Rascal Ride Strategy

Broke - I couldn't agree more!

Yes, I've since realized that it's not possible
Reckon I must have just read what I wanted to read - every other line in the FAQ

 

Broke - Thank you for your kind words.

Hatzeva - I too am often guilty of reading and hearing only what I want to read and hear.

I have refined my thinking. I will now only grow the 2 quickest junk crops since 1 of them will always be requested. Quick crops are easiest for me so it looks like there is really no need to grow the longer crops unless they fit easier into your RL schedule.

Good luck to all in reaching your goals. This includes Broke in reaching your goals of making 10,000% profit in everything you sell. HeHeHe

 

After long long thinking I decided for myself: this event can be done with only two of the four crops.
lollipop and gingerbread need "only" 300 each for the steps. If its not a favorit I will need 1800 for each level, in total this will be then
21.600 lollipops and 21.600 gingerbreads. And when I loose one of the rascals after level 1 then this will also be reduced.

hmm.. possible???
We'll see

*runs around the farm with a pin and pops all balloons*


Happy Farming

 

But you have to pay for what would/should be drops... 12 BB each

 

at first, I look at the requiremnt for the animals, I find they are in 450 or 300
whereas 450 is short growing time(4 hr &5 hr) wheras 300 is long growing time(6hr &7 hr).
I thought that BP set requirement according to grow time, but then found that 3 step
need event junk differ from animal, some wants lollippop(7hr) but some want glitter poppy(4 hr)
whereas lollipop still need 300 but only give you 2 step.
If I focus on long hr junk only. It will be very time consuming but give lessen move.
Thus, I will do this event in two way.
first, plant @ type 2000 as reserve, replant when it drop below 500(this will stop when event do over 70%,
or I stop doing this event)
Then plant alot of 4 hr junk(glitter poppy). It will take as flexibility to do either step 2 or 3
Yes, there may be a level don't want glitter poppy in any step,thus the 2000/plant reserve will do this.
Also, I will see how the barn stuff want, if it keep on ask same stuff from that animals(like same flowers)
from pig). I may consider stop at any time.
Edit : need to adjust my strategy, just read Noya_001 post, How could I miss it.
polish forum give more detail information!
I will change to plant 4 hr junk crop at main farm, 5 hr junk crop I will plant at Baha since only pig need them(pig don't want glitter poppy), overnight I will plant 6 or 7 hr crop depend on time, they will be used for pig if 3 step need.

 

This farm is the infant farmer_broke farm.Too low level to even see an event is going on.

Wish you were on this market.

 

.......reading the FAQ's and all these farm-ripping, enormous junk-growing strategies is giving me a headache!!

I think I'll just grow a few things that are convenient...and go watch some videos about our Binary star system, Nibiru, the coming Pole Shift, and the end of the world as we know it!!
Survival seems a little less stressful and a bit more do-able!!

 

Hi sglick! Good to see you popping your head in to say hello!

Thanks for all the info here. I tried to work out how many "junks" we would need and thankfully my sums were wrong! I notice that it doesn't really matter whether you donate 300 event crops or 450, you still need 1800 for each level. Be aware that some that require 450 only advance two steps so make sure, if you choose this one, to pick the one that advances three steps or go for the 300 option.

My calculations of 1800 for each level, multiplied by six (number of levels requiring event crops) then by four (number of animals) means we need 43,200 event crops. Two thirds of this to get to level 8 on each of the three animals means that to get the CR, you need 20,800.

Can anyone see a flaw in my calculations?

My strategy is to try to complete as much as I can using the four hour crop and without pulling out my Magical Glade ... we shall see!

Good luck everybody!

 

Hi illy (and everyone else too!)

Nothing wrong with the calculations per se. But the animals change their favorite, so for some levels it will be the long crop that takes you three steps. For those levels you will then "only" need 1200 crops. Those of course have a longer growing time, so it balances out a bit.

Assuming you always advance three steps and assuming each crop is the favorite 25% of the time, you'll need an average of 1600 crops per level, so 38,400 to complete.

To get the cloud row you don't need all animals at level 8, just 3 of them. So 8 levels for 3 animals and one level for the fourth (to get the first item) is around 20,800 in total.

The exact number will depend on which crops your animals happen to like the most. Considering the growing time, the cheapest way to advance 3 steps is when glitter poppy or gingerbread briars are favorites. If your animals like a lot of balloon bloom, that'll cost you the most in growing time for one step. But if you want to minimize the growing time, it is always better to choose the favorite crop and advance 3 steps at a time.

I am going all in, lets see where it takes me

 

Thanks Mir. That does look a bit more do-able! Just going to adjust my post to correspond with your point about three animals at level 8. I think I can definitely grow 20,800 junks - would love to finish but workload may impinge on my growing time during this event. Oh well, like you, I'm all in as far as I can!

