't have 10+ of to afford or Items I don't have. Doing Derby this week I am hopeful for good task like last derby but still not strong enough to do production tasks like I used to. The other major struggle I am finding is that even though I have a silo size of 6500, its often time full, balancing it is very hard for me as I try to keep enough to keep productions going. The major difficulty in doing boats, towns and trucks is that unable to buy or trade for what I need to complete with ease. Never realized how much trading on forums have helped me in my game play. I have slid down on Boat Leader Board on Friends Ranking and on Global Ranking which is expected.

If it was not for the support and encouragement of players on this forum and on Kik I may gave packed it in and gave up as this is beyond insanity, I am hoping the more difficult milestones get closer to completion for me. As they say "You Made Your Bed, You Have to Lay In It Now!" Never quit at anything before in my life, but have to say this has tested me so far and has pushed my breaking limits.

I will now stop typing as I do not want to scroll up and see how much I have typed in OMG 2 Hours LOL.

[Vfrood]

Good going Really annoying to get a lettuce task then

But.... i'm still wating for the 600 strawberry task for 320

Soy sauce is frustrating indeed And so are jams... As you have to make 20+ of 2 jams to produce candy...
I think having a silo of 6500 helps a lot.

My frustration too was having to watch my crops... I didn't know how many strawberries and tomatoes i bought

Think you're hanger will be your vouchers.... gold and purple don't go fast.