Feedback Farmcup 2018

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "Farmcup 2018" Event in this Feedback thread. We are looking forward to capturing your initial reaction to the event, as well as the final opinion after participating in the event.

Please be sure to bring arguments for supporting your statements, simple comments saying you like it or hate it will not help the Team understand what goes great, and what needs to be looked into, when planning future events.

The FAQ of the Event can be found here. If you have any questions, please use the General Issues section or the Technical Issues section for technical problems - this thread is for feedback only. Thank you for understanding.

We are looking forward to your feedback!​

Best regards,
Your Farmerama Team

 

I am having a hard time to understand the giver items for champions. Will it help with the game? I'm not sure which ones will upgrade, and I want to root for a team that is actually playing, if that is what this is. Thank You

 

Rhetorical question*:

What is easy about this event?

Growing enough crops for quests and CR is not easy. Planning a month in advance how many harvests you'll get each day so that you can decide which quests to do and still have enough crops to get the CR is not easy. Trying to find refinements in the greenhouse is random and not easy. Trying to determine if it is worth risking the greenhouse is not easy. Boosting drops is not easy, the only way is to get more harvests in, possibly by shortening grow time with refinements.

Some thoughts on what might be easy:

• Getting a decent amount of fan colors seems relatively easy.
• Getting 6 star coins from the mini game might be easy enough.
• Will getting enough drops be easy? We can only hope.

All in all though, it is not an easy event. For comparison, look at the easter event which also took place on the event field with event refinements. That was rated complex. The complexity of that event was far less than this. It was also much easier to grow enough crops. One can only wonder how the difficulty ratings are determined. It might not seem like a big deal, but to me it is provoking to label an event easy when it is clear to most players that it is not.

So please BP, if you have any respect for your players, change the rating to: Hard and complex. Or at least make clear that easy refers to playing some mini games and getting a few rewards, not completing the event.

I'll be waiting


*I would ask it as an actual question if I thought there was any chance of an actual answer...

 

Hello -Mir85-.

Yes the event is complex with all that will be happening over the Month, but the Difficulty has been rated "Easy".

Regards,
shooger.sweet

 

Thanks shooger, but that still leaves the question: How is this event easy?

As a player I take a difficulty rating of easy to mean that it is easy to complete the event.
I suspect that BP must mean that it is easy to participate and gain some rewards. Perhaps it is not intended that we should complete the event. They must not know about the pressure FOCD puts on us to complete everything

 

It's nice to see an event with multiple stages and the such but the requirements set by the Game Team once again are far from realistic. The special playfield comes with limitations for how many crops a player can harvest, that's okay, but to limit the use of the playfield on top of it is just too much.

As it's set now, even when doing 5 harvests of the special playfield per day during the entire length of the event, a player will not have enough crops grown to complete the event (13420 crops needed, possible max 12315 crops can be grown).

The majority of players won't be able to do 5 harvests per day and thus will even be more limited in gaining possible rewards.
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I suggest the Game Team comes with a solution so for the majority of players all of the event can be completed within the given time. I dislike to see the Game Team disqualified for not doing so.

 

First thoughts: VERY complex
Second thought after preparing an excel sheeet with the required numbers etc........can't be finished within the given time.
Third thought: Do I really want to plant and harvest for 5 weeks the same crops getting only up to 112 crops excess (4*28 fields with an excess of 1 each)??
The amount of drops is at the moment ridicoulous... between one and two drops per harvest.

The idea of a complex event is nice, but the execution/requirement is terrible. Even in the mini game is not a lot to gain as it is shortened to the "penalty shots".

Conclusion: This event is not really for me.I will do a bit here and there, but I won't run for it!

 

I love, as always, the use of the separate field. I enjoy that the layout is such that 2x2 fields can be used with no waste - this makes for efficient use of resources and easy clicking for those without harvester. The choices in the shop are good, and they get better each week, with the chance to get a few hard-to-get things. The graphics are cute, I love decorating things, and I enjoy the soccer game, although it's less rewarding than the other and can be harder.

BUT. This event overall is HARD. It will go on for a month. That is tedious. The concept, while not really all that complicated, is made next to impossible by ZERO margin for error. You took what should have been a really fun sort of long term mini-event, and made it into something tedious and frustrating, by having requirements that can ONLY be met by never missing a single harvest. The companion quests which give some event crop are nice - but those rewards figure into the ability to even complete the event, where they ought to have been a means to make it EASIER.

Same complaints we always have - stop being so stingy with things that don't cost you a penny! When you make events, which, let's face it, are VIRTUAL games, into something that is so demanding of REAL LIFE resources - because we the players have to choose to make a true investment in either time or real life money - people are just deciding not to do it. And when there's enough of that, we leave and go play other games, and those games get our discretionary income. Come on BP, listen to your players, and make things CHALLENGING but not FRUSTRATING, by giving us a little more leniency in what you expect for our gaming style. I for one am done setting alarms and watching the clock closely to be able to complete events. I am a very dedicated player, and I used to spend a lot of money on harvester and mill and BBs. I can't remember the last time I worked hard at completing events. If they don't fit my life, I don't play them, and yes, that takes away from my enjoyement of the game, because I don't like to fail. But I like to stress even less, and I have made this decision, that this is how I play. So please, get back to the way things used to be, where the players were happy, and spent more money, becuase we wanted to, not because we felt like we HAD to. I have NO problem with offering real money options to make things easier. I have, and would continue to, use such things. But being forced to pay with real cash just to have a chance at completion? Nope. Not gonna happen. You're alienating your long term players, and losing new ones after one or two events. If you were a restaurant, you wouldn't make it three months.

 

I'm copying this as it to some extent expresses my feelings and I'm too lazy to type my own assesment. In nutshell the game is less fun when too tight and demanding.

Two more bits for now:

• Shortening the minigame to just penalties - really the only effect of that is less fun for our resources. And I think you've heard this criticism many times already. You create something nice and fun, and then do not let us enjoy it either through too high demand per game or shortening it like this.
  
• After first couple of days the hard set progress by weeks seems like a very bad idea as there is literally nothing to do in the first week.

Also, I'm starting to "resent" the request for constructive feedback cause it takes a lot of time and thought to give a well balanced feedback yet the company doesn't seem to bother, don't do even their job properly, same mistakes are repeated, not enough thought is put into properly balancing events to keep them playable and enjoyable, everything seems to be just rushed and pushed etc. etc. and thus it feels like we are wasting our time giving you decent feedback cause the company does't really care much about anything appart from just how to push players beyond their limits and towards anger. Due to that don't be surprised that my feedback is refocusing from positive aspects to negative ones (although I could still find positives) as in general I do not like where the game is now heading.

 

Love the separate field, its layout and the ban on special growing enhancements. This makes me feel like I do not have to sacrifice my fields for the event, and that I have the same chance as anyone else who may have perks that don't have, such as a harvester subscription, buckets full of plant growth, etc. The graphics are cute, too. Way too much of a donation to even attempt any of the quests. My goal will be to earn the sticker, and as I feel that's all I'll be able to do with my single daily harvest, just ignore the rest. But I do love the idea of a separate field where everyone is playing with the same advantages. Thank you for that! Oh, just one other comment about buying the flag pre-event. I didn't realize how it tied into this event so did not purchase. Now that I see the event I with I had a way of going back for one. Thanks!

 

They are still for sale for another three days.

 

Thank you Mir85! I was so sure I missed my chance! Thanks, I now have my event flag proudly displayed.

 

I have not been able to finish the last 4-5 events,I may start looking for others game to play, this one is not fun only frustrating

 

So the second "quest" is now available and it requires the same crop/drop as the Goal mini-event with only one section open it is IMPOSSIBLE to complete anything and enjoy this. It is frustrating and ridiculous of the game to put us through this again and again.

 

I´m agree

The quest must be with another things...so we could play football...now we are all so boring...

Please, it´s the World Cup....an important event....

 

Third quest is even more frustrating- a huge amount of crops that are also milled for flags- looks like it will be very very difficult to harvest enough with 3 small filed open. Did not come close to completing the second quest.

 

The Game Team made a perfect non-match with this event. Patience and boredom rule. Excitement 0.

Three weeks into the event and still not a single comment from the Game Team on the fact the event can't be completed at all. This neglect is very disappointing.

 

Agree habalala. I'd also like to add that we currently have two 'non completable' events running...…….it does not make for much fun.

 

Could this be the worst event ever? I cannot find the motivation to even look when crops need harvesting. If I'm about AND remember I'll look in BUT I would prefer to paint the house and watch the paint dry!
Truly boring and unachieveable to boot..

 

This is supposed to be an easy event but is not easy and very complicated apart from being boring. We need to be able to boost our crops to complete the event. I week of free 'extra 2 per field would do the trick', or give everyone five CAC and let us use them on the event.