Feedback Heart and Soul

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding the "Heart and Soul" 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 usually like to give feedback after I have played the event but I'm so cross I'm giving part of it now.

We are to be given 5 seeds to start the event, how mean is that BP.

For people who work that is a ridiculous. We have complained about this time after time. Please listen to what we are saying.

 

Usually we are given 10 seeds to start, which with the extra boosts gives 90 seeds after the initial planting; cutting the starter seeds by half means that it takes longer to gain the same ground. I suspect it is to encourage the use of purchased boosts.

I have noticed too that not all balls get fired and I know I didn't misclick, it's happened too often and only with the gold hearts, plus why have a timer if you have ten balls which you worked to get, which you don't get to use if you aren't quick enough. I have twice lost the last few balls because of arbitrary closing of the curtains.

It's a sweet, fun game, let down by some ill-thought out criteria.

 

Reaction time is too slow from mouse click to target.
Countdown timer pointless, why should we waste balls as we are too slow? I know we manufacture 1 in the mill, but it equates to the 10 in the game, therefore we should receive.

 

I endorse this.

I like the mini game. Just grow crops, collect drops, mill balls and play the mini-game. Its fun. Especially when drop rate is good and mill timing is reasonable. Also that one cannot fall below 18 coins is also a good feature.

An error in the game : the picture is in the 2nd page of the Help in the Event window confused me. It showed 34 coins & I was misled that we could earn 34 coins. But the top most is 24 only.

Hi cassidy ! That' terrible For golden hearts, you can hit only a maximum of 2 golden hearts. It is limited. Hope your other issues get solved. For drops do an overnight long term crop. You will get good drops.

 

Very Slow. starting to feel like another hose job, another shot in the dark. great job Very Slow.

 

Actually, due to the non-firing of the balls at three kittens with gold hearts (mouse click, no ball gets fired - it happens only with gold hearts) and loss of balls because the curtains closed too soon - I have received only 13 coins for the last two games. I have also found the drop rate again very poor for event crops.

 

I'm also having a lot of lag and non responsiveness with the mini game. It's good that we can't get fewer than 18 because I can't often get more than that. I think the cloud row and giver items are too expensive for the drop rate and a 7 hour crop.

 

5 seeds is a poor decision. There should be NO timer - this is silly. I have 10 balls, let me throw the lot. I have also noticed that I don't seem to be able to fire on just the gold hearts too. Glad I came here as I thought it was just me. Not very well thought out, which is a shame as this had the potential to be a good game.

 

the 5 starter seed for a 7h crop - as others have stated a bit on the mean side.
I too find the mini game lagging and unresponsive. Quite often I click the mouse and there is no ball shooting out, but I have enough to fire. For me the fact that I actually need to read the instruction to participate is a major turn off. Add to the fact I don't really want - actually do not want - that crate of love from the cloud row, this is a failure. Why the minigame is lagging is a puzzle, nothing else seem to lag. This is for me a very similar (and equally boring) as the Renzo balloon shoot. I don't have lagging problems there, nor in any of my other flash games.

A 1 out of 10 for me, the single point is for trying.

 

This should have been a fun mini game BUT it is NOT! Long time to grow the crops and the drops are steady but in low numbers! Then when you finally get to play the mini game and you click on your mouse to release the ball, well nothing happens, and by the time you click again the figure you had thrown at is gone! It is lagging and unresponsive as others have stated ! The only good thing is that no matter what you get 18 coins, BUT you have wasted time growing crops and getting drops to mill the balls really for nothing ,as playing the mini game is not fun! Good job on the graphics!

 

I have to concur with everyone else on the things they have said and noted. As for the lagg it's not your click response because I have a touchscreen and am experiencing the same thing, and as Moraine said I don't have the lagg when playing the Balloon Shoot game (one of my favs).
One thing that did give me a smile about this event is you can more or less get the sticker for free if you so choose to, just by playing the free round given to you. You are giving one free round to play and you get at least 18 coins and the sticker is 10 coins so finally a FREE STICKER!!!

 

Unfortunately also a negative feedback from me.

Pro: you can choose, for which prizes you want to go.
Nice graphics

Cons: Cloudrow is not worth it to go for it (getting 3 pheromones, but to get 300 bonus in breeding you need 3 pheromones
to get under 1 hour breeding time!!!! so you just get 150 EP from the CR (or have I missed something important?)
Prizes are expensive
Delay in shooting reaction is pulling down overall shooting results (I presume Kitty is sabotaging us)
Even more boring than Renzos Market balloon shooting

The tech problems are adding to the frustration about the event

Sorry, but I think you can do it better!

 

I just thought I was a slow shooter!!! The reaction time is terrible. This game reminds me of the carnival games that are designed for people to lose. It could have been so much better. The tech problem with not being able to access the game earlier just added to the "fun" of this event. As a side note, I find it strange for a heart/love game to involve shooting.

 

hmmmmmm.......me thinks it's rigged. When I click my mouse, a ball should fire......I hear the clicks, my finger is moving.......but it doesn't match what is happening on screen.

 

My opinion is much what others have said: slow reaction time, a set limit on how many gold hearts you can win, only 5 seeds, very poor drop rate designed to keep you from obtaining prizes, and a less than thrilling cloud row that takes way too much work to obtain. No fun at all.

Disappointed - and a thumbs down from me.

 

There is a funny post in the German thread:
(free translation)
..."Thank you so much dear gamers, I thought I am slow at shooting, but it is good to know it's a glitch in the event.
Propably there should be a RODEO Event soon and the mouse is the stubborn, not following my instructions STEER"...

I think, that says it all... (Not sure if this counts as feedback or a players suggestion LOL)

 

LOL clonahmon love it

This is one of the worst events i have ever played on Farmerama
Tooo much work for very little reward ... the drops aren't that great for the amount needed for this event and that's with LL completed
Prizes aren't that brilliant either for the time it takes to grow the amount of crops and then mill them to make soft balls needed to play in this event
AND I am getting a little tired of getting cloud rows for rewards in nearly every event with yet even MORE daily clicking
We use to get exciting things
This event is good for new players

 

Just did some shooting. Have now more points than Kitty Kadabra and will not throw any ball any more.
Will grow some event plants to mill softballs and get them converted after event ends.

Have a good night everybody and good luck whoever is still playing the event


EDIT: SORRY I thought I am in the strategy thread!!!

 

I did report the fact that there were serious glitches in the game, but I thought perhaps it wasn't widespread. It seems that was an erroneous assumption, since so many posters have identical problems.

This should be a fun game, but here are my issues, I think this one mini game I just played encapsulates every one, not in the order played.
First: I only got 9 balls (no I did not misfire, it never showed 10).
Second: A ball fired, or didn't but a character went down and I hadn't even touched the keyboard
Third: Balls didn't fire at the gold hearts with kittens
Fourth: No characters show for at least two seconds at a time
Fifth: Characters pop up with increasing speed, but the majority are the boars and some white hearts
Sixth: I managed to hit one gold hearted kitten and a couple of pinks, and whites
Seventh: I saw 8 seconds on the timer and then everything stopped and the curtains closed with 3 balls left.

My score was ten coins - abysmal for a game where you aim and it hits the target. This low score was entirely due to the mentioned glitches. It is also no fun to play and certainly not worth wasting time growing crops, milling, playing a game that doesn't work half the time, for prizes which are not even worth the effort. I already have a cloud that generates five pheromones and pheromone trees, so yet another cloud row isn't something I even want, let alone want to aim for.

My suggestions are - there should be no timer, certainly not combined with the increasing speed and number of the irrelevant boars popping up in unison. Balls are generated from milling seven hour crops and they should not be taken away because of the very short time allowed to fire them, therefore increase the timer or dispense with it. Start being more imaginative with the prizes, trees you can't get otherwise or a unique stable.

I agree with Nellie, when she says in effect 'oh dear, not another cloud'. I too feel like that, it's not even an original one either this time. Also, as we started probably around the same time in 2010, we've seen a lot of events and I also agree with her that this must be one of the worst.

Pity the feedback has to be so negative with almost no positives, but this one completely missed the mark so to speak.