 

That is the other ridiculous part of this challenge...limited to 3 fields? There is NO WAY I am clearing my magical glade-that is where all my pinks are and I am not about to redo them so I am limited to 2 fields which I wont completely empty either/ & still confused...got one animal to level up with barn stuff...but this challenge is full of junks...dont think I am going to continue

 

Shout out For Illy ...the machinery is on offer

 

Hi all,
I've been running some numbers for this event (and probably went into too much detail, as I got interested)
I've started with a theoretical field which has 300 spaces, since it makes the numbers neat and easier to follow. I've done all the calculations assuming that no enhancements are used at all, unless I specifically say otherwise.

Example: poppies take 4 hours. 450 poppies is 1.5 harvests from my theoretical field, so the time it costs to produce 450 poppies is 6 hours. This 450 poppies will give you either 2 steps or 3 steps depending if poppies is the favourite or not, so time cost per step is either 3 hours or 2.

Repeated for all of them, this is the price in hours for a single step (using my theoretical field of 300 spaces)

Poppies : 2 hours when favourite / 3 hours if not favourite.
Balloons: 2.5 hours when favourite / 3.75 hours when not favourite.
Gingerbread: 2 hours when favourite / 3 hours when not favourite
Lollies: 2.33 hours when favourite/ 3.5 hours when not favourite.

Obvious conclusion: It's always worth picking the favourite crop, but Poppies and Gingerbread are the better crops overall.

With the actual number of growing spaces we have, it would take about 13.8 hours to grow enough crops to level a single animal up one step, if you always donate the favourite crop. That's not using any enhancements at all, even water. With water it's about 11 hours. I'm using estimates here because I can't remember how many spaces each field actually has! Say half a day per animal, with water.
If you always donate a non-favourite crop the times are 20.8 hours without water and 16.5 hours with, so you're saving a lot of time donating only favourite crops.

There are 4 animals with 8 levels each, but only half of these levels require event crops. So, you're looking at 8 days to grow all the event crops if you use water only and keep your fields growing all the time. Not possible in a 6 day event! Using 1x1 fields and pumpkin jam makes it 4 days, and with CAC it's only 2.7 days. This is assuming you either have all the non-event crops or can grow them on the two extra fields, but this event is possible only using Pumpkin Jam.

Good advice for everyone, especially Clonahmon who seems to be new here:
Don't forget you can buy 100 of each seed from the shop every day, at much lower prices than the markets (especially right now)
If you don't have the money to do this, grow chickens in your spare field and sell chickens + poo until you do.

 

The strategy for this infant farm is mostly the same as for any new farm. It has accumulated a field of chickens and will have the field for rabbits shortly.

It operates a tad bit slimy in the market and will support event farms with goods but only in lots of 1s, 3s, 5s and rarely in 10s.

PS This is a baby farmer_broke farm

 

I respectably have to disagree. If that is the level of time one can play, then the event aren't made for that player. That would be the farmhouse quests. The entire point of the events in my opinion is to be a challenge, and I can't see it being a proper challenge without it being time consuming. I believe that all events can be completed by a high level player with the time without paying real money for it. If one is short of either, a player can't complete the entire event. Which should be fine. If the events were easy to do, then there wouldn't be much point in them. If a player chooses to spend money on this game, it shouldn't be frowned upon (I don't think you do 12 tho, but some do) it is their choice, and it keeps the dev paid. I think the devs are normal people and they want to get paid for their jobs regardless how much they love it. Having said that, the pacifier for 15bb sounded pretty expensive.

Back to my lack of progress: I don't know if it's the heat, or the realization I have to use the meadow to compensate for not having huge stock, or the fact I don't know what they will ask for so I'm just growing stuff in case.... I feel a bit stuck. The shortest crop takes 4h - and me having 4 days left of my vacation.... gahhhh there's a lot of thumb twiddling. Perhaps the fun will pick up once I get past the event crop demand.

At least the wheat sells well in my market (oh dang I was suppose to grow other medium time crop - oh well)

 

Thanks Shimmer for all these calculations. Yes I am relatively new (since April) and could only finish the pea-growing one. All others fell off the line in between.

Thanks for the hint with the seed shop. I have already figured out that, but nice of you to keep me remembered of this.

Good luck with the event

Happy farming
clonahmon

 

Hello clonahmon,
As I say above, you're best off growing all the crops and only donating the favourites each time.
If you want to pick 2 crops, poppies and gingerbread are the best.

Also, if you want to lose one of the rascals after level 1 to be able to complete the event, the goat has probably the best prize (Ruby wonder stables) but also by far the hardest requirements.

 

But they fall asleep - so you may end up having to do all 4 almost all the way

Edit: unless that changes ofc

 

If in the beginning you switch between the same two all the time, then yes. But you can for instance do goat, pig, sheep, goat, pig, sheep until they are all on level 8

 

Only one problem - no BBs! I did buy some for baby farm (well 48 hours worth) but no BBs means either manual or no harvests for baby! Movies have been a bit hit and miss lately so no BBs accumulated. C'est la vie! Thanks for reminding me Nellie, always appreciated!