Little Helpers - Strategy Thread

• Mathematically the event is doable using no ssg or sg. This farm's intent is to keep field junks-productive around RL.
• The ep for growing junks in comparison to other crops with similar time to harvest is fine
• The rewards seem decent.
• The investment in farm commitment is decent for those considering the cloud row.
• The animals needed are relatively cheap to purchase in the market.

Drops may prove to be an issue for farms but not to the point where one is unable to complete the event.

Another broke farm, noobbie, will begin the event. It it relatively new and has LL rung. The challenge for the farm centers around: missing one plot of BAHA land, LL rung is at 21%, and it must produce the animals needed. Perhaps the farm should even forgo the event and engage in poop selling for proceeds to be used for trophies. It will begin though.

Good luck everyone.

 

Got 111 feather dusters and 98 squirty bottles
Thank you Farmer _ Broke and the same to you
And Good Luck to everyone and hope the drop fairy is good to us all

 

Thanks Nellie_Noodle.

Both farms did use sg and ssg and water and poop on the first 10 seeds. (RL permitted harvesting on time.) Now, for sure only water at the most. Poop is waaaaaaaay to costly to even think about using. The broke farm was not at all prepared to begin the event and has less than 30 of each drop now. Drops are easily predictable for this farm so no worry.

Only one field being used for events junks for a couple of days and only during the day. Will use long time marketable crops to build drops so that drops will drive junks growth. No hurry hurry sensed.

Hope all are doing better than this farm.

 

Thanks all for the analysis'. Seeing things laid out makes it a lot easier!

I think I am with those doing the event, but not making it a high priority. Too much real life stuff. Also, just too many events. Its getting hard to appreciate any of them. The rewards are OK, but I am at the point where losing a few givers won't be any tragedy.

 

197 bottles & 193 dusters after first harvest.

And don't forget to open the first shell in Summer Calendar.

 

Wow well done 12ss12 thats amazing

 

@12ss12

Nice One-Two. Your farm with nearly 200 of each drop clearly indicates you prepared your farm in advance. The broke farm could not harvest the whole farm and had only about 30 of each drop to begin. The broke farm did not do well in preparing. That little comparison should make it pretty clear to all that preparing a farm in advance of an event will give one a good start.

And One-Two I want to ask you something. Why did you leave all those eggs in my barn? You must have known I would need them for frog feed. But over 200,000! One-Two, I think you need to grow some junks or something.

 

If you do level 1, 2, 3 and only the first row of these then you can 'finish' with doing all of 4, 5, & 6. By that I mean getting the cloudrow and the givers. That's 1950 less lemons, 250 less dusters, & 33 less detergents. Which incidently would equate to 297 squirt bottles and another 2970 (T. 4960) less of lemons; and some animals too. I'll update this with how well my 'Evil Master Plan' goes.
Edit:
It's Sunday A.M. here and 23 hours left for the event; finished what I planned, but to completely finish I am 242 short on the dusters and a whopping 286 on the sprays due to the low drops of the bottles even with long duration crops during the day and extra workshops going I took the pressure/madness off by not intending to complete it...good thing because I would be sweating right now. It's back to business for me, and those frogs? I'm leaving them in the swamp. Got too few resources to feed and clothe them for the next event.

 

Saturnia, I saw that too. Growing the junks is really not a problem for most farms. But for younger farms, the way you describe is the way to go if having a drop problem. Due to the need for less drops, this way of working the event will get the most from the rewards even though the farm is not ready to complete an entire event. I agree with you.

 

In addition to my preparation of my farm to my best, I used 3 howies (which I got from G&T). I think those along with my preparation helped me boost my drops. Base Workshops 36 hrs and above ( I even used my Apiary which is 36 hrs) , comfort fields with Honeydew-melons in Bhama and 20 hrs base trees with EPs above 120 in all the rest plots which did not have a workshop or comfort field, all these helped. One should be fair to howies. Thank you Nellie_Noodles & broke for the encouraging words.

Eventhough you are a broke and I know you are broke most often, one shouldn't leave anyone broke & when they happen to meet persons broke, it their duty towards humanity to make them un broke and so I felt sad on seeing you, my friend & mentor broke, a broke. Moreover I felt it was broke who taught me how not to be a broke, why not help broke from being broke, even though his name is a broke and even though broke wishes to live upto his name broke and was the cause of bringing into being meba, the mouse instead of meba, the dragon or meba, the viking or meba, the terror, out of my disciple thankfulness, I left you broke, not broken eggs but 200000 unbroken eggs and wished you to be a billionaire at least until the frog event ends and after that you can be broke to to your heart's content. It was just an incidental gift. I wanted to see what you and noobie got from the stables & trees. So I just dropped in by.

A enormous baskets of eggs are my tribute to my market mentor. For how long one is to always keep on giving flowers & chocolates. Something different. Why not eggs ?

Now your post has given me some marketing trips. Off to see if it will be useful for me to make more CCS

 

so funny!
One-two I think you brought him golden eggs! Eggs are up in 750 here.
And so many names you have provided me...I am going to make a lot of baby farms. Thank you!

 

One-Two, you always help me. Thank you for reminding me to use the howies. This farm has 2 howies from gifts. But I never use them because I don't want to move them from field to field. I agree that we should be fair to the Howie Donuts. (Donuts are for eatin not farming to me but if you say so.) I have used the howies a few times. I have not used them enough to support they benefit or do not with any certainty, just no logical proof. I have a good feeling that their use does increase drops is all I can say.

But howie wouldn't have gave me all those drops you have though.

Thanks again for reminding me and thanks for the eggs. (And Meba is dangerous in the market.)

 

OMG...doing this event w/o SG is like watching paint dry...

 

Well I was going to sit this one out and then I landed 100% harvest bonus, so doing it in 3 fields - Baha is full of trees and rare animals. Had enough sg to nuke the initial seeds and now it's a waiting game.

 

Huzzah, a welcome change of plans! Frogs stalls hit the market tomorrow, so I'll be flooding my farm with ponds of frogs and just be growing lemons on the water's edges. The lemon orchard will be restricted to the island for now. So far equal drops of feather dusters and bottles, 150/150, so I will be gifting as I receive, as the quest requires equal numbers of each.

 

I was just going to post that I seem to be getting more dusters than bottles (about 30 more) Hopefully it will even out

 

I have more bottles than dusters.

 

ohhh I have 4 fields sowed and replanted with lemons...still torn bc with a breeding event coming up, at some point, I dont want to lose my animals.....decisions
I wonder, I think, there will be a SG sale on the weekend...I was surprised there wasnt one last weekend


Hey Farmer_Broke...I been kinda feeling you have been MIA for awhile...I agree being prepared ahead of time helps

 

Yep, think I better use my detergent bottles wisely (once I make them) as I am still falling further behind on my bottles. Off topic, I just won a Kangaroo from a regular spin I thought for sure it wouldn't land on that

 

Seem to be pretty even on squirts and feathers so far