Feedback Waiting for Santa

Howdy Farmers,

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Please post your constructive comments, positive and negative, regarding "Waiting for Santa" 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

 

This game is too complicated. I literally cannot figure out how to get a candle. I have completed two of each minigame and still do not have a candle. I do not have enough coins to buy a candle. I have played Farmerama for a decade and it just continues to get less user friendly. This game is a giant mess and whenever I return it reminds me why I left.

 

What I find most disturbing about this event is that I have to grow 24600 longer-than-usual crops, but I cannot donate Any of them until I get a whole lot more ducks (candles) in a row! For those less experienced or less confident, that is a big ask! They will be wondering if they will get to that stage of donating crops. I don't usually mind events that lead into one another, but this has the cart-before-the-horse.
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Originally, I also thought it was quite complicated, but Northy's chart under game Strategy helped clear up most of my confusion. After trying a few times and referring to the chart, it is now clear and I'm just taking a very relaxed attitude.

My thoughts for the length of the event is that it takes into consideration that many players will be involved in end-of-year holidays and not have much time for the game. The gift of Time! Another plus for me - no milled product!

I also appreciate some (new to me, at least) features of the event such as the red circle on the Main field that alerts us when it's time to collect the two items.

The puzzle game is well designed and I've been setting the pieces in place as I collect the cookies. Six pieces at a time does not take a lot of time to place. The ability to rotate them and have the rotate symbol go away when the piece is correctly placed is a great feature!

The yarn game is still slow going and I gave up trying to 'beat the clock'. Slowly getting the gist of it.

I've no idea if I will be able to complete the event and don't really care. My motto for the new year is to first think of what I like about anything. I find it's quite easy to react to what's annoying which doesn't help me or anyone. I can't control what others do, but I can control what I do. Just some end-of-year musings I'm having as we count down to the beginning of a new year!

My third New Year with Farmerama and I'm grateful for all the help from friends and everyone involved with the production of this game.

 

Yes, the red exclamation points are a godsend! I hope they keep that with other events that have timers.