Strategy: The Great Chase

I am in step 64. Need to play 4 more to get the cloud row.

 

Go One Two, go! You can do it!

 

Happy farmer here! Finished both sides. I can confirm you'll be able to play over 100 games as it took me 104 games.

Leftovers with still 91 hrs on the event clock:
Powder Puff Plant - 269
Magnifying Glasses - 1165
Soot - 1111

Good luck & great fun to all.
Keep smiling!

 

I got the cloud row. I am in step 68. Still 32 steps to grow. I can use the booster to get more crops. I have to think about the drops after getting the necessary crops for the 32 steps which might be around 22000 crops.

I have 649 magnifying glasses & 4 soot. Is there anyway to convert the magnifying glasses to soots ???

 

@-Mir85- To answer your questions:
How many 1x1 plots do you grow the event crops on? Total of 588 1x1s
And how many times do you harvest event crops a day? Averaging 3, when I was able to afford manure, I was sometimes harvesting 4 a day
Did you get a late start? No, but was sick one day and only harvested 2 event crops that day but it may have only been 1, can't recall
How long does your refined carnation take? 13:18 unless I use manure, then 11:59, I was using manure till the prices in market skyrocketed
Why carnations? Because they're my longest growing crop with the best drop rate
There are also other crops with much better refinements than carnations. Do tell, please
Let me know how long overnight crop suits you, and I can help you find a better one. Thanks! 8-10 hours if same drop rate as carnations ... tried refined roses but they don't get me anywhere near as many drops as carnations and neither do my refined raspberries
Or is it drops that is the problem? They've been ok, I think I'm good for now with them actually & will start planting & harvesting nothing but the event crops for the remainder of the event since I'll still be receiving drops from Baha anyway

 

588 plots with CAC yields a surplus of 1764 crops per harvest. When you posted yesterday it was almost 9 days into the event, but leaving some time for building up crops and being sick and taking into account a 4th harvest a couple of days, lets say 8 days, 3 harvest a day.

• That should give 8*3*1,764 = 42,336 event crops
• 42,336/700 = 60 detective tools
• +3 free ones at the start = 63 detective tools

This is not adding up

Or do you mean 1 harvest of carnation + 2 of harvests of event crops. That would explain why you are behind and shows why such a long overnight crop might be bad (unless you are not going to get another harvest in anyway). There is no point in making the overnight crop as long as possible. Sure a longer crop gives you more drops. But if a shorter crop gives you time for an extra harvest of event crops, you'll get drops from that harvest too. It more or less evens out.

Drops are based on the basic growing time, if we can reduce the growing time further by using refinements the drops stay the same. Therefore we should be looking for refinements with the best time reduction. Carnation has 12%, roses 7,5% and raspberries 20% and 9%. Among the long crops you have access to, raspberries has the best time refinements (you should use the two for time and one for water). Raspberries might bring you fewer drops than carnation (on average the difference shouldn't be big), but refined carnations takes you 13:18 while refined raspberries take 10:22. That's a difference of about three hours, you can almost grow one extra round of event crops in that time. And the drops from that extra harvest will more than make up for the drop difference between carnation and raspberries. If you want a shorter overnight crop, crop square is great. It has the best time reduction refinements of the below 100 level crops.

TL;DR Best time reduction refinements for crops below level 100 is

• crop square reduced to 6:33 with water and 5:54 with manure
• raspberries reduced to 10:22 with water and 9:19 with manure

 

I just finished the 100 games, and The pony IS mine! I am at #97 on the prize side and I have extra event crops , so when I get the drops (soot) I will attempt to finish that too! I also grew 90% of my crops with just water as I would not pay the prices for manure, as I was in for the long haul! And I bought NO baskets! So, good luck to all still going after the pony or their goals! By the way
my average score was 66, I did sometimes get to 71 but not often, I mention that just to let you regular farmers know it really CAN be done!

 

Well done sanddollar!

 

Well done Sanddollar15 Congrats

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Cute Pony and 20 crates of BB achieved in 100 games. No no to baskets and manure. Its only hard work that paid off.
It really can be done, I agree with Sanddollar Good luck & great fun to all. Keep smiling!

 

Well done kibsnfebs!

 

I did 75 games so far. Have 5 making in the mill now. got crops for 6 more waiting on drops as we speak and more event crops down. I want to make 100 games... Not sure if I can make it... but gonna try. I am at step 79 on the points with 4770 points.(63.6 points per game avg) I also want that PONY...I am 1395 points away from it..

The drops are getting slim and slimmer.. But going to plant long crops tonight and after I wiggle enough event crops for remaining 25 games... be carnations and roses (or whatever i need within time frame I can harvest) till event ends. 63 hours left now.

Grats to everyone who made it to CR and other things...
to the rest of people... keep going..(we never know when the drops will get better).. never know what that wheel can help you with.. I got a lot of EXP bonuses off of it yesterday.and bonus on crops,trees, stables.. Good Luck

 

Congratulations kibsnfebs my friend, for reaching your goals and getting that pony! I just finished the 100 on the prize side too
and the Aquatic Crate gave me a Crab and a Lobster pool! I have 891 event crops and 4 soot left! Keep going everyone you can do it too! Best of luck to you all!

 

I can’t believe, I got the 100 level points before I paly 100 games.
And I grow crop in more relax way once I got the CR,
I must say, the +100% wheel really give a big help
as I only use main farm for last few thousands of crop growing.
Now, my last 3 games is milling.
Look I finally can got 71/game.
However, if BP decided to give players hidden event in future. I will still say:
I don’t like it, It give me stress, I don’t like stress, I paly game to relax and enjoy,
I don’t enjoy hidden object. Do the games make me feel I am on duty......
Yes, I am a stubborn middle aged woman


Edit: Finished whole event, the 20 BB crate give me 108BB

 

Thank You soooo much Sanddollar!Congratulations to you too for finishing both the sides

 

Oh wow! I finally managed to finish 100 games and completed both sides. Didn't get 80 points in any game, mostly got 71. I tried every which way to collect the items but just missed out on top points.
Those BB crates are really worth going for. I opened them all separately and they mostly gave 3/6 BB per crate plus a couple of big ones. In all nearly 100 BB so definitely worth finishing if you can.

Good luck!

 

I was going to ask those who have completed 100 games what did they recieve from the 20 crates of BB, seems to be around 100 BBs which is not bad.
If I make 100 games no doubt I will get 20 BBs

Well done to all who have reached their goals.

 

Pnp finished all 100 games and the right side for points as well. BB crates became 87 BB and Aquatic crates became 2 sharks Best thing of all is the pony

2nd farm still has 8 games to go....the soot is the problem. I have to keep stopping growing the event crop to boost the drops. Crops will be done today and the drops...hopefully today or tomorrow.

 

I got my Pony after 90 games and have played 92 games so far. I will make the 100 games - even if I did forget to plant a field of event crop and used the seeds to make a Detective Tool!

Good going with those BBs - let's hope everyone is lucky with them!