Feedback Mini Events: June 2018

Howdy Farmers,

Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding the mini events going on in June 2018, in this Feedback thread.

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 mini events.

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

 

Pick-A-Tree Spree

Sitting this one out. I would really like to get the XXL Grave Candle Cactus that produces 8 fruits but I have the other trees offered and the odds of getting it are against me.

I think all XXL trees should produce 8 fruits: Regular = 4; XL = 6 and XXL = 8.

 

My Renzo's Fair has been horrible the last few months. I always play the Strong man. Something is seriously off with that game. Last month I got a 0-ZERO!! That has never happened to me before. It's like it's catching on something and I can't get it to stop where I want it too. Most of the time it just jerks its way around. Use some WD 40 or something on that wheel, PLEASE!!

 

I agree with Julie. My StrongMan has always been very strong. Now, it no longer listens to me, and as a result, I don't even try past one or two rounds.

 

This has happened to me in the past - he seems to perform better if I refresh before playing.

Having just tested my theory, Mr Strong is still a little jerky.

 

Updating Baha content is cool. Selling GB is not cool. While new content tends to enhance game, buying it doesn't. There's no gaming involved in buying GB. As a result it only drives sales but does little for the game itself. I'd much rather see a special GB event instead enhanced with purchaseable GB or BEP boosts to give some GB to everybody and (a lot) more to those who want to pay, but still done through gameplay. Direct GB sale looks just cheap and lazy, anti-gaming solution.

 

Not sure if this is the right place for feedback about the juice stand calendar but I can't find where else to post.

I just opened day 7 and the bonus gift and got 100% bonus EP - after harvesting my entire farm. Of course I will get to use this bonus tomorrow morning, BUT, I also could have used it for two main harvests, yet only get to apply it to one. I can think of two ways to solve this issue.

First of all, players should have the opportunity to select when bonus EP time starts. Shockingly, we don't all play 100% of the time, and many people can lose these bonuses altogether if they don't happen to be available when the bonus dictates they need to be. I realise we don't necessarily have a *right* to these bonuses as they are, by definition, extra privileges, but if you are going to offer them then you should also offer players the opportunity to utilise them. Naturally, you shouldn't be able to start and stop these bonuses when you want, as that would render them valueless, but allowing players to select when the bonus timer begins would allow players to use these bonuses when it is suitable to do so.

Secondly, the problem I have with the calendar itself - which led to my losing the bonus 100% this morning - was that there is no access to the calendar from the farm itself, aside from going via the timer. Besides the timer, the calendar is only accessible via the city - yet previous calendars, such as the Christmas ones, all have a little calendar building on the farm itself. This is crucial. Most players don't go directly to the city when they first log in; it is natural to harvest the farm first. I wouldn't even think to go to the city until I had done my harvesting for the day. In fact, with short cuts to the FSQs available via the tabs, I often don't trek in to the city at all, unless I intend to sell something on the market or watch some movies - which isn't an everyday occurrence and certainly isn't done when I first log in. Therefore, if I can't see the calendar from my main farm, I forget that it is there. There have been several times this week where I've almost lost a day on the calendar because I've only remembered right before I log off that the calendar actually exists. Had the calendar been visible on the farm, or had prime position on the news page, I'd have remembered to open the windows (juices) in advance of harvesting my entire farm.

I of course always love the calendars and I believe the prizes are very generous. The calendars are always one of my favourite features of the game, so I don't want to be too hard on them, but like anything, there is room for improvement.

 

The calendar also accessible from the news page and you shouldn't miss that if you collect the daily gifts. This is where I start in the morning before do harvest my CR's & parks then the fields. Maybe it's only me but I do check the event timer every morning just in case I missed to read the forum and see if we have any new mini events.

 

I realise it is available from the news page, but as I said it doesn't always have prime position - that being the first item on the news page. I do collect the daily gift, but I don't tend to scroll through the news - so if it isn't number 1, I don't see it. I realise that there are steps that players can take to ensure they are abridged of everything before they do their harvest, but the point is, they shouldn't have to - in this case, players specifically have to seek out the calendar or any advertisement of it, rather than it being made apparent to them. I don't have hours of time in the morning - I get in, harvest, and get on with my day. We don't always have time to read the news, so if it's not number 1, it will probably be missed. A little building, as in most other calendar events, would help remind us that it exists.

I logged back into my account this afternoon and the calendar was the first item on the news page - but only because I'd already seen the first item when I logged in this morning. The calendar was simply the first unread item when I logged back in just now.

 

I just wanted to echo the problems others are having with Renzo's games. I too have seen a significant drop in the average prizes I'm winning from the strong man. I thought maybe it was just my aging reflexes or aging CPU catching up to me but I am seeing the jerkiness and it is affecting my game play. It's hard not to think it's a deliberate adjustment to reduce the number of coins won per ticket.

 

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! I too noticed that the slider was "hopping" rather than gliding smoothly. I've normally been able to get 20 chips each time, or 15 on a bad attempt, but during the latest Renzo my best attempts yielded me 9; I think I got 15 once, and on bad attempts got just 5.

 

I actually quit playing Strongman/Renzo about 6 months ago. Felt like I was just throwing my tickets away And when I started getting 2's and 0's---YES, 0's----I was done

 

I got 2-4 from the balloon poper and the mole games. That's half of the normal.



As for the dolphin at Baha: CUUUUTE! So very awesome. But why don't we feed them with fish?

 

I would have bought some supergrow but due to the ridiculously short time I did not get the opportunity. At least give us 24 hours but your loss, BP.

 

I had same problem with Renzo's - no matter how many balloons I popped this last time, I got 4 tickets. So I stopped. Previously I would *always* get 4 tickets for the first round, but then it would vary and go up mostly.

 

My lamment was well publicized...! the giver I purchased, had to have a mod place it on the field for me; gremlins took it.
I had a bunch of chips previously so I did okay. I don't know if anyone has gone more than one round in the loot shoot. I've always bombed in the strength meter so I leave that alone.
My beef if any is the amount of new trees, it's so hard to keep up without spending money; I've over a thousand trees and counting but I do commend for the growing runes they just implemented, keeping things like apples stocked up is necessary for the feed and products. I don't have even half of the new trees.

 

I do not like the train & having to give trees or BB to get a new tree. Maybe IF after doing that you actually got the new trees but to do all that & get nothing but trees I pretty much already have is annoying. I don't like this type of event at all. Don't think I am going to do this again. Even the pick a tree or stable is annoying.

 

I think this is a much better event for players who have a surplus of trees. I personally don't prefer using upgrades, so I like to be able to donate those - or extras that I've received through other seedlings etc. - to receive seeds that may turn into better trees. It doesn't often work out, but it's a good inventory clearer for those who have more than they need and want a chance to get something better. It's not a good event to participate in if you don't want to give anything away.

 

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