On the topic of boat preferences or etiquette

[Kendra1168]

So, my next boat has popcorn...easy....strawberry ices...probably can do a few crates...and raspberry jam which I have absolutely no hope of filling having put all of mine into boats of others. Dilemma is this, do I open all the crates, fill those I can and hope? If I find jam hard my neighbours will most likely find it hard too. The ultimate result can be a nicely opened boat that does not get filled and just sits there looking forlorn. Most of the time I send these boats away even though some dear nbr could possibly fill one or even two crates. Does this make me a meanie?

No-it doesn't make you a meanie at all-I don't think you could ever be considered that, LOL. Personally-I would open all the crates on a boat like the one you have next. If it gets filled great-if not oh well. But as you say-the popcorn and strawberry ices are pretty easy. I'd send Tom out to get raspberry jam for you-because I have only seen one boat ever of yours that needs help! I think our time differences might be an issue here-but I would fill what I could of that boat. But as you may have read-I'm not playing for leaderboard points-I would just do it because your you, lol.

[Emmie]

So, my next boat has popcorn...easy....strawberry ices...probably can do a few crates...and raspberry jam which I have absolutely no hope of filling having put all of mine into boats of others. Dilemma is this, do I open all the crates, fill those I can and hope? If I find jam hard my neighbours will most likely find it hard too. The ultimate result can be a nicely opened boat that does not get filled and just sits there looking forlorn. Most of the time I send these boats away even though some dear nbr could possibly fill one or even two crates. Does this make me a meanie?

Lol @ meanie...most certainly not
You're a great neighbour and I'm sure that boat would have been filled for you...I save jam for my 'special' neighbours haha....and as you always help me with the popcorn crates etc, (which I seem to get stacks of and never enough barn space to hold 15+) I'd have filled some jam for u lol.

Thing is whilst your farming, I'm sleeping (or should be)...we usually catch a boat though

[Swisspie81]

Soliciting thoughts on launching a new thread. What do you think of this idea?

A thread where people want to be neighbors with players who:

1. Cast off all boats that ask for sugar or dairy products, i.e., you never have to visit their farm when the exclamation is showing and see all sugar crates needing filled.

2. Open all crates on the boats so their neighbor can earn leaderboard points.

3. must have some type of picture linked in their GC profile (so we know who helps on boats, buys things, waters plants).

4. Never puts "help my boat!" as name of farm. LOL

What other criteria? Sound crazy?

Not to distract from the idea of boycott but:

Has anyone asked the game designers to get rid of large sugar products and dairy products in the boats? It makes sense since they don't ever ask for animal feed (which is the fastest to make anyway) and since sugar and cream is always being consumed by other products like cakes, cookies ice cream, the list is pretty long, shouldn't that be excluded too?

http://hayday.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Products

I think it's just a faulty design of the game. Makes it uninteresting to play if one has to think every hour to check the game to get sugars into the barn and make nothing else that uses those products....


Even if we can choose not to fill those boats, I think it would be better if they don't come at all for everybody.

I don't want to waste my time clicking fifty times hoping to help someone out and finding maybe 2 or three crates I can help in my neighbours boats just because of these sugar and dairy things. Does anyone really?!

It defeats even the "social" aspect of the game. And maybe it encourages premium diamond use but that's just to take advantage of newbies. >:[

Maybe we should add this thread to the games feature change? Thoughts ?

[PinkStarbelly]

Thanks K for merging the 2 topics as they are quite relevant to each other. Hm .. I can personally say that I fill my ice cream queue with vanilla ice cream most of the time switch off to cherry popsicle if I'm missing white sugar or cream. (I make have strawberry ice cream and switch off to cherry pop on my baby farm as I don't have as many queue slots there). I use all my ice cream product for neighbors boats and I can also share that I prefer filling the bigger quantities crates of VIC (x3) and cherry pop (x2) because they yield more wheels per item and also get filled less (because many people don't have as many spare/available). I try saving them for my lower leveled neighbors (unless it helps a high leveled player to wrap up the boat), I have a handful new ones and I know they don't have many neighbors as even their most basic crates crop crates don't get filled (until I get my hand on them, that is) lol!

Other things I have as first choices to put on queues when I have all the ingredients to fill neighbors boats are:

Pie oven: casserole, shepherds pie, feta pie and apple pie
Cake oven: carrot cake and potato feta cake (strawberry cake and cheese cake on baby farm because of few queue slots)
Bakery: bread and cookies (the rest can be bought)
BBQ Grill: baked potatoes (whenever I have spare cream and cheese)
Jam Maker: cherry jam
Juice Press: carrot and tomato juice (cherry and berry juice on baby farm because of few queue slots)


So if your boats are asking for these items, big chances are that I will be helping to fill them. Some product like vanilla ice cream always run out halfway through the list as every other boat is asking for it. I'm trying to put up some personal guidelines for myself on which boats to prioritize and so on. I might stop filling double orders. And since I'm quite strategic, I do choose crates asking for a certain quanitity that yields the most XP if I'm low on that certain item (example: x8 carrot juice, x3 tomato juice, x2 casserole, x3 berry juice, x12 popcorn, x3 carrot cake, x3 vanilla ice cream, x2 cherry popsicle, x2 cherry jam, x2 berry jam, etc.)

[Catniain]

I have a boat needing butter and vanilla ice cream. With dairy and sugar boats, I've lately tested out putting my own butter, sugar, etc in my shop at a low price so neighbours without butter or whatever, coming to visit me can help, if they don't mind spending a nominal amount to buy my stuff. I've noticed that when I have for example, a butter heavy boat, a couple of my neighbours do too, so it works to just make loads of butter and share it around. And it was working for the last 2 days, until today...

I was a pretty annoyed today having just put on 2 sets of four butters, and 2 x2 ice creams, that my neighbour swooped in and ninja'd all my stuff and didn't bother to do one thing to help my farm, and most heinously - did not use the stuff for my boat. Needless to say, that person - UNFRIENDED from GC.

Oh well, back to sending away dairy and sugar needy boats, and so much for trying to be helpful.

[PinkStarbelly]

I have a boat needing butter and vanilla ice cream. With dairy and sugar boats, I've lately tested out putting my own butter, sugar, etc in my shop at a low price so neighbours without butter or whatever, coming to visit me can help, if they don't mind spending a nominal amount to buy my stuff. I've noticed that when I have for example, a butter heavy boat, a couple of my neighbours do too, so it works to just make loads of butter and share it around. And it was working for the last 2 days, until today...

I was a pretty annoyed today having just put on 2 sets of four butters, and 2 x2 ice creams, that my neighbour swooped in and ninja'd all my stuff and didn't bother to do one thing to help my farm, and most heinously - did not use the stuff for my boat. Needless to say, that person - UNFRIENDED from GC.

Oh well, back to sending away dairy and sugar needy boats, and so much for trying to be helpful.

Im sorry this happened to you but I have to say that this was a poor choice on your behalf and deleting that neighbour was wrong. If you really want to go the extra mile and let someone else get the wheel points, you contact a close neighbour offering to sell the butter and ice cream to fill ur crate for wheel points. You dont just put it in ur store and expect crates to be filled. This neighbour could've been out shopping and looking for something in particular and went from store to store (using the icons INSIDE a store, hence not comig in contact with boats or exclamation points) without checking boats or trees on that round and happened to stumble across your great items (for a great price too!) and bought it without thinking too much about it and moved on to next store to look for what he/she was out on a mission to buy originally. He/she impossibly could have known it was deliberately put up for sale ONLY for a person to fill your crates. That's just having too high expectations on a plan thats not bullerproof in my opinion ..

[haymen]

I have a boat needing butter and vanilla ice cream. With dairy and sugar boats, I've lately tested out putting my own butter, sugar, etc in my shop at a low price so neighbours without butter or whatever, coming to visit me can help, if they don't mind spending a nominal amount to buy my stuff. I've noticed that when I have for example, a butter heavy boat, a couple of my neighbours do too, so it works to just make loads of butter and share it around. And it was working for the last 2 days, until today...

I was a pretty annoyed today having just put on 2 sets of four butters, and 2 x2 ice creams, that my neighbour swooped in and ninja'd all my stuff and didn't bother to do one thing to help my farm, and most heinously - did not use the stuff for my boat. Needless to say, that person - UNFRIENDED from GC.

Oh well, back to sending away dairy and sugar needy boats, and so much for trying to be helpful.

I agree with Pinkstar. Don't expect your GC friends/followers to have the powers of mind reading. Your neighbour did not "ninja" anything nor did anything "heinous." He bought it fair and square. And you being overdramatic about it won't get you good neighbours.

[Catniain]

I agree with Pinkstar. Don't expect your GC friends/followers to have the powers of mind reading. Your neighbour did not "ninja" anything nor did anything "heinous." He bought it fair and square. And you being overdramatic about it won't get you good neighbours.

Thanks for your opinions. I was a bit hasty in my post, and omitted a couple of things.

Firstly this neighbour has never revived a tree or filled a crate, never helped apart from cleaning out my shop, which in some cases, is fair enough, but not for my other neighbours who never get a look in. I know it's more for another thread, but I guess I'm one of those people who thinks people should take what they need and leave the rest for others as opposed to the other camp who think "you sold it, what does it matter"?

I prefer not having loads of out of game communication and don't arrange trades and stuff, and just want to get on with producing and selling. For this reason, I renamed my shop "STUFF FOR MY BOAT", just to clarify the situation, I wasn't expecting people to be mind readers, but they could read that while in my shop and realise what the deal is (those English speakers among them). I knew it was a bit of a gamble when I did it, but the other neighbours who had filled my crates after buying my stuff obviously did get it, hence my frustration.

Re-reading the original post, I see how it could look like a knee jerk reaction, but for the good of my other neighbours, I feel it was justified to lose one who regularly took all, and did nothing in return. (Haymen - yes, use of the word "heinous" was a bit over dramatic, I give you that one).

[haymen]

Thanks for your opinions. I was a bit hasty in my post, and omitted a couple of things.

Firstly this neighbour has never revived a tree or filled a crate, never helped apart from cleaning out my shop, which in some cases, is fair enough, but not for my other neighbours who never get a look in. I know it's more for another thread, but I guess I'm one of those people who thinks people should take what they need and leave the rest for others as opposed to the other camp who think "you sold it, what does it matter"?

I prefer not having loads of out of game communication and don't arrange trades and stuff, and just want to get on with producing and selling. For this reason, I renamed my shop "STUFF FOR MY BOAT", just to clarify the situation, I wasn't expecting people to be mind readers, but they could read that while in my shop and realise what the deal is (those English speakers among them). I knew it was a bit of a gamble when I did it, but the other neighbours who had filled my crates after buying my stuff obviously did get it, hence my frustration.

Re-reading the original post, I see how it could look like a knee jerk reaction, but for the good of my other neighbours, I feel it was justified to lose one who regularly took all, and did nothing in return. (Haymen - yes, use of the word "heinous" was a bit over dramatic, I give you that one).

I still think that expecting people to behave based on what you think is a good neighbour (ie. buying only what they need and leaving the rest for others) will set you up for a lot of disappointment--unless, in some magical way, you can ensure that all your neighbours would act the same way as you do.

I would give that "ninja" the benefit of the doubt as there are a number of reasons he may not have been able to get your message even after changing your shop name. He could be a 5 year old kid who can't read, English may not be his first language, he may not have read nor understood your shop name, he could be blind.

[Kendra1168]

Yeah-not all neighbors can be perfect like me!

Hahahahaha, I kill me. Just kidding. I agree with Pink & Hayman-and who knows maybe your neighbor plays on a iTouch or iPhone-the screen is tiny-they might not have seen your farm name-also perhaps they were going very quickly. When I'm on a roll going through my neighbors stalls-sometimes I don't notice anything